Wheatley Swans

09/03/2025

06/20/2025

On Wednesday night last, something fishy was happening! Shoutout to the Wheatley Horticultural Society for the fun “Ladies Paint Night” at our beautiful Talbot Trail Golf Course Clubhouse.
A free event to paint fish destined to beautify Wheatley during the annual Wheatley Fish Festival.
So much talent and creativity in one big room! Katie even created a glow-in-the-dark masterpiece 🤭

Swans Beth, Daria, Katie, and Pauline showing off their artistic endeavours!! Great job everyone.

04/23/2024

What started out as a very frustrating experience, turned into what it was supposed to be.

After waiting over an hour for delivery, some hilarity ensued watching President Geri jump into her “police car” and race off in hot pursuit, casing the delivery truck down the highway! A terse, “follow me” and our tree arrived safe and beautiful.

Thanks to Swan Dale and her awesome son Sandy Shaw, a spot was prepped for the planting of a new red maple.

This tree is to replace one that had been planted in 2017 to honour our beloved Lioness member, Trudy Brown.

The wait allowed us the time to share stories, remember who Trudy was, her dedication, her humour, and how much she is missed. We hope you are laughing, creating some silliness and Resting in peace Trudy. 🙏🏻❤️

Please tap on the group picture to see what Swan Nancy created for us,

04/21/2024

On Saturday, April 20th, The Wheatley Swans attended the Official Grand Opening of the Wheatley Arboretum and Learning Centre.

A dream in the making on a suggestion by Grant Bowman, a long time original motivational member of our Community and made a reality through the dedication of The Wheatley Horticultural Society.

Countless hours of planning, donations from Corporate to individual citizens, Municipal grants, plant sales, fundraising galore!!!

The Swans are excited to see their new bench which is waiting in the wings, to be permanently installed on its cement base. Pictures to follow.

Stay tuned to the Hortucultural Society page for future updates and projects - they are just getting started.

Special recognition to the Wheatley Area Public Scool for their outstanding commitment to cleaning up all of the Community spaces. Grant Bowman Trail, The Ivan Coulter Park Area, is it still called that? The Arboretum and area, WELL DONE staff and students!!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

04/19/2024

A big shoutout to all Volunteers who tirelessly give their time and enthusiasm to fundraising for their Communities.

Thank you Chances Gaming and Bistro for the opportunity to
So many causes in OUR Community.

03/01/2024

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02/29/2024

One of the Wheatley Swans worthwhile projects is the District President’s Gift. This is in the form of a $500.00 donation to her dedicated goal for her year. Last years President Joyce Mahovlich’s project was Literacy. Her motto, “We will defeat illiteracy, one book at a time”. This donation was able to purchase children’s books for the Wheatley Library.
Our favourite Librarian, Claudette Sykes, is pictured in the Library with just some of the beautiful books.

The Club also has received the honour of being a part of the Literary Angels Program in the Chatham-Kent Library System.

Studies have found that parents who read aloud to their children especially from birth to 5 years improves the child's language skills and development. Further research published indicates that reading to children in their first 5 years of life will have an impact through to age 14 compared to children who are never read to. Anyone in the Chatham-Kent area should take advantage of this donation of children's books by obtaining a library card at their nearest local library.

Thanks to our volunteers at Chances Gaming Lounge, we are able to continue helping our Comminities.

02/10/2024

12/28/2023

We hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas Day and we wish one and all, the very best for 2024 🥂cheers!

For the month on December, 2023, we were fortunate enough to support the following:
Remembrance Day Wreath
The Legion Poppy Fund
Alzheimer’s”s Society
Village ResourceCentre
Wheatley Community Chest
Our President’s Project -
"We will defeat illiteracy - 1 word, 1 line, 1 book at a time!"
The Meadows Christmas Entertainment

A total of $5,450 in donations was realized.

Pictured below from our December Pot Luck dinner meeting,
District president Joyce was pleased to present to our Wheatley Librarian, Claudette Sykes, 95 brand new books. These books were collected at the November 26th District 1 Swans Cabinet Meeting hosted by the Wheatley Swans, held in Belle River at the Belle River Lions Club.

In the second photo, a changing of the guard for 2024.

11/08/2023

Left to right Swans Judy, Beth, Marjorie, Pauline, Geri, Village Resource Centre’s founder and main boss lady, Susan Fulmer and Swan Cathy. Behind the lens, Swan Nancy W.
Always a happy day to help the VRC!!!

To the right, we are encouraged to share a love of books with our most valuable generation, our children. There are a number of Little Libraries in our Village, feel free to fill them, use them and reshare!

For the month of November, along with our donation to the Village Resource Centre, we purchased a Remembrance Day Wreath, gave to the Legion Poppy Fund and the Alzheimer’s Society.

Thank you Chances Bistro and Gaming Lounge Leamington for the opportunity to share the proceeds of our volunteer hours with our Community.