Brindle Cottage Nearing Completion!

Just wish to thank everyone very much for their turnout today for the painting of Brindle Cottage at Howick Historical Village. It is looking magnificent in the bright spring sun.  We had a 100% turnout of the Lions who said they would be available.

Special thanks to our new Lions members from "Neighbourly". Your work was much appreciated and the standard of your paint application was first class.

The photo taken below was just before June's fresh lemon muffin break. During morning tea Alan La Roche gave us a talk on the history of Brindle Cottage. Amazing that even in the olden days the Council needed permits and regularly inspected construction of the building.

What a difference today was. Some Lions remember painting the old Methodist Church in the middle of winter when it was freezing. Today was a cruise as we basked in the warm sun.

A highlight was when Taskmaster Colin (who wore gloves to stop getting paint on his hands) after morning tea put his gloves back on inside out thereby totally coating his hands with cream latex paint. This was discovered when the gloves were taken off at the end of the morning. An embarrassing moment in front of Tail Twister Tom.

From the comments afterwards the Team seemed to have had a good time learning many new humorous jokes and the inevitable tall stories about golfing and fishing exploits.

Once again thanks to everyone. Also to Alan (from the Village) for having everything ready before we started and also staying behind to clean all the brushes etc.

Lion Colin Salt
Vice President
Howick Lions Club

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President's Blog - October 2016

With daylight saving underway it must be nearly Christmas. Just made a check and as at Oct 1st, there are 85 sleeps ‘till Santa squeezes his way down your chimney or some such other point of entry!

That means we are getting very near to the busy time of year for Lions. Hope all the prep is going well for the Santa Parade.

Good to see the prospective new members are coming along to working bees, dinner nights and some to the business night. Let’s make sure we make them welcome and after due process look forward to them joining our club.

Very nice to welcome Lion Ted Curtis from Kenilworth Lions Club in the UK (Paul's Dad) to our last business night. Hope he enjoyed the experience as much as we enjoyed having him visit.

Despite the rain for the Cockle Bay School Carnival, our chip cooking for the festival was a great success. More especially as we were under cover and stayed dry. I am sure they will be pleased to get the cheque for $990.00 which we raised. This will add to the prepay vouchers; a good result. I understand we had a reasonable result from our fund raising sausage sizzle at The Warehouse in Botany too. Well done.

As noted before, a busy time ahead - chips (twice), seniors lunch, Christmas Parade,Christmas Lights, - a busy but rewarding time to be a Lion.

You will be aware the next dinner night (Oct 5th ) is to be a pub quiz and fish & chips. Let’s hope we get a good turnout and please bring friends, family, uncle Tom Cobbly and all to make a great night. I hear tell there will be a special raffle too so extra cash please to contribute!!

Bye for now,
Yours in Lions
Grant Taylor

President, Howick Lions

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