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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