January-February 2015

Newsletter of LIONS CLUB of NORTH BEACH PO Box 65 Karrinyup WA 6921

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CALENDAR 2015 JANUARY 14 BBQ at Sorrento Beach 17 Bunnings Whitfords BBQ 26 Bunnings Innaloo BBQ 28 Business meeting – Guest speaker – Jenny Gartrell – Southern Cross Kenya Aid to Educate FEBRUARY 11 Business meeting VIP Centre 7.00 for 7.15 pm start.

Guest speaker – Ann Beach – Baby rescue centre - Tanzania 25 Social Meeting – Jeanette’s home – invite Ocean Reef and Kingsley/Woodvale Lions. MARCH – MEMBERSHIP MONTH 1 Youth of the Year interviews 7 Bunnings Whitfords BBQ 11 Business Meeting VIP Centre 7.00 pm for 7.15 pm start Club final for YOTY Including election of club officers for 2015/16 25 Membership meeting VIP Centre 7.00 pm for 7.15 pm start APRIL 8 Business meeting VIP Centre 7.00 pm for 7.15 pm start

President elect starts to arrange changeover dinner including finding a venue and installation officer. Speaker – Elaine Collins – Club website

22 Social Meeting MAY 1-4 Multiple District Convention – Newcastle YOTY National final 9 Masters Joondalup BBQ 13 Business meeting VIP Centre 7.00 pm for 7.15 pm start Guest speaker Christine Waler to speak on “What Lions is all about, roles of club officers” 27 Social Meeting JUNE 10 Business meeting VIP Centre 7.00 pm for 7.15 pm start including decision on donations 20 Bunnings Innaloo BBQ 22 Changeover Dinner

NBLC BOARD MEMBERS

PRESIDENT Tim Powell SECRETARY Dave Meehan TREASURER Chris Krishnan 1ST VICE PRESIDENT Cheryl Meehan 2ND VICE PRESIDENT Elaine Collins MEMBERSHIP & PUBLIC Jeanette Simpson RELATIONS TAILTWISTER Mary Brownlie LION TAMER Simon Harris

OUR RECENT NEWS

Our Club has continued the good work over the past months. Activities include:

Peace Posters. Year 7 students of North Beach Primary School submitted their peace posters to our Club. This is something we look forward to each year. The students continue to submit interesting posters and we admire the standard of their art work.

Christmas Cakes – Jerry and Donna Hooper have done an amazing job again this year organising the sale of the Christmas cakes. We sold out of cakes very quickly this year. We sold cakes at Luna Shopping Centre Scarborough and North Beach Shopping Centres as well as at Bunnings Innaloo. Thank you to all the Club members who helped out.

Guest Speakers – Jenny Gartrell – Southern Cross Kenya Aida and Natasha Malanko re publishing children’s books about disabled children. These books will be distributed to all primary schools in Western Australia.

Fundraising BBQs – our Club continues to hold fundraising BBQs at Bunnings Whitfords, Bunnings Innaloo and Masters Joondalup. Thank you to all the members who continue to volunteer their time. It is worthwhile when you see the funds that we are able to donate at the end of each Lions fundraising year. Well done members.

Newspapers – the Club can no longer collect newspapers due to the fact that we no longer have any premises to store them. We thank Ann Mallin for the use of her garage for all of these years and for her work in stacking the newspapers

each week.

DG Visit – The W1 DG Ivan Sturgess and his wife Carol visited our Club on 26 November. We met at Eats Café at the Duncraig Shopping Centre. We all enjoyed the night.

President’s Christmas BBQ – thank you to Tim, our President and wife Kylie for hosting the Christmas BBQ. It was a great night. The members who attended enjoyed the night and had the opportunity to try out Tim’s breathalyser machine – a great little machine and without mentioning names, we found out who the drinkers were.

Book stall – our Club is going to consider organising a book stall – possibly at Karrinyup Shopping Centre. Members to check out their supply of unwanted books at home.

Youth of the Year – in progress at present. Thank you to all of our members who have volunteered their time. In just a short time our Club has achieved much. Well done members.

MINTS

Simon will be ordering more Mints. We do need to establish more outlets. Members – see what you can do. We would like to be able to achieve more sales if we possibly can.

CHILDREN OF COURAGE

Chris Smelt has requested that we look out for suitable children for the Children of Courage Awards, scheduled for March 2015.

MEMBERSHIP NEWS

Our Club in the past months have welcomed new members – Doug Anderson, June North, Naomi Hattingh, Nicole Napier and Robert Bates. Unfortunately two members have resigned – Craig Meecham and Marcia Watson. We thank Craig for all he has done for the Club – in particular being our Mints Coordinator for several years, his assistance at fundraising BBQs and has been the 1st Vice President for several years. Marcia we also thank her for her efforts and wish her well. We are sorry to lose you as a member. We appreciated your new ideas.

NICOLE NAPIER RECEIVING HER NEW MEMBERSHIP BADGE AND PACK We welcome Nicole to our Club and also the other new members.

RECENT DONATIONS

Marmion Primary School $1000

Lara Jean Association Inc $100

LIONS SAVE SIGHT FOOTY TIPPING COMPETITION This is a new Project our Club is taking on. Elaine has offered to coordinate the Project. Lion Ray Zinner from the Lions Club of Forrestfield/High Wycombe has been the coordinator for 15 years and has done a fantastic job and it is time for someone else to take it on. He has handed over the information to Elaine during January. The entry form and information re this competition will be distributed to the Clubs in February. Members, family and friends are encouraged to participate. Proceeds go to the Lions Save Sight Foundation. This is a great opportunity for our Club to participate and raise funds for a worthy cause and to have some fun as well. The once off entry fee is $50.00. Entries will close on 26th March. The footy season commences on 2nd April. The email address is as follows: lionsfootytipping@gmail.com If you need further information, please do not hesitate to contact Elaine re this competition.

PEACE POSTERS 2014 – A SELECTION OF POSTERS

Health Information page – this time – How to recognise a Stroke.

I’m passing this on because it worked for me today. A doctor on TV said that in order to have inner peace in our lives, we should always finish things that we start. Since we all could use more calm in our lives, I looked around my house to find things I’d started and hadn’t finished. I finished a bottle of Merlot, a bottle of Chardonnay, a bodle of Baileys, a butle of wum, tha mainder of Valiuminun scriptins, an a box a choclutz. Yu has no idr how fablus I feel rite now. Sned this to all ur frenz who need inner piss. An telum u luvum. End of newsletter.