April 2016

MT PIRONGIA LIONS

Business Meeting: 1st TuesdayAt Pirongia School Hall

Social / Dinner: 3rd Tuesday Pirongia Clydesdales Coach House

Mt

Pirongia Lions Membership for 2015-16

President: Noelene Jolley Tail Twister: Willie Laverty

President Elect: Ray Cullen Lion Tamer: Colleen Williamson

Past President: John Wood Social Arranger: Jim Henderson

Secretary: Ray Cullen Newsletter: Warwick Brown

Treasurer: Jim Beaton Membership: Rachel Duncan

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Jim Beaton & (Ann) 872 8163 021 247 7512 3/261 Ross St Pirongia

Warwick Brown & (Joyce) 871 9788 021 250 1258 236 Sainsbury Rd Pirongia

Ray Cullen & (Jan) 871 9649 0274 539 543 93 Mangauika Rd Pirongia

Jan De Nicolo 871 9771 167 Bird Rd Pirongia

Rachel Duncan & (Andrew) 871 9144 021 1767022 1 Oak Lane Pirongia

Don Gray & (Christine) 871 9419 38 Mangauika Rd Pirongia

Jim Henderson & (Cheryl) 07 823 6888 027 366 5842 185/2 Meadway Rd Paterangi

Ray Jackson & (Lyn) 872 8164 299 Belcher St Pirongia

Noelene Jolley & (Grahame) 871 9266 0274 730 797 407 Sainsbury Rd Pirongia

Phillip Johnson & (Janet) 871 9778 772 Baffin St Pirongia

Willie Laverty & (Margaret) 07 847 8119 274 Tuhikaramea Rd Hamilton

John Lorimer & (Kay) 871 9884 500 Bell Rd Pirongia

Rodney Macdonald 871 9683 0274 851 489 6 Sth Butler Rd Pirongia

Tony McKinnon 871 9453 or 871 9557 510 Baffin St Pirongia

Bill Reymer & (Lyn) 871 9677 021 768 611 1131 McClure St Pirongia

Ryan Pat (Jean) 871 9222 475 Crozier St Pirongia

Blenddyn Sterling & (Liz) 871 6937 39 Pirongia Rd Te Awamutu

Kevin Walker & (Cheryl) 871 9972 2 Penny Lane Pirongia

Colleen Williamson & (Ken) 871 9913 402 Baffin St Pirongia

Robert van der Giessen 07 8259 742 021 128 6104 741 Te Pahu Rd Te Pahu

Darrall van der Giessen 07 8259 742 021 128 2643 741 Te Pahu Rd Te Pahu

John Wood & (Teresa) 871 9548 290 Franklin St Pirongia

John Young & (Sue) 871 8812 439 Frontier Rd Pirongia

Lions Club of Mount Pirongia

Members and Friends are invited to the Dinner Meeting

Tuesday 19th April6:45 pm

The Coach House (Pirongia Clydesdales)----Please note the change of venue----

1375 McClure Street

Dates for your Diary:April 16th Saturday Coromandel Fishing TripApril 19th Tuesday Dinner MeetingMay 5th Tuesday Business MeetingMay 15th Sunday Club Officer Development

Duties for Dinner Meeting:Greeter: John Lorimer Anthem: Don Gray Grace: Willy Laverty Raffle: Ray Jackson Stewards: Kevin Walker & Pat RyanThank you to Speaker: Phillip Johnson

April after Dinner Speaker:Ruth Taylor is a local lady who has recently taken the plunge in a number of different ways. In March she attended a Masters course at Outward Bound and self-published her first book on parenting. Ruth will be sharing what drove her to accomplish these seemingly unconnected activities and will be happy to answer questions on either experience. By divulging some home truths and personal stories Ruth hopes to challenge your thinking and provide some motivation to encourage you to just jump in!

Postal address: PO Box 34002, Pirongia, 3844Web page: www.lionsclubs.org.nz/Clubs 202L Clubs Mt Pirongia Email: pirongialions@gmail.com

PRESIDENTS REPORT APRIL 2016

I am happy to advise our membership that Ray Cullen has stepped up to be our President for the coming Lions Year; I know we will be in very good hands. He is organising his executive helpers so we will await hearing who is in the team.We are back in the swing of another Lions year with our members attending to help at Balloons over Waikato late last month, and the Commsafe Golf Tournament held yesterday at Te Awamutu Golf Course.Six of our members attended Balloons Over Waikato, Grahame and I went the first morning (Wednesday) to the lake, there was thick fog so no balloons were able to fly but they all inflated and remained tethered. It is a fantastic sight to see. We were rattling buckets and accepting donations for Lions from the large number of people present. There were lots of families with little kiddies wide eyed up early in the dark. A large number of people do not carry cash these days but those who did so were only too happy to donate to Lions. Jim and Ann attended on the Friday morning at the lake, helping people get into and out of the tethered balloon, the balloons were able to ascend and head off into wide blue yonder on the Friday. Kevin and Cheryl attended the Saturday Night- Glow where Kevin was a team leader for quite a large team keeping an eye on crowd control, lost children etc. Kevin gave a report at our last meeting which was very interesting.Six of our members attended the Commsafe Golf Tournament yesterday, the weather was a bit iffy but by afternoon the sky was blue and it was very pleasant. Ray C and Tony were on the BBQ cooking the sausages, onions and wrapping in bread. Don and Warwick were gainfully employed with various tasks around the course. Rachel and I were on the 12th hole either extracting $20 from teams so they take par for the course and walk to the next hole, or play the hole and not hand over any money. 4 people in a team. They started off out for a good days fun, approaching our area fairly quietly saying“ we’ll play the hole, we came to play golf,” but by early afternoon you knew a team was approaching by the laughter and chatter and mostly one member of the team would just pull out $20 and off they would go in great spirits. At the end of the day back to the club rooms where afternoon tea was provided and lots of noise was going on when prize giving and a raffle were held. I think they would have made quite a bit of money for their cause and it was fun.Thanks everybody for helping out with these two great events.You will be pleased to hear Bruce is back home again.Our fishing trip is this Saturday YES, details separately in Bulletin. We have a great speaker attending our next dinner meeting. See you there.Cheers, Noelene

Editorial:Our April Dinner will be at the “Pirongia Clydesdales Coach House”

This is due to the change of ownership of the Alexandra Hotel and concerns from members about the difficulty in hearing speakers over the hub-bub of background noise there.Information now at hand:April Dinner venue will now be at the “Coach House” see cover pages for times dates and address.The two course dinner will still be good value at $20 per head. There is a well stocked bar and tea or coffee will be available.We will have the venue to ourselves for the evening.Also on site is a sound system and large screen TV for power points.

$500 donated to Fiji via the LCIF. This is an international arm of Lions that specialises in disaster relief. The following is taken directly from the Lions website: “Lions Clubs International Foundation (LCIF) provides grant funding to assist Lions districts in developing and implementing large-scale humanitarian projects. These humanitarian grants help Lions expand their outreach and increase their impact within local and global communities to serve even more people in need around the world.”A lot of support came to help Christchurch, and it is a very simple and effective way for Lions Clubs to help a crisis situation anywhere in the world.

$200 donated to the Te Awamutu Competition Society, to be used toward prizes for the performing arts. A lot of Pirongia children enter and do well in these competitions each year.

The $1,800 donated to Pirongia School was the net profit from the food caravan being at the gala evening. The money is to be used for a new sports equipment shed.

Regarding the $500 set aside for the resuscitator for the TA Birthing Unit, it needs to be noted that a previous amount was agreed upon at our December meeting. We will need to revisit this issue soon to correct any anomaly.

If you haven’t already done so please pay your $65 sub to the Treasurer (An account was included in the March Newsletter)

John Lorimer being presented an award by Paula McWha, for his many years of service organising the Picnic Day for families of children with cancer.

Long service awards were also given to John Young and Blenddyn Sterling.

LegacyDoug Smith is on his deathbed and knowing death is near.His nurse, his wife, daughter and two sons are with him.So he says to his family:“Bernie, I want you to take the Mayfair houses.”“Sybil, you take the apartments over in Pall Mall.”“Jamie, I want you to have the offices in the city centre.”“Sarah, my dear wife, please take all the residential buildings on the banks of the Thames.”The nurse is overwhelmed by all the valuable property mentioned, and as Doug slips away she says to Sybil, “what a wonderful legacy your husband has left.”“Legacy?” huffs Sybil, “those were his paper rounds.”

Minutes of business meeting of Mt. Pirongia Lions Club:

District 202L held at Pirongia School on Tuesday 5th April 2016

Present: T McKinnon, P Ryan, N Jolley, W Brown, R Cullen, K Walker, D Van der Giessen, R Van der Giessen, B Sterling, R Jackson, D Gray, prospective member Neville Bell

Apologies: J Henderson, C Williamson, R Duncan, J Beaton, J Lorimer. Moved: R Cullen/ D Van der Giessen

Minutes of the previous meeting Moved: K Walker/ P Ryan

Matters Arising: President Noelene will follow up on Ruby Ranstead to see whether she is able to compete in the Lions Speech Competition. Correction; D Gray was present at the March business meeting

Correspondence: Inward

1/ Hospice; Newsletter

2/ Westpac Rescue Helicopter; Appeal for funds

3/ Club Bulletins; Kihikihi Lions, Te Awamutu Pakeke Lions

4/ Pirongia Te Aroaro o kahu Restortation Society; Newsletter and membership renewal

5/ Kihikihi Lions invitation to their bowls evening run on the 19th March

6/ Bidvest – Magazine

7/Nikita Lyons requesting funds towards a training camp Moved: R Cullen/ B Sterling

Treasurers Report: Financial Position as at 31st March 2016

Club a/c $1,935.24 Trust a/c $9,360.55 Holding a/c $945.17 Saving a/c $14,130.30Moved: J Beaton/ D Gray

General Business:

1/ It was moved that $500 be donated to LCIF for the Fiji Appeal Moved N Jolley/ D Gray

2/ It was moved that $200 be donated to the Competitions Society as prize money. President Noelene will approach Jody Oberlin-Brown to see how best we direct that money

Moved N Jolley/ D Gray

3/ After much discussion it was agreed the club make a donation of $500 to the birthing unit in Te Awamutu for the new resuscitation machine. Our members would like to sight a legal agreement stating that Lions retain ownership of the machine before we make any donation though. A letter is to be sent stating our position on this.

4/ Life Coach Ruth Taylor will be our guest and speaker at our next Tea Meeting

5/ It was moved that $1800 be donated to the Pirongia School PTA from the proceeds of the School Gala evening Moved D Van der Giessen/ W Brown

6/ There are 2 spare places for the club fishing trip approaches to be made to other members

7/ Nikita Lyons approach to our club for more sponsorship was turned down at this stage but the club will monitor her progress and possibly revisit it at a later date

8/Kevin Walker gave the club a run down on the Balloons over Waikato. He and Sheryl were in charge of a group of young people, their task being that of PR and eyes and ears for the organisers. He reported that it was very well run with no major hiccups apart from the weather not being the greatest. President Noelene and Graeme also went over on Wednesday morning to help and Jim and Anne Beaton Friday morning

Meeting Closed at 9pm Secretary: Ray Cullen

Lions Code of Ethics To Show my faith in the worthiness of my vocation by industrious application to the

end that I may merit a reputation for quality of service. To Seek success and to demand all fair remuneration or profit as my just due, but to

accept no profit or success at the price of my own self-respect lost because of unfair advantage taken or because of questionable acts on my part.

To Remember that in building up my business it is not necessary to tear down another's; to be loyal to my clients or customers and true to myself.

Whenever a doubt arises as to the right or ethics of my position or action towards others, to resolve such doubt against myself.

To Hold friendship as an end and not a means. To hold that true friendship exists not on account of the service performed by one to another, but that true friendship demands nothing but accepts service in the spirit in which it is given.

Always to bear in mind my obligations as a citizen to my nation, my state, and my community, and to give them my unswerving loyalty in word, act, and deed. To give them freely of my time, labour and means.

To Aid others by giving my sympathy to those in distress, my aid to the weak, and my substance to the needy.

To Be Careful with my criticism and liberal with my praise; to build up and not destroy.