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Merry Christmas and

Happy New Year 2019

Club News December 2018

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New Look for N-MV Lions Noarlunga-Morphett Vale Lions Club has a new club sticker and badge.

The design features local landmarks including the Pt. Noarlunga Jetty and the Morphett

Vale War Memorial. The club badge will be used in place of a bannerette when visiting

other clubs, can be presented to visitors and can be worn by club members. Already the

new club stickers have been seen around the C2 district including on the wall of the

famous Daly Waters Pub in the NT.

To All Our Readers

Thank you to contributors of reports,

messages, stories, photos and jokes

for the Christmas edition of the N-MV

Lions Club News.

A safe and happy holiday season to all.

The Editors

Grace and Rob.

N-MV Lions Club Badge Design

Past President Rob adding a sticker to the wall of the Daly Waters Pub.

November Hours

The hours worked by members for the month of November

totalled 564.

Here is a list of the more notable projects:

Project Hours Metal recycling 15 Cake Sales/sleigh/table etc. 174 BBQs 56 Health Activity 93 Administration 39 Garage Sales working bees 63

Other Projects 83

The accurate recording of the hours that volunteers work is very important. It really is the only way that we, as an organisation, can assess our true worth towards our communi-

ties and the national economy.

Acting Secretary Mick Millar

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President’s Message

I know that the last few months have been a little disruptive with regard

to our meeting venue. I wish to thank all the members for your support

over this period. Hopefully with a new caterer and stability with the

venue things will get back to normal.

Over the last 6 months the club has continued with our fundraising efforts primarily

through the garage sales, Bunning‟s BBQs and during the last month Christmas cake

sales. For all those members involved in the organising and participation your efforts

have been outstanding.

The Diabetes Screening Project to be conducted in March of next year is progressing

well. The club has received a grant from ALF to offset some of the costs involved and

“hats off” to Lion Lou for the amount of time and work that he has put into this project.

The formation of a Lion‟s club in Seaford is getting closer. The membership of the

Branch Club is increasing each month and the current members are keen and ener-

getic to have a presence in their area. Lions Peter and Lyn are their “guiding lights”

and have been instrumental in developing this club.

Over the last few months some of our planned social activities have had to be placed

on hold. However I am looking forward to being able to arrange these again during

the next 6 months. Boys and Girls get ready for the Battle of the Sexes.

The club has also been active in the community over the preceding 6 months. Metro

tickets have been distributed to a number of schools for use needy families, food

hampers have been distributed, furniture moved, collected and delivered, awards to a

primary school and building projects at a pre-school.

The editor-in-chief has requested a short report so that is all from me for now. I wish

all members and your families a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year and look for-

ward to your support for the remainder of the year.

President Col

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Nautical Kindy Partnership

A partnership between Reynella South Pre-School and Noarlunga-Morphett Vale

Lions Club has seen some more additions to the school playground.

Along with a chicken coop, vegetable

garden fence, butterfly garden and out-

door seating, the Lions have built a jetty

and a raft.

The school funded the materials and the

Lions provided the construction skills.

The playground jetty leads to an existing

wooden boat while the raft provides a plat-

form for would-be castaways. Some of the

project involved pre-cutting and assembling

the components off-site but most of the

work required construction on-site, when

the children were not present to „help‟ or

share in the delicious morning tea.

Cartoon captions by : Rob Williams

Building the jetty

The team on the raft

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Christmas Message

From the Treasurer

Have you heard that cash money is becoming obsolete? More and

more people are using digital technology for financial transactions.

Almost every supplier now provides banking details to encourage

bank transfers and discourage cheques and cash. Bank transfers directly into sup-

plier bank accounts can reduce fraud and risk of staff dishonesty. Financial transac-

tions through digital technology enable quicker payments and you have a receipt

immediately.

On a personal level, you no longer need to carry cash when shopping. Just take

your credit or debit card and she‟ll be right. Carrying large amounts of cash to pay

bills, purchase gifts or necessities can be dangerous particularly as people get older.

No longer worry about leaving that stuffed envelope on a bench top while you fill out

a birthday card and stick on the stamp. Or leaving it in your open handbag while

shopping. It‟s very tempting for would-be thieves to lift that envelope and swiftly

pocket it. You and your cash can be very quickly parted.

This year the Club went digital. We took possession of an EFTPOS machine and

although some thought it might be expensive, the additional income received through

our fundraising activities far outweigh the small costs associated with the machine.

We‟ve also seen many of our members use EFTPOS for payment of club member-

ship dues, meals and Christmas cakes.

I‟ve had members complain about small cheques. Some members may never go to

the bank to cash or deposit a cheque, so it becomes an inconvenience. No worries.

Just give me your bank account details and your reimbursement claim can be paid

straight into your bank account. If you are working on a project and will be purchas-

ing goods with your own money, give me your banking details and I‟ll set your profile

into our On-Line banking account. Transfers will be quick and easy. There‟s only

one downside to this process. As with cheques, two signatories are required. If sig-

natories resist technology and don‟t register for On-Line banking, it

may become impossible to facilitate your quick reimbursements.

A message for the technophobes. Get with the program.

Sue Sedivy

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New Turf for Jean

Several club members laid a new section of artificial turf in

Jean‟s backyard recently. Unfortunately her existing „grass‟

had suffered from the elements, was coming apart and had

shifted and curled up at the edges.

The Lions managed to fit some of the former Reynella Bowl-

ing Club green and tidy up some of the existing ground cover.

So now it is safe for Jean to venture out into her back-

yard and enjoy the sunshine and wildlife.

The On-going Shed Saga Another year gone! The old shed is still standing and packed to the ceiling, the

new shed is still a figment of our imagination. Maybe this time next year, your

guess is as good as mine.

So with less available space, we have been rather cramped with the Ute, trail-

ers, cakes & the BBQ equipment juggling for room. We still seem to have collected more

„goodies‟ for our very successful garage sales, which raise around $500 / $600 per month

so a good fundraiser that we will continue next year. The new layout has had approval

from the workers and customers. Things that we have had for ever are now seen and are

sold. Thanks to all who have put in a great effort in helping this year.

This year‟s cake sales has caused some issues with storage, delivery & ordering. As room

in the shed is rather limited, the cakes were ordered in smaller lots. The first lot was deliv-

ered on Melbourne Cup day with no warning, so they had to deliver again the next day.

The second order was missing the puddings, which we are still waiting for (12/12/18).

There have been some hiccups but the sales have been going well, although the Sleigh

has either had no cakes or had bad weather, but the Table sales have done well.

Thanks to all the members who

have put themselves out to help

promote this worthy project,

especially Peter Millar, table

sales coordinator & Derek Kerr

for organising the sleigh sales.

Shed Coordinator and

Cake Chairman

Chris Ashton

Jean and her ’new’ yard

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Youth of the Year REPORT

We started this YOTY year full of confidence and enthusiasm after se-

curing presentation times in two new schools, Prescott Southern Col-

lege and Christies Beach High School. This was in addition to Southern

Vales Christian College (our favourite school).

Christies Beach Principal, Graham Clark was very keen and gave us a good “wrap”

before we spoke to the students. Approximately 10 students gave us their names,

we know from previous years this doesn‟t mean 10 entrants!! It was disappointing to

get the usual “not interested” when we contacted each student. This came on top of

our disappointment when no student put up their hand after our YOTY presentation

at Southern Vales. This was the 1st time this has happened. One student was very

enthusiastic after our presentation at Prescott Southern but it became apparent she

had a different view of the whole process when we did our home visit plus her

mother had concerns regarding this program being an “unwanted distraction” when

she needed to focus on her studies.

After a lot of discussion and careful consideration my committee and I decided to

cancel the YOTY program for this year, 2018/ 2019 and beyond. While I feel sad that

we didn‟t have the success we worked so hard to achieve with YOTY I‟m very happy

to have worked with Lions Lance and Lyn A. They both had lots of ideas and options

for making the program more “student friendly” and I believe we achieved that.

Lyn will be heading up another project next year while Lance and I spend quality

time with our family.

We wish all of our club

members a very happy

and healthy Christmas

filled with love and

laughter.

May 2019 be a good

year for you all.

Cheers,

Lyn Reeves

There was a nasty accident at this year's Christmas Pageant. A Lions Club member was riding a horse but it didn't quite go according to plan. They got on the horse OK and started out slowly but then things sped up until horse and rider were going at what seemed to be a full gallop. Then the worst happened. The rider fell off and caught their foot in the stirrup. The horse started dragging them round in a circle. It wouldn't stop and just kept going around and around. Luckily Santa arrived in the nick of time and unplugged the carousel.

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House Moving

When Reg Smith‟s father moved out of his home of many

years, the Lions were called in to help remove a large shade

house and various items of furniture that were no longer re-

quired. Lance, Rob W(1) and Reg spent several days disman-

tling the shade house that was certainly made to „stand for all

time‟. In fact three ute-loads were taken to

the recyclers resulting in over $100 in donations to Lions Club

funds. The furniture was sold at our Garage Sale and some

was donated to families being relocated by the Southern Do-

mestic Violence Service.

Recycling REPORT

Apart from the recycling of items at our Lions Shed I have been in-

volved with the following activities in the last 6 months:

3 deliveries of household items for needy people at the Salvos, A

quantity of plants donated to raise funds for Legacy, Assisted 2 Past Club Presi-

dent‟s families on their home front, 6 deliveries of household batteries to the

Council, 10 large bags to Savers (mainly containing eye glass cases) and Posted

2,200 pairs of eye glasses to Queensland. Geoff Spencer

Photos show Lance cutting the supports and securing

another load for recycling

Volunteers Acknowledged

Community Volunteers in the southern suburbs were recently presented with ac-

knowledgement certificates by Federal Member for Kingston, Amanda Rishworth.

Rob Winter was nominated by Morphett Vale RSL for his outstanding contribution

to the community, in particular in designing and

producing a Digital Honour Board to display pho-

tos and details of the military service of residents

and family members.

His work with Lions was also mentioned.

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Membership REPORT

Noarlunga Morphett Vale:

To date we are currently standing with a negative growth of two

with the loss of Rose and Gordon Riley and Lorraine Rosenberg,

but we have welcomed Peter Bassett into the Club.

Each year we grow a little older and whilst it would be excellent if we could encour-

age new younger members we just need more members to help spread the load. I

do wonder when you look at our age whether someone in their thirties would feel

comfortable with us. We can only but test this theory out with the emphasis on “we”.

The only way we are going to increase our membership is simply to ask the

public to join us. If you don’t ask you don’t receive.

Seaford Branch Club:

They are very slowly but consistently increasing their membership. With me present-

ing a new membership application to our Club Board, the membership of the Club

currently is 12 and I am in discussion with two more prospective members.

They are becoming more active in the Seaford area with a new project called Adopt

a Spot, this is done in conjunction with KESAB and they visit a section of the Espla-

nade and the beachfront and generally pick up other people‟s litter. This is done on

a monthly basis and afterwards they have a social get together.

Lyn & I have been involved in two membership drives with them and the District

membership Team thus far at the Seaford Shopping Centre, at each of these we

have helped to increase their membership. I will be presenting this concept to our

Club Board in the New Year, it does incur a cost to the Club. But it does work.

The Club is actively out in the community selling cakes and mints and it will be inter-

esting to see at the end of this year the increase in their Project Account, they are

fully aware that they are required to pay us for the cakes in January. I do not believe

we will see any returned as their main outlet has asked for cakes all year round.

Peter Sparnon

What did the Executioner’s wife say to him when coming home from work? Well darling there's only 10 more chopping days to Christmas.

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Susan’s Outdoor Conversion

Susan Wood decided to turn her unwanted shed into an under cover garden but she had a

problem. Quite an amount of corrugated iron and two large shed doors had to be removed.

Lions came to the rescue and a number of members man-

aged to „scrap‟ the sides of the old shed quite quickly whilst

having fun with the power tools.

Susan now has a great

new area where she can

arrange her plants and

enjoy the outdoors.

The excess metal was

taken to the recyclers

and a cash donation

went into club funds.

Please Be Seated During this current year and into the next year the company I work for

(Ivocare) is undertaking a refurbishment of many of its branches around

the country.

As a result, I have been able to acquire quite a number of Chairs and other

furniture that has been donated to our club for sale at the Garage Sales

and the like. A number have been sold to a neighbour of Chris and Petra Ashton and I have

also acquired enough to replace the old chairs at the Wellington Hall free of charge.

From one branch (Blackwells Glenside) I was able to obtain 105 almost brand new un-

marked Chairs plus an organ and washing machine. One of the chairs I showed to the Wel-

lington Hotel Management who agreed to buy all of them from the club that resulted in a

profit being returned to the club of just under $4,000.00.

I record my thanks to everyone who helped transport all of the furniture I have acquired but

in particular, I would like to thank Lance Reeves who assisted in picking up and returning

the hired truck used to deliver the chairs to Wellington, load and unload the chairs at each

end respectively. As an aside, the trip was an extended one due to some minor mechanical

issues with the truck so we were both very relieved to have the job done.

I expect to be able to obtain more of the surplus furniture from my company next year and if

it is of a high standard I will endeavour to pre-sell to another hotel or similar.

Bob Radford

Down it comes

Resistance is useless

against this team

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Christmas Message From the 2nd Vice President

As 2nd Vice President I would very much like to firstly thank all the

members who are on my committee who work tirelessly to make

everything happen on time and smoothly.

Garage sales are going well and a huge thank you to those who make this happen

every time. Same applies to the Bunnings barbecue and at the moment, Christmas

cake sales and sleigh runs.

It is so amazing the amount of hard working people in this Club do and I congratu-

late you one and all. The first half of my term of office has flown by so quickly but I

have enjoyed every minute of it.

I would also like to thank the Board for their guidance and friendship.

I wish all members compliments of the Season and if you are travelling over this

holiday period please stay safe and we will meet again in 2019.

Let‟s finish with a couple of Christmas jokes.

It was Christmas and the judge was in a merry mood as he asked the pris-

oner “What are you charged with?”. “Doing my Christmas shopping early”, replied

the defendant.. “That’s no offence” said the judge. “How early were you doing this

shopping?” . “Before the store opened” replied the prisoner.

What is a librarian’s favourite Christmas carol?

Silent Night

How do you know Santa is good at karate?

He has a black belt.

MERRY CHRISTMAS

Gibson Atherton

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Santa Visits the Lake

Ten members from Noarlunga-Morphett Vale Lions Club accompanied Santa on his

annual visit to Tailem Bend and Meningie on December 1st and 2nd.

Each year members from our club travel to

help Lions Clubs in these towns sell their

Christmas Cakes door-to-door.

Usually the weather is very hot and uncomfort-

able but this year they were almost blown away

by rain, high winds and thunder and lightning at

Lake Albert Caravan Park.

Highlights of the visits are the shared lunch at

Tailem Bend, following the selling, and a joint

Christmas dinner in Meningie on Saturday night,

with members from all three Lions Clubs attend-

ing, prior to hitting the streets on Sunday morn-

ing for some more cake selling.

This year the annual street parade was not held

on this weekend so Santa did not stay on to

help give out gifts to the local children.

Lunch Time

Peter ponders mystery gift

Santa & helpers on the road

Meningie support crew

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Christmas Message

From the 3rd Vice President

Well here I am half way through my first term of office on the Board

as 3rd Vice President.

It has been quite a learning curve for me as I am really still quite a newbie. I have

served on many boards and committees, but never have I served with such a hard

working and dedicated group of people. I still have so much to learn about this

wonderful organisation, learning something new at every meeting.

I am absolutely blown away with the hard work and time that members put in to rais-

ing money for their community and whenever needed their hands go up straight

away. I am so impressed.

A lot of my time, particularly through the winter months, is spent with the Lions Skin

Cancer Screening unit and again, even though this is not our Club project, 6 of our

members give up a lot of time as volunteers for this wonderful project and it would

not be where it is today if it was not for them.

I would like to close by thanking those on my committee for the help, assistance and

advice they have given my over the past 6 months.

I wish all members a happy, safe and joyous Christmas and look forward to seeing

you all again in 2019.

Now a couple of Christmas jokes:

Why didn’t the skeleton go to the Christmas party? He had no-body to go with.

What falls at the North Pole but never gets hurt? Snow

What do you call Frosty the Snowman in May? A puddle

HO HO HO

Janet Atherton

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Diabetes & Blood Pressure Screening Project

Lions Leading the Way

I am pleased to provide an update on the planned Diabetes and

Blood Pressure screening project to be staged on Saturday 23rd

March 2019 from 10.00 am – 4.00 pm at Seaford Central.

The Screening Venue:

The Seaford Central Shopping Centre has accepted our request for floor space in

the main mall area and have agreed to provide us with two adjacent sites at the

Northern entrance to the mall. This is an ideal spot and will ensure us a good flow of

foot traffic past our site. The cost of the sites would normally be $400.00 which the

Centre has kindly donated to the project.

The Testing Procedure:

Nurses and interns will carry out the testing procedure under the supervision of Dr

Charles Mattner and Noel O‟Brien. As the overarching club The Lions Club of Noar-

lunga Morphett Vale will be responsible to source the Medical Interns and Regis-

tered Nurses for the day. To that end I have arranged with the assistance of the

Chandlers Hill Surgery for a group of Senior Medical students from the Adelaide

University School of Medicine to join our team for the day. We will also require a

total of 8 registered nurses on the day, I can confirm five registered nurses as

booked and negotiations are proceeding with another three.

What will Lions Members be required to do on the Testing Day:

Set up the site for testing, chairs, trestle tables, screens, signs, banners, assem-

ble testing equipment.

Six Lions will be required per shift – Note: There will be two 3-hour shifts.

Two Lions to greet patients and supervise the filling out of forms for each patient.

Two Lions – one weighing each person and one recording their height.

Two Lions compiling the test results on a master sheet after all the testing has

been completed. The patient takes their individual form with them so we need to

record their statistics on a master sheet to have a record of all results.

We will require 4 Lions to assist with setup and 4 Lions to assist with packing up.

A full briefing will be conducted by Dr Charles Mattner & Noel O‟Brien on the day.

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Diabetes & Blood Pressure Screening Project Advertising and Promotion:

Advertising will be extensive and costly, however without people we don‟t have a

project!

We will need to advertise in the local paper, place banners around the local

community, put advertising flyers in local community centres, Libraries, Doctors

Surgeries, RDNS Centre, Community Health Centre and organise some air time on

local Radio.

I am pleased to confirm that we have received an ALF grant of $1,585.00 towards

the budgeted cost of the project.

Summary:

From the testing already conducted in Australia there are a large number of people

out there with health issues they are not aware of. Did you know that there are

400,000 Australians out there who have Diabetes and do not know? They feel well

enough, so do not go to their Doctor.

This Project will provide Lions with the opportunity to help those in the community at

serious risk from type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure.

We will be seen as the leaders in promoting community health.

A planning meeting and site inspection was carried out with team leader Noel

O‟Brien and Dr Charles Mattner in mid-November and an operations meeting will be

held with club members in mid-February to outline specific duties on the day.

Project Manager Lou Sedivy

Frank - I've just bought my wife a bottle of French toilet water for Christmas. It cost me $200.

Eddie - You fool, why didn't you tell me. You could have come round to place and got a bottle of Aussie toilet water for free.

(Anyone old enough to still get this one?)

Laughing Lion

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Remember When … (Photos from Max Drinkwater’s historical collection)

Trash and treasure 2004 The year 2004 will be remembered for

the Trash and Treasure sales held in the

church hall on Beach Road. How glad we

are that nowadays we don‟t have to drag

everything down there and bring the left-

overs back at the end of the day.

Hearing Dog Centre Working Bee Another event in 2004 was a working bee at the Hearing Dogs centre.

Here club members cleared undergrowth and rubbish, tidied and land-

scaped the areas surrounding the buildings.

Once an annual tradition, this activity was performed by Noarlunga-

Morphett Vale members prior to the Hearing Dogs Open Day each year.

Some of the workers

Some of the junk stock

Clearing the land Beautification complete