Lions Youth of the Year

These three young people were put in the spotlight tonight to compete for a spot in the regional finals of the Lions Youth of the Year Award (Sunday 29th of March in Latrobe). From left to right: Lexie Magill, Erica de Jong and Fred Gott. They were asked challenging questions about the $42B Economic Stimulus Package, the Victorian Bushfires and asked to speak about a subject of their own choice.

Lexie, above, won the speakers award for the night after her passionate speech about street photography. Erica, pictured below, was the Club Winner, her talk gingerly focused on the good and the bad of religion in society. Erica moves on to compete with the other clubs' winners for the regional title and then, if all goes well, the state and then the National Lions Clubs' Youth of the Year award. Fred spoke about his experience as an exchange student for a year in Switzerland which he absolutely loved, but brought home the fact that he was not only Australian, but fore mostly and proudly to be from Tasmania, our bit of paradise!

 

No doubt we will come across all three of the above contestants again and again in the future as all three are very promising youths of Devonport. Congratulations to all three and special thanks to the distinguished judges Diane, Kim and Geoff and Lion Robert Smith for organising it all as the committee chair!