Younger Members!

Tonight we inducted our latest member; Rebecca Beaton (see below). Although her true age shall not be revealed she is young enough to be the daughter of many of us. In fact she is. She is Gary's daughter (see resemblance below). Hence the respective emails for them will be gbeaton and rbeaton at devonportlions.info. She dived into the deep end and is seconded as the Secretary to the Taste of the Harvest Committee already. We are already proud of her just for making that commitment.

The guest-speaker today was Karina, a speech therapist from the North West region, see blog entry above!

Today's raffle run by Lyndon raffled off an entire salmon as the first prize. It was donated by Petuna, via John Tierney. There were four prizes in total and Jenny Rimmer almost won 3 of them. Fortunately she refused to accept and tickets were redrawn after she won the fish. Nonetheless we all thought there was something fishy going on and the word 'witch' was repeatedly uttered in the crowd.

Other items of interest were mentioned such as:

The Civic Reception hosted by our Mayor Ald. Lynn Laycock in appreciation of 50 years of service to the community; held at the Council Chambers from 6pm-730pm. Members and partners are invited, but please RSVP the receptionist by Friday 11 September (ph: 03 - 6424 0511)!

PFD Foodfair is on Sunday and Monday 27 and 28 September, and we are arranging volunteers to set up tables etc. on Sunday morning (9am) and pack them up again on the Monday.

The Magic Show is on soon, one of our major fund raisers of the year. We will need members to volunteer for the ushering. of all shows held on Monday 19 October.

The Imaginarium is running low on funds due to lack of government funding for Questacon which in turn will need to significantly increase the rental of their exhibitions. Any ideas to help the Imaginarium wrt funding or alternative science related displays are welcome!

We are manning the racegates again on Monday 21 September at Spreyton

Bill Slater is turning 80 shortly and we will have a party at Denise and Philip Gleeson's house for him at 4pm on Saturday 10 October. RSVP to Denise or Sam!

Zone Training day now 20 September - see the article <here>.

Citizen of the Year is coming up on September 24!

Sunday 27 September the council's Pioneer Park (Thomas St, East. Devonport between Wright St & Church St.) Playground Launch is on, and the City of Devonport Lions will do the cooking and serving of food and drinks from our caravan.

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