FEILDING MANCHESTER LIONS CLUB Jan22

FEILDING MANCHESTER LIONS CLUB

Manchester Murmurs

January 2022

P.O. Box 451, Feilding STRENGTHEN FOR THE FUTURE
Club established 1977
President: Phil Brady Secretary: Steve Poole

Now this is worth Smiling about, Lion Pat Sheridan receiving Life Membership
to our Club for 50 Years of Service to Lions

CONGRATULATIONS PAT

Meetings: Held 2nd & 4th Wednesday of the month

Venue: Stockman Restaurant, Denbigh Hotel, Feilding. 6pm

Apologies: RSVP Monday 7.30pm to Maurice Newth email: [email protected]

LIONS BOARD MEMBERS Phil Brady
Steve Poole
President Lynn Southee
Secretary Andy Aston
Treasurer Grant Pennycook
Immediate Past President
1st Vice President Jason Bowles
Warren Nicholls
Directors Steve Cowie
Chris McLaughlin
Membership Ross Fairless
Programmes Clinton Antis
Projects Arjen Spekking
Youth Health & Welfare Bob Monds
Speedway John Dougherty & Ross Fairless
Almoner Warwick Horton
Publicity
Bulletin John Collis
Tailtwisters John Jamieson
Lion Tamer Chris McLaughlin
Barrel Train Co-Ordinator Maurice Newth
Candy Floss Co-Ordinator Grant Pennycook
Spirit of Adventure Geoff Lovegrove
Communications
TGIF
Coffee Mornings

Lions Committees 2021

Programmes Membership/Community
Warren Nicholls (Director) Jason Bowles (Director)
Bob Monds Geoff Lovegrove
Ross Fairless Arjen Spekking
Warwick Horton Peter Doyle
Ron Peters Allan Muntz
George Bleakley John Dougherty
Andrew Williams Maurice Newth

Projects Youth, Health & Welfare
Steve Cowie (Director) Chris McLaughlin (Director)
John Collis Grant Pennycook
John Jamieson Andy Aston
Wayne Ellery George Hitchman
Pat Sheridan Alan Carter
Nigel Brown Clinton Antis
George Keenan Graham Christensen

Maurice Watt

Finance
Phil Brady, Steve Poole, Lynn Southee

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MEETING/MASKS

In light of the fact the Country is in Code Red to stop the COVID
Omicron Virus from spreading and to protect our Club Members, the
Board has decided that Masks are to be worn during the Meeting with
a one metre spacing except when eating your Meal and having your
drink.

Presidents Report

Hi one and all.

Welcome to 2022 I hope you all had a chance to relax and refresh over the
Christmas New Year period. We will without a doubt face a few challenges again
this year with Covid dictating so much of how we can operate. Omicron and its
transmitting speed is something we need to be conscious of as we go about our
Club activities. As an example, we need to ensure that we have a commitment to
provide an environment for all of our Members to gather and feel safe. Every one of our Members should
be confident to attend our Meetings. This is why there is now a requirement to wear a mask at Meetings
except when eating. I recognise this is a pain but it is a step to protect our Members as well protecting
ourselves and subsequently our families and friends.

I would like to thank those members who assisted with the running of the Mini Golf for two weeks for
Feilding Host, a result of which we will now have some funds for our Account. The cancelling of the
Rongotea Gala and the loss of revenue from the barrel train has not helped our cause and while we have
had a couple of opportunities to work the gates at Stockcars, Ross has suggested that the future of the
season is not looking great with an inability to run under the present Covid restrictions. Hence the need
to be cautious in how we utilise what funds we have at the moment.

Having said all that. we are fortunate to have a strong and resilient Membership who I know will work
collectively to face whatever challenges come our way. Andy now has a team to start the Trust process,
Grant is full steam ahead with the Spirit of Adventure sponsorship process, the bar-b-ques we have
scheduled to start in February can get underway and the chance to help with keeping a community
garden tidy can also get underway when needed all of which are positives looking forward.

That’s about it from me. Look after yourselves and be aware of opportunities to help support any
Members of our team who maybe in need of assistance in these troubling times.

Cheers Phil

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Committee Reports

Programmes (tbc)

• New Year – Car rally ending at the ????????, if your any good we will see you there
• A visit to Feilding Steam Rail was suggested.
• The GLOB will be at the Minigolf on 19 Feb
• Zone Meeting will be this Thursday 3 Feb at Ashhurst at 7.00pm

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MEMBERSHIP
This is an on-going Club Project, please keep your eyes and ears open for potential new Lions
Members.

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BBQ at Bunnings

We have received permission from Darraghs Mitre 10 and
Bunnings to run a BBQ at their shops as a fund raiser for the
Club. We need to be thinking ways to raise funds so that we can
help our Community when requested. This is a goodie,
lets support it.

Spirit of Adventure
We will be sponsoring one youth to go on the Spirit, applications will be
going out shortly to seek a suitable candidate, it was hoped to send a
second person but our funds are limited and we must be careful about
managing it.

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PUBLICITY – Public Relations
This is an ongoing project, Arjen has put his hand up to run this, he has
already set up a Facebook page and communicating with Feilding Promotions.
Now that COVID is limiting our activities out in the Community we still need to
promote ourselves as Lions and the service work that we do out there.

Speedway

Teams Champs – The NZ Stock Car Teams Championship that was due to be
run in February has been postponed to a later date due to the onset of the
Omicron Virus that is due hit our Country in the immediate future. Stockcar Co-
Ordinator Ross will keep us informed of any updates that arise.

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Birthdays Wedding Anniversaries

January January
9th Peter Doyle
14th Warwick Horton 8th Geoff & Sue Lovegrove
16th Kelvin & Gail Ellery
21st Colin & Alison Webber
26th Steve & Robyn Cowie

February February
16th Warren Nicholls 4th Jason & Karen Bowles
17th Andrew Williams 29th Chris & Tracey McLaughlin
22nd Lucy Horton
26th Alan Carter

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A BIG THANK YOU to the Guys and Partners who ran the Feilding Mini
Golf over the holiday period, a good fund raiser for us, just one rain out
Day.

Steve at work, explains why he wears jandals
(Tradies Secret)

Lions BBQ
There was a good turn out of Members and Partners at Kowhai Park for the BBQ, plenty of good
banter, holiday catch-ups and not a bad snag as well, here are a few pics.

I wonder Who would like
who I will a nice hot
get this time sausage

Oh No! here comes Don’t even I think we will
that sausage look at him just stay over

Give it George here

He got me last
time

I love it Least your horse is safe If God wanted me to be a
watching the from the Vegans vegan he would’ve given
me four legs
faces

That flaming Do I tell Hmmm!
sausage, I can still Steve That’s got an odd

taste it flavour to it
Vegan sausage
Give me some real

meat

Perfect!
Steve’s got it.

TGIF Thank Grant its Friday

TGIF is about to start for 2022, first one be in February at the Irish Bar,
due to being in Code Red, numbers are limited to a 100 at Murray’s Irish
Bar so we need to get our numbers as soon possible so that we can get our
place at the Restaurant
TGIF Friday 11 February – Murray’s Irish Bar
Morning Tea Wed 17 Feb – Beyond Coffee Upstairs

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Ever Wondered Why Steve Wears Jandals

He has a Bottle Opener underneath, Now that’s THINKING

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Meeting Protocol

It has been reported that many members have difficulty hearing what is going on. They ask their
neighbour “what did he say?” and the Meeting becomes unruly. The Board decided that we will
pursue a sound system and as a matter of Meeting etiquette. All speakers to speak from the
lectern. If members still have difficulty hearing they should say so and may wish to relocate
closer to the lectern. We don’t want anyone missing out on what is being said.

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Almoners Report
Some of our Members are receiving treatment for Cancer, we wish them all the best in the
journey ahead.

DON’T FORGET YOUR MASK AND VACCINE PASS

CLEAN UP AT LYNN and JENNY’S

Lynn and Jenny would like to say a BIG THANK YOU to the Team that turned up to help remove
flood damaged items after the recent flash flood we had in Feilding. Their home was flooded out
when a Stop Bank burst up stream allowing flood water to enter their property.

FINANCES AND SUBS: We all need to be aware that our income will be substantially reduced for
the foreseeable future, with our regular fund raising avenues being curtailed. Some factors to
consider:

o We cannot allocate funds we do not have
o Incidental requests for funds should come from meetings as recommendations to the Board
o Some creative ideas needed for alternative fund raisers
o Club could consider some worthy community projects: Garden tidy-ups etc
o Our subs cover only half of our actual club costs, which include District, National and

International dues. Next time the level of subs is discussed, we may need to consider how
much we continue to subsidise them

2. LOOKING AFTER OURSELVES:
o An unescapable fact: we are all getting older, and there will be health issues. We need to
continue to keep an eye on each other, keep in touch with our mates, some of whom may
be struggling with a range of issues.
o Any sniffles: STAY HOME!

YEARS OF SERVICE TO LIONS

Celebrating 50 years in Lions – Lion Pat being roasted by fellow Lions from Kairanga
(Charter President), Rongotea and Manchester Lions