Bulletin - May/June 2012 - Lions Clubs New Zealand

Convention Committee Report;Greetings Club members.The convention is barely 10 months away. We have had a good meeting on Monday 28 thMay 2012 and have detailed to my committee members areas of responsibility which theywill with the help of all members of the club form subcommittees to come back to theconvention committee in due course with the direction we will progress in with each sectionof the weekend. This is a project which it is important that all commit themselves to. I wouldhope that the team leaders get your support and I thank those that put their names forwardat the last Business meeting. Unfortunately I am away for the next tea meeting but I hopethat the subcommittees will form and start the business of planning each segment of theweekend.We have a lot of expenses to carry to make this a successful weekend and we will need toraise funds through sponsorship etc. I would urge you all to contact Lion Royce who willcoordinate this activity. I am sure that we can all obtain some funding or goods in kind forraffles, etc. I challenge everyone in the club to provide something that will benefit theconvention in some form.We have our first expense that is not permitted to come from Convention Committee funds,and I feel should not be on Lion Pete our DG Elect to pay out of his resources. So at ournext Business Meeting I will be asking the Club to Fund the purchase of the DG Banner,which is now being produced at a cost of $2202.50.for 150 banners. This is just the sort ofcommitment we need to make our clubs representative as the next DG. If you want anyfurther information on this please feel free to call me.Last weekend I travelled to Cheviot to present my first report to cabinet. It was a mostinteresting day.I look forward to your continued supportPaulHalswell and District Lions Club Convention CommitteePaul OConnor M.B.E.ChairmanMob; 021353753Home: 033221592Halswell.convention2013@hotmail.compaul.oconnor@xtra.co.nz

New Member Contact Information:-Iain & Sharyn LynnHilary & Roger Kay10 Rooney Place, Halswell 13 Rosamund Place, HalswellTel: 339 8264 Tel: 322 9214Email: lynn@ihug.co.nzEmail: rhkay@xtra.co.nzBARBEQUE ROSTER9 th JuneRoyce Clive **Ron FensomDorothy Tilson23 rd JunePaul O’Connor **Graeme NicholClaire Irwin7 th JulyRoss Pickering **Dorothy HawksJohn McNeill21 st JulyJohn Moore **Ray BrocketMike Grady4 th AugustBrian Williamson **Allan CleaveAdrienne Inder18 th AugustNoel Hopgood **Richmond BurridgeSam Farr** = Co-ordinator for the dayIf you are unable to do your duties on the given days, it is your responsibility to organise areplacement. Thank you.Dates for the Diary6 th June – Tea Meeting @ Islington Tavern9 th June – BBQ @ Halswell New World20 th June – Business Meeting @ Halswell Bowling Club23 rd June – BBQ @ Halswell New World4 th July – Change-over Night @ Islington Tavern7 th July – BBQ @ Halswell New World & CRAFT FAIR18 th July – Business Meeting @ Halswell Bowling Club21 st July – BBQ @ Halswell New World

Members who are not enjoying good health presently include Richmond Burridge and Glen Rossiter-Campbell.Members who remember Evon Fraser will be saddened to learn that she is now residing in a rest home,Evon is certainly a character and I bet life in the rest home will have changed forever.Take care – Paul H.Chris (Christopher) Dann a past member of Halswell Lions Club has recently past away, aged 62years old ofcancer… our thanks to Colleen for this information. He was a very outgoing community minded man.A few more laughs…….Jokes about German sausage are the wurst.I know a guy who's addicted to brake fluid.... but he says he can stop any time.How does Moses make his tea? Hebrews it.I stayed up all night to see where the sun went. Then, it dawned on me.This girl said she recognized me from the vegetarian club, but I'd never met herbivore.I'm reading a book about anti-gravity.... and I just can't put it down.I did a theatrical performance about puns. It was a play on words.They told me I had type-A blood, but it was a Type-O.PMS jokes aren't funny; period.Why were the Indians here first? They had reservations.We are going on a class trip to the Coca-Cola factory. I hope there's no pop quiz.I didn't like my beard at first.... but then it grew on me.Did you hear about the cross-eyed teacher who lost her job because she couldn't control her pupils?When you get a bladder infection, urine trouble.When chemists die, they barium.Broken pencils are pointless.I tried to catch some fog, but I mist.What do you call a dinosaur with an extensive vocabulary? A thesaurus.England has no kidney bank, but it does have a Liverpool .I used to be a banker, but then I lost interest.I dropped out of communism class because of lousy Marx.All the toilets in New York 's police stations have been stolen. The police have nothing to go on.I got a job at a bakery because I kneaded dough.Haunted French pancakes give me the creapes.Velcro — what a rip off!A cartoonist was found dead in his home. Details are sketchyVenison for dinner again? Oh deer!The earthquake in Washington obviously was Bush's fault.Please be kind your dentist. He has fillings, too.

Attn: All MembersIf you have keep any club correspondence / letters that have been received within the last year could please returnthese to Eric Whyte at the Tea Meeting on the 6 th June. This will ensure all the ‘secretaries’ information is to handand ready to pass over to the incoming board/secretary.Kind Regards - EricTEA MEETINGWednesday — 6 th June 2012The Islington TavernGuest Speaker: Lindsay ProffitCost: $16.00 per personRSVP: Colleen – Tel: 322 7158Raffle: Sam FarrToasts & Grace: Dorothy TilsonThanks for reading this newsletter.Any contributions will be greatly accepted!Please forward to Denise at: denpa@xtra.co.nz