Thank you
for the privilege in being your President for the past year, which I enjoyed
immensely. I am pleased that I finally made the commitment to undertake the
position having avoided the challenge for many years.
Our club
has been very active over the last 12 months and have totalled up 3,687
hours of service to our community.
Organisations who have received monetary assistance are wide and varied. In
all some $24000 has been donated to 26 organisations.
Assistance
has been given to print Autism booklets for the local community, a
wheelchair & a Dialysis chair have been purchased for local citizens.
Our
involvement with the Blue Light Disco on a regular basis is an ongoing
commitment by our club to the youth of our community.
BBQ’s at
Bob’s have also generated good funds, & we thank Manager Tim Curwood for the
opportunity.
Our
Christmas cake sales were again a highlight, where we took Father Christmas
down the majority of Whyalla Streets & gave away sweets to the children. Our
thanks to Venturers, Air force Cadets, & St John’s Cadets, for their
assistance with this project.
The
Whyalla Gift Foundation also helped many of our youth during the year &
continues to be a worthwhile project of our club.
Delivery
of telephone books, Westland Christmas decorations, Carols in the Park & the
Whyalla Show were all well supported by our members.
During the
year we upgraded our cooking equipment at the Dutch Shed, & we have also
carried out maintenance & painting of our building.
This was
completed in time for one of the most challenging projects undertaken,
helping to cater for the Motor home & Campervan Show. We all certainly now
know how to cook fish & chips & calamari, thanks to all of you who helped in
the Dutch shed that week. It was a sight to see 730 Motor homes & campervans
filling the Whyalla Showgrounds.
The
Snapper fishing Competition which is held over Easter weekend was its usual
success, many thanks to those members who gave up their time over the Easter
weekend.
Finally,
thank you to all members who have contributed over the year especially Lion
Brian Marshall as Secretary, Lion Graeme Lowe as Treasurer, Lions Lady Lyn
Risborg as Bulletin editor, and Lion Don Van Weezep for ours and all the
other websites to do with Lions.
Some Donations of note that
I would like to mention are:
|
Whyalla Gift
Carnival |
$ 1100 |
Sponsorship |
Whyalla Aged
care |
$ 2149 |
Landscaping
& Labour |
|
Dialysis
Chair |
$ 550 |
Private
Citizen |
Whyalla
Hockey Association |
$ 250 |
|
|
Whyalla
Netball Association |
$ 600 |
|
Whyalla
Football League |
$ 1000 |
|
|
Edward John
Eyre High School |
$ 225 |
|
Carols in
the Park |
$ 810 |
|
|
Whyalla
Venturers |
$ 601 |
|
Whyalla Air
Force Cadets |
$ 524 |
|
|
Whyalla St
John Ambulance Cadets |
$ 285 |
|
CREATE |
$ 2700 |
Fishy Fringe
Sponsorship |
|
Samaritan
College |
$ 1200 |
|
Wheelchair
Purchase |
$ 699 |
Private
Citizen |
|
Autism
Booklets |
$ 650 |
Uni SA
Project |
F Scan
Appeal |
$ 2000 |
|
|
Whyalla Gift
Foundation |
$ 5160 |
Whyalla
Sporting Youth |
Victorian
Bushfire and |
$ 5000 |
Australian
Lions Foundation |
| |
|
|
Queensland
Floods |
|
|
| |
Activities Account
|
Administration Account |
|
Balance as
at 1st June 2008 |
$ 11,801.55 |
$ 8,281.74 |
|
Income for
year |
$ 82,398.54 |
$ 17,521.48 |
|
Outgoing for
year |
$ 83,907.55 |
$ 22,503.52 |
|
Balance as
at 31st May 2009 |
$ 11,294.65 |
$ 3,299.70 |
I wish Tony
Treasure all the best for the coming Year & offer him my support.
Yours in
Lionism President 2008/9 Len Clapp.
2009 - 2010
President Tony Treasure
- Secretary Michael Nolan - Treasurer Graeme Lowe
The past year
has been quite an experience for me and I have enjoyed the honor of being
president.
Members have
taken great delight in reminding of my height and the color of my socks. By the
way, I am wearing odd coloured socks tonight Pappsy and have brought my stool so
you can see me above the lectern.
Being
President has for the first time given me the understanding of actually of
what we undertake and achieve in a 12 month period. Reflecting over the year
I am amazed at the total hours worked, the assistance given to others,
sponsorship of community activities and the wide and varied donations we
have made.
From
selling Christmas Cakes and taking Father Christmas down every street with
sweets to a roadside cleanup on the Lincoln Highway we have done it all.
Social
get togethers have been held at Carpy's Cubby this year and have proved a
popular change with the members when they can sample their own cooking for a
change.
Our
Major Activities during the year were:-
Bottle Drives
Blue Light Committee and Discos
Bobs Barbecue
Carols in the park with Whyalla Lions
Whyalla Gift
Foundation Whyalla Show
Whyalla Gift &
Food & Wine Fair Hockey, Netball and Football Finals
Whyalla Heart
Kids Hospital Fete
Relay for Life
Expo for Disables
Westland
Christmas Decorations Samaritan College Barbecue
Whyalla
Pageant Float Pageant Catering
Plaza Street
Party Youth of the Year
Australia Day
Catering Little Athletics Regional Carnival
Telephone Book
Delivery Whyalla Speedway
Snapper
Competition Fishy Fringe
Small all Day
out Long Track Speedway
Special
Olympics Interleague Football
KESAB Girl
Guides
This list clearly shows that
members have been very active and all together have committed some 4,134 hrs to
the community over the 12 months this equates to in excess of three hrs
community work per week for every member of our club for the entire year.
A magnificent effort raising a
gross income in excess of $63,000.
Major Donations of Finances
were:-
|
Lions
Cord Blood |
$300 |
|
Smile
Appeal |
$150 |
|
Lions
Spinal Cord |
$110 |
|
Lions
Eye Health |
$112 |
|
Hospital
Quilt Donation |
$229 |
|
Blue
Light Committee |
$1,413 |
|
Whyalla
Heart Kids |
$1,500 |
|
Relay
for Life |
$2,800 |
|
Little
Athletics |
$1,359 |
|
Whyalla
Gift Sponsorship |
$1,700 |
|
Fishy
Fringe Sponsor |
$2,400 |
|
Prostate
Cancer Awareness |
$850 |
|
Lions
Drug Awareness |
$100 |
|
Junior Diabetes
|
$2,000 |
|
Netball
Association |
$240 |
|
Basketball Association |
$383 |
|
Football League |
$1,075 |
|
Carols
in the Park |
$1,774 |
|
Schools
|
$570 |
|
St
Johns Ambulance Cadets |
$1,125 |
|
Lions
Quest |
$150 |
|
Moldenhauer/White Appeal |
$5,000 |
|
Special
Olympics |
$1,100 |
|
Whyalla
Gift Foundation |
$1,400 |
|
Foodbank |
$600 |
|
Girl
Guides |
$1158 |
|
ALF |
$500 |
|
Haiti
Earthquake Appeal |
$500 |
Grand Total -
$30,598
The Whyalla Gift
Foundation during the year has helped individuals and teams involved in Soccer,
Hockey, Boxing, indoor Soccer, Basketball, eight ball Cycling, Model Aircraft,
Netball, Judo and Football, with two Whyalla Sportsmen participating in Hungary
and England.
Well done to all and
thank you to all members for their support and commitment over the year. Best
Wishes to Michael, our incoming President for the next 12 months and I am sure
that he will find it a rewarding experience.
The support given to
members and various projects by our wives and family members has been excellent
and we really appreciate their tolerance and additional hands at larger
functions.
Supply of Power
generation from Roger Byrne at Coates Hire is an enormous help to us and
maximizes our donations to local charities.
Finally a special thank
you to all who have assisted this year and given me an experience I will never
forget.
Tony Treasure
President
