We were pleased to meet Peterborough’s Mayor and honorary Peterborough Lions Club member Councillor George Simons at Morrisons on Lincoln Road on Friday 5th October. Special thanks go to Andy Haigh, the store manager, who was on hand to swap answers with the Mayor and Mayoress and the Lions who were present.
Quiz leaflet sales continue at Morrisons in Stanground on the weekend of 20th/21st October. If you’ve missed the quiz so far, please contact us and we’ll be pleased to find a way to relieve you of your £1.50 for great local causes (and you’ll get several hours of brain stimulation into the bargain!) This year’s major project is the East Anglia Deaf Youth Orchestra with Music And The Deaf.
It was nice to see Lions 105EA District Governor travelling all the way from Wymondham Lions Club to attend our September Lions Club business meeting.
Lion Jim Cawte and wife Jennifer were present for a demonstration by Lion Mark Rogers of our sister website,
Lions’ Share, followed by a question and answer session about how it works and how well it is doing. We look forward to seeing it promoted across the district in coming months.
Peterborough Lions Club President Bill Peacock presented the DG with our club banner and received one of Lion Jim’s personal banners in return.
We were also given a short introduction to the DG Lady’s 2012 Appeal by Jennifer, which this year is raising money for the Teenage Cancer Trust. For those of us young enough to remember being a teenager, it’s a difficult enough time of life as it is without also having to face the enormous challenge of fighting a disease like cancer, but sadly the plight of teenagers with cancer is often overlooked. For that reason (despite it being direct competition to our own
quiz leaflet!) many club members were more than willing to buy the DG Lady’s own quiz leaflets, and the club was also proud to present a donation to the appeal to our visitors.
For more information on the DG Lady’s appeal, see the 105 EA website and the Teenage Cancer Trust website.
The following collection of photos from the 2012 Great Yarmouth Fun Day on Sunday 2nd September have been added to the gallery.
Peterborough Lions are proud to be one of the 3 Charities chosen by Waitrose to receive their support during the month of August.
When customers shop, they are given a green token to be placed into a collection box which is used to determine how Waitrose distribute their charitable donations for the month. So please make sure you pick the right slot – which is the right-most slot!
Thank you to Waitrose for their support.
Peterborough Lions were proud to turn up in force yesterday to cheer Peterborough Lion David Pope along as he carried the London 2012 Olympic Torch through the streets of Hatfield.
You can watch footage of David making a few minutes of jogging look easy on the BBC website (direct link to David’s leg of the relay) or look at the photos the Lions took.
Peterborough Lions are proud to welcome Councillor George Simons, the Mayor of the City of Peterborough, as the newest club member. He was inducted as a member at the June business meeting.
The meeting also marked the end of Lion Gaby Sharman’s successful year as Lions President; when Lion Bill Peacock takes over next month he has a tough act to follow!
Peterborough Lions are proud to report that Lion David Pope, long time member of Peterborough Lions Club, with many roles in the club including Past President and current Club Secretary, has been awarded the honour of being a torch bearer for the London 2012 Olympics.
Lion David was won the honour following nomination in respect of his charitable work, including his recent walk on the Great Wall of China which raised over £2000 to fund 9 Lions Eye Camps.
Lion David also has the honour of being the main photo on last ever “Page 3” in the Peterborough Evening Telegraph, before it’s switch to its new weekly publication, alongside an excellent article. The photograph from the ET is reproduced here with kind permission.
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Peterborough Lions Club are pleased to welcome Lion Deborah to the club, under the guidance of her sponsor, Past Lion President Robert. Deborah was inducted into the club at the May business meeting.
We’re sure Deborah will be a valuable asset to the club.
At the February Business Meeting of the Peterborough Lions Club, the following names were drawn from the 65 returned “Money Matters” quiz leaflets with all answers correct (out of a total of 1129 quizzes returned):
- First Prize – P Guest; Nottingham
- Second Prize – R Hall; Peterborough
- Third Prize – J Holmes; Mereside, Huntingdon
- Fourth Prize – S Overton; Whittlesey
- Fifth Prize –
- B Lake; North Hykeham
- C Horton; Southgate, London
- S Wenlock; Peterborough
- J A North; Peterborough
- K O’Brian; Great Easton
- R Stone; Crew Green, Shrewsbury
So first prize goes outside the Peterborough area this time – better luck to the locals with this year’s quiz! If your name is above and you haven’t been contacted directly within the next few days please get in touch.
Congratulations to everyone above, and to all who bought quiz leaflets this year, whether or not you were able to complete them in full. We hope everyone enjoyed the quiz and look forward to entertaining everyone again later in 2012!
For those of us who needed a little help, the answers can be downloaded here, together with a reply coupon to use if you’d like to pre-order 2012 quiz leaflets (go on, you know you want to!)
For the last five years Peterborough Lions Club has been a sponsor of children living in the Phuket Sunshine Village. The aim of the Village is to protect and assist disadvantaged children affected by the Tsunami in the four southern Thailand provinces. It provides education and give access to public health services to underprivileged children.
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