Prospect Blair Athol

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Md 201-District C1
South Australia Australia

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The Lions Club of Prospect Blair Athol

Prospect formed; 13 October 1963

Chartered: 29 February 1964

Blair Athol

Chartered: 28 February 1975

Joint Club Formed: 1998

District 201C

District Governor: Garth Beckwith

Region Charman: Joyce Pounsett

Clubs of Zone

Adelaide Community. Adelaide Hellenic, Campbelltown, City of Adelaide Host, Enfield, Prospect Blair Athol.

40 years of Lions serving Prospect and 28 years in Blair Athol.

History of the Club

The next 15 years: Years 26 to 40

We still have 2 charter members in the Club, Ern Sconce and John Day. These 2 dynamic Lions have a wonderful perspective of the Club and provide the lessons of history that the new members do not have. They are both thinkers and planners and keep the Club moving forward. Not only did the club get two dedicated workers in Ern and John, the club gained the dedicated services of Marj and Sally.

As members have aged we do less physical work but have formed an effective liaison with the City of Prospect. We have worked together to provide a sailcloth over a playground and a barbecue at the Whittle Reserve Skate Park. We provided the materials for the Council to develop a Bike Track at Broadview Oval.

The Club has maintained its focus on the disadvantaged of our community. We funded 9 children from Kilburn area to attend YMCA camps on Kangaroo Island in 2004. For many previous years children from the Blair Athol area had this opportunity. We have funded a Hart Walker totally and another and a Pony Walker as Zone projects. These enable severely disabled children to stand upright and move without support from others. We provided a talking typewriter and tape recorder for a blind student to study at University. Our involvement with the disadvantaged has been an ongoing focus for the Club over 40 years.

We have initiated health projects across the state as Multiple District projects. These projects have had a major influence on the health of people. One was the Mammogram Screening that now is Australia wide and providing early detection of breast cancer. Recently we initiated the early hearing-screening program for newborn infants across the State.

With the introduction of poker machines our club’s fundraising, as did all other voluntary organisations, suffered. We have been creative in finding other ways to raise funds. Our bottles and cans collection has grown to become our most significant annual fundraiser. We work and worked with other groups usually providing catering services. Are we any good at catering! We provided catering for a while on Sundays at the Old Adelaide Gaol. We work with the City of Prospect providing catering to their February Music in the Park events. We work with the Prospect Council of Churches providing a Carols Program in December. We have been at the Prospect Fair for (Ern will know exactly) as long as it has been going – over 25 years.

is always better when a team forms to do the work. Our local efforts rely on team work with the members and partners contributing. The Lions organisation allows us to be effective in national and inter-national programs that we support annually.

When a person joins Lions, almost invariably his/her partner also gets involved with the Club. We are extremely grateful for and appreciative of the efforts of our partners who have not been Lions but have contributed greatly to its cause. Thanks for your efforts over 40 years.

IN APPRECIATION

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Click on the flag to go to the web site of Lion Dr. Enzar's home club - the Lions Club of Canakkale.

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