Radstock & Midsomer Norton Lions

		RADSTOCK and MIDSOMER NORTON LIONS CLUB
		in Lions District 105W of Multiple Lions District 105 - British Isles and Ireland
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Saturday 27 February: Diabetic Screening:Diabetic screening tests were run at the Methodist Church Hall, and over 150 people had a finger prick test, undertaken by two specialist nurses, Annette Crowther and Heather Richards fro the local St Chads Surgery. Happily only one person needed to be referred to their GP, but severl border line cases were also found. Organised by Welfare Chairman, Lion Russell Ford and PRO Lion Barry Rogers, the event, sponsored by John and Paula Harris of Cameley Lodge, was a great success. Greatful thanks are extended to St Chads Surgery for their professional help, and to the Ladies of the Church for providing refreshements. The Club has given over 150 people "peace of mind".

Saturday 16 January: Collection for HAITI earthquake: Club members were out in force, collecting for the recent earthquake in Haiti. Our grateful thanks to Tesco for allowing us to collect at their store in Old Mills. The public of Midsomer Norton and also those visiting the area, responded extremely well, and we collected £2,160, which is on its way to LCIF for their relief work in Haiti.
Internationally, the "Lions Hope for Haiti" appeal has already raised $350,000. More information here.

December: Carol Float: Despite the bad weather, we only had to call off three collections. We were unable to visit Timsbury and High Littleton due to the snow and ice. Despite this, we managed to raise just under £3,500. Our thanks to the public who gave so generously in these hard times.

6 December: Christmas Concert: Our annual Christmas Concert was held this year at the Centurion Hotel, Midsomer Norton. The Westfield Ladies Choir, conducted by Geoff Miles and accompained by Becci Nerdon, sang to a full house. Master of Ceremonies, Lion Robert Briggs, introduced Heather Hill with her excellent readings, Hazel Williams with her amusing monologues, Margaret Whatley accompanied and Irene Leet and Jane Harris, with their fine singing. The traditional collection for water re-hydration tablets, realised £165, which the club will double. Lion President Derek Livsey, thanked all the artistes, Centurion Hotel for allowing free use of the Hotel facilities, St John Ambulance, Lion Robert for organising the concert, the audience for attending and wished everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

1 December:District Governor visits club: The club gave a warm welcome to District Governor, Lion Martin Ruddle. He thanked the club for the work done by its members and complimented the club on the way it balanced aid to local and international causes.

28 November: Supermarket Draw: The club held a very successful daw at Radstock Co-operative Society, selling tickets from Thursday to Saturday and again, for a second year running, sold all the tickets. Winning ticket went to Shirley Carey and Mr Chalmers from Radstock, Mrs Francis of Hemmington and Mr Moulder. We would like to thank everyone who participated in this event, organised by Lion Barry, and we wish you a Merry Chrismas and a Happy New Year. A especial thanks to Mr Moulder, who donated his winnings back to Lions charity funds.

7 November: Cheddar Male Choir & Horizon: Cheddar Male choir and Horizon joined forces once again to provide a concert for your club. Concert organist Mark Ireland started the evening with a variety of music. Musical Director and Master of Ceremonies, Rick Bowers, introduced all the item in the programme, from Mozart to the Seekers. They were ably supported by Horizon.
The choir ended the evening with Y Darium, the story of two art students, Take me Home, dedicated to the miners of the area and finally The Rhythm of Life.
Lion President Derek thanked all who had helped with the concert, organised by Lion Barry Rogers.

3 November: Hop, Skip & Jump: Helping children and young people with special needs, the club donated £500 to the Kingswood centre of Hop, Skip & Jump. At our business meeting, their management committee member, Liz Evans, gave a short presentation on the work of the centre. The centre is a giant log cabin and provides day care and supervised play for children and young people. Its aim is to provide a safe haven where they happily play and have fun, giving parents much needed respite and support. The cabin includes a hughe internal play area, art and craft rook, soft play area, quiet room and other specially designed rooms.
Find out more about Hop, Skip & Jump at their web site, www.hopskipandjump.org.uk

20 October: Holcombe Majorettes: Under the leadership of Mary Duery, the Holcombe majorettes came 4th this year at the European Championships held recently in Croatia, after winning gold in 2008. They will be competing again next year in Switzerland. Your club was pleased to help with travelling expenses for the competition.

15 October: Action for ME: The club was honoured by the presence of Sir Peter Spencer, CEO of the charity Action for ME. Sir Peter gave an informative and interesting talk on the problems of ME (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis). This affliction is much misunderstood, and his talk went a long way towards dispelling some of the ignorance surrounding this affliction. You can find out more about ME on their web site, www.afme.org.uk.
Over the past year, the club has run quiz nights at the British Legion in High Littleton, and we were pleased to see their Chairman, Harold Hill, at the event and we are grateful for his support for these events which have been running for a number of years.

14 October: Presentation to CHSW: The Club's annual Senior's Golf competition was held in June. This event raised £2000 and today the monies were presented to Children's Hospice South West, together with other monies raised by the Farrington Golf Club and other individual donations.
Jane Powell, accepted the cheque on behalf of CHSW and gave a short presentation on the work of the hospice.
10 October: Disasters collection. There have been several natural disasters recently, the Philippines Typhoon on the 26th September, the Tsunami in Samoa on the 29th September and the recent earthquake in Indonesia.The club decided at the business meeting earlier this week, that we would collect in support all of these natural disasters. Bath & North East Somerset council provided a collection licence at very short notice, and we were able to collect £240 on Saturday 10th. Our grateful thanks to all the kind people of Midsomer Norton who contributed to these causes.
These monies will be administered through Lions international, and will be distributed by Lions in the countries affected.
27 September: Geoff Ridout Memorial dedication: Lion Geoff Ridout, a charter member of the club passed to higher service in July 2007. Together with his wife Blue, and honorary Lion, the club have provided an altar cloth for Geoff's church, St Vigors. The alter cloth was dedicated by the vicar, the Rev Chris North, at the harvest festival service today.
19 September: Duck Race Beneficiary: Our duck race beneficiary this year was the Henry Ford Trust. Our cheque for £1000 will help in the treatment of Henry's diplegia cerebral palsy. The latest news is that Henry is doing really well with his exercises. Full time core control to stand unaided will be the ultimate achievement. He can already ride his bike. Event organiser Lion Dave and President Derek said it was great that the club could assist in this way and thanked all Lions and 27cal people for their help. For more information about Henry and the trust, visit henryfordtrust.co.uk
22 August: Duck Race: Saturday was a beautiful day for our duck race. All 1000 ducks were sold, the last being sold 10 minutes before the race.
12 August: Duck Race Sponsor: Sainsbury's have donated a shopping voucher in support of our prizes for the Duck Race, to be held on Saturday 22nd August. The race will be held on the Somer, starting outside the Post Office in Midsomer Norton High Street. Proceeds from the race this year are going to the Henry Ford Trust. The club is very grateful for all the help business and the general public has given for this appeal.
The presentation was made by store manager, Julie Orchard, supported by commercial team leader, Paul Baker.
13 July: It is with great regret that we announce the passing to higher service of Lion Bob Adams. Bob had been a member of the club since January 1982, he was President in 1982. Our condolences go to his widow, Vera. Bob will be sorely missed.

10 July: Handover, Cameley Lodge: We again held our handover celebrations in the lovely surroundings of Cameley Lodge, who, as ever, provided an excellent meal. Retiring after two years in office, President Alan spoke of the very busy time which he had enjoyed, raising money for the Chew Lake Association for Disabled Sailors, his main charity. He thanked Chairmen and Lions members of the various committees and our Ladies for their hard work, making his job as President easier. Passing over the chain of office to new President, Derek Livsey, he wished him well for his year of office. Thanking Alan for his best wishes, Derek promised to try to emulate Alan's successes, a hard act to follow.
His main charity for the next year is Hope For Tomorrow, which provides mobile chemotherapy units. These reduce the stress that some cancer suffers experience, due to having to travel long distances for their treatments.
7 July: Business Meeting: At our meeting, the club was please to formally accept Alan Gorse into the family of Lions.
Alan has been to a number of our meetings and we look forward to working with him in the future.
5 July: Senior Citizens Garden Party: Our annual garden party was held in the grounds of Chris Jones' lovely garden. Despite the showery weather, those hardy folk who turned up, enjoyed the refreshments of scones, strawberry jam and cream with tea and coffee, provided by the Lions Ladies, with the fine sound of the Midsomer Norton and Radstock Silver Band, under their Musical Director, Colin Cunliffe.
Our ladies worked behind the scenes, with the scones and drinks being delivered by club members in their usual manner.
Making his last appearance as Club President, Lion Alan Denham gave thanks to St John Ambulance, the Silver Band, Lions Welfare Chairman, Terry Porter for his fine organisation, Lions Ladies for their assistance and to Sheila and Chris Jones for the use of their beautiful garden.

26 June: Network Learning Bath: For he third year running, the club was pleased to sponsor and judge this event. It was hosted by Widcombe Junior School, Bath, the winners of the event last year. Congratulations to Year 6 girls from Widcome School who were successful in retaining the title with a presentation on Tiger Poaching. Lions Russell and Barry assisted by Margaret Briggs, judged the competition and were very impressed by the presentations by all the schools. All the competitors received a £5 book token and the winners received a £50 book token and will be looking after the winners shield for the coming year. www.widcombecejuniorschool.co.uk

6 June: Quiz night:
The Royal British Legion at High Littleton has been the venue for the club to hold their monthly, light hearted, quiz nights. Together with the Legion chairman and secretary, Harold Hill, these quizzes have raised over £4,000 during the last seven years. Prize draws also contribute to the monies raised. Lion Richard Munden is the quiz organiser and is ably assisted by question masters Phil and Alan. Proceeds this year are being donated to Action for ME (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis). Quizzes restart on the 6th September.
1 June: Seniors Golf competition
This year saw the 6th annual Golf Day.
It was a fine day and the course was in pristine condition and over 60 golfers from clubs seniors sections took part.
Golfers from Brean, Saltford, Reading, Melksham, Weston-super-Mare and Long Sutton supported this event, held in aid of the Children's Hospice South West. at Wraxall.
Once again well organised by Lion Geoff, the event featured a draw with the first prize being a balloon flight, donated by BIBS (Bath Investment Building Society),
Other prizes were donated by BuildBase, Farrington Golf Club and the Bucher's Arms.
The event winners were T. Timms & D. Amor (Taunton Golf Club) and runners up were B. Tucker & T. Rober (Brean) and I. Morsat & D. Right (Yeovil).
The putting competition was won by C. Vian who also won the first prize in the draw.
Grateful thanks are extended to all the players and sponsors of this event, making it yet again, very successful.

19 April, CHARTER ANNIVERSARY:
The club celebrated its 32nd year with a Charter Lunch at Cameley Lodge. Guest speakers were the District Governor, Lion Surinder Malhotra, accompanied by his wife, Lion Indu and Dennis Chedgy, a founder member of Radstock Museum and his wife, Sylvia.
It was good to see representatives from other clubs, Bristol Brunel, Chippenham, Frome, Keynsham, Ross-on-Wye, Severn Dean and Swindon. Rotary President, Reid Spiers and his wife were also guests of the club.
Lion Phil was MC and Lion Russell said grace.
Lion President Alan thanked all fellow Lions for their help and commitment to the club events during the year. DG Lion Surinder presented Lion Alan with the International President's Medal of Honour and a certificate of appreciation to President Elect, Derek L. The toast to our ladies and guests was delivered by Derek L and responded to by Dennis Chedgy who gave an informative and amusing talk relating his experiences in connection with the Museum.
Our thanks go to Cameley Lodge for an excellent meal and service.

20 March:
Second leg of our annual skittles match was held at the Radstock and Working men's club. Despite not having the inspiration of the Club President, we maintained and extended our lead to 53 pins. The duck is therefore still in Rotary's safe(?) hands until next year.
27 February:
First leg of our annual skittles match with Rotary at Tuckers Grave showed some good scores, but Lions had the upper hand and ended up with 299 points to Rotary's 270. We look forward to the return match!

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