Rochedale Springwood Lions Club

Australia Day Citizenship Ceremony

Our Australia Day Citizenship Ceremony was held on Sunday 26^th January 2025, with 30 conferees from a wide range of countries. Thanks to Jim Chalmers who officiated for us – which he has done for so many years now. Plus, we had the wonderful Southern Cross Voices choir again to provide the entertainment and Aussie spirit with their Australiana songs and renditioning of our national anthem which everyone joined in

CHRISTMAS TRAILER RAFFLE 2024

And here is President Trevor handing over the trailer to our worthy winner - Gary
 
The draw has taken place for our 2024 Christmas Trailer raffle with Janine, the Woolworths Assistant Store Manager, drawing the numbers with the marbles in a tombola under the watchful eye of our Club Secretary Chris 

AND the winner is Gary - with ticket number 4542 sold on Thursday 28th November at Rochedale Shopping Village

A great thank you to all who have supported us again this year and we wish you luck when we are back again next year

We are pleased to say that we have sold out of all of our supplies of Lions Christmas cakes again this year. The demand has been womderful and well ahead of last year so we are sorry for the ew who missed out - we will e nack again next year with even more supplies

We have done it again!

After last year's very successful event our club again ran a charity drive that concluded at the wonderful Lions Camp Duckadang with dinner, entertainment and a great auction, then overnight accomodation and breakfast. The funds raised from this event go to supporting both Camp Duckadang and youth in need by funding their couselling camps there

Guest speaker

Great to have Cassie Paton from the Logan East Community Neighbourhood Association (LECNA) along as a guest speaker at our monthly meeting last night Our club has been a long-term supporter of the Association and she brought our members up to date with their range of services, activities and facilities

Here President Trevor presents her with our traditional speaker gift of a Lions Hearing Dog reusable coffee cup with a few other goodies inside

Logan East Community Neighbourhood Association (LECNA)

Here is our team providing the sausage sizzle for LECNA's March Market Day

2024 Lions Awareness Day

Thanks to Bunnings at Underwood who allowed us to set up our information table in a prime location in their store for Lions Awareness Day on the 2nd March. Great to talk to so many people about the great work that Lions do in our community and get contact details for some potential new members

Anniversary Plaque

To recognise both the 50th Anniversary of the charter of our club and the 75th Anniversary of the formation of Lions Clubs in Australia we have placed a plaque in the entry garden of the newly renovated Springwood Mall. There was a formal dedication of this on the 11th February

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