June 2012 - Lions Clubs New Zealand

June 8thDue to the small number of entries received the EmergingSpeechmaker Contest has been postponed, and will now run inconjunction with the National Young Speechmaker District 202EContest. No further entries will be accepted for the EmergingSpeechmaker Contest.. The contestants will compete the sameday as the Speechmakers Contest which will be held at the onFriday 8th June at 7pm. St Stephens Methodist ChurchYaldhurst RoadDISTRICT 202EYOUTH ACTIVITIES CHAIRMANJulie MarshSubject: Death of a memberColin Hardie died recently. He has been a member since HostClub was chartered (September 1959) and until three monthsago attended regularly and to my knowledge had missed meetingsonly rarely – he was in his nineties but would have been theDistrict’s longest serving Lion in a single club for unbroken yearsof service to that club and a Charter Member and Melvin JonesFellow This is a Lion of some significance he was active for mostyears including assisting Chartering of several clubs in the earlieryears.We acknowledged his fifty years two years agowhen the club was celebrating its fifty years. At that point it was100%- Colin was one of the Charter members who established thisSouthIsland's first Lions club which means in effect he was the districtslongest serving Lion - a founding father as it were.6