THE PENRITH LIONS ARE BACK IN TOWN!

As a team we are pleased once again to be working with the Penrith Lions Club towards the 40th May Day Carnival, the first since 2019 when the Eden FM team broadcasted live from Market Square at the base of the Musgrave Clock.

The Penrith Lions Club team was established in 1975. Sadly, as many will know, we have lost a few key members since its last Carnival.

Like many voluntary organisations, since lockdown the Lions’ team has reduced in numbers. So much so that it wasn’t in the plan to produce a May Day Carnival Programme in 2023. The man behind the Lions May Day programme, Ian Edgar is sadly one of a few key members no longer with us since 2019.

In his memory along with other Lions past, we will remember them all this day in May.

On this occasion, the Eden FM team allowed me to step back from some duties at the station to commit some time to help the Penrith Lion’s and this was as early as March 2022. Many hands do make a difference - the more the merrier.

The Eden Local Community magazine also committed to promoting the event as early as the summer of 2022, right up to the May 2023 edition that went out in April.

With that bit of time away from Eden FM, I’ve really been able to get involved with my first Penrith Lions Club May Carnival.

I used to joke with Ian and a few others about whether there would ever be a space available in the May Day programme! I now know the answer and I now know the reason why.

For Ian, and for all those Lions and those individuals who have taken part or attended over the years, who are sadly not with us for this big Anniversary May Day, this programme is dedicated to you.

Once a part of the Carnival you are always a part, and in the history of probably Penrith’s biggest and longest running event across five decades.

Have a great day!

Lee Quinn, Chairman, Eden FM Radio Penrith.