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Garstang & District Lions
GARSTANG & DISTRICT LIONS
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Our club has again provided a significant sum of money to buy some Christmas gifts for distribution by the Fylde Women’s Aid. These were delivered to their offices in Blackpool in December. Our thanks go to those Lions who helped with both the selection and delivery of these welcome presents. A special thank you must go to B and S supplies for their generous support and providing additional cosmetics, toys etc for us to take. Fylde Women’s Aid have a continued need for new clothing items (babies, small children or ladies), new toys, new cosmetics or new toiletries. Our support is ongoing with our collection point being the Resources Centre (old Liberal Club on Bridge Street).
Events & Activities
December has been a busy month with members of the club assisting in parking the cars of entrants and officials at the Garstang Running Club at Myerscough College in December to allow their annual ten mile run to take place. On the same day other members helped with the road closures for the annual Garstang Santa Dash and Oaklands Care Home’s own version of this event. Also in December Santa and his elves visited six of our local care homes to deliver presents to all of the residents and the staff. This year this has included the addition of members of Choir 1 who sang a medley of carols. The residential homes involved were Abbeyfield, Cornmill, Oaklands, Catterall House, Bowgreave Rise and Bowerswood House. The annual and ever-popular tractor race was held on Mon 27th Dec and also saw
GARSTANG & DISTRICT LIONS (cont)
strong involvement from our Lions group. The first event planned for 2022 is the annual Garstang 10k Road Race on Sun 9th Jan starting at Garstang Academy. We will be assisting with the parking of cars for entrants and officials.
Memory Café
This is organised separately by Lion, Sandra Perkins but with the full support of the club and with several other members acting as either trustees or helpers. It provides support and advice for those experiencing dementia (in any form) and their carers - with a wide variety of highly social and entertaining activities being provided.
General
Our club continues to grow but if you are interested in joining then you would be made most welcome. Further information is available on the website. Alternatively, speak to any member about what we do or come along to our regular meetings held on the third Tuesday of the month in the Royal Oak at 8:00pm. The group have returned to having their regular meetings on the first Monday (2:00pm to 4:00pm) and third Wednesday (10:00am to noon) of each month. Two meetings have been held in December, one with a musical theme and the other a Christmas theme with food at our new venue of the Free Methodist Church Hall. The next meeting is on Wed 19th Jan at 10:00am.
Our best wishes to all for a happy New Year from both the Garstang and District Lions Club and also the members of the Memory Café.
