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Lions Club News
Lions Club
By Ted Danyluk
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Looking forward to seeing a big turnout of spectators for the annual Santa Claus Parade happening on Friday, December 10.
Still time to make a float, but if not, it would be easy to decorate your ATV, Side by Side or electric bicycle with Christmas lights and join in the fun. Contact Trudy at 250-515-1700 to make sure you are registered. It is rumoured that the jolly old elf himself, Santa Claus will be riding on the Lions float in the parade. After the parade starting at the Hub, Santa will be available for pictures with kids young and old in the photo hut located in the Scotch Creek Market parking lot. As well, barbequed hot dogs will also be served up from the parking lot area. Shaping up to be a great evening, so don’t miss out.
The Saturday weekly Meat & 50/50 Draw is like a Willie Nelson song. This ever popular event will be doing one more weekend on December 11 at The Hub, then the following weekend it will be “On The Road Again” up the lake to Celista. On Saturday December 18 the Meat & 50/50 Draw will be held at the North Shuswap Community Association Hall in Celista. The Hall will be open to the public from 2:00-7:00 pm. In addition to a fine array of liquid refreshments, the kitchen will be serving up “pub’ style food. The Meat Draw will be featuring turkeys and hams as well as several raffle draws for Christmas gift baskets during our regular hours of 3:00 -5:00 p.m. The Meat & 50/50 Draws will continue at the Hall in Celista every Saturday in January and into February starting January 8.
In the past three months, the North Shuswap Lions have distributed $525 in Esso Gas Cards to local families helping them get their kids to activities outside of the area. If you have kids who are taking part in school based extra curricular activities or in arts, athletic or cultural activities outside of school, our Club might be able to help pay transportation costs with an Esso Gas Card. For all the details go to our website at https://eclubhouse.org/sites/northshuswap/ and open the link titled Lions Community Youth Fund Financial Assistance.
With the pandemic still upon us, our fund-raising capabilities have taken a bit of a hit so the need to meet twice a month is not necessary. For December, the Club will only have one meeting date on Thursday, December 18. The meeting will start at 2:00 p.m. as no one wants to drive in the dark.
