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Ashgrove/The Gap Lions Club
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Have you visited Yoorala St Community Garden?
What we love about our garden:
Grow your own fresh produce Make new friends An active community group Enjoy family-time outdoors Learn gardening skills & tips No gardening experience required Access-friendly raised garden beds Social events & on-site workshops Private plots available for lease
It's a place we really dig!
Community open times:
Please come and see our garden for yourself. You are welcome to visit us during the following community times:
Dec-Mar: Sundays, 4.00-6pm
Apr-Nov: Sundays, 8.00-10am Just turn up, bring your hat, water bottle & gloves. One of our members will meet you, show you around, and provide information if you'd like to get involved. And join us for a cuppa afterwards. Hope to see you soon!
Visitors welcome!
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Ashgrove/The Gap Lions Club
As the old Lions year ends and a new one begins we can only reflect on what has gone before. This past year has been like no other and has forced Ashgrove/The Gap Lions into embracing modern technology in regards to how we communicate with each other and how we fund raise.
Over the past year our outgoing President, Susie Green, and her team have done a remarkable job of encouraging the club to ‘think outside the square’ and, no doubt, many of these new concepts, such as the use of Zoom for our board meetings, will continue into the future under the guidance of our president elect, Peter Cooper, who will be ably supported by his new executive.
That is not to say we have abandoned all our traditional ways of doing things, such as our support for other organisations by offering them the use of our barbeque trailer and club members to assist them in their events. At the end of last month we worked with both Track2 Health and SOWN in this way. The club also offered our assistance in a variety of ways to the Payne Road State School’s fair, which was held recently and was a great success.
However it is our use of technology that has allowed us to raise money in a more creative way. One example of this is our collaboration with the Payne Road School to hold an on-line raffle. Another example of the club looking for new ways to fundraise was aided by the generosity of a Lions club member, Di Briscoe, who auctioned her artworks online through Facebook. This enabled the club to donate over $1800 to the Lions Medical Research Foundation. Thank you to all those club members who worked hard to make both of these ventures such a success and thank you also to those of you in our local community who supported their efforts.
There are many other activities that are booked in for the next few months but Ashgrove/The Gap Lions club is not just about raising money; fellowship is also an important part of our club. Our final social outing for the year was a wonderful breakfast at the Mt Coo-tha Botanic Gardens, attended by some of our members and their partners. It was a beautiful winter’s morning and the breakfast, which was catered for by ‘Why Cook’, was delicious. This was followed by an interesting and informative tour conducted by some very knowledgeable Botanic Gardens volunteers. What a wonderful way to end such a challenging year!
If you would like more information about Ashgrove/ The Gap Lions club please visit our Facebook page or the Lions website: www.Lions.org.au
