Ashgrove / The Gap Lions Club At the end of February the Ashgrove/The Gap Lions Club held their Youth of the Year (YOTY) Club final. This is an annual event and there are many Lions clubs throughout Australia that take part in this program but it has a very special meaning for our club. It was a member of Ashgrove Lions club (which later amalgamated with The Gap Lions club), who was the coordinating chairperson for the first 10 years of the program’s life and who insured it would be “The most successful district project ever” as stated by the District Governor at the time, Jamie Jamieson. This club member was Syd McDonald and the inaugural year for the program was 1964. Initially the YOTY program was designed for young men in their final year of school to “Foster and encourage leadership and the citizen qualities in young men at an age when they are about to enter commerce and higher education”. However in 1980 female students were invited to also participate in the program. Syd McDonald and his team put together the framework for the, mainly, public speaking competition and, despite there being some tweaking of this over the years, much of that original framework remains today. It is still one of the few
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2022 Youth of the Year participants, Zahri Day - The Gap State High School; Douglas Cowlishaw - Marist Brothers Ashgrove; Raiden Phan - St James' College Spring Hill and Samuel Allpass - Marist Brothers Ashgrove
annual projects in the Lions’ calendar that does not involve fundraising. This year there were four students from our local schools who took part: Zahri Day from The Gap State High School; Samuel Allpass and Douglas Cowlishaw from Marist Brothers Ashgrove and Raiden Phan from St James’ College, Spring Hill. All were amazing ambassadors for their schools as well as for their generation and they provided an entertaining and informative evening for all those present. Unfortunately there can only be one student who is chosen to represent Ashgrove/The Gap Lions club in the ongoing competition and this year Marist Brothers Ashgrove student Samuel Allpass will be competing in the next level of competition. We wish Samuel well! There was also a Public Speaking prize awarded on the night and this year it was won by Zahri Day. Congratulations to both the winners but also to the other students who took part. They all show us that the future of Australia is in good hands. If you would like any further information the YOTY program or any other aspect of Ashgrove/The Gap Lions club please look us up on our Facebook page or email: lionatg19@ gmail.com
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