Lions Club of Tumby Bay & District will recognise the outstanding work and efforts of eight of its members at a special dinner meeting on Monday, June 23.
Since the inaugural meetings of the Lions in Tumby Bay in 1979 the club has worked to support the community with development projects, visitor parks, barbecue facilities and general fundraising activities to fund the Tumby Clinic, hospital, aged care facilities, babies quilting materials, town beautification and rubbish collection.
The dinner meeting at the Red Roof Tumby Bay Hotel will recognise members who have been part of that community involvement – some with more than 45 years of service with the club.
Lions’ clubs throughout the world focus on community support, with the Tumby Bay Lions recording more than 1600 hours of service last year in the Tumby Bay district and certainly looking to be greater in the current year.
Well-known local business partnership Kerrie Stutley and Buster Lockwood are the guest speakers for the evening with an insight to the supermarket business, the trials and tribulations of running a business remote from the major suppliers, history of the Foodland business in the town and their recipe for the success of the enterprise.
“Tumby Bay and the district has benefited from the efforts of the club since inception and in the coming year the club is looking to rejuvenate these efforts, develop depth to membership, enticing a younger age group of members to take on the responsibility for that community effort that charter members set as the standard,” incoming Lions Tumby Bay president David Pearson said.
“We currently have around 40 members and would like to ensure that the club continues to maintain a good cross section of the community as members.”
David and the new executive will be inducted at the July dinner meeting.
Members, visiting Lions and guests are invited to the dinner meeting with a 6pm arrival for 6.30pm dinner.
