The Lions Club of Goulburn City

September 2020

Goulburncity.nsw.lions.org.au

Editorial: Lion Mark Woodward mark2blocks@yahoo.com Phone: 0419966969 Membership: Lion Mark Woodward mark2blocks@yahoo.com Phone: 0419966969

President: Lion Rosemary Chapman Email: rosemary.chapman@westnet.com.au

Mobile: 0419427987

Secretary: Lion Bill Starr Email: billrhon1@hotmail.com

Mobile: 0402656763

Postal Address: PO Box 451, Goulburn NSW 2580

District 201N2 Bulletin No. 8

Presidents Message

The Lions Club of Goulburn float in the Lilac Time Parade. Photo supplied by Lion Bob Collins

Lion Rosemary Chapman

Helen Smith 24th August September

Beverley Mc Greevy 4

Ken Anderson 17

Lorrain Riley 30

Zone 10 Meeting Thursday night 6

August at the GWC, a well attended meeting of

12 members held a Zone 10 meeting. Chaired by

Lion John Flarrety, this years Zone chairman

attendees were PDG Ray Strong, Maureen

Strong, Prue Rickard, Lorrain Riley, Bill Starr, Ron

Furniss, Rosemary Chapman, all from Goulburn

City. Norm Fountain, Judith Fountain, Kelly

Munn, all from Crookwell. Yearly events report,

Relay for Life has been cancelled, Convoy for

Kids no confirmation yet. Goulburn reported 41

members, Crookwell 18 members. Membership

reported 81 members in the zone. 40 members

over 70 years of age. More activity directed at

younger members should be considered. Mes-

sage from Global Membership team coordinator

* Treat members with kindness. Meeting closed

at 8.40pm.

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MINT REPORT; period 1st July to 11th August 2020. Sales have been down on previous years ( due to Covid restrictions). The Soldiers Club however has been and still is our most beneficial site. They require several visits a week whilst most sites are carried out fortnightly. The Goulburn Mulwaree Works depot also has a good turnover. As usual several sites are very slow, but I believe the stands with the Lions logo help spread he message that LIONS are here. A big thanks to the team of Musketeers, Lions Bob Col-lins, Prue Rickard and John Smith. Regards Des Rowley, Mint Chairperson.

Congratulations to everyone for your resilience in dealing with all our current restrictions. I appreciate the difficulties that many of us are facing and that we are still managing to move forward. We are managing to get back to some of our ‘normal’ activities:

The Hotel Raffle is “Going Well!”; Mints are being sold and replenished and the Fiz-

zers are still the most popular; Robert Small is ready to order more cakes; Soccer Canteen is back – if it’s not raining or

snowing! Coffee Chat is on. Meetings are happening! Great to get together. The planning is beginning for our Christmas Car

Raffle – hopefully all will be able to happen! (With a few changes.)

We’ve had our first guest speaker – Zone Chair-man Lion John Flarrety!

The Membership Committee is hard at work! Possibly, we’ll be able to have some guest speakers and social functions in the not too distant future. Please remember, in the words of our International President, Dr Jung-Yul Choi that “In times of great need, greater good can only be achieved when we join together as one.”

“We Serve.” Why do Lions serve? It’s simple. It’s because kindness matters. Hang in there, everyone! Take Care!

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In recent times it has been difficult to obtain permission to conduct face to face meetings. Thanks to PP Lion Bill Starr who has been persistent in his efforts, meeting facilities have been obtained in the Station room at the Goulburn Workers Club. (thanks Bill) New member Lina King has shown great patience waiting for a time when she could have her induction in front of fellow club members, rather than at a zoom meeting. Lina’s Patience was rewarded when she was finally inducted in front of a well attended meeting on the first Tuesday last month.

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President Rosemary made Lina’s induction the first

order of business. Lion John Flarrety, who was the President when Lina joined Goulburn, Lions conducted her Induction. To-gether with her sponsor Lion Mark Woodward, Lina read her pledge and took possession of her Lions pin and name button.

Congratulations Lina Members on the night all came forward to congratu-late her. The meeting than proceeded with other matters. Lion Bill Starr spoke of an upcoming speaker, State representative MP Wendy Tuckerman, for a future meeting. Reports were read and weekend soccer money handed in. Treasurer Lion Ken counselled that monies from soccer helped with dwindling administration funds. Lion Bill Smith made sure everyone copped a fine. Lion John Flarrety won heads and tails and third VP Cindy Jenkins went home with added money, winning the night Raffle.

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I had been invited to a Mudgee Bachelors and Spinsters ball. As I didn’t know many people in the Mudgee area I looked around and asked the prettiest girl I saw to dance. That was Jenny, who was there as a sixteen year old on special parental permission, escorted by a family friend.

I failed to impress her and at the recovery party next night she was studiously avoiding me. The weekend therefore did not go well and to top it off, the carton of beer we put in the motel swimming pool to keep cool ended up in the deep end when the carton dissolved and the cans rolled.

Jenny then went to Teachers College in Bathurst for two years and came to Gilgandra as teacher. Naturally we farmers went to town to check out new talent but most of us weren’t as obvious as the Mudford boys who announced their intention of finding a wife.

We had a lengthy courtship, to use an old-fashioned term, during which I finished building a Jaguar engined sports car. Jenny drove this car 500 kilometres in 3¾ hours to visit her parents and to satis-fy their surprise at her early arrival told them she had left school early.

The Special The story of the Special is here in this book I wrote – free copy to anyone interested.

We have three boys – David, a very popular high school teacher in Murwillumbar, Ben is Major in the Defence Force and now trains helicopter instructors, having flown Blackhawks in Timor Leste and Afganistan, and Peter works for Google in the US doing research into robotic vision.

The boys are all married and we have seven grandkids.

Sometime after we were married a local councilor asked Jenny if she would consider organizing some musical events to raise money to build an aged care facility in Gilgandra. She got some friends together and the Gilgandra Entertainers was formed. This outfit was similar to the Crookwell Amateur Dramatic Society, only more talented. (This was a cheap shot at Des Rowley, a regular performer in CADS.)

Many musicals and melodramas were produced over a number of years and now, with grants, etc. Coo-ee Lodge exists. One event Jenny organized was a seated dinner and show for 300 people.

The Entertainers persuaded the Shire Council to buy a $50,000 grand piano which the entertainers paid off in two years. Roger Woodward, a famous classical pianist, came to Gilgandra to be the first to play it.

Another event was a garden party in the extensive gardens of two adjoining houses of a motor deal-er and chemist, a locality known by some as “Overdraft Hill.” A local war buff had a 25 pounder field gun from which he fired a blank cartridge and a second later remotely set off a charge of Gelignite down the paddock to make it look like a shell had been fired.

Members Profile

Ken Anderson Tells his Story Thank you Lions, for an opportunity to talk about my favourite topic…… Me. I was born in Dubbo New South Wales. Jenny was also born in Dub-bo about 4 years later, but we didn’t meet for 16 years.

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The guest of honour on this occasion was Leonard Teale, of “Homicide” and other TV shows and

films. He had also done poetry recitals for the entertainers.

I flew the Aero Club Cessna to Dubbo to meet the Fok-

ker Friendship and brought Leonard back to our property

for morning tea. Then we took off with another commer-

cial pilot John to go into Gilgandra.

On the take-off run the aircraft wasn’t accelerating well

and I was conscious of John and Leonard both watching

the airspeed indicator, as I was. I knew Leonard was a

pilot but didn’t find out until later that he flew bombers

out of Gibraltar in 1945.

The paddock was rough with lucerne crowns slowing the

plane. We were looking at fence at the end of the paddock. I then aborted the take-off, a good

operational decision taken early. We taxied back to use the full length of the paddock and John

got out to reduce weight. It wasn’t that he didn’t want to fly with me, as you will see.

Raining Rose Pedals

Some bright spark thought it would be a good idea if I dropped rose petals on the crowd from the

Tiger Moth. I was a part owner of this aircraft, a World War Two trainer, a type that first flew in

1932. It was a two seat open cockpit fabric covered biplane.

The enthusiastic Entertainers had gathered a huge amount of rose petals, stuffed into green gar-

bage bags. Normally a Tiger Moth is flown from the rear seat, meaning the passenger in the front

seat is close to the centre of gravity. If they fall out it doesn’t affect the handling of the plane

much.

I flew from the front seat, as the plane had dual controls, not wanting a face full of rose petals

while flying at low level. I had rehearsed the approach a few days before and had a suitable pad-

dock lined up where I could land in the event of carburetor ice or some issue denying me full

power to climb away after the drop.

We stuffed the bags of petals onto John in the rear cockpit and tried to take it all, as the Enter-

tainers had been so diligent in collecting.

We did the first run. I’m not saying we were low, but I was wary of the flag pole. John held out the

first bag and suddenly he was holding two pieces of plastic as the entire bag left his hands to ex-

plode like a bomb amongst the crowd. Luckily no-one was hit!

The second run worked well. As there were still petals left we did a third run. I wasn’t happy as

this added 50% more risk as originally two runs were planned. Also, changing a planned opera-

tion on the run adds another element of risk. All good in the end though.

I feel I have another book in me as our lives (Jenny’s and mine),

have been quite eventful in other ways too.

Thank you for listening

Ken Anderson

Members:

Have you got a story to tell? Share it with your fellow members. Send me an email, mark2blocks@Yahoo.com

Ken and Jenny Anderson

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Welcome back to a slimmer Lion Robert Small, Robert is still recovering from his knee operation.

Seen here looking at the 2020-2021 calendar with VP Mick Gordon

Reminder to members

As from July meeting, all apologies

are to be sent to Lion Marie

Pedlow Lion Tamer 0438 185 323 Please let her know if you will not be attending a meeting

PP John Flarrety Receives

Government Award

In June this year Lion John Flarrety was awarded a

Government Service award. Congratulations John

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Assistance dogs trained to sniff out low blood sugar in diabetics

Dogs learning to be a hearing and diabetes assistance dog.

"The dogs will be trained using saliva samples from type 1 diabetics when they're having a low blood glucose event," Ms Harris said.

"So, they'll collect the samples and they'll be stored in tubes and then we can use those tubes in the training of the dogs."

The Australian Lions Hearing Dogs has been operating for 40 years and has so far homed 600 dogs. The charity's chief executive, David Horne, said it would be hand selecting people from the local community for the first few diabetes medical-assistance dogs.

"They're not an electronic aid, they don't just perform the service that they're trained to do but they per-form so much more. So, it's com-panionship, it's security, it's inde-pendence and this is something we've provided for 40 years with our hearing-assistance dogs." It's hoped the program will grow to train dogs to help people with other medical illnesses, like epilep-sy and seizures, in the future.

Photo Left: Laura Harris, project coordinator of the diabetic alert dog program, and David Horne, chief executive of Australian Lions Hearing Dogs.(ABC News: Brittany Evins)

"There's a great need in the community [and] there is no oth-er organisation that will give out diabetic-alert dogs free of charge," Mr Horne said. He said the program had been in the works for several years. "We've got an expansion of our facility, which we'll be looking to triple our capacity of dogs we can hold here in SA," he said. "It'll give us the capacity to deliv-er over 100 assistance dogs per year, and in that, we feel that we can expand our range and help more people because as a Lion's project we serve the community. dogs.

Above: Cody and Millie during training.

(ABC News: Brittany Evins)

Paul Keating was tripping across a country road when the car ran over a pig. He told the chauffeur to go to the nearest farm house and explain what had happened and offer to pay for the animal.

The driver was gone for a long time and when he returned he had lipstick all over his face, was smoking a cigar and clutching an empty bottle of champaign. “I had a marvelous time boss” he said. “The farmer gave me a ci-

gar, his sons kept giving me champaign and his daughters made passionate love to me.” “Good grief!” exclaimed Paul, “What on earth did you say to them?” “Just what you told me boss” said the chauffeur. “I knocked on the door and said “G’day, I’m Paul Keating's Chauffeur and I’ve just killed the pig.”

Politicians Creed Once upon a time, a little non-conforming swallow de-cided not to fly south for the winter. He was unsure of the rationale behind the annual pilgrimage of his con-temporaries and being suspicious of unproved advice, decided to test the claim that it was necessary to avoid the life-threatening winter. So he wouldn’t budge. Gradually the winter started to close in. The swallow grew colder and colder. Finally he decided to head south for the after the others. BUT he left it too late. As he flew, the winter became more and more bitter. Ice formed on his wings. Eventually he fell to earth in a frost covered field. As he gasped his last breath, a cow wondered through the field and crapped on him. The warmth of the manure thawed his wings, warmed his body and revived him. He was so overjoyed by the turned of events, that he raised his little head and whistled a little bird song. Just at that moment, a cat Walking through the field heard the happy little chirp-ing sound. It found the pile of dung. Uncovered the little swallow and ate him. There are three morals to this story:

1. Everyone who craps on you is not necessary your

enemy.

2. Everyone who extricates from crap is not neces-

sary your friend.

3. If you are warm and comfortable in a pile of crap.

Keep your mouth shut.