Norwood: Lions Club marks 70 years of service to the community
This yr 2022 is a particular yr for a lot of causes.
For one, it marks Queen Elizabeth’s seventieth yr as monarch.
Nearer to residence 2022 can be a particular yr for the village of Norwood because it likewise marks the seventieth anniversary of a corporation which have offered immeasurable advantages to the village and past over its seven many years.
A founding member of this group, the late David McNeil, stated it finest, “The yr 1952 was the start of an period: Elizabeth II turned the Queen of England and Eisenhower was inaugurated because the president of the USA. Nonetheless, the occasion that had extra impact on the individuals of the neighborhood of Norwood than each of those occasions mixed was the chartering of the Norwood Lions Membership.” These phrases had been written almost 40 years in the past and so they stay as true now as they had been when he wrote them.
It was in latter a part of 1951 and the primary weeks of 1952 when a bunch of community-minded people held the primary conferences of what would quickly change into the Norwood Lions Membership. These conferences had been held within the King’s Resort (The location the place the Norwood Foodland is right now) with members from the sponsoring Lions Membership from Peterborough who indoctrinated the brand new membership’s members with the practices and rules of Lionism.
The membership held its first constitution night time on Jan. 30, 1952 in a singular ceremony on the Norwood City Corridor. A complete of 30 members took the pledge and acquired the constitution formally forming the Norwood Lions Membership.
“In fact, you can’t do very a lot work on your neighborhood if you end up broke,” was one other quote from McNeil, so membership members instantly set to work to boost funds for his or her neighborhood betterment tasks.
Through the years these fundraisers have included every little thing from bingos to promoting peanuts, citrus fruit and lightweight bulbs door to door to internet hosting avenue dances, donnybrook auctions and neighborhood selection reveals, regardless of the occasion the one actual requirement was to verify that they had enjoyable doing it.
Earlier this month on June 3, the Norwood Lions Membership hosted its seventieth Anniversary celebration.
One explicit spotlight included the disclosing of their Lions’s Friendship Arch on the Norwood Honest grounds alongside the doorway approach to the city’s neighborhood centre.
The primary Friendship Arch was constructed in 1966 as a logo of the friendship between the Lions of the U.S. and the Lions of Canada. It’s now used to represent the friendship of Lions to the communities through which they dwell and serve. The Norwood membership have taken a further step and devoted their arch to the reminiscence of the thirty founding members of the membership.
Later within the day the membership hosted a particular anniversary dinner on the “Lion’s Den” often known as the Norwood City Corridor. The dinner was adopted by the presentation of a number of awards.
Lion Barry Patterson was introduced with the Melvin Jones Fellowship Award; a well-deserved honour for this lengthy serving member in recognition of his years of service and likewise for his dedication because the golf equipment historian for recording and preserving the historical past of the Norwood Lions Membership. The Fellowship Award is Lions Worldwide’s highest type of particular person recognition for a member.
Years of Service accolades had been introduced to a number of very long time members. Lions Doug Pearcy, John Stewart and Bob Morash have every served for 50 years, Lions Jack Begg and Leonard Archer have 45 years of service and Lions Hugh Chaplin and Bob Bullock have served for 30 years. A number of different members acquired their 10 and 15 years of service awards. The longest steady serving member of the Norwood membership is Lion Ron Scott with 54 years and counting.
It’s also attention-grabbing to notice that Lions Barry Patterson, Ron Scott and Rick Lochhead are all descendants of the unique founding members.
The primary Lion’s Membership was based by Melvin Jones in June of 1917 in Chicago, Illinois; right now there are 1.4 Million members in 35,000 golf equipment in over 200 international locations all over the world. The Norwood Lions Membership continues to be an necessary and very important presence within the Asphodel Norwood neighborhood and a driving pressure for neighborhood betterment.
Fiddling fundraiser
With the pandemic slowly releasing us from its grasp, the Norwood Lions Membership is happy to announce the “rebooking” of a live performance that was deliberate after which cancelled twice over the past two and half years in the past. Nicely, as an adage states “third time fortunate.”
Prince Edward Island’s fiddling sensation Richard Wooden and buddies is coming to the Norwood City Corridor on Sept. 3 for a one-night efficiency. The present will begin at 7 p.m., tickets are $20 and might be bought at J.J. Stewart Motors, Norwood Centennial Pharmacy, Lynn’s Flowers and Items, Norwood Dwelling {Hardware} or by contacting Lions Doug Pearcy 705-639-5510, Hugh Chaplin 705-639-2205 or Barry Walsh 705-639-1212.
