Busy year in the community for Lions Club of Kerikeri
LIONS LIVE WITH PURPOSE
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International’s mission is to empower volunteers to serve their communities, meet humanitarian needs, encourage peace and promote understanding through Lions
Once again Kerikeri Lions Club has been particularly busy this year with a wide range of activities.
Apart from the Christmas parade organisation that continues throughout the year, the club is involved in numerous community fund raising events.
Here’s just a few.
This year members distributed the Yellow Pages and the local directories to the community.
Lions gave $2000 towards the purchase of a new playground going to Kaeo.
It also gave $1500 to Kerikeri Army Cadets to help fund this year’s exercises.
The Kerikeri Scouts group also benefited with $2000 from Lions to help it fund equipment for its jamboree visit this year.
The club was there for Riverview Primary School and helped raise more than $600 at its quick fire raffle.
And karate expert Damian Tana received $613 to help him get to the NZ Karake competition.
These activities are what the Lions Club is all about – helping the community.
As its motto says ‘WE Serve’.
It is always looking for new and younger members to join.
If you would like to help your community, join the team.
See the website www.kerikeri.co.nz/ lions or phone Brian Cliffin on 09 407 9443. To organise, charter and supervise service clubs to be known as Lions Clubs. To create and foster a spirit of understanding among the peoples of the world. To promote the principles of good government and good citizenship.
To take an active interest in the civic, cultural, social and moral welfare of the community.
To unite the clubs in the bonds of friendship, good fellowship and mutual understanding.
To provide a forum for the open discussion of all matters of public interest; provided, however, that partisan politics and sectarian religion shall not be debated by club members.
To encourage service-minded people to serve their community without personal financial reward.
And With Ethics
To show my faith in the worthiness of my vocation by industrious application to the end that I may merit a reputation for quality of service.
To seek success and to demand all fair remuneration or profit as my just due, but to accept no profit or success at the price of my own self-respect lost because of unfair advantage taken.
To remember that in building up my business it is not necessary to tear down another’s, to be loyal to my clients or customers and be true to myself.
To hold friendship as an end and not a means.
To hold that true friendship exists not on account of the service performed by one to another, but that true friendship demands nothing but accepts service in the spirit in which it is given.
Always to bear in mind my obligations as a citizen to my nation, my state and my community, and to give them my unswerving loyalty in word, act and deed.
To give them freely of my time, labour, and means.
To aid others by giving my sympathy to those in distress, my aid to the weak, and my substance to the needy.