20th and 21st of March 2010 The City of Burnie Lions Club once again supported the Relay for Life for the 10th time along with other coastal Lions Clubs.Our role in recent years has been to provide food from our catering van as a fund raiser for the Cancer Council Of Tasmania. In typical Lions fashion the project was carried out with the usual ammount of banter and fellowship without the addition of well known beverages packaged in bottles or cans.
Catering for the crowd of walkers, joggers and runners had peaks and troughs, but when the pressure was on, our Lions performed at top pace. The lunch time between 11.30am and 1.30pm saw steaks, hamburgers and the good old Snags with onions and sauce leave as though they were going out of fashion. then the Pancakes came into their own.
I left at 6.00pm on
Saturday afternoon and returned at 6.00am Sunday to find some cooked hamburgers and sausages hanging fire. However we soon discovered that Lion Max Tavaski had mastered the art of quick delivery of pancakes because in the space of one hour we had sold over $250.00 worth before the breakfast announcement was made, then it died out with four ready to go pancakes left, six hamburgers, and about ten sausages. Three Lions going flat chat with hardly time to draw breath. When it all stopped we wondered what had happened. Then the clean up. If it didn't move, Lion Max had it in the sink to be washed. Fortunately, the sink was in the van, otherwise some our customers may have got a bath they either didn't want or need.Thank you to Lion Wiston Foster for the towing of the van to and from the Penguin Sports Complex. It was much appreciated by your Lions Club.
For the first time that I can recall, the organisors advised all Lions Clubs to record their donations, funds raised etc. and record them in their Club's Activities Account. Lions District 201T1 Cabinet commented last year that there was no record of the monies raised by clubs within the district in support of the Cancer Council and where that money was being chanelled to. This year will be different, that I can promise you all.
When we tallied
up the take Sunday morning, our catering had produced a nett take of $2530.55 for the event with 63 man/hours of work done by our members. A good job well done, and certainly appreciated by the organising committee. (the figure confirmed by Mr Allan Robson, Relay fo Life Organising Committee.) The total money raised is expected to be around $250,000.00 for the Penguin event and is already a new record.No doubt we'll be back in 2011 all being well.
