Fundraising Collection
We held a fundraising collection on Thursday 22nd September at the Asda supermarket in Astley Bridge. Evidence of the economic downturn was shown by the numbers passing through the doors.
One of the features of the day was the late appearance of John Poulsom which meant that Tony Foster had to go into extra time. Tony managed to contact John just as he was about to mow the lawn. On his arrival it was pointed out to John that this action, preferable though it may be to standing like a muppet outside a supermarket, would result only in collecting grass, not money, which was the aim of the exercise. His excuse was that he'd got his diary mixed up, but popular opinion has it that he just couldn't stand the thought of spending two hours in my company. There a lot of people who belong in that category, so we'll go with that as the likely explanation.
The amount raised was £216.89 which under the circumstances was a reasonable total. The circumstances being, not the recession, but the prolonged bout of banter which took place when Babu Roye and Ron Eadie came to take over from John and I, which rather distracted us from the task in hand. Otherwise I'm sure we'd have passed £300.
Ray Stafford
Friday 7 October 2011
Thursday 6 October 2011
Canopy Sale
On Thursday 8th September we held a sale of bric-a-brac and clothes at the canopy in Bolton town centre square. It was a dismal day, the kind that makes you want to stay in and that's what most of the sensible citizens of Bolton did. There was a good turn-out of Lions which meant that quite often we outnumbered the customers, and we took to going on the other side of the stalls to give the illusion of feverish activity, in a bid to attract customers. Because rules would not allow us to park our vehicle on the town square, we had to unload all of our merchandise at the start, and with numerous Lions in attendance it was like the proverbial "sardines in a can", under the canopy. Lion Jim Wells, ICOB(in charge of books) had to take evasive action to stop the books on his stall from becoming pulp with the driving rain determined to seek them out. Despite the conditions the Lions stuck manfully, or should that be lionfully, to the task and an amount literally described as £366.17 by our treasurer, John Fairhurst,was raised. Not for the first time, the clothes section made a splendid contribution to the total. Amongst the bric-a-brac there were a few breakages but the customers were distinctly reluctant to pay for them, especially as we were responsible for them(the breakages not the customers).
Our next canopy will be in the new year but we are in desperate need of more bric-a-brac so please contribute what you can.
On Thursday 8th September we held a sale of bric-a-brac and clothes at the canopy in Bolton town centre square. It was a dismal day, the kind that makes you want to stay in and that's what most of the sensible citizens of Bolton did. There was a good turn-out of Lions which meant that quite often we outnumbered the customers, and we took to going on the other side of the stalls to give the illusion of feverish activity, in a bid to attract customers. Because rules would not allow us to park our vehicle on the town square, we had to unload all of our merchandise at the start, and with numerous Lions in attendance it was like the proverbial "sardines in a can", under the canopy. Lion Jim Wells, ICOB(in charge of books) had to take evasive action to stop the books on his stall from becoming pulp with the driving rain determined to seek them out. Despite the conditions the Lions stuck manfully, or should that be lionfully, to the task and an amount literally described as £366.17 by our treasurer, John Fairhurst,was raised. Not for the first time, the clothes section made a splendid contribution to the total. Amongst the bric-a-brac there were a few breakages but the customers were distinctly reluctant to pay for them, especially as we were responsible for them(the breakages not the customers).
Our next canopy will be in the new year but we are in desperate need of more bric-a-brac so please contribute what you can.
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