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Lions’ high honour

Ross Paine, Ray Pennay, Dave Thomas, Delwyn Hallett and John Crossley.

THE Lions Club of Peregian had a wonderful changeover dinner at the new Coolum Beach Hotel.
District Governor elect, Rod Somerville installed new president Peter Wright into his role – he accepted this graciously, with great pride and his usual wit.
The club looks forward to another exciting year ahead contributing to community and international needs.
Also, wonderful news for our club, Dave Thomas was awarded the highest honour of The Lions Club, the Melvyn Jones Award for outstanding services in the community.
Dave has been with the club since its inception five and half years ago and is the ‘Barbecue Guru’. We are now priveledged to have five esteemed Paul Smith medal recipients in our club.

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