{"id":5345,"date":"2018-12-24T05:15:31","date_gmt":"2018-12-23T18:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=5345"},"modified":"2018-12-24T05:15:31","modified_gmt":"2018-12-23T18:15:31","slug":"lions-district-holds-convention-in-blacktown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/?p=5345","title":{"rendered":"Lions District holds Convention in Blacktown"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\nNovember 3, 2018<\/ul>\n<p> \u2501 Two hundred Lions from Sydney&#8217;s 75 Lions Clubs attended their annual District Convention in the West Tradies Club.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Lions&#8217; District Governor Derek Margerison said it was the largest gathering of Lions in the Blacktown Council area. He said the Lions received a great deal of support from the Blacktown Council in making the Convention possible.<\/p>\n<p>Margerison said the District covered the area from the Hawkesbury River to Holroyd and from the Ocean to Emu Plains. The District also includes two Clubs on Norfolk Island.<\/p>\n<p>A highlight of the Convention was a welcome to the newly-chartered Autism Community Lions Club. Mr Margerison said the new Club is the first of its kind in Australia<\/p>\n<p>The Convention received reports on a wide range of projects and activities. The reports included the Mt Druitt deaf camp for high school students with hearing difficulties, Childhood Cancer Research, Children&#8217;s Mobility Foundation and programs to combat diabetes.<\/p>\n<p>Margerison said Lions are more than sausage sizzles which are simply a means to an end such as the projects mentioned above.<\/p>\n<p>Enquiries regarding membership of Lions and their activities can be obtained from the Lions National Office on 4940 8033.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>November 3, 2018 \u2501 Two hundred Lions from Sydney&#8217;s 75 Lions Clubs attended their annual District Convention in the West Tradies Club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5345"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5346,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5345\/revisions\/5346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philippinesentinel.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}