Appreciation luncheon planned for April 22 for membership giving back to club
By
Mark Schadenberg
If
April showers – bring May flowers, then you’ll want to spend a lot of time
indoors at South Gate Centre this month.
If
you hadn’t heard the news yet, the Lions Club of Woodstock has officially
migrated across Woodstock to South Gate as our new home due to the pending sale
of our previous den at the Legion.
Meanwhile,
our weekly bingo on Thursday nights has also shifted its location to South Gate,
so it’s a win-win situation as the Lions Club most certainly paid rent at the
Legion for our Bingo nights and to host our meetings, and we also donated to many
(several) capital projects inside the Legion’s walls as well, but that could be
a tale for another day.
Upon
departing from our Lions meeting this week, I picked up a copy of the latest
South Gate newsletter called Golden Nugget, but it’s sub-titled this month as
Volunteers Are The Stars. That slogan holds true for Lions and for South Gate
Centre as no organization is successful without a strong base of volunteers –
people giving their time and knowledge is the fabric of service clubs and other
associations.
You
can read the Golden Nugget online if you’re considering joining the Woodstock
over-50 club by checking out www.southgatectr.ca. The site
also has details on the club’s membership, its terrific facility at the gate to
Southside Park on Old Wellington South and details about many ongoing
activities.
The
Golden Nugget specifically promotes April events such as a special Taste Of
Asia dinner with Jed Lau set for Friday, April 22.
The
South Gate Centre has quite a kitchen featuring Patrick McMahon as chef and a
large group of volunteers for catering lunches ($7; Weekdays 11:30 a.m. – 1
p.m.). The week of April 19-21 looks delicious with beef stew on the 19th,
followed by roast chicken on the 20th, and lasagna on the 21st.
The kitchen also runs a catering company called Local Roots for on-site
banquets like anniversary parties, small meals such as the Lions Club, or
catering at other locations.
South
Gate, which is open for its membership activities Monday to Friday from 8 a.m.
– 10 p.m., is a busy place with euchre, bridge, pepper and klaverjas card
games, plus many exercise sessions as well – yoga, tai chi, zumba, and other
cardio fitness times. Additional activities on the schedule include darts,
billiards, wood working, plus carpet bowling, along with groups for knitting
and crocheting.
Off-site
connections for the South Gate Centre includes badminton and pickleball at the
Woodstock Badminton Club, plus curling or bowling leagues in the fall and
winter, and slo-pitch in Southside Park from May – October.
If
you know the song Empty Chairs At Empty Tables, while at South Gate they’ll
request you join the choir led by Doris Ernewein, so there will be voices from
those chairs. The South Gate Singers tour around the community, including
upcoming shows at Oxford Manor on April 19 and Oxford Gardens on April 20.
A
dinner and dance is set for Friday, May 6 at the centre. Tickets are only $20.
Silver
Streaks is an acting club within South Gate and they staged the play All The
Comforts Of Home (Howard T Amend) during the month of March
Adding
to the long list on the club’s schedule are specific interest groups like
history, computers, and travelling. South Gate is planning a bus trip to Quebec
City and Halifax for two weeks in July.
At
South Gate, you can see that participation is part of the membership, but the
Volunteers Are The Stars, so the centre will be hosting a volunteer celebration
luncheon and dessert buffet on Friday, April 22.
LINKS:
Mark Schadenberg, Sales Representative
Senior Real Estate Specialist (SRES designation)
Royal LePage Triland Realty Brokerage
757 Dundas St, Woodstock
(519) 537-1553, cell or text
Email: mschadenberg@rogers.com
Twitter: markroyallepage
Facebook: Mark Schadenberg, Royal LePage Triland
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