Cakes for sale

Lions Christmas Cake

Packaged 1kg cakes are being sold for the first time this year as a Lions club fundraiser with proceeeds from their sale going towards those in need in and around Cambridge.

Cambridge Lions Club members Gay Geursen, left, and Beth Robinson spent a few hours last Saturday selling Christmas cakes at the BNZ corner in Victoria St.

They and other club members will be back from around 9am Friday and on Saturday to sell more.

See: Lions’ Christmas sweetener

Sampling some of the Cambridge Lions Club Christmas cakes are, from left, project lead Sean Brady, Cambridge Chamber’s Aroha Croft, Waipā deputy mayor Liz Stolwyk, Lions Club president Brent Montgomerie, and Cambridge Community Board chair Jo Davies-Colley. Photo: Viv Posselt

 

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