A2 Mid year review Ally THE OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER LEO DISTRICT 306 A2 ISSUE 03 02 Veneration `18 Ally THE OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER LEO DISTRICT 306 A2 ISSUE 03 03 Songs From Our Heart F oreshadowing the true spirit of Christmas, Leos of the Leo dis- trict 306A2 organized Tehillah 2018- Christmas Carols, to bring peace among The 2nd phase of Tehillah was carried out on the Christmas day, the 25th of Decem- ber at the Apeksha Hospital at Maha- ragama. The choir along with the orchestra the people and to heal the needy. This pro- visited the patients ward spreading the joy ject was carried out in two phases. of Christmas. The choristers sang carols and even danced with the patients with the In the evening of 23rd of December 2018, hope of becoming a ray of hope to them. It the open stage at Diyatha Uyana, Bat- is truly heartwarming to see how the pa- taramulla looked festive with the multi col- tients sing along with the choir while clap- ored lights shining brightly and with the or- ping despite of their fatal conditions. As naments portraying the nativity scene from Christmas is all about doing a little some- aside that was shadowed by a Christmas thing extra for someone, the Leos didn’t tree decorated with many tinsels and forget to make donations for certain medi- Christmas bulbs of varying colors. The cal treatments stated by the hospital staff. choristers of Tehillah choir clad in red That memorable day ended with love and ready to sing their hearts out. Leos of dif- hope. ferent religions sang a set of carols depict- ing the harmony in melodic notes and also their hearts out. The loud cheer from the audience that consisted of fellow Leos, fam- ily members, friends and visitors at Diyatha Uyana was remarkably amazing. With the distribution of gifts and candy to the kids in the audience by the Santa Clause, the joyful evening was drawn to an end con- cluding the success of phase 1 of Tehillah. Ally THE OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER LEO DISTRICT 306 A2 ISSUE 03 04 LEO CLUB OF KALUBOWILA O n the 24th of November 2018, we, the Leo club of Kalubow- ila together with the Leo club of Katu- wawala and the Leo club of Saegis cam- After a day well spent with these de- serving hearts, we headed back to Colombo. This also gave a chance to gain a lot of memories, experiences and a time to increase the fellowship pus, with the guidance of the Lions club between the members. of Kalubowila, joined together to donate study material and dry rations to a less fortunate school, Waikumbura Tamil School, Badalkumbura, Monaragala. The donations were gathered from many oth- er clubs and non-Leos and Lions who were more than willing to help this wor- thy cause. Members of Our club, club of Katuwawala and club of Saegis campus and members of other clubs travelled to Monaragala, to make these donations to the school. We were welcomed by a tradi- tional ceremony and few items were per- formed by the students of that school, followed by the gifts and dry rations be- ing gifted to the students. The little ones were overjoyed, with the gift that they re- ceived, the smile on their faces, spoke a deep message that words cannot explain. We were also able to celebrate our 18th anniversary of the club with the stu- dents and teachers of that school. Ally THE OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER LEO DISTRICT 306 A2 ISSUE 03 05 W LEO CLUB OF KALUBOWILA e initiated a Christmas campaign via email and social media, to pass the true message of Christmas to all the Leos Lions and many others. It began on Christmas Eve, starting with the news to Mother Mary of the birth of baby Jesus to Christmas day which included the birth of Jesus Christ. It was a great success, since we were able to let many who did not know the true meaning of Christmas understand the story and let everyone know Christmas is not just lights Christmas trees and Santa Clause, but it has a deeper meaning related to the day of ‘Christmas’. Ally THE OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER LEO DISTRICT 306 A2 ISSUE 03 06 LEO CLUB OF MATTEGODA “U nity through Benevolence” unity is the strength of an organization to achieve goals. This Year our President, Leo Ama Dunusinghe had chosen her theme, 'Unity through Benevolence” for the Leoistic year 2018/2019. The 16th In- stallation Ceremony of Leo Club of Mat- tegoda was held on the 25th Novemeber 2018 at Leo Ama Dunusinghe’s residence from 3.30 p.m. onwards. The theme of the meeting was Queen of Hearts. TMultiple District 306 Leo Pramod Shone Wimalathungahe Special Guest of the Meeting was Immediate Past Multiple District President , the Guest of Honor of the Meeting was Multiple District Presi- dent Multiple District 306 Leo Lion Kesa- ri Senevirathna PMJF and the Chief Guest of the Meeting was District Presi- dent Leo District 306 A2 Leo Kasun Lokugamage. The event was well organized and had a good range of participation from our brothering clubs as well. Just as Leos came to take part in the event our Lions took part as well. Leo Club of Mattegoda is a unique club for doing innovative things. This time we did our installation Ceremony as an outside event and it was a good change. Ally THE OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER LEO DISTRICT 306 A2 ISSUE 03 07 LEO CLUB OF MATTEGODA O ne Bump Cricket Carnival is one of the innovative Sports events initiated by Leo Club of Mattego- da. This event was initiated on few years ago under the guidance of Leo Sahan Pathirana. This time we added some in- novative things and made the event more and more interesting. The project was Chaired by Leo Poorna Balasoriya and this time we organized this event as a Day and Night event. The event was held on the 16th December 2018 at Salmal Sports Club Complex from 9.00 a.m. onwards. The Chief Guest of the Tournament was Immediate Past Multiple District President Leo Pramod Sean Wimalathunga and the Guest of Honor of the event was Multiple District President Multiple District 306 Leo Lion Keasri Senevirathna PMJF. There were 16 Teams Registered both boys and girl’s teams from different Leo Clubs in the Multiple. The winners of the Girl’s Team and Boys’ team were both Leo club of Sri Lanka Technological Cam- pus of the Leo District 306 A2. It was one of the remarkable days for Leos. Ally THE OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER LEO DISTRICT 306 A2 ISSUE 03 08 LEO CLUB OF PILIYANDALA L eo Vivada-2018 was a debating competition for all the Leos island wide, organized on behalf of the Multiple District 306 of Sri Lanka by the Leo Club of Colombo Millennium (District 306A1), the Leo Club of Kaluthara Vidyalaya (District 306 A1), the Leo Club of Piliyandala (District 306 A2), the Leo Club of Negombo Orient (District 306 B1), the Leo Club of Makola (District 306 B2), the Leo Club of Thalangama Malabe (District 306 C1) and the Leo Club of Nawala Metro (District 306 C2). The tournament was held on the 10th of November 2018 from 7.30 am onwards at the Kaluthara Vidyalaya premises with the participation of more than hundred Leos and Lions from the entire multiple district. Ally THE OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER LEO DISTRICT 306 A2 ISSUE 03 09 LEO CLUB OF PILIYANDALA H ave you ever realized how blessed you are to travel your life journey? Have you ever thought that there are few who try harder to survive? The young volunteers of the Leo Club of Piliyandala together with UA Lad- der Project Team 01, spent the 1st of December with the cancer patients of Kandy Teaching Hospital. The entire event brought the touch of care to each and every soul fighting for themselves. The project was witnessed by the Leo club of Kandy as a joint hand to serve. The entire day was spent with the patients of the female cancer ward. The blessings we got from them came from the bottom of their heart. We got a quick opportunity to sing for the male ward as well. The most heart touching was to see a fa- ther having tears once the song he requested was sung. The whole day was quite a mixture of happiness as well as sadness in the bottom of their hearts. Ally THE OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER LEO DISTRICT 306 A2 ISSUE 03 10 “C hillenium”, the year-end par- ty of the Sri Lanka Technological Cam- After the refreshments the non-stop DJ music was carried on along with the pus was held on the 20th December photo booth to capture the snaps, and 2018 in the campus premises. the photographers had showed their talents by capturing the happiest mo- Funds were collected from issuing tick- ments as well as the funniest. ets for participants. We decorated our premises in the theme of “Red Indian”. It was indeed a great night to remember All of our academic staff were invited to for all the Leos of the Sri Lanka Tech- join this great event. At the same time nological Campus. all the campus students had a great time with their colleagues at the party. We organized them to have a great fun with their batch mates as well as other students and to show their hidden tal- LEO CLUB OF SLTC ents in front of a great audience At the party there were many Leos who showed their talents like compering and singing. Leo Dulana Samara- singhe, Leo Vimantha Perera, Prospect Russel Alagoda, Leo Kaveen Rathna- yake, Leo Ruvindha, Leo Pramod Kalhara are the students who enter- tained our students with their out- standing performances. Leo prospect girls were able to entertain the audi- ence with their dancing events. Ally THE OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER LEO DISTRICT 306 A2 ISSUE 03 11 දියණියක ලෙස පිය තුරුෙ මත උණුහුමින් හද සුවය ෙැබූ මා... දියණියක ලෙස මව් ලදවඟනක් දැක ආෙලයන් ලොබ බැඳුනි ලෙරදා... ගැහැනියක ලෙස අඹු සුවය මත සැනසුමක් ලනාදැනුන හින්දා... ලමලහනියක් ලෙස බුදු ලසවලේ හිඳ ලවලහසකර ලේ සසලර නිවුනා... ය ෞ ද්ධයකු වශයයන් රම ගිහි ජීවිරය නිමා යළාට පැවිදි ජීවිරයළ ආ ේභය විශාල වූ ලියයෝ සමාජය වශයයන් අප සහභාගි වූ සියලු යෙනාට ම යෙදිනම යේ පැන්, සිහිල් පැන් ආදියයන් පුණය මහිමයිනන් සිු වන ව ිළිගෙනිි.. සංග්රහ ළ අර තරාමේ සුටු සිේ ති ව රම ළාර්යයන් නිමා ළ න ලදී. යේ සඳහා හින්ු හා යමයහණි සසුයනහි ුර්ලභේවයට යහ්ුට විමසමින් තස්ලාමීය සයහෝෙ යන් ෙ අප හා එක් වීම අපට ත ඹූ ළි ළාවරළ හා එහි පුනර්වෘද්ිය සඳහා තමහේ සුටටක් යෙන ුනි. රරුණ ලියයෝ වරුන් සුට LEO CLUB OF SLTC වෑයමළ ත ඹුමක් යලස ශ්රී ලංළා රාක්ිණිළ විශ්ව වෙකීම ෙ මනාවට පසක් යළරිණි. විෙයාලය ය ලියයෝ සමාජය විසින් ්ක්යරෝ ර් මස 18,19 යෙදින නිමාවට පේ ළ ප මු අදිය යලස ධේීල අභිවන්ෙනා සටහන් විය. ලියයෝ ළමිු රැස්වීමළදී සංවාෙයට නැගුණු 'යමයහනි සසුයන් පුනර්වෘද්ිය' ිළිග ඳ ළරා හ ුටල ඒ සඳහා අපට ළ හැින යද් ිළිග ඳව ෙ ති වූ අෙහස් ාශියක් අුටරින් ෙේවැසියන් යේ ෙැනුවේ ිනරීමිනන් අප ලියයෝ සාමාජිළයන් ිනහිප යෙයනක් අලුි න් තදිවන යමයහණි ආ ාමයක් වන ධේමීල ආ ාම ිළිග ඳව ෙැනුවේ ළයල් ය. එහි අභි නවයයන් තදිවන චෛරයය ය තදිිනරීම ළටයුුට සඳහා සහාය ෙැක්වීම ්ක්යරෝ ර් මස 18 වන දින ආ ේභ යළරිණි. චෙනිළ අධයන ළටයුුට අවසානය ලියයෝ වරුන් ය ායහෝමයක් යමම පුනයළර්මය සඳහා රම ොයළේවය ල ා ුනි. Ally THE OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER LEO DISTRICT 306 A2 ISSUE 03 12 Stage drama is a drama that revolves around certain political inci- dents happened in the country’s recent past, and it depicts how do they impact disastrously towards society. This drama was staged by Leo Club of University of Moratuwa at the University Old Gymnasium, on 1st of November, for LEO CLUB OF UOM two time slots of one and half hours each. University community including undergraduates, academic and non- academic staff occupied the audience, together with many Leos and Lions from other clubs as well. This drama by Mr. Akila Sapumal, had a crew with a combi- nation of both emerging and experienced actors and actresses including Jagath Chamila, Thilanka Gamage, Imaya Sew- wandika, Kithmini Hemachandra, Udi- tha Liyanage, Dilranga Epa and Susanga Kadawalarachchi. The drama ended up with the discussion forum, so the spectators got the oppor- tunity to share their erudite views with the audience. Finally, it concluded about being conscient of the decisions you get beholding present and future. Ally THE OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER LEO DISTRICT 306 A2 ISSUE 03 13 C hristmas is all about sharing what we have. Most im- portantly, it's about sharing the happiness and love. A December to Remember is an effort of dedicating little LEO CLUB OF UOM amount of time to soothe someone's heart in the cold December. This program was organized by Leo Club of University of Moratuwa which was held at Vanrith Elders' Home, Galle on 28th of December. UoM Leos were there with those elders, listening to their old stories and trying to relieve those de- tached minds with the happiness of Christmas together with some entertain- ing sessions. Further, there was also a small tea party organized for them. Many Leos and prospects from UoM Leo family joined in this day and surely collected a lot of memories to remember with those parents. Moreover, it might also have been a great time to those parents who are away from their beloved ones. Ally THE OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER LEO DISTRICT 306 A2 ISSUE 03 14 Can Helping Others Help You Find Meaning In Life New research has found that being kind and giving to others can make our lives feel more meaningful...... By: Leo K. Gowrisha Leo Club of Sri Lanka Technological Campus A ristotle wrote that finding happiness and fulfillment is achieved “by loving rather than being loved”. According to the psychologist Carol Ryff, who reviewed the writings of numerous philosophers throughout history, relationships with others are “a cen- tral feature of a positive, well-lived life”. At present many of us seem to be strug- gling to find meaning by gathering up achievements, spending so much time at work that we’re cut off from other people. There are more evidence that kind and helpful behavior causes us to feel that our lives are meaningful, and discovering what we can do to reap those benefits. Researchers have found that having strong social con- nections are important for both happiness and meaning- fulness. However, helping others in need and identifying oneself as a “giver”in relationships were related to mean- ing alone. The idea that helping others is a part of a meaningful life that has been around for thousands of years. So, as human beings let’s spread our love and kindness through helping others and feel the true feeling of happiness. If you are seeking for the peaceful mind just help others and see the difference in you. HELP OTHERS, SPREAD LOVE & BE HAPPY… Ally THE OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER LEO DISTRICT 306 A2 ISSUE 03 15 ud;f,a mqxÑ tx.,ka;h යම ම ස්ථානය ස්භාව යසෞන්ෙර්යයන් අනුන ශ්රී ලංළායව ිළහිටා ි ය න රවේ එක් අපූර්ව ශ්රමිළයන්යෙ සුභ සාධනයට ැ යවන අර ම ති රිය ඒ අවට ිළරිසිුව ර ාෙැනීමට හා සංෛා ළ පහසුළේ යමහි ි ය නවා. වියල් ිළහිණීම තරා අණුටරුොයළ ැවින් ජලක්රීඩා ළැමි සංෛා ළි.න්ට යමම ිළහිණුේ ස්ථානයක්. සුන්ෙ මාරයල් ප්රයද්ශය ිළහිි පවේවායෙන යායේ පැන වශයයන් රටාළයට ැහැලා සිය ආශාව රවේ විනා ෙමනාන්රයක් යලසේ යමය යයයෙනවා. අයළ න මුෙල ිළක් වැඩි සේපූර්ණ ළ ෙන්නට අවස්ථාව සලසා හුන්වාදිය හැිනය. යමම පරිස යට පැමිණි වුණේ යමම පරිස ය සුන්ෙ ේවය විඳ ි ය නවා. නිස්ළලංළව පවූයල් විෙස ෙර සිර නිවාලන සීරල මිහිුේ අවසානය ිළටව යන ් ට එය එර ේ ළට්ිය සමෙ ෙරළ න්න අවශය නේ වලාවළ පහස විඳෙර හැිනය. යමහි ති යනාෙැයන්වී. සි ය දිනවල පැමිණීම සුුසි.. යපෝය සුන්ෙ ේවය වෛන වලට යප ළීම යළර ේ දිනයන්හි වසා ති ව මරළ සුු ආණ්ඩඩුව ළාලය යමම වැව පැවි අපහසුෙ යන වෙ ව ක් යහෝ එහි සංෛා ය ර ාෙැනීමේ වැෙෙේ. ස්ථානය ුට ෙ යපෝයලෝ ිළියක් වශයයන් ළ ති අයකු වටහාෙනු යනාඅනුමානය. පැවි එළක් වට යරා ුටරු සටහන් තල්ළඩුව වුටයාය යමවැනි සුන්ෙ ් රවමේ එහි වූ සුන්ෙ ේවය විදීමට වනවා. ළලළට පසුව එහි ජලාශයක් පරිස යක් ටට ොයාෙ ිනරීම ිළිග ඳ අවස්ථාවක් යනාලෙ අයයක් නේ ෙැනටමේ නිර්මාණය යළාට තන් නිපෙයවන යමවන් නිර්මාණයක් බිහිිනරීමට මුල්වූ පුංචි ආශාවක් ්යේ සියරහි ති වූවානේ ජලවිුලිය උපයයෝගී ළ ෙනිමින් යේ පුද්ෙලයායේ සිට අෙ වනයරක් යමම එය මුුන්පේ ළ ෙැනීම ් ට භා ළ මි. ළර්මාන්රශාලායේ ළටයුුට පවේවා යෙන ස්ථානය රැළ ෙැනීමට ශ්රමය වැයළ න යසේුවේර විල ිළහිටා ි ය න්යන් යාමට භාවිරා ළ ි ය නවා. ළේළරුවා ෙක්වා සියල්ලන්ටම ලාංිනළයන් වශයයන් අපයේ ස්ූි මහනුව නෙ ය සිට ිනයලෝමීටර් 35ක් පසුළාලීනව අභාවයට ගිය යේ ස්ථානය පුෙළල යුුටි.. පමණ ුරින් මාරයල් දිස්ික්ළය ය. යමහි ක005 දී යමම වුට යායට පැමිණි වුට පැමිණිමට ති ප්රධාන මාර්ෙ කක් ි යේ. අිළාරීුටමා විසින් යේ ි ය න රේවයට තන් එළක් නේ මහනුව සිට වේයේෙමට ප්රි සංස්ළ ණය යළාට ි ය න වට පැමිණ තල්ළඩුව නෙ ය හ හා ෙැනෙන්නට ලැය නවා. ෙැනටේ යමහි වූ යසේුවේරට යාමි.. අයනළ මාරයල් ජලය භාවිරා යළාට ජල විුලිය නිපෙවා නෙ ය සිට උකුයවල හ හා තල්ළඩුවට අසල නිවාස වලට ල ා දීම තරාම වැෙෙේ පැමිණ යමහි ලොවීමි..යමම යසේුවේර ළා ණයක්. විල ළෘි මව නිර්මාණය ළ පු විල තල්ළඩුව යේ ළර්මාන්ර ශාලාවට එළක් වුනේ ස්වභාවිළ ජලජ පද්ධි යක් අයේ භූමි භාෙය ම ිළහිටා තේරින. විල වයේම ෙක්නට ලැබීම යමහි ති අවට සංෛා ළි.න් ෙැවයසන ප්රයද්ශය තරා සුවියශ්ෂීේවයින. සුන්ෙ ළඳු පන්ි වලින් අලංළා ව හා ිළිගයවලට පවේවායෙන වටවුණු තල්ළඩුව වුටයාය උසම රැනහි යන්යන් තල්ළඩුව වුටයායය වර්රමාන යේ සුන්ෙ විල ිළහිටා ි බීමේ වියශ්ිි.. අිළාරිව යා ව පැවයසනවා. තුටල්වීයේ විල වයට්ට summer huts නිර්මාණය වී ොස්ුට වශයයන් එක් අයයකුට රුිළයල් තේයේ සංෛා ළයන් යවනුයවන්මි.. ක00ළ ිළට් පරක් ෙරයුුට වන අර ඒ එපමණක් යනාව විල අසල දිය මුෙලින් යළාටසක් වුටයායය වැඩ ළ න උල්පේවලින් රැස්යවන ජලය එළුටළ යෙන රැනූ ිළහිනුේ රටාළයකුේ By: Leo Priyantha Kumara Leo Club of Piliyandala Ally THE OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER LEO DISTRICT 306 A2 ISSUE 03 16 Think Beyond 3R By: Leo Indika Landekumbura Leo Club of Piliyandala R educe, Reuse and Recycle is great. They tell us to use less, find ways to use things we have again an in different ways, and to help turn what we can’t use into something new. But what about sustainability beyond the three ‘ R’ s ? Ally THE OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER LEO DISTRICT 306 A2 ISSUE 03 17 EDITORIAL Leo Isuri Udithamala Leo Danushi wijewardhane Leo janani wijetunge Leo Yuran deshaka Ally OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER A s the district editorial panel of Leo District 306 A2, we are very proud to present you all the good deeds of our fellow Leos where they outstretch helping hand to LEO DISTRICT 306 A2 SRI LANKA the people in need in whatever the capacity they can as a one big family with the guidance of our district president Leo Lion Kasun Lokugamage. So with that here we present you the 3rd edition of Ally- the official newsletter of Leo District 306 A2. Stay in touch with us to reveal more tremendous projects done by the Leos of District 306 A2. Leo Isuri Udithamala Editorial Panel www.leodistrict306a2.org Follow us on
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