L to R back row Mandy Miles, Chris Stewart, Peter Roberts, Col Hardwick, Gary Waddell, Marilyn Miller and Barry Miller. L to R front row Roz Hewitt, Roger Stewart and Michael Taylor.
Last Saturday, the Boorowa Lions Club officially opened their Shed, a six-year project that will help the Club a great deal.
Barry Miller spoke to the Boorowa Times about the process it took to open the Shed.
“Finally, because of the availability of the land, and the Council donating land and grants to us, it’s open. It took three grants to build our shed. The main grant was from Bendigo Bank, our local community bank,” he said.
“That was about three years ago, we started that, and early this year, we were finally able to start construction of the shed, which we finished about two months ago.
“We had an official opening last Saturday with a representative from Boorowa Council, from our District Governor of Lions from Bathurst and also a representative from the Bendigo Bank.
“This is amazing, because we had our catering van and our driver reviver van stored in one place and all our equipment stored in another place, so it made it very awkward to match up the pair when we had to do a project. We had to run from one place to another and all that sort of thing. Well, now it’s all in one spot, and it’s clean and it’s dust-free and everybody’s excited and it’s finally up and running and it’s very successful.
“The benefit will be that it will make it work easier rather than harder. It will save us a lot of time, and it will save us a lot of running about. It will save us a lot of pressure on other members having to run here and run there, and also it protects our equipment from the elements, and that’s a big thing because we use it for food preparation, and where it was stored before was quite dusty and dirty, and now it’s absolutely pristine, really for a storage unit.
“Bendigo Bank turned up and their representative did the official opening for us because they supplied about 60% of the money for the whole construction of the shed.
“Local Council came along and gave their contribution, but there weren’t too many people. There were a few people from the community who helped us out with their time and labour and didn’t charge us anything, such as Alan Banks and Tim Berry, the electrician who put the power on for us and the local hardware store, which supplied quite a bit of stuff for us for nothing. These were very much appreciated.
“The community got behind it very much so. If it weren’t for the community, and even for the community that helps us out on Driver Reviver, we would not have been able to do all this by ourselves.
“We are such a small club and we’ve made such a big achievement with the help of the community.”
– Jack Murray
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