What Lions do best
In a mad world in the middle of ‘this pandemic’, the Ōmokoroa & Districts Lions Club and our 30 members, have continued to do what Lions do best. As the only Service Club in our district, collecting for Daffodil Day on August 28th was no different, apart from the need to abide by the Cancer Society rules in mainly wearing a mask whilst dealing with the public, and hiding the Lions' smile of gratitude when the residents of Ōmokoroa gave freely and willingly to the annual Daffodil Day Appeal. Your generous donation of $1648.20 was gratefully received by the Tauranga Cancer Society. Thanks to both the Montre Restaurant and the outer boundary of Fresh Choice for the Daffodil Collection point.
Another donation to our Club has been the 100 banana boxes of sorted books from the Waihī Lions Club. They have been unable to have their annual book fair, and have had to remove their stored books from the Oceania Gold Building in Waihī, part of which is up for demolition. These books are now stored in Ōmokoroa. We have just heard back from the Council that we have the old Ōmokoroa library for our book fair, which we will hold over the three days of Labour Weekend, Saturday to Monday.
Saturday 12th September was a special day when we remember Lions members who have passed away over the past 12 months in our Lions District. A number of our Lions Club members attended a memorial tree planting day at the Lions
Tree Grove in the TECT Park, where one of our members planted a tree in memory of her late husband.
As our membership continues to grow we welcome new members.