Maryborough Lions Club of Victoria, Australia in Maryborough, Victoria | Community organisation

Maryborough Lions Club of Victoria, Australia

Locality: Maryborough, Victoria

Phone: +61 456 040 823

Address: Golden Wattle Drive 3465 Maryborough, VIC, Australia

Website: https://maryborough.vic.lions.org.au

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19.01.2022 Maryborough Lions Club and Coles help feed bushfire volunteers Maryborough Lions Club is doing more than offering financial help for the many people affected by this summer’s bushfire season across south-east Australia the Club is also helping to feed volunteers who have signed up with disaster relief agency BlazeAid. BlazeAid is a not-for-profit organisation set up in the wake of the 2009 Black Saturday fires, which for a decade now has been assisting people with fence reb...uilding and debris clearing following any natural disaster Australia-wide. It has been active in the Maryborough area before, notably after the 2011 floods when BlazeAid volunteers helped rebuild farm fences near Carisbrook. The Club has been delivering food donated by Coles Maryborough to the BlazeAid base camp at Lexton, where volunteers rebuilding fences destroyed in the Mount Lonarch/Ben Major fire are based. Every Monday until the camp is disbanded, the Club makes a delivery run to the Lexton Recreation Reserve with bakery products and other food items donated by Coles to help feed some 40 BlazeAid volunteers. The Club is also on a weekly roster to cook dinner for the volunteers and treated the BlazeAid crew to their first dinner, a Shepherd’s Pie cooked by Lions member Roy Shady Lane who is accustomed to cooking for large numbers from his Navy service on February 10th. Lions member Gary Hutchinson, one of the serving crew, said the dinner went down a treat. About two-thirds of them came back for seconds so we must have been doing something right, Mr Hutchinson said. Maryborough Lions Club has also made a $1000 donation to a Lions Foundation bushfire relief fund and will continue to assist until the Black Summer crisis has passed. Photo: Lion Gary Hutchinson accepts a food donation from Coles Maryborough Store Manager Crystal Elford before heading to the BlazeAid camp at Lexton. #Black Summer #community

18.01.2022 Some of the offerings now available in our bookshop: some great local histories, a big DVD selection, collectables ... and an almost complete set of bound volumes of Model Railroader magazine!

15.01.2022 Judith with our hamper prizes in our next and pre-Easter raffle ... tix now on sale in the Bookshop and remember: we are open for our market on Sunday morning!

14.01.2022 The book box has been filled. There are books for every age group, free of charge. Come down and pick up something to entertain yourself or your children. We ar...e currently also seeking donations of books/CDs/DVDs that we can give out to the community. We are hoping to receive adult fiction, teen fiction and children's books in particular. Please send a message or call us to enquire about when you can drop of any donations. See more

13.01.2022 Lions taking stamps to help disabled children Maryborough Lions Club is accepting postage stamps as part of an international Lions fundraiser aimed at helping m...obility-impaired children. Stamps collected by the club will go to the Australian Lions Children’s Mobility Foundation who will use the funds raised from their sale to buy Hart Walkers, enabling children born with Cerebral Palsy to move more freely. The stamp project began in Australia when Queensland Lions members John and Christine Arckless challenged residents in their town of Dayboro to collect stamps for the foundation. The stamp-ede has spread nationally from there. Lion Gary Hutchinson is coordinating the stamp project for Maryborough Lions Club and urges residents to save their stamps for the cause. This fits well with our recent project to install the Liberty Swing in Maryborough as another helping hand for mobility-impaired children. Used stamps can be taken to a special collection box at the Maryborough Lions Bookshop, 124 High Street. The Lions bookshop also accepts used glasses for distribution to people affected by natural disasters in the Asia Pacific. Already, Maryborough residents have donated more than 4000 pairs of spectacles to this cause.

12.01.2022 The Bookshop will open for the Market, folks

11.01.2022 You can find more than just books in the Lions Bookshop! ... many hours went into building this beauty.

11.01.2022 A $2 raffle ticket might get your budding Craig Lowndes or Renee Gracie this ATV to start on! ... and have the best Christmas ever. Tix on sale in the Bookshop until Dec 21. ... and some great new books in the Lions Bookshop,. especially for gardeners, campers and 'grey nomads'.

09.01.2022 Our next market is on June 2, folks ... the first for winter 2019

09.01.2022 Maryborough Lions Club is accepting unwanted specs and used stamps for good causes: stamps are auctioned and the proceeds used to buy mobility walkers for kids with Cerebal Palsy; glasses are sent to people who've lost their specs in natural disasters. Both items can be left at the Lions Bookshop, Priceline Pharmacy or Kosmac and Clemens Optometrists. #goodcause #wastenot #community

08.01.2022 Winners are grinners! Lucky winners of the last Maryborough Lions Raffle for 2019: First prize - Xavier Brasser, Maryborough... Second prize - Megan O'Toole of Kyneton Third prize - Margaret Dalziel of Maryborough Merry Christmas from Maryborough Lions Club, folks!

06.01.2022 WE'RE BACK OPEN! With the lockdown restrictions easing, Maryborough Lions Bookshop is back open with the same hours and the now familiar social distancing protocols in place. We've used the downtime to improve our displays and restock ... hope to see you soon!

03.01.2022 Visit the Maryborough Lion's Market this Sunday. You'll find an intriguing variety of stalls and a fabulous BBQ perfect for breaky or lunch. What a great way to spend your Sunday morning!