Service club receives grant from Ontario Trillium Foundation
By Mark Schadenberg
INGERSOLL – Service clubs and volunteering are important to the
heartbeat of all communities.
If the bricks and mortar of a service club’s home is beginning to
crumble, how does that reflect on the community?
A hearty congratulations and a Lions ‘roar’ goes out to members of the
Lions Club of Ingersoll for restoring its home at 58 Thames Street South.
Mostly due to a grant from the Ontario Trillium Foundation, the
club recently completed its $60,000 renovation project. Among the improvements
is a new furnace, exterior doors and siding.
Last month, with the exterior work completed, the Ingersoll fire
department assisted in lifting the club’s lion statue back to the roof.
The Lions Club, which apparently shares their building with the Big
Brothers / Big Sisters association of Ingersoll and Tillsonburg, will now shift
their focus, according to an Ingersoll Times story, on updates to the club’s
meeting area or den.
The story added that the Ingersoll Lions is apparently the only group in
its zone which owns its own building.
Me In Woodstock
As a Lions Club of Woodstock member, I know our group calls the Legion
Branch 55 on Brant Street home and has invested a lot (donations) to up-keep
and improvements of the Legion, but the Lions locally are tenants. About 40 years ago, the Lions Club of Woodstock made significant contributions to the building of the Oxford Auditorium at the fairgrounds on Nellis Street, and more than 60 years ago built Lions Pool on VanSittart Ave.
LINK:
http://www.ingersolltimes.com/2013/11/26/lions-hall-renovations-complete
Mark
Schadenberg, Sales
Representative
Royal
LePage Triland Realty
757 Dundas
St, Woodstock
www.wesellwoodstock.com
(519) 537-1553,
cell or text
Email:
mschadenberg@rogers.com
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