Kindy children visited Cowell’s Lions shed on Thursday 21 October and helped repaint one of the wooden Christmas trees the club installs throughout the town for the festive season.
The children enthusiastically painted the tree and left their handprints at its base, so they could find their special tree when the decorations are placed in the Main Street.
In term three and four, Cowell Lions Club has been working with the kindy children at Cowell Early Childhood centre as part of a Lions’ mentoring project.
Cowell Lion Michelle Curtis said Lions and kindy children were buddied up and a couple of times a term would work together on various projects.
“The Lions discussed with the children what being a volunteer was about and how the Lions Club contributes to the community,” she said.
“The children then brainstormed ways they could make a difference in the community and over the following months the buddies worked together to make bird boxes, pick up rubbish, pull weeds and plant new seedlings.
“The Lions have enjoyed working with the kindy children and seeing the joy in play, creation and seeing the world through the child’s eyes.”
She hoped by seeing the work Lions did and working with them that the children would become active community members as they grew and learned.
Cowell Lions Club takes responsibility for many Christmas activities in the Franklin Harbour District Council area, including the annual Cowell Christmas pageant – which will once again be on Christmas Eve, Wednesday 24 December.
Businesses, groups and individuals will need to assemble at the Cowell Bowling Club at 6pm with the pageant to reach the main street at about 6.45 pm.
Father Christmas will give out small gifts to children under the large pin at the foreshore end of the street, which will be decorated as a Christmas tree.
Cowell Lions is in the progress of reaching out to businesses in the region for donations towards its Christmas raffle.
First and second prizes will be a wheelbarrow, third and fourth garden trolleys, and fifth and sixth sack trucks – all will be filled with a range of goodies and services, along with other individual prizes.
Raffle tickets and Lions Christmas cakes and puddings will be sold outside of Cowell Foodland each Thursday and Saturday from 19 November.
The Cowell Christmas lights competition will be judged on Sunday 21 December – there is no need to nominate, simply get your decorations up at your home, business or farm.
The November Cowell Lions market will be held on Sunday from 9am until 1pm, with the Christmas market on 7 December.
