NOW that the Swan Hill Lions Club has a new award to add to their collection, they just need a wall to hang it on.
The local community club took out this year’s Australia Day award for the 2012 Community Event of the Year — the inaugural ‘Show and Shine’ event — at Saturday’s award ceremony in Riverside Park.
Following the presentation, Swan Hill Lions Club president David McCallum said the club was actively looking for a place to call their own.
The club currently meets at the local RSL twice a month.
“Ultima has their own clubhouse, Lake Boga has one, and we decided that Swan Hill wouldn’t mind having one too,” Mr McCallum said.
While they are still in planning stages, the Lions Club president said they would have to work hard this year to secure funding for their own premises.
Until then, he said, the club would work on upcoming community events, including the second annual ‘Show and Shine’ later in the year.
Last year’s event attracted 100 cars and 24 bikes from across Victoria and interstate, with entertainment and displays from local motor clubs drawing big crowds to Riverside Park.
Mr McCallum said the event was in the making for a year before it took place in October 2012, organised by eight Lions Club members who formed the Show and Shine committee.
“A few of the members are petrol heads, and there was nothing in town in the way of a motor event so we thought it would be a good idea,” he said.
“We were really pleased with the reactions it got from the town.”
