The Riverside Lions Club made its presence known in the local community with several good deeds over the past several weeks.
The club volunteered to ring the bell to help the Salvation Army collect donations at the Franklin Giant Eagle, on Friday December 17. Volunteers covered the shifts from 10 am until 6 pm.
This is the second year the club has volunteered to help with this event with the intent of keeping most of the money local according to King Lion, Chip Campbell.
The club also celebrated Christmas with the Ellwood City Lions at the Country Club.
During the dinner they collected money from the club to donate to the tornado victims in the Midwest. $330.00 was raised to send to the victims. The Lions of Pennsylvania will also be collecting money and supplies on a statewide basis to send to the victims.
Riverside Lions also got to distribute over a thousand small toys acquired through Project Homefront. Toys were handed out to seven different locations in the area including the Ellwood City Northside Elementary School and Perry School, Holy Redeemer Social Services, Portersville Food Bank, Riverside Elementary and Beaver Falls Elementary School.
“The schools use these as they go through the year to reward students for outstanding achievements and the food banks use them to help fill the Christmas bags they furnish at Christmas,” said Campbell. “We had the opportunity to spread the distribution to more locations since there was some leftover from last year’s distribution.”
Campbell added that the most interesting thing the club got to do was distribute fruit bags to the three nursing homes in the area – a Riverside Lions Club project for over thirty years.
White paper bags were donated to the club and the five Ellwood City Northside Kindergarten classes drew and decorated Christmas trees on 120 of them, they also signed their names, an idea borrowed from the Apollo Lions.
“Some club members then got together and loaded the bags with a red and green apple, an orange, banana, a pear and a small bag of candy,” said Campbell.
The Lions Club then hooked up with Santa and distributed 90 Fruit bags to local nursing homes. What was left over was given to Northview Estates, another home in the Ellwood City area.
Anyone wishing to find out more about the Lions please contact Chip Campbell 724-944-1869.
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