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Tallygaroopna Lions repay Rochy ‘favour’

By Jaci Hicken

Mar 20, 2023

Spirit of friendship: David Lake and Ken Hocking from Rochester Lions Club with Ron Jones and Audrey Hurst from Tallygaroopna Lions at the presentation of the $2000 cheque.

Thirty-nine years ago Rochester Lions Club was one of the first to extend the hand of friendship to a newly Tallygaroopna Lions Club.

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The spirit of friendship is alive and well, as the Tallygaroopna club has returned that favour to its Goulburn Valley neighbour.

Tallygaroopna Lions Club recently donated $2000 to the Rochester Lions Club to assist the group with flood recovery.

Tallygaroopna Lions Club president Ron Jones said the money was “to help local businesses restart”.

“We decided instead of sending the money to some other thing where it might get eaten up, we decided to go straight to the source and give it to the Rochester Lions Club,” Mr Jones said.

“Because when we started 39 years ago, some of the Rochy Lions came over and helped us get started.”

The funds were raised by the group through its ongoing sale of pea straw, as well as volunteering on the gate at Murray league football matches and holding a wood raffle.

“One of our Lions donates pea straw to us and we sell that throughout the year for gardens,” Mr Jones said.

“We deliver it within a 30- or 40-mile radius of Tallygaroopna.

“We have had one really badly impacted flood victim and we have helped them out a fair bit.”

By Jaci Hicken

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