Welcome
Lions President Barbara Jehu
extends a warm welcome to visitors to our Club Website. Lions
of the Grovedale/Waurn Ponds Lions Club are members of Lions Clubs
International, a community service organisation dedicated to the idea that
the men and women who live in a community are in the best position to know
who needs help and why. Lions have been a part of the
Australian community since 1947, and a proud part of the Grovedale/Waurn
Ponds communities since October 1985 They have been helping to serve
the community without promise or want of reward and are people just like you!
Ordinary
people doing incredible things!
Are YOU Interested in
becoming a Lions member?
To Join a Lions Club is by
invitation, however
applications are encouraged from all interested members of the community.
Membership is open to men and women over the age of 18
years and of good moral character and reputation. If you are interested in joining Lions and
reaping the benefits of fellowship, and wanting to share in the strong sense of
achievement and reward resulting in serving your community, click on the
link
to be put in touch with a local
Lions Club in your area.
Click
on this link to be put in touch with the
Membership
Committee of the Grovedale/Waurn Ponds Lions Club.
About Us
Grovedale is an outer suburb of Geelong, 7 km.
south-west of the city centre. It is named after a property of about 76
ha. acquired by Alexander Pennell in 1847, just south of Waurn Ponds Creek.
Originally the place was named Germantown, which arose
from several families of Lutheran German origin who arrived at Corio Bay in
1849. A Geelong pioneer, Dr. Alexander Thomson, encouraged them to settle on
Pennell's land. A school was opened in 1854.
By the mid 1860s there were about 70 families of German origin settled there,
and there were two hotels, two flour mills, two tanneries and four wool-washing
establishments. The hilly country and volcanic soil were good for orchards and
vineyards.
Grovedale is bordered on the north by the
Waurn Ponds Creek linear park and
on the south by the railway line to Colac and Warrnambool
Waurn Ponds Creek
rises
on the slopes of Mt. Moriac, SW of Geelong and flows generally eastwards,
through agricultural land, then the green corridor of Waurn Ponds Valley
Parkland, to its confluence with the River Barwon in the marshes at the southern
end of Belmont Common.
The creek and its parkland are a widely appreciated recreational resource, while also providing a corridor for
wildlife to make its way through the suburbs safely by land or water. Many bird
species also use the facilities of the green corridor. Our Club is involved in community environmental service in conjunction with other community groups in tree planting and general care of the park.
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