Helping those in need

Area Lions Clubs joined together to help children at a local camp, Camp Lily at Antietam Lake. (Camp Lily is for handicapped or special needs children.) After securing funding from several clubs, Lions Club International and many other agencies/companies, Lions Club members added onto the existing building at Camp Lily, providing an office, a room for autistic children, restrooms for the building, new countertops and a new pavilion. While I attended the dedication ceremony, I knew this would be another feel-good/positive story for The Southern Berks News.

If you belong to an organization and are working on a project like this, please let us know! (htassmer@berksmontnews.com or 610-367-6041.

Last week was the first time I have been to Antietam Lake and I was a little lost going to Camp Lily but I invite you, the readers, to check it out. There are places to walk that I haven’t had a chance to see yet, but I know it is a beautiful place. I’ve heard it’s a place people where people like to fish also.

Coming up in The Southern Berks News in the next issue (Aug. 27) is a review from intern Ben Dalton. Ben took a walk on the new part of the Schuylkill River Trail. (The same one he covered for a story a few weeks ago.)