Tiverton Lions donate books to students at KTTPS

Lions Club International, the largest service organization in the world with clubs in 208 countries, will be celebrating its centennial in 2017.

To celebrate, clubs have been asked to perform a new service project for their communities.

The Tiverton and District Lions Club chose to supply books to the 338 students, in Junior Kindergarten to Grade 3, at Kincardine Township-Tiverton Public School, as their Centennial Community Legacy Project.



Lion Rosemary Grover (back left), with Tad and Lion Gerda Roppel, pose with some of the 75 books that were presented to KTTPS students; in the middle row, are Abby Franklin (left) and Daniel Tout; and in front, are Brayden Watson (left), Lola Yule, Nancy Klass, Kennedy Cohoon, Hunter MacPherson and Natalie Doran; photos courtesy of Rosemary Grover

Through the Read and Rise program, the club, in partnership with Scholastic Canada, was able to purchase double the number of books that the school could have purchased for the same amount of money. Students in each of the 15 classrooms selected five books, at a total cost of $350.

Not only are the Lions Club members servicing the school by supplying some books, but they are also promoting the Lions Literacy program, one of the many Lions International programs.



Tiverton Lion Rosemary Grover (back left) and Tad, with help from Junior Kindergarten student Emmitt McQuillin, read one of the new books called, "May I Please Have A Cookie?"



Tiverton Lions Gerda Roppel (back left) and Rosemary Grover and Tad, display some of the new books to Mrs. MacPherson's and Mrs. Spencer's JK/SK class