“It’s a win-win. We raise money and we help out the environment,” says Barry O’Grady, treasurer for the Virden Lions Club.
The club has just finished boxing, binding and loading about 1000 used batteries that will be sent to Winnipeg; exchanged for cash.
O’Grady was the photographer and gofer. He explained that about a dozen Lions, of the 36 club members in Virden, worked together in two teams to get the job done. Fontana Trucking
volunteered a forklift and a driver to lift the pallets of bundled batteries onto the Gardewine truck. A single layer of batteries was topped with a couple of bundles of flattened radiators.
The club assembles the load at Garnet Goodridge’s property northeast of Virden.The batteries are shipped when a full truckload has been assembled. The Lions will travel for batteries.
If a person or business at a distance has assembled a few batteries, a call to a Lions member will put the plan into action. They will pick up the used batteries and/or radiators.
Even smaller batteries from motorcycles and small engines are welcome.
Later in the day, the reward for a job done - Virginia Goodridge serves pie and coffee following a field feast of take-out fried chicken.
