General News
20 August, 2024
Ian receives Lions community honour
PYRAMID Hill Lions Club has honoured community service with its citizen of the year award for the last time. Ian Bartels was presented with the award last week as club members thanked him for decades as a volunteer in the town. President Tania Quinn...
PYRAMID Hill Lions Club has honoured community service with its citizen of the year award for the last time.
Ian Bartels was presented with the award last week as club members thanked him for decades as a volunteer in the town.
President Tania Quinn said the club, chartered in 1969, had decided to disband at the end of the year.
“We’re down to just five active members and our activities, while continuing in recent years, have not been as great as we would have liked,” she said.
“Instead, we will be encouraging our few remaining members to continue contributing to the community as members of the progress association.
Tania said Ian had been a worthy final recipient of the club’s annual citizen of the year award.
The retired electrician has lived all his life in Pyramid Hill.
His nomination said: “Ian has volunteered his services and expertise in numerous ways over the years and is quietly going about his day attending to various jobs not looking for thanks or gratitude and often at his own expense ... just doing what he sees needs doing or responding promptly to needs.
““He is a model citizen and deserves recognition ... even though he would not seek to be in the limelight.”
Ian is a long-standing member of the St John’s Anglican Church parish, a life member of the golf club and was a member of the town’s former pipe band.
He kept the town clock running until its recent refurbishment and continues to mow and water the grounds of the former aged care home. He was a member of the former hospital board.
Ian’s family attended the Lions dinner to witness the presentation.