Members of the Dannevirke Lions Club sorting books for next year's sale. Photo / Christine McKay
The gloomy depths beneath the Dannevirke Town Hall is the place to find a group of industrious Lions most Tuesdays.
In the cavern-like space, hardy volunteers have been happily working away in dim light and avoiding low beams for weeks now, sorting books for next year's Lions book sale.
It
is only a couple of months since the doors closed on their annual sale at the end of July, but already the Lions have been inundated with second-hand books for next year's sale.
"There should be a height requirement or we should at least have hard hats to work down here," Lions Club member Georg Popow joked.
"We've never started sorting books this early before and by the time next year's sale comes around we'll be well and truly swamped with books.
