It's hard to miss the Paradise Township Lions Club's bright yellow trailer, especially when it is sitting in your driveway for years on end.

Since 2022, the club's concession trailer lived in Mary Alice High's driveway and was pulled out anytime the Lions needed to use it. But now, after four years, the trailer finally has a proper home.

In September of 2019, the Lions gained permission to purchase the trailer, contingent on a garage being built for it. After years of red tape, the garage has finally been built at Paradise Community Park and is now housing the Lions Club's trailer, along with other club supplies - much of which has lived in Marie Glass' garage for just as long.

"Patience is a virtue," Glass said. "We just got in two months ago."

The previously all-white trailer was wrapped by a group of veterans in Oxford in 2022, funded by community sponsors. The bright yellow is impossible to miss, an intentional choice that allows the trailer to serve as a billboard for the Paradise Township Lions in the local community.

"Every time we got on the road, we were advertising," High said. "It does turn some heads going down the road. It's fun to follow."

The Paradise Township Lions Club has been active in the Pequea Valley community since 1928 and has around 20 active members, almost all of which are seniors.

Both Glass and High noted the importance of the youths seeing the Lions out and about in the community. One of the events that helps the Lions Club do that is its Halloween event, when the trailer turns into a mobile haunted house where kids enter one end and walk out the other.

"You have to be out and about and do things for the community that they can see," Glass said. "So, it's a challenge."

The trailer is used to operate the Lions Club's food concessions, as well as its "Fill the Trailer" events. The club will hold a school supply drive on Saturday, July 18, and a food drive on Saturday, Aug. 15. Both will be held at the parking lot between Denlinger Pond and the Paradise Township Municipal Building, 2 Township Drive.

On both days, the trailer will be open from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. The Lions are specifically requesting backpacks, water bottles, lunch boxes, pencils, construction paper, three-ring lined paper, crayons, paper towels, Clorox wipes, erasers, three-hole punches, toothbrushes and small toothpaste packages.

The Lions, who meet on the second and fourth Tuesdays of every month from 7 to 8 p.m. at Paradise Community Park, 6 London Vale Road, Gordonville, are always searching for new members.

For High, her father was a Lion for over 50 years. Her husband was also a Lion for over 40 years before passing in 2013.

"It was in our blood to know that it was a good thing for the community," she said.