Board members urgently wanted: Two clubs in Poing and Pliening are fighting for survival

Created: 04/18/2022, 12:04 p.m

By: Armin Roesl

If the horticultural association were to be dissolved, the future of the herb gardens would also be at stake.

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The gardening association in Poing and the AWO local association in Pliening urgently need a new board - but it's not that easy to find one.

Poing/Pliening – The previous chairmen and other board members of two large associations in Poing and Pliening are retiring, mainly for reasons of age the AWO local association Pliening.

At the spring meeting of the gardening association Poing-Angelbrechting on Saturday, April 23, the board of directors is to be re-elected as scheduled.

The meeting will take place in the Catholic parish home of St. Michael (Schulstraße 29c in Poing-Süd) and will begin at 8 p.m.

The long-standing chairman Josef Obermeier has already announced that he will no longer stand for election for reasons of age.

Obermeier reports that people are also being sought for the post of second chairman, as well as treasurer and secretary.

The members have already been informed.

Herb gardens could be endangered

Non-members are also invited to the spring meeting, as are tenants of the herb gardens.

The gardening association offers this on a field east of the Poinger sports center - a total of 90 plots for hobby gardeners, which are very popular.

The current chairman points out that the term of office will be reduced to two years in the future.

In the hope that people will agree to serve on the board.

However, if no new board is found at the spring meeting, the association will have to be dissolved in two years.

According to Josef Obermeier, this also has an impact on the continued existence of herb gardens.

Workers' welfare in Pliening faces the same fate

A similar fate threatens the local association of workers' welfare (AWO) in Pliening.

Konrad Seidl has been chairman for 20 years, and his wife Edith has been treasurer for just as long.

Both are retiring for reasons of age, and they will no longer stand as candidates at the annual general meeting on Sunday, April 24, at 1 p.m. in the Hotel Poinger Hof.

According to Seidl, the second chairwoman, Angela Sinning, will no longer make herself available.

"If I can't find a successor, I'll have to dissolve the association," says the current chairman.

This would then happen in the very year in which the club would celebrate its 50th birthday.

The AWO local association currently has 139 members, reports Seidl.

It has become increasingly difficult in recent years to attract younger people in particular as new members.

It is even more difficult to find volunteers to take on board work.

"We put our heart and soul into it," says Konrad Seidl about his commitment and that of his wife.

Without the two of them, the AWO local association in Pliening would probably no longer exist, with the senior citizens' afternoons and senior citizens' excursions organized by the Seidls.

And the AWO waste paper collection, the proceeds of which are used for socially needy citizens in the municipality of Pliening.

"It fills us with melancholy," says Konrad Seidl, with a view to the danger that the club is on the verge of collapse.

Although he has found three potential candidates for the three vacant positions on the board, it will only be known at the annual general meeting on Sunday whether the positions will actually be filled.

If not, that would be the end of the AWO local association in Pliening after 50 years.

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