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KIWANIS ANNIVERSARY Wednesday Kiwanis members have 127000 projects a year The first Kiwints service protect was conducted in before the first Ki club was officially chartered Since then Kiwams service activities have grown dramatically year by year wants celebrates its anniversary Ki clubs are sponsoring more than individual projects each year to meet community and individual needs lb conduct these projects Kiwanians are donating about million hours of volun time and raising million each year Kiwams service is local service Each club identifies service needs in its com mumty and plans its own projects to meet those needs While service to children and youth is the continuing service theme any community need can inspire a Kiwams service project For example recycling to extend the life of the local landfill is a major project of the Kiwams Club of Tillamook Ore eon The club secured a centrally located facility to use as a recycling depot and built a large loading dock and ramp Members brought in three 32 foot trail era to collect newsprint and two metal dumpstcrs to collect cardTJoard Aid magazines vested more than adding base ball fields a concession stand with rest rooms a fence and lighting The park was deeded to the city in 1988 Recently the Club of Kish Kalb Illinois built a pathway to connect its local parks The citys en gineering and parks department helped design the pathway and local attorneys donated their services to acquire the needed easements and rights of way All that was left for the club to do was the hard work of constructing the path and repaying the borrowed to fi nance the project After four major fund raisers and 1 584 service hours the communitys parks are connected by a paved and landscaped pathway used daily by hundreds of bird watchers jog and bicyclists Helping the needy is another major as of Kiwams service Ten clubs in Colorado recently helped to ensure he success of the annua Great Colorado Winter Warm Up a program to provide winter bedding and clothing for needy families and individuals The Kiwams members used their vans trucks station wagons and campers to pick up 10 000 donated items from seventeen collection dances trolley ndes bingo nights and Christmas caroling The highlight of the year is the Guys and Dolls Prom a formal affair with tuxedos and gowns In another form of social and recrea tional service to the handicapped the Ki warns Club of Tbpcka Kansas sponsors Cub Scout Boy Scout and Girl Scout troops for handicapped children In addi tion to Financial support the Kiwanians volunteer their tune to conduct the meet mgs and supervise excursions for camp ing ball games and fishing A summer camp program can also provide many benefits for handicapped children and their families The children receive a rare experience in indepen from their families and parents receive an equally rare vacation from providing constant care to their children Yet summer camp experience for handi capped children is generally not available because of the extra cost and manpower required The Kiwams Club of North Central Seattle has accepted the challenge and Then the club set up a booth at the county fair and distributed information on recycling to thousands of fair visitors Newspapers earned weekly notices and the utility company inserted fliers in every resident s electric bill Once established the program be came self supporting With the club help a local sheltered workshop pur chased a baler that provides full time work for three people The club also tablished three satellite depots that are now operated by other community groups Thanks to this Kiwams project recycling in Tillamook has more than doubled the past year Many Ki warns clubs have created or enhanced community parks over the years The Park in Leonard Texas began in 1978 when the Kiwanis club borrowed money to buy the land During the following decade the club in sites Another kind of delivery service has been organized by the Kiwanis Club of Berea Ohio whose members to dnve donated eye tissue from the local hospital to the Cleveland Eye Bank A duty schedule was established and the first call came at A M on a freezing winter night But club members are happy to make the two hour drive that helps to save sight regardless of the time or weather Social and recreational activities for the handicapped are sponsored by many clubs On one Friday night each month in Medford Massachusetts some seventy physically and mentally capped adults enjoy a social evening to thanks to the Medford Kiwanis club The events designed to develop self confidence and social graces in elude Halloween Thanksgiving and Val LEADERS the White Hoom In to brief Tnxmui on plana to help from the war effort to peacetime sponsors the Handicapped Cml Camp About 100 children attend the camp for one week each summer at no cost to their parents All the camp work is performed by members and their spouses with help from volun high school students who work as counselors Many Kiwams clubs the Chicago area have joined together to sponsor the Kiwams Camp for Crippled Children in Plymouth Indiana The camp operates for an extended period each summer and is staffed by college students who are studying for careers in the field of services for the handicapped This may be the age of computers but many people dont have access to a com puter and so haven learned how to use one The Kiwams Club of Menden Con has helped to remedy this need with Kiwams Computer Center at community library The club was granted funds by the city to build computer cubi cles at the library and the club accepted responsibility for purchasing four com puters and software The club provided part of the money and additional funds were solicited from corporate donors When ihe equipment was installed the arranged for compute students from nearby uni versities to a free training The center is used by young and old who don have computers of their own In keeping with the First Object of wanisto give primacy to spiritual rather than material valuesclubs also sponsor projects in support of spiritual aims The Kiwams Club of Fort son Wisconsin for example operates an ecumenical dial a prayer service Space for equipment is provided by a local church Kiwanians record selected scrip tures pay for the telephone line and publicize the service which receives about 500 calls per month This small sampling of service cannot do full justice to the amazing van and scope of 127 projects that Kiwanis clubs are sponsoring each year in more than communities around the world Kiwanis service is truly only by the imagination and dedica tion of Kiwams members making music A KIWANIS CONCERN More than 10 looters tinklers and singers converge on Si Onlino each spring for the oldest of us kind in Canada the Garden City Kiwanis Music There s chorus woodwinds it the library A choir trumpeting its noteworthy in the hall of i church Fverylhing from string to rot binds this three long event is more thin it a vital of community life It occupies an import ml plat in person involved For more St festival has challenged talents of Cumuli people And for mare i cade Ins the driving force behind planning financing and tation II not an easy ob Bui piyback is oul standing Is dodit ited lo community ict Last vi we raised more than SBS million For liomi town And invested even more in turn lilenl and energies With over mem hi clubs the Famih 71 nations Our le colli clubs number with And Club high schools wiih mort thin 121 members Everywhon you go is involved Making things better Making things happen And some times making music in harmony with yesterdays and tomorrow dreams Thai why the SI festival is a Kiwinis concern TOM REED Past Prasktent Club REAR SUBURBAN REALTY INC REALTOR AN INTERNATIONAL NETWORK OF INDEPENDENT BROKERS 360 Guelph St Georgetown 877521 Toronto Line DAVID Past President Club