Happy 93rd, Kiwanis!

Get out the hats and noisemakers! It’s Kiwanis’ birthday

Monday, January 21, is Kiwanis International’s 93rd birthday. Be sure to take some time during the week to celebrate the birth of what now is a global organization of volunteers with a common focus: service. You can celebrate in a number of ways:

• Stage an inter-club with Kiwanis clubs in your area. Serve cake and punch and read excerpts from Kiwanis’ rich history.
• Schedule an event with a newly chartered club or a club in formation. Share Kiwanis’ history with its members, as well as some service highlights from the history of your club.
• Invite members of the youth clubs you sponsor to your weekly meeting. Serve refreshments as a way to recognize them for the valuable contributions they make to the Kiwanis family’s legacy.
• Undertake a service project for which Kiwanis or your club is well known. This could include reading to school children, taking baskets of goodies to children living in shelters for the homeless, cleaning up or refurbishing a playground, or conducting a fundraiser for a pediatric trauma center or Ronald McDonald House.

Be sure to alert the news media, regardless of how you choose to celebrate Kiwanis’ birthday. And also be sure to share your story and birthday party photos.