As one of our club’s two annual signature projects we treated the children from Lehigh Valley Children’s Centers (LVCC) for a picnic at the Allentown Rose Garden pavilions. The picnic was another huge success! Once again this year, we were blessed with sunny skies. True, it was a very warm day for mid-May, but there … Read More
9/15/16 Day of Caring Service Project
Club members Belinda Gray, Joyce Crosby, Vic Mazziotti and Tom Harp joined other volunteers from Kiwanis Division 18 on September 15, 2016 to participate in the 2016 United Way “Day of Caring.” We reported to the Lehigh Valley Children’s Centers Union Boulevard site at 9:00 AM for a day of community service. Belinda, Joyce and … Read More
5/26/2016 Picnic Service Project
Our Annual Lehigh Valley Children’s Centers (LVCC) Picnic was held on May 26. It was another outstanding success! This year, over 160 pre-school children from three LVCC centers enjoyed the event. It took three buses to transport the children from the Walnut Street, South Mountain and Early Learning Center sites. Most of the children proudly … Read More
5/2/2016 Mothers’ Day Service Project
Bob and Cindy Ashcraft finished up the annual Mother’s Day flower pot service project at two LVCC centers the week of May 2, 2016. They visited both the Walnut Street Center and the Early Learning Center to help the children transplant their seedlings into flower pots that the children decorated. In the photo at left you … Read More
4/11/2016 Volunteer Challenge Service Project
Our club participated in the Volunteer Center of the Lehigh Valley’s annual “Volunteer Challenge” on April 11, 2016. This was one of three service projects for our club in April. We hosted two healthy cooking classes for 18 children at the Boys and Girls Club of Allentown Sixth Street Clubhouse. You can see Mike Kukitz … Read More
4/14/2016 Mother’s Day Service Project 2
On April 14, Bob and Cindy Ashcraft, and Joyce Crosby led a service project with two classrooms at the LVCC Early Learning Center. The children at the center made cards and planted seeds to give to their mothers on Mothers’ Day. This is the second center in April 2016 that our club members volunteered to run … Read More
4/11/16 Mother’s Day Service Project
A Mother’s Day potted plant project was held at the Lehigh Valley Children’s Centers (LVCC) Walnut Street center on April 11, 2016. This is a popular service project at the center as gifts are made by the children for their mothers. Enos and Susan Martin joined Tom Harp in a preschool classroom, where we assisted 19 … Read More
4/2/2016 Kiwanis One Day
We volunteered to clean up the Joseph Daddona Terrace Park (Union Terrace) as our part in the Kiwanis One Day event on April 2, 2016. The Friends of Allentown Parks organization arranged to have rakes, gloves and plastic bags ready for us to pick litter out of Cedar Creek and the UT pond. It rained the night before … Read More
3/14/2016 Raub Family Fun Night
Hundreds of students and their families attended the Family Fun Night event at Raub Middle School on March 17, 2016. This was a big success!. There was a wide variety of games and activities for the families to engage in. The school even offered free ice cream floats to celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the … Read More
12/19/15 Bell Ringing
Several Allentown Kiwanians volunteered to ring the Salvation Army kettle bell on Saturday, December 19 outside an inner entrance to the JC Penney store at the Lehigh Valley Mall. Young Chang had the “early shift” of 9-11 AM followed by Bob Ashcraft and Mayor Ed Pawlowski from 11 AM to 1 PM and Belinda Gray … Read More
