Following the pattern laid down by the International Committee on Agriculture and Conservation, local club committees worked hard to carry out the main points of the program of action. This active club, located in one of the smaller towns, has actually collaborated to get farm-to-market highways in their county. WINDER, GEORGIA, KIWANIANS, working closely with the Soil Conservation Service, sponsored one of the largest land reclamations.
KIWANIANS OF SALT LAKE CITY claim sponsorship of the world's largest Junior Fat Stock Show. 34;the proof of the pudding' that the Salt Lake City Junior Fat Stock Show is a remarkable feat. During the annual South Ontario Agricultural Society Fair, the Oshawa Kiwanis Club sponsored all Junior Farmers activities at the fair.
The club Public Affairs Committee contacted the author of the "Alabama Jurors' Handbook" and obtained permission to reprint this book. EVANSVIllE, INDIANA, KIWANIANS, as one of over one thousand clubs participating in the program, set the pace by distributing 25,000 copies of the "It's Fun To live In America." School officials were contacted with the result that thousands of the folders were distributed to school children.
Traders, manufacturers and others from all over the area visited the wonderful exhibitions of the fair.
ANN ARBOR, MICHIGAN, KIWANIANS ran a wildly successful essay contest based on the radio show of the famous story, "The Greatest Story Ever Told." A total of 1,223 essays were entered by students from three junior high schools and the senior high school. Sponsored with the aim of promoting greater interest in religious radio programs, rather than crime and adventure type stories, this essay contest was successful beyond expectations. Six winners were selected from the 1,223 entries entered, and the winners were presented at the club's weekly meeting with an American Savings Association.
It is certainly a positive approach to the problem of interesting youth in constructive radio programs rather than crime and sex stories. NEW liSKEARD, ONTARIO, KIWANIANS met with outstanding success in their sponsorship of a "Youth Camp Rally" at a summer resort thirteen miles from their city. Boating, swimming and other sports were perhaps the main attraction; however, religious training and a religious song festival were part of the training program.
Thus seventy-five boys and girls from New Liskeard were taught the importance of religion in their daily lives. The KIWANIS CLUB OF PORT ANGELES, WASHINGTON, recognizes the need and desirability of encouraging children to attend church and Sunday school each week, and maintains a fleet of five buses for the purpose of transporting children to the churches of their choice to transport. The club has just purchased property and a building to house the five buses so that an even better service can be provided to the youth of that community.
Every week, more than three hundred children are transported to various churches in the area.
Andrew Carnegie, when asked on one occasion whether he was not troubled by the fear that some of the young men he was training would take his place, shook his head and replied, "All that worries me is that they will not ". Organizing a baseball league on a district wide basis, the Kiwanis Boys Baseball Federation finished its first season in a "blaze of glory." However, there were those who believed they had only scratched the surface. Continuing to work day and night for more interesting clubs and more boys in baseball, the league ended in 1948 with 2,126 boys baseball teams, with a total of 40,860 boys participating.
Hats off to the New York District Kiwanians who held Hot Stove League sessions throughout the winter, individual club meetings in the spring, divisional meetings to get the ball games going, and the endless hours of time, effort and energy. Although it is impossible to measure the value of such a project alone in the prevention of crime, it is nevertheless interesting to note that the Kiwanis Boys Baseball Federation of the New York District spent a sum of over $613,000 during the year 1948 LIMA, OHIO, KIWANIES do not believe in leaving all work for girls to mothers' clubs and other women's groups.
The club Boys and Girls Work Committee purchased twenty acres of woods for a permanent campsite at a cost of $3,000 and built a permanent lodge, twenty-two by fifty-eight feet, at a cost of $10,000. There were more than six hundred entries with more than five thousand participants during the four-day period from April 19 to 23. The festival's stars appeared at two evening concerts where they received more than $1,400 in music scholarships, among other prizes, certificates, and medals.
SAN JACINTO, AMARillO, TEXAS, KIWANIANS long ago recognized the need for a youth center in their community. The buildings now cover three city lots, and more than $100,000 has been spent so far. The facilities of the youth center include a swimming pool, basketball court, volleyball court, snack bar, and equipment for dancing, wrestling, parties, table tennis, checkers, dart boards, etc.
For the second year, the KIWANIS CLUB OF BLOOMSBURG sponsored a series of thirty-two broadcasts on career counseling on local station WCNR. These fifteen-minute shows were broadcast weekly and ran throughout the school year from September to June. Valuable literature, books, monographs and pamphlets are constantly being added to this much-used part of the library.
Each book is accompanied by a sheet explaining that the book is part of the Kiwanis Vocational Guidance Library. The library has been rated the best in this part of the West for years and is constantly being updated, thanks entirely to the Kiwanis Club.
Perhaps an activity related to the work of the Kiwanis Club in sponsoring Key Clubs should be listed. On the other hand, we think this is the right time to show that key clubbers are really learning the value of community service. ALHAMBRA CALIFORNIA, HIGH SCHOOL KEY CLUB undertook a major toy restoration project for underprivileged children at a local preschool.
Sponsored by the KIWANIS CLUB OF ALBANY, GEORGIA, work is now underway on a modern clinic building that will cost approximately $15,000. Although a Kiwanis clinic has served the needs of the underprivileged in Albany for the past twenty-five years, the clinic lacked adequate housing facilities. The new clinic building will contain a consultation room, dressing room, recovery room, rooms for the head nurse, storage space, waiting room. examination and treatment rooms.
ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO, KIWANIERE is justly proud of the "Boys Ranch of New Mexico," a shelter for homeless boys or boys whose homes are unsuitable for their development into good citizens. The Kiwanian who came up with the Boys Ranch idea is now the executive secretary of the organization. Each boy has some pet to look after, such as calves, pigs, goats, and they are taught all the basic principles of farming.
In addition to the eleven boys and girls now cared for by the Kiwanis Foundation Committee, twenty others have been cared for in the past. Sixteen of them now live at home with one or both parents, one is in the U. Army, one was adopted, and one was returned to the Colorado State Home.
Another boy was returned to the industrial school where he had been before the foundation had him for the short period of two weeks. The very encouraging thing about this prevention program is that many parents who were previously unable to control their children are now successful. Only three children were committed to industrial school by the Pueblo County Court in 1947 and only two in 1948, compared to twenty-one in 1945 and 12 in 1946.
The club believes that a rehabilitated boy or girl is an asset to their city; someone who went to the Industrial School is often a burden. They then organized a concert and lecture series, selling tickets for each of the programs to be presented. In the words of one of the club's leaders, "We brought a culmination of culture to the community, in addition to being able to accomplish our underprivileged children's work." This is indeed a great example of work by our Hawaiian Kiwanians.
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