Volunteer to work the KPAD ticket sales booth at the December 3-4 Holiday Craft and Vendor Show at the Berglund Center. The show runs from 9am-4pm on Saturday December 3, and from 10am-4pm on Sunday December 4. This is the first year that Kiwanis has partnered with the Holiday Craft and Vendor Show for advance ticket sales. We will also be partnering with them for the May 6 Spring Craft and Vendor Show occurring simultaneously with the May 6 KPAD. This partnership has the potential to result in a new KPAD ticket sales record.
A half dozen able bodied volunteers are needed to meet at 4:30pm on November 3 in the parking lot behind the Forest Park Academy School at 2730 Melrose Avenue to spread black plastic sheeting over new sections of the Kiwanis Nature Park wildflower garden; the sheeting will be held in place with locally gathered tree limbs and small logs. This effort will dispatch of the grass and weeds in an environmentally friendly manner in preparation for Spring plantings. Work should be completed within an hour. Wear your work gloves.
Join us for a social time at the Adult Care Center of Roanoke Valley. We will meet at 11:00am to set up, serve, and join the participants to enjoy a Thanksgiving meal. The Kiwanis Club of Roanoke was instrumental in the founding of this community resource 40 years ago, and have been actively supporting it ever since.
Join us for a social evening at the Mill Mountain Theater. Drinks and hors d'oeuvres will be served on the second floor of the Center In The Square building just outside of the Harrison Museum beginning at 6:00pm. Irving Berlin's, the Holiday Inn show, will be performed in the Trinkle MainStage theater at 7:30pm. The cost is $48.00 for Kiwanis Club members, family, friends, and guests. Based on the 1942 Paramount Pictures film of the same name, Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn tells the story of Jim, who leaves behind the bright lights of show business to settle down in a small farmhouse in Connecticut. His luck takes a spectacular turn when he meets Linda, a spirited schoolteacher with talent to spare. Together, they turn the farmhouse into a fabulous inn…
Join our Kiwanis Club and the Melrose neighborhood for this year's Fall Festival being held from 11:00am-1:00pm at the Melrose Library next to the Kiwanis Centennial Playground and Kiwanis Nature Park. Free food, books, candy, face painting, and pumpkins will be offered. Opportunities will be provided for festival goers to view the preliminary design schematic for the Kiwanis Nature Park and provide feedback; this Nature Park will be a community asset that will reflect the community inputs. Volunteers for this event are very much needed to share the Nature Park dream with the Northwest neighborhood community. Set Up crew (9:30-10:30am), Engagement crew (10:30am-12:00pm), Engagement crew (12:00pm-1:30pm).
Welcome to the Kiwanis Club of Roanoke Board of Directors. We are holding our annual training session for new Board members. During this session we will review the responsibilities of Kiwanis Club board members, review the official sources of Kiwanis Board member information, and spend time addressing questions/comments from new board members. The hour-long session is scheduled to immediately follow the Board meeting.
Meet at the Goodwill picnic shelter at 2502 Melrose Avenue. We are again partnering with Clean Valley Council to do a Horton's Branch Watershed Clean Up AND a Save Our Streams training. We will certainly look at our environment with great intention on that date to not only remove litter but to study the quality of water through invertebrate observations and monitoring. The creek we will clean is adjacent to the Goodwill Youth HQs. Come and learn to see with a new kind of purpose! We will then track the changes over time as we follow the impact of our project. This will be a community engagement event. 8:30 to 9:00 - Gather, sign In, get your gloves and grabbers and bags.9:00 to 10:30 - Clean up the Watershed either right…
