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).
