Join us immediately following the January 4 Kiwanis Club meeting at 1:30pm for a half-hour community service project. We will meet in Charter Hall to plant wildflower seeds in potting soil in empty jugs. The seeds and potting soil will be supplied. Participants are asked to bring clean and empty gallon or ½ gallon jugs, bring sharp scissors or exacto knive, and to take the filled jugs jugs home for the seedlings to grow. Planting will occur in the Kiwanis Nature Park Wildflower Garden in the Spring.
Volunteer to help wrap gifts for children at the West End Center for Youth. This is a fun and popular way to get into the holiday spirit while helping others. We will meet at the SERVEPRO of Roanoke County located at 1301 Southside Drive in Salem to begin wrapping at 5:30pm on Tuesday December 13. Each wrapper will be given wrapping supplies and a bag of gifts to be wrapped or a specific young boy or girl. Gifts will be given to the children at the Holiday Party held during the December 12 Kiwanis Club meeting.
Volunteer to help shop for gifts for children at the West End Center for Youth. This is a fun and popular way to get into the holiday spirit while helping others. We will meet at the Clearbrook Walmart to begin shopping at 7:30am on Saturday December 10. Each shopper will be allocated a fixed amount of money to spend, and given a gift list personalized for a specific young boy or girl.
Every year we ring the bell to raise funds for the Salvation Army and we are looking for volunteers to help out every Friday during Dickens of a Christmas in downtown Roanoke. Shifts are December 2, 9, and 16 and last one hour starting at 5pm and ending at 9pm. We like to have two people per shift.
Every year we ring the bell to raise funds for the Salvation Army and we are looking for volunteers to help out every Friday during Dickens of a Christmas in downtown Roanoke. Shifts are December 2, 9, and 16 and last one hour starting at 5pm and ending at 9pm. We like to have two people per shift.
Every year we ring the bell to raise funds for the Salvation Army and we are looking for volunteers to help out every Friday during Dickens of a Christmas in downtown Roanoke. Shifts are December 2, 9, and 16 and last one hour starting at 5pm and ending at 9pm. We like to have two people per shift.
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.
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 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).
