The Kiwanis Club of Long Beach Island
Meets every Wednesday morning at 9:00 A.M.
at the
Ship Bottom Fire House
Post Office Box 174
Ship Bottom, NJ 08008
President: Edward Toriello
Secretary: Elizabeth G. Waterfield
Coming Events
Dining Books
This year's Dining Coupon Books are here.
They are $25 each and available by calling 361-9117.
Journey to Wellness
More than 1,220 third grade students from Ocean County arrived by bus at the Harvey Cedars Bible Conference on May 19th to learn about health. This was the 12th annual "Journey to Wellness" sponsored by the Southern Ocean County Hospital and was directed by Carol Schoenberg, director of Community Health at SOCH. Ray Gormley co-ordinated the club's effort.
Students from 13 area schools from Forked River to Bass River explored 36 health education stations. The event is designed to teach children the importance of good health and safety habits. At each station, manned by Kiwanis personnel, SOCH staffers, and volunteers, a brief presentation was given to demonstrate a specific lesson related to health and safety. Once a student visited a station and participated in a presentation, their "passport" was stamped and the journey continued.
Kiwanis International Fact Sheet
History
The first Kiwanis club was organized in Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A. on
January 21, 1915. A year later the Kiwanis Club of Hamilton,
Ontario, Canada, was chartered, and Kiwanis International grew rapidly into
a leading service club in these two founding nations. In
1962, worldwide expansion was approved, and today Kiwanis clubs are active
in every part of the world.
Motto
"We Build."
Number of Clubs and Members
There are 8,500 Kiwanis clubs with 316,000 members in 78 nations and geographic areas.
Type of Membership
Active or retired business and professional men and women.
The "average" Kiwanian
The average Kiwanis member is 54 years old, a college graduate, married, and a homeowner. He or she is an owner or manager of
a firm in the $25 million or less range.
Women in Kiwanis
Membership was opened to women in 1987. There are now about 40,000 women members, and 1 in 7 club presidents is a woman.
Kiwanis Youth Organizations
Kiwanis International sponsors several service clubs for young people:
Circle K International has 10,000 members on 525 university
and college campuses; Key Club International has 160,000 members in 4,200
high schools; and Builders Clubs have been
organized in 1,250 junior high and middle schools.
Kiwanis Service
In the past year, Kiwanis clubs sponsored 147,000 service projects. To
do so, Kiwanians raised and spent almost $70 million and
contributed 6.2 million hours of volunteer time.
Kiwanis' continuing service emphasis is called "Young Children: Priority
One," which focuses on the special needs of children from
prenatal development to age 5. Projects conducted as part of the "Young Children:
Priority One" service emphasis involved $14.3
million and 1.3 million volunteer hours.
In 1994, Kiwanis launched its first Worldwide Service Project, a $75
million campaign in partnership with UNICEF to eliminate iodine
deficiency disorders by the year 2000. Iodine deficiency is rare in areas
where iodized salt is used, but in other parts of the world,
IDD is the leading cause of preventable mental and physical retardation.
As many as 1.5 billion people are at risk, especially young
children.
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