Welcome to the Florence Kiwanis Club Florence Kiwanis is proud to benefit the students of the Florence, Alabama area; providing scholarship award programs created through community fund raising events, sponsors, and club volunteers. Special recognition to our contributing recipients, volunteers, students, and fellow Kiwanis Club members for your time and support. Download an info flyer in PDF here!   Tickets: $7.00 at the Door $6.00 in Advance (10 or more $5 ea.) Friday, March 2, 2012 6am to 7 pm Saturday, March 2, 2012 6am to 1 pm Florence Lauderdale Coliseum at 702 Veterans Drive, Florence The Florence Kiwanis Club set a goal of $50,000. Proceeds will benefit local community projects including: Meals on Wheels Help Center Safeplace Attention Homes Key Clubs at Florence High School, Central High School, Brooks High School, Rogers High School and Wilson High School Circle K at University of North Alabama Builder’s Club at Riverhill Elementary School NAMI Shoals Salvation Army's Empty Stocking Fund All American Week Coalition of Alzheimer’s and Related Disorders Habitat for Humanity Reading Is Fundamental Boys and Girls Clubs plus many more. Download By the Numbers brochure: This document provides information on facts involving statistics on maternal and neonatal tetanus as well as the effect of the gifts made to The Eliminate Project. (.PDF file (1008.55 KB)) Florence Kiwanis Fellowship Recipients for 2011: The Florence Kiwanis Club honors two members each year for their dedicated service. The honorees receive one of two fellowships which are donated in their name to the Kiwanis International Foundation or Alabama Kiwanis Foundation. At the annual induction and award ceremony held on September 29, Pat Burney and James Durrett were honored. Pat Burney, Vice President of Human Resouces for Bank Independent in Florence, was awarded a Diamond J. Mercer Barnett Fellowship. This fellowship recognizes a gift of $1000 to the Alabama Kiwanis Foundation. Mr. Barnett was the President of the Birmingham Kiwanis Club in 1919 and led the movement to change the mission of Kiwanis from promoting business to serving communities. Pat is a Past President of the Florence Kiwanis Club and has served as Secretary for many years. James “Jim” Durrett was awarded a Walter Zeller Fellowship. This Fellowship honors Walter Zeller, who made the first gift of 25 silver dollars to establish the Kiwanis International Foundation. The Zeller Fellowship recognizes a gift of US$1,250 or more to The Eliminate Project – Kiwanis International’s global project to eliminate maternal and neonatal tetanus. Jim, who recently retired as a Superintendent with The Shaw Group, is a Past President, Past Lieutenant Governor for the Alabama District Division 2 that includes 10 northwest Alabama clubs, and has chaired the scholarship committee for several years. New Members Welcome: Dr. Phillip Bridgmon, Chair of the Criminal Justice Department at UNA. Jeff Frederick, Edward Jones Investment Specialist. Adam McDaniel, Suntrust Bank Manager. Charles Lathrum is a retired BellSouth executive and was inducted on Oct. 1, 2010. Dr. Sidney Greenberg was sponsored by David Beasley. Dr. Greenberg has an optometry practice on Hough Road in Florence. He was inducted on Nov. 5, 2010. Brad Haddock was sponsored by Andy Betterton. Brad is a senior vice-president of First Southern Bank. He was inducted on Nov. 5, 2010.     2011 Scholarship Offers from Florence Kiwanis Club In keeping with the Kiwanis goals of investing in our community and our future community leaders, the Florence Kiwanis Club is proud to announce that we will again be awarding scholarships to deserving students in the Florence area. Click here for more infomation and an application. A PDF of Winter 2011 issue of the Alabama Kiwanis Kourier is available online: CLICK HERE. Come On, Ring that Bell! We rang the bell for the Salvation Army in front of Wal-Mart on November 19 and 20, performing 30 hours of community service. We had 28 members participate (not to mention some children of members, who are still in training) and raised $3,376.93 for the Army. It’s not too late for you to make a donation to be added to our total, so we can continue our tradition of more than fifteen consecutive years of being the bell ringing civic club that brings in the most cash. These funds are used by the Salvation Army not only for Christmas purposes, but for assistance programs here in our community during the whole year. Diamond Hixson Recognition for Ivan Stafford Ivan Stafford was awarded a Diamond Hixson in recognition of his years of service to Kiwanis, with a special nod to his leadership in the multi-year project of building permanent tents on platforms at Scout Camp Westmoreland. Being awarded a Diamond Hixson means Ivan has previously been named a Hixson Fellow. He joins John Harris as the other Diamond Hixson Fellow in our club. Peanut Days Peanut Days collected almost $3000, as we picked this fund raiser up after a one year hiatus. Running two days at Sam's Club, Food World, Belk's, K-Mart, Sam's raised the most money, with Food World second. A man at Sam's Club came by and said he had been a Lt. Govenor of the Memphis Division and dropped in a $20 bill. Sam's Club averaged over $100 per box. Thanks to Michel Broder for his leadership and Jim Sak for his providing storage space.

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