The Palmer Kiwanis meets every Wednesday at 7:00 AM at Williams Restaurant on William Penn Highway in Palmer Township, Pennsylvania.
Please Join Us - You Will Enjoy It!!
If you want to join a service club where Fellowship, Friendship, Caring, and Sharing is its Main Focus then the Palmer Kiwanis Club is where you need to be. Please attend one of our breakfasts or contact Chuck Lewis at (610) 258-4970 for more information.
Mark your calendars for July 16, 2012, for the Seventh Annual Kiwanis
Golf Outing at the beautiful Woodstone Country Club
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May 17, 2012. This week we honored students from Easton Area High School and Wilson Area High School with the presentation of four $1,000 scholarships.
Brandon Mitchell is a senior at Wilson Area High School and is very active in Key Club and other service oriented organizations. He is heavy involved in soccer both in high school and various soccer clubs. He plans to attend the University of Pittsburg where he will major in biology.
Andrea Davis is also a senior at Wilson Area High School and is also active in their Key Club where she served in various officer positions. She is the current Lt. Governor. She is also active in the band at the high school. She was very proud to have played in the band as they welcomed a soldier home from the war zone. She will be attending California University of Pennsylvania where she will major in communications with a focus in public relations.
Patricia Kline is a senior at Easton Area High School and is active in Key Club. She is an outstanding golfer and spent 4 years on the schoo'ls golf team. She has also won a number of area golf tournaments. She is a member of the National Honor Society. She will be attending St. Francis University of PA where she will be majoring in marketing and hopes to pursue a career in the golf industry.
Courtney Schaffer is also a senior at Easton Area High School and has been very active in the Key Club. She is a member of the National Honor Society and has been the captain of the girls basketball team and was a member of the field hockey team. She won scholar athlete for both sports. She will be attending Kings College where she will be enrolled in the 5 year physician assistant program.
When you have an organization like the Palmer Kiwanis it is an honor to have very good friends who are not members but are extremely good Friends of Kiwanis. These wonderful people are spouses of member and friend of members. In 2011 we began to recognize these people with an awarded after being voted on by our membership. This year we honored four Friends of Kiwanis for their outstanding help over the years. They are from right to left in the picture: Dora Serfass, Colleen Miller, Kathy Altmann and John Taylor. We thank them for what they have done for our club over the years.
Januray 11, 2012. A visit to our club meeting by the officers and advisors of the K-Club at Palmer Elementary School. K-Kids is a "student led" community service club for elementary age students. It is the newest and fastest growing service organization for elementary students worldwide.
The Palmer K-Kids are 60 fourth graders, under the guidance of teacher advisors Mrs. Sarah Shive and Mrs. Erin Clark. The Kids meet monthly to work on projects that serve their neighborhood and their school and to make the world a better place to live. One of their favorite projects (if not their messiest) is making dog biscuits for a local animal shelter. In the picture to the right from left to right are: Mrs. Shive, Club President - Jordan Henning; Club Photographer - Riley MacDonald; Club Vice President - Quinn Langen and Mrs. Clark.
The officers are elected by their fellow members after giving campaign speeches! Palmer Kiwanis member Debbie Ashton-Chase is the Kiwanis liaison to this club and provided the narrative above.
With the super leadership by Mike Hahn, 35 families in the Easton area had a Merry Christmas through our annual food basket distribution. Nine members delivered 35 boxes of food including hams, peanut butter, cereals and other assorted canned goods to families with a total of 103 children who are truly in need. Mike gave a special thanks to John Gregor for the boxes; Chuck Lewis for working with the Key Club; Lynne Reismeier for the announcement cards; Ed Dean, Leroy Kresge, Pastor Pat, Jr. and the EAHS students for picking up all the canned goods. He also thanks EAHS Key Club advisor Jennifer Gray; Colleen and Jeff Miller and Lou and Mickey Muretta for most of the cereal and some of the peanut butter; Jim Caffrey for the use of the trailer and the many club members who donated canned foods, peanut butter and money to make this program a success again this year. We, the club members, THANK MIKE for all he has done in making this program such a success for the hundreds of families he has touch over many years.
November 16, 2011. A gift was presented by Kim Rose to Elaine Arnts for her two years of dedicated service as President. Thanks, Elaine, for your two years of being an enthusiastic president. You had some unique ideas and programs. We appreciate all that you have done for the club. Enjoy the free time...
One of the pleasures of being a Kiwanian is that we can give back to our community through our giving programs. To do this we raise money through our annual golf outing in the summer, our rose sale in the fall and our breakfast in the spring. This time of the year the Kiwanis Club of Palmer Township through it Foundation and the Club make donations to a number of local agencies and organizations which include:
- Salvation Army - $500 towards their Learning Zone Program which is an after school program for children from low income homes.
- The Children’s Home of Easton - $500 to support the Emergency Shelter Program for children
- Third Street Alliance - $500 for a portable washing sink for preschool classroom in the Learning Center
- Lehigh Valley Children’s Center - $400 to cover the cost of painting 2 to 3 childhood classrooms
- ProJect of Easton - $750 for their Sizzle Program which provides a free summer literacy day camp for at risk, low income children K through 5th grade.
- Civic Theatre of Allentown - $500 to provide free tickets for at risk youth
- Weed and Seed Program of Easton - $500 to support their various youth programs
The Foundation also support the Kiwanis Club of Palmer Township Endowment at Northampton Community College which has provided two scholarships to Easton Area students this year.
If you would like to be part of an organization that focus on children in need and is about Fellowship, Friendship, Caring and Sharing please contact Chuck Lewis at (610) 258-4970 or join us for breakfast any Wednesday at 7:00 am at Williams Restaurant on William Penn Highway in Palmer. Or, if you would like more information about visit our web site at www.palmerkiwanis.org.
