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Rochester Kiwanis Club focused on helping kids By LEAH SANDER Staff Writer
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The Rochester Kiwanis Club is made up of “people who really care about each other and serving the kids of the community,” said Jillian Smith. Smith serves on the board for the club. It meets at noon Wednesdays at Rochester Family Dining, 835 SR 25, and anyone is welcome to come. People 18 and older are welcome to also fill out applications to join and don’t have to reside in the city to do so. The Rochester Kiwanis Club started in 1929 and is older than any of the other city service clubs, said Club Secretary Gloria Carvey. Its mission as part of Kiwanis International is “improving the world one child and one community at a time.” Forty-three people are in the Rochester Kiwanis Club currently, with 13 in leadership. Along with Smith and Carvey, the leadership includes President Donnie Kohls, President-Elect Ben Daulton, Immediate Past President Cassie Peyton, Treasurer Melinda Clinger and Board Members Phyllis Biddinger, Brian Johnson, Mart Smith, Sharon Mills, Kend-
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ra Chudzynski, Steve Furnivall and Cheryl Downs. The club accomplishes its mission of helping kids by raising money and donating it to local children-focused ventures. One upcoming fundraiser is its Chicken Noodle Dinner from 5-7 p.m. Monday, May 5, in the Rochester High School cafeteria. Tickets are $13 and may be purchased at the door or from any Kiwanis member. The club also has a turkey dinner fundraiser before Thanksgiving. “We work with the Scouts for the flag program,” said Clinger. Through it, businesses pay the Kiwanis Club and Scouts to put flags out in front of their buildings. The club also will sell tacos at the Nickel Plate Music and Arts Festival later this year and works at the Fulton County Recycling Center to raise funds. The Rochester Kiwanis Club distributes its funds to scholarships for RHS and Caston High School seniors, through Promise Indiana 529 plans getting kids money for college as well as donations to the The Outlet Youth Center, Rochester youth baseball and softball, Boy and Girl Scouts, Fulton County Pack-a-Backpack,
Stacey’s Closet and Fulton County Shop With a Cop. It’s currently raising money for Riley Hospital for Children, with people able to donate by sending funds to the Rochester Kiwanis Club, P.O. Box 413, Rochester, IN 46975. Checks should be made out to the Riley Children’s Foundation with Rochester Kiwanis in the memo line. The Rochester Kiwanis Club also sponsors Key Clubs, the youth branch of the Kiwanis, for both RHS and CHS students. “We have a great relationship with the schools,” said Carvey. The club also features the mayor’s State of the City address every year for the public to come hear. “It’s a really good opportunity to get together (and) a good community group,” said Jillian Smith of why people should join the group. Peyton added the club is good for meeting new people. Those helping youth in the Rochester area are welcome to seek funds from the club by reaching out through the Rochester Kiwanis Facebook page. People may also send requests to the above mailbox.
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