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The Kiwanis Club of Fayetteville engages in many projects to help our community throughout the year. Here are descriptions of some of the committees and projects that have added to the quality of life in our community
Focus: 4 and 5-year-old pre-schoolers
Over 4,000 books are distributed to children enrolled in the Head Start and Chapter One programs. Members of this committee read to the children and donate books to them.
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Focus: 10, 11, and 12-year-olds
The Kiwanis Club of Fayetteville, in conjunction with the Fayetteville Department of Parks and Recreation, sponsors teams in the Honeycutt League. Kiwanians coach many of the teams, provide announcers, and sell, purchase and erect outfield advertising signs.
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Focus: Kindergarten through 12th grade
Each spring, talented students at various grade levels audition in several performance categories. The finals competition is an amazing show. The Kiwanis Club of Fayetteville provides a first-class venue for these talented students and an evening of quality entertainment for the community. |
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| Terrific Kids Program |
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Focus: Kindergarten through 6th grade
This is the largest Terrific Kids program in the world. Members of the committee present over 31,000 Terrific Kids awards each year. This program promotes self-esteem by encouraging and then rewarding good behavior with bumper stickers, pencils and bicycles. Kiwanians work closely with teachers who select Terrific Kids twice a month. |
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| Salvation Army Bell Ringing |
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| The club has been "ringing the bell" for the Salvation Army at Christmas time since the early 1960's. We have had extraordinary success in the last few years while manning the kettle at the Cross Creek Mall. We have been the top group in terms of money raised for the last four years running topping $3,500 each year! |
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| Scholastic Achievement |
Focus: Middle School students
The club encourages and rewards scholastic achievement. Club members present certificates and pins to students who earn top academic records. Each year, several scholars are asked to address the club at a regular meeting. |
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| Farm City Week |
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The Kiwanis Club of Fayetteville's Farm City Week is an event by which the Kiwanis Club honors our agricultural community for their production of the most cost effective and safest food supply in the world. Our annual luncheon is held on the Friday before Thanksgiving each year and has evolved from our beginning at the Grays Creek Community Center, where a meal of good country food was prepared and served by the Grays Creek Homemakers.
This event has been so well received by the entire agriculture community that presently we have the annual meeting at the Charlie Rose Agri-Expo Center to accommodate a larger audience. The community leadership is recognized, recent nominees to the Cumberland County Agriculture Hall of Fame inducted, and door prizes of cakes, pies, hams and turkeys are given. Special guests have included NC Commissioner of Agriculture, Jim Graham; Congressman Charlie Rose; Farmer's Market Manager, Charlie Adams and National Agriculture Broadcast Hall of Fame member, Ray Wilkinson with his famous "Cecil & Leonard" stories. This event honors our farmers and farm families for their work and commitment to feed our state, nation and the world! |
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| Kiwanis Club of Fayetteville Endowment Fund |
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In 1999, the Kiwanis Club of Fayetteville undertook a long-lasting project that will help future generations of Kiwanians and Fayettevillians. The club began their own, local endowment fund. With the help of the Cumberland Community Foundation, the Board of Directors pushed to begin building a local fund called the "Kiwanis Club of Fayetteville Endowment Fund" that would grow as a result of the hard work and generosity of Fayetteville Kiwanians.
The goal is simple, to create a local foundation fund whose money will grow to create annual interest payments that will supplement the $100,000.00 a year that the Fayetteville Kiwanis Club raises and gives back to the community."
Click here to read more about the fund |
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Fletcher C. Womble Scholarship |
Focus: A local college student
In honor of our fellow member and former school superintendent Fletcher C. Womble, we established a fund with the Cumberland Community Foundation to award and administer a scholarship to a worthy local student.
Justin Robert Hales from Grays Creek High School is the
2008 scholarship winner.
The 2009 Scholarship application will be available in
early April 2009 |
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| Reverse Raffle |
Focus: Funding other projects
Kiwanians sell hundreds of tickets and procure hundreds
of door prizes each spring for this fund-raiser. The
night of the big event, attendees enjoy fun, food,
and fellowship while tickets are drawn until one big
winner is left, taking home a new car!
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| Golf Tournament |
Focus: Funding other projects
Each fall, our popular golf tournament raises money for a worthy cause. Recent recipients include Duke Children's Oncology and the Child Advocacy Center. |
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Financial Support
The Kawanis Club of Fayetteville also donates thousands of dollars in grants to organizations whole goals complement those of the club. The following is a partial list of recipients:
Boys & Girls Home of North Carolina
Cape Fear Regional Theatre
Carolinas District of Kiwanis Foundation
Child Advocacy Center
Cross Creek Linear Park
Cumberland County Health Department
Fayetteville Technical Community College Book Fund
Honeycutt Park/Kiwanis Recreation Center
Hugh O'Brian Youth Foundation
Kiwanis International Foundation
Methodist College Music Camp
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