City Hall Bank Rolls Kiwanis Festival of Trees With $2500
City Hall BankRolls Kiwanis Festival of Trees With $2500
Special Report By Ben Edokpayi, Staff Writer ©
There was some more pizzazz at yesterday’s Kiwanis Festival Of Trees with a boost of $2500 approved Tuesday at City Hall.
The 13th Annual Kiwani Festival Of Trees was held at the Dixon Veterans Memorial Hall last night.
Kiwanis International is an international service club founded in 1915 in Detroit, Michigan. It is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, United States, and is found in more than 80 nations and geographic areas.
Details on the club’s website informs that “ Kiwanis International is a global community of clubs, members and partners dedicated to improving the lives of children one community at a time. Today, we stand with more than 550,000 members from K-Kids to Key Club to Kiwanis and many ages in between in 80 countries and geographic areas. Each community has different needs, and Kiwanis empowers members to pursue creative ways to serve the needs of children, such as fighting hunger, improving literacy and offering guidance. Kiwanis clubs host nearly 150,000 service projects each year.”
The Kiwanis and Awana perform similar functions — they equip children for community and church service year round ( In 2013 this reporter was honorably invited to my God daughter’s Awana club graduation in San Diego where her Parents are on the Academic Staff.
The $2500 grant for last night’s event was unanimously approved by Council after two council members Scott Pederson and Ron Johnson who served on the sub-committee expressed appreciation for the opportunity to help the club.
“ It was a pleasure to be able to help … I am pleased to be able to hand out this money for a good cause,” said Council Member Pederson.
City Clerk Kristin Janisch who represented the Club at Tuesday’s Meeting expressed gratitude despite the amount of time to process the award. In response to a question from Ron Johnson about how the grant will be spent, She mentioned that it will help to boost literacy programs and the Key Clubs which is focused on leadership development among students.
Kiwanis Club President Mike Liu expressed his heartfelt appreciation for the largesse from the City Council “We will uphold our commitments to help the city of Dixon,” he said.
The donation assisted with the cost of trees, decorations, provisions, and rental of Veterans Memorial Hall as well.
Last night’s community event attracted approximately 500 -1,000 Dixonites.
This is the front page lead in the Sunday December 11th edition of the Dixon Tribune, the newspaper of record for the city of Dixon, population 21,000. The town was formerly known as Dickson.
