Improving the World One Child & One Community at a Time:
To accomplish the Kiwanis International mission the Kiwanis Club of Las Vegas sponsors nine KEY Clubs in area high schools. KEY (Kiwanis Educating Youth) Club members learn important leadership skills and volunteerism. By working together, members can achieve what one person cannot accomplish alone. When you give a child the chance to learn, experience, dream, grow, succeed and thrive, great things happen.
To accomplish the Kiwanis International mission the Kiwanis Club of Las Vegas sponsors nine KEY Clubs in area high schools. KEY (Kiwanis Educating Youth) Club members learn important leadership skills and volunteerism. By working together, members can achieve what one person cannot accomplish alone. When you give a child the chance to learn, experience, dream, grow, succeed and thrive, great things happen.
Join us for our Weekly Virtual Zoom Meeting
WEDNESDAYS NOON to 1PM
The Kiwanis club of Las Vegas will now meet weekly (virtually) on Wednesdays from 12 noon to 1PM in a Zoom meeting. You can join us from any computer, phone or I-pad using the Zoom Video App.
meeting id (713 8991 0398) password (3V9im1) if requested. Contact President Phil Colosimo for more information. Until Marie Callenders
RE-opens and due to concerns over the Coronavirus and with a focus on the health and well-being of our membership, all in-person meetings are canceled until further notice. When we again meet in person we will meet on the 1st, 3rd, and 5th
Wednesday's at Marie Callender's Restaurant (4th Wednesday, Board Meeting) 8175 West Sahara, Las Vegas, NV Networking 11:45am Meeting 12:15 to 1:15pm lunch, $20 includes drink and slice of pie Judith Granese Scholarship Winner
Judith Granese, with Estefany Merino Rojas receiving a $2,500 scholarship check from Kiwanis President John Case.
This year the Kiwanis Club of Las Vegas managed the Judith Granese Educational Scholarship in the amount of $2,500. This scholarship was awarded June 5th to Estefany Merino Rojas an outstanding Key Club High School Senior. Judith Granese was an English Teacher at Valley High School and was instrumental in getting Valley's International Baccalaureate program off the ground when Valley became a magnet school. In approximately 2004, Judith finished her service as CNH Key Club District Administrator. Before that she served for over a decade as Key Club Regional Advisor and was Assistant Regional Advisor for two years prior. Concurrent to the Regional Advisor positions, she served as Valley High School’s Key Club Advisor, and she is proud to say, the Valley Key Club put Nevada on the Key Club map. In honor of more than two decades of service to the organization, then Kiwanis Governor and good friend, now deceased, Les Wixon, set up an appreciation cocktail party at the Stratosphere to which many of Judith’s California, Hawaii and Nevada Key Club/Kiwanis friends were invited. Judith and many of her long-time friends and colleagues donated money to fund the scholarship in her name to be presented as long as there was money available. Judith says, “The majority of the credit actually goes to Governor Wixon and so many other Kiwanians”. She also states, “I remain humbled by their faith in me and appreciation of my work. I have to admit none of it seemed like work since I enjoyed Key Club so very much for all those years.”
Some history of the Kiwanis Club of Las Vegas in pictures!
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Varsity QuizWe are getting ready for the 52nd season of Varsity Quiz scheduled for the fall of 2020. The program will depend on how the schools are going to operate with Covid-19. The Varsity Quiz Program is patterned after a high school program that was being sponsored by the Kiwanis Club of Greater Anaheim. In 1969 a delegation from that club convinced the leadership of the Kiwanis Club of Las Vegas to sponsor a similar program in Clark County. The Southern Nevada program was named Varsity Quiz. It is conducted within the Clark County School District (CCSD). The Varsity Quiz Program completed its 49th season in 2018. The Varsity Quiz Program is a partnership between the Kiwanis Club of Las Vegas, CCSD, and Vegas PBS TV-10.
more Varsity Quiz information Anthony Gebbia
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Club History - 93 Years of Service to Our Community
On December 4, 1925, the Las Vegas Kiwanis Club was born. Kiwanis meeting date and time was set for 12: 10 PM on Wednesdays and the day has never changed.
The first meeting was held at Las Vegas High School. The Kiwanis Club of San Bernardino was our sponsor. After that the meeting place became “The Beanery”, an unofficial name for the coffee shop at the Union Pacific Depot. Over the years the meeting location has changed but our mission has remained the same.
The first meeting was held at Las Vegas High School. The Kiwanis Club of San Bernardino was our sponsor. After that the meeting place became “The Beanery”, an unofficial name for the coffee shop at the Union Pacific Depot. Over the years the meeting location has changed but our mission has remained the same.
