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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.

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WEDNESDAYS AT NOON!

We meet the 1st, 3rd, and 5th
Wednesday's at
Marie Callender's Restaurant
(4th Wednesday's 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
Speaker for Aug. 7, 2019 meeting:
Morgan St. James
 "How to write your life memoir for family and friends"
August 14, 2019:
no meeting
Speaker for Aug 21, 2019 meeting:
Peter Jackson
 Senior Engineering Associate
  Flood Control Section, City of Las Vegas,
Flood control now and in the future
August 28, 2019 Board meeting:
All members welcome

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.”
more Judith Granese Scholarship information
Some history of the Kiwanis Club of Las Vegas in pictures!

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The Kiwanis Club of Las Vegas Foundation is recognized by the Internal Revenue Service as a 501(c)3 charitable Foundation.  Contributions are tax deductible to the fullest extent of the law. 
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Kristina Bannister 
Rancho High School
2018 Educator of the Year

Kiwanis Club of Las Vegas' Educator of the Year Program, starting in 1992, was the brainchild of Kiwanian Ned L. Jacobs.  The purpose of the program was to recognize outstanding educators at the secondary level in the Clark County School District (CCSD).  The inaugural Educator of the Year Awards was held on April 29, 1992, at the Port Tack Restaurant.  This year’s awards presentation was at the Stratosphere Tower under the direction of Mark Segal, Educator of the Year Committee Chairman. 
more Educator of the Year information

Varsity Quiz

The 2018/2019 Varsity Quiz season has ended.  That was the 50th season for Varsity Quiz.  The 2019/2020 Season will start in the Fall of 2019.  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

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Club History - 93 Years of Service to Our Community

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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.
 
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