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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.

 Join us for our Weekly Meeting

WEDNESDAY'S NOON to 1PM
Live on 1st & 3rd Wednesday
Zoom on 2nd & 4th Wednesday

Live meetings are on the 1st, & 3rd, Wednesday's at
Marie Callender's Restaurant
8175 West Sahara, Las Vegas, NV
Networking 11:45am
Meeting Noon to 1 pm
lunch, $20 includes drink and slice of pie
Zoom  meetings are on the 2nd & 4th Wednesday's  12 noon to 1PM (4th Wednesday is a board meeting)
Join us from any computer, phone or I-pad using the Zoom App.
meeting id (713 8991 0398)
password (3V9im1)
Contact Phil Colosimo for more information.
No meeting on the 5th Wednesday

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!

Varsity Quiz 52nd Season
Play-Off Winner

The Varsity Quiz 52nd season is now over with the final game played on February 25th.  We had an exciting afternoon with Clark winning for the fifth year in a row.  Clark narrowly beat Palo Verde giving Clark an all-time win record of 13 seasons.  Clark edged out Palo Verde by just 5 points, (one question).

Please help support
the Kiwanis Club of Las Vegas Foundation

Donations to the Kiwanis Club of Las Vegas Foundation enrich the lives of children in the Las Vegas Community and throughout the world.  In Las Vegas donations support activities such as the Kiwanis Educating Youth (KEY Club) at high schools, the Clark County School District’s Varsity Quiz and may be used to honor the Kiwanis Educator of the Year.
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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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Varsity Quiz

We 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
Spring Valley High School
2019 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

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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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