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The Kiwanis Club of Alliance, Ohio was
organized August 19, 1920, and received
its official charter on November 18, 1920
The first officers were Dan Hoobler,
President; F.A. Hoiles, Vice President;
Clyde B. Cassaday, Secretary; and F.W.
Shaffer, Treasurer.
Our service projects have included the
ODOT Adopt-a-Highway program, building
stairs at Alliance's Silver Park,
assisting with the construction of a
boardwalk at Mount Union College's
Huston/Brumbaugh Nature Center to make the
trails more accessible to all, and the Bud
Huffman Memorial Reading Program at
Alliance's North Lincoln School. We also
sponsor Academic Challenge each year and a
monthly Student of the Month Program for
fifth graders in the area. We have been
active in the regional HOBY program held
each year at Mount Union College. Our newest project is to provide infant bath thermometers to new parents so that they might better protect their children from burns.
We have assisted numerous local
organizations with financial
contributions, including the YMCA, YWCA,
Mable Hartzell Historical Home, Domestic
Violence Shelter, the Haines House
restoration project, the Youth-ful Chamber
Orchestra, and numerous others. We helped
to establish the circulating art
collection at Rodman Public Library and
helped sponsor the building of new ball
diamonds at Early's Hill Park. The Club
has also met its $24,000 goal for Kiwanis
International's IDD program, to try to
eliminate Iodine Deficiency Disorder from
the face of the Earth, and we have also
made significant contributions to other
International projects. The Kiwanis Club
of Alliance also sends a representative to
Buckeye Girls State each year and sponsors
a youth baseball team. We also sponsor a
Scholarship program to help the top
service-oriented graduates of area high
schools pursue a college education.
Our major fundraisers are our annual
Pancake Jamboree and our Waffle Wagon at
Carnation Days in the Park. The
nearly-five-decade-old Pancake Jamboree
has enabled the Kiwanis Club of Alliance
to fund over $210,000 of Youth activities
since the Jamboree's inception.
Our major emphasis since 2006 has been the
Alliance Kiwanis Hunger Task Force free food
distributions. Each of nine months each year
we distribute approximately 20,000 lbs of food.
Please see our "News" page for links to stories on
the program that have appeared in the Kiwanis
on-line magazine and on Akron's Fox News Channel 8.
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