Arlington

Buy Kiwanis Entertainment Books - 9/2/2010

Want to know how to save money this year? Purchase an Entertainment® Book from the Kiwanis Club of Arlington and receive up to $18,000 is discount coupons, plus additional on-line coupons throughout the year and a new mobile app to find deals near you wherever you are!

Kiwanians are offering the books for $30.00 each, with the proceeds benefiting children through organizations such as Doorways for Women & Families, the Make-A-Wish Foundation, Arlington Food Assistance Center (AFAC),

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Arlington Kiwanis Held 23rd Annual Antique Show and Sale - 6/26/2010

Our 23rd annual Antiques Show and Sale hosted 100 dealers from the east coast and hundreds of bargain hunters on June 26 and 27 at the Thomas Jefferson Community Center in Arlington. Kiwanians spent hours in advance selling tickets, promoting the event, and organizing the volunteers who assisted with parking, on-site ticket sales, setting up and removing signs, and running shuttles to the parking area.

This year featured the food service provided by Moby Dick House of Kabob Restaurant, 3000(more)

Swanson Builders Club re-Chartered - 3/15/2010
Congratulations to the re-chartered Builders Club at Swanson Middle School in Arlington. To see more photos, click here.

Supreme Court Associate Justice John Paul Stevens Speaks to Arlington Kiwanis - 8/19/2009

The Kiwanis Club of Arlington was privileged to have Supreme Court Associate Justice John Paul Stevens appear as our program for our regular lunch meeting on August 19, 2009. Justice Stevens, who was appointed to the Court by President Ford in 1975, is the longest serving member currently sitting on the Court. In his talk, Justice Stevens compared his confirmation process to that of the newest justice, Sonia Sotamayor. Following his prepared remarks, Justice Stevens answered many questions from(more)

O'Connell Key Club Collects Shoes For Hondorus - 5/7/2009

By: Warren Kane

During April, the Key Club of Bishop Dennis J. O'Connell High School, Arlington, VA collected about 1,000 pairs of shoes for Art for Humanity to distribute in Honduras. The O'Connell Key Club had only 12 active members of which all but 2 were seniors.The club leaders realized they needed a good service project to attract underclassmen to keep the club going next year. They placed collection boxes around the school with the Key Club emblem as well as posters describing the project(more)

Kiwanis Leader Says Focus Must Stay on Youngest Children - 4/15/2009

It was nearly two decades ago, as president of Kiwanis International, that Dr. Wil Blechman helped coin the term “Young Children: Priorty One” and focus the attention of the organization on the need to help children at the earliest age possible.

All these years later, it is a passion to which he remains true.

“The way we end up as adults is largely a manifestation of what happens in the first five years of life,” the Miami physician said during remarks at the April 8 meeting of the Kiwanis Club(more)