- Welcome to our new Kiwanis Club of Grant Ranch website. Grant Ranch Kiwanis is now an official club. We are in the process of building this new and exciting tool for the community. We meet every Friday morning from 7 to 8 AM at the IHOP on Bowles and Long Drive. The address is 7733 W Long Drive, Littleton CO 80123; phone #303-904-9609.
Please come and visit us to see what we have to offer for our community.
Kiwanis is an international service organization comprised of 600,000 adult and youth members in 91 nations whose mission is to improve the quality of life for children and families worldwide.
Service Slogan
"Serving the Children of the World"
History
The first Kiwanis club was organized in Detroit, Michigan, in 1915. Kiwanis became international with the organization of the Kiwanis Club of Hamilton, Ontario, in 1916. Kiwanis limited its membership to the United States and Canada until 1962, when worldwide expansion was approved. Since then, Kiwanis has spread to all the inhabited continents of the globe.
Kiwanis was defined as "an organization for men" in the constitution, adopted in 1924. Membership was opened to women in 1987, and today women serve in leadership positions at all levels of the organization.
The Kiwanis Name
The name "Kiwanis" was coined from an expression in an American Indian language of the Detroit area, "Nunc Kee-wanis," which means, "we trade" or "we share our talents."
Administrative Chairs:
- Program Chair: Peggy Fulster, Pete Holst, John Weksler
- Newsletter Chair: JB Green
- Website Chair: Pete Holst, Joe Turnage
- Interclub Chair: Sandy Blomeyer, Steve Stith
- Social Chair: Tom Ashe
- Club Shirt Chair: Steve Sandifer
- Thank You Chair: Harriet Coussons
- Blue Heron Elementary Liason: Kerianne Ebel, Janet Greggson, May Motoyama and Denise Shields
- Blue Heron Elementary Volunteers: Drs Harriet & Tim Coussons, Cindy & Pete Holst, Hazel Kinzer and Sarah West
- Grant Ranch K-8 School liason: Jennifer Wilson
- Grant Ranch K-8 Volunteers: Hazel Kinzer and Sarah West
- Summit Ridge Middle School Liason: Alan Morawiec
- Summit Ridge Middle School Volunteer: Peggy Fulster
- YCPO: Sarah West
- Public Relations: Peggy Fulster
- Fundraising Chair: Undetermined
- Community Service: Undetermined
Typically the Board meeting will be held the 4th Monday or Tuesday of each month from 1:30 to 2:30 PM. The next meeting TBA. The next scheduled meetings are:
Monday, - Grant Ranch
Tuesday, - Blue Heron
Monday, - Grant Ranch
