More than 165 Kiwanis Family members, spent last Saturday doing what Kiwanis prides itself on: community service. Members from every branch of the Kiwanis Family came together in friendly competition to create “boo-boo bunny” ice packs for school nurses to give to injured children, clean-up East Meadow’s bird sanctuary and, make peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for a soup kitchen in Hempstead
The group included 13 adults with special needs from Aktion Club, 19 elementary school students from the Bowling Green K-Kids, 13 middle schoolers from W T Clarke’s newly organized Builders Club, 73 high schoolers from the Key Clubs from Divisions 6 & 7, 36 Circle K-ers from universities from Stony Brook to Albany and 15 Kiwanians from East Meadow, Levittown, Glen Cove, East Rockaway, Brooklyn and West Hempstead
Circle K Lt. Governor Rickie Santer, who is a Levittown resident and a sophomore at Adelphi University, organized the day-long service event. He was pleasantly surprised by the massive turnout. “What we accomplished today is truly amazing,”he told the group at the closing awards session. “We made 500 boo-boo bunnies, removed 80 bags of trash from the bird sanctuary and made 318 peanut butter & jelly sandwiches to feed the hungry,” he exclaimed. “In total, we completed over 1200 hours of service today. Wow!” he said proudly.