SPONSORED CLUBS ARE "K-2"
It's known that the community service values of any Kiwanis Club are greatly extended by their sponsored groups. You might say these groups make Kiwanis "K-Squared." A quick look at the activities of youth groups sponsored by THE EAU CLAIRE NOON KIWANIS CLUB makes this fact apparent.
   The Holiday season is a particularly busy time for groups organized to serve others. All five of the sponsored clubs pitched in to help the sponsoring Kiwanians with a Bell Ringing Project for the Salvation Army and the Annual Christmas Dinner party for handicapped individuals employed by the local Career Development Center. Also, each of the clubs had a project for caroling, decorating or gift giving at local facilities for the elderly. As they head into the new year, Kiwanis sponsored school clubs are busy preparing for District Conventions, and electing officers to take over at the end of this school year for service next year. Each has a special project that unites the members in service activity.
  THE AKTION CLUB that meets at the L.E. Phillips Career Development Center is collecting Aluminum Cans to raise funds so that they can be part of a nation-wide Kiwanis Aktion Club project to provide warm bedding for needy children world wide.
  THE K-KIDS of Robbins school have had huge success in collecting and donating new books for the Public Library and their school library small group reading center. They developed and presented a power point prsentation on their club activities and were invited to exhibit the final product at a recent School Board meeting. And K-Kids are the leaders for the annual all-school family night program. With help from Kiwanis Club members they provide food and program for over 400 people at the event. Their over-night camp-out at the Chippewa Valley Museum and service to the Paul Bunyan Logging Camp Museum are annual projects on the spring agenda.
  THE BUILDERS CLUB at Regis Middle School is having a high powered year. The thirty five members have been busy coordinating all school projects like a warm coat drive for needy children and $300 dollars for personal hygiene supplies donated to a local shelter for battered women. A club goal is learning to work through committees expanding leadership training to more members as the club reaches program goals.
  THE MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL KEY CLUB has a fifteen minute meeting time allotment each week at 7:15 am. The eighty plus members working in small committees support several service oppoutunities presented each week. Fundraising, social events, many community service projects and organizational cohesion all flow from this format. For instance, over forty members travel each week to the nearby Flynn Elementary School to meet with individual students to stimulate reading in a READ-TO-LEAD project that has received recognition for success from the School Board and local media. Ten members are headed for the District Convention in March that's if they survive the Polar Plunge into Half Moon Lake--- a project to benefit Special Olympics.
  THE CIRCLE-K CLUB AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-EAU CLAIRE  had a excellent fall semester of Service Projects and social events building club unity culminating in their annual GIFT OF LOVE project collecting clothing food and cash for the Salvation Army Holiday drive. As they regroup for the spring semester they are gearing up for a  full representation at the District convention and for their annual salute to Kiwanis Unity in the Eau Claire area through the K-Family Gala, a traditional spring dinner dance.