Kiwanis Club of Acadiana members and guests will celebrate their quarter-century of service to the Acadiana community with a reception Wednesday at 5:30 p.m. at Don’s Seafood, 301 E. Vermilion St., in downtown Lafayette. Past and present Kiwanis members are invited to attend as honored guests at no charge.

The club will recognize past club leaders, district leaders and will recognize outstanding service during a brief presentation.

The Kiwanis Club of Acadiana, with more than 40 members, completes hundreds of hours of service each year.

The club’s largest single project is its Zydeco Pancake Breakfast, an annual fundraiser held in October generating about $10,000 to donate to the community. Kiwanis of Acadiana donated a third of last year’s proceeds to Camp Bon Coeur, a summer camp for children with congenial heart defects (www.heartcamp.com), and also purchased Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) for the campuses of Ossun Elementary School and Plantation Elementary School.

Kiwanis Club of Acadiana is the sponsor club of the K-Kids Club at Ossun Elementary. K-Kids is a branch of the Kiwanis International family.

Kiwanis Club of Acadiana, its charter originally adopted Nov. 17, 1983, is in the Louisiana-Mississippi-West Tennessee District of Kiwanis International. The club has been recognized multiple times over as a Kiwanis International “Distinguished Club.”

All members join us for the Guitar Hero party tomorrow. You can dress like a rock star if you wish! Feel free to bring a friend or spouse, but adults only, please. The Club provides snacks.

Friday, June 20, 7 p.m.
102 Abaco Ln.

Reminder to members: our next Zydeco Pancake Breakfast planning meeting will be Thursday, June 10th at 11am at Don’s Downtown, immediately prior to our regular lunch meeting next week. Hope to see you all there! We need everyone’s assistance with this event- it’s our biggest fundraiser of the year!

Reminder to members: our next Zydeco Pancake Breakfast planning meeting will be Thursday, June 5th at 11am at Don’s Downtown, immediately prior to our regular lunch meeting next week. Hope to see you all there! We need everyone’s assistance with this event- it’s our biggest fundraiser of the year!

KOA members: Remember our commitment as a club to Festival International is to manage and conduct sales of all of the Official Festival Pins. We staff a booth at each stage for the duration.

Thanks to those member who have already signed up. Please note and honor your commitments.

To date, we have 17 critical shifts left to fill (Friday and Saturday).  We have an additional 20 shifts allotted for Sunday, though we traditionally sell out of pins on Saturday.

TRIPLE POINTS! The board has authorized triple event points for members working three or more shifts over the weekend!

Please see your email and the club meetings for sign-up!

At our meeting this week, Melanie Martin announced that the annual March for Babies in Lafayette is Saturday, May 3, and proposed that we begin collecting at each meeting to donate on that day.

Members at the meeting Thursday contributed about $15. We’ll continue to pass the basket at each meeting until  Thursday, April 24. Melanie will let us know if we have enough money raised to establish a walking team.

On Thursday, Feb. 21, The Kiwanis Club of Acadiana will welcome representatives of the two beneficiaries of its major annual fundraiser, the Zydeco Pancake Breakfast. We will be presenting sizable gifts to Betty Blair and Jeanette Alcon of Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Acadiana and Lafayette Community Health Care Clinic, respectively.

See you there! Noon at Don’s Downtown.