It’s that time of year again! Please support our local youth at our annual Pancake Day! Get your tickets now from one of our Kiwanis members, buy them at the door, or message us for more information. This year’s event is sponsored by PNC Bank.
Your investment supports our annual Kids Day, our Cool Kids Read program, our new Kicks 4 Kids program, and more!
Our weekly meetings are hosted by:
Thank you to Shawnee State University for hosting our weekly luncheons at the Kricker Innovation Hub! Click on the logo above for more information about SSU.
What is Kiwanis?
Here is a quick video that explains what Kiwanis is.
Kiwanis empowers communities to improve the world by making lasting differences in the daily lives of children.
Kiwanis members dedicate more than 18 million volunteer hours and invest more than $107 million annually in projects that strengthen communities and serve children. We help shelter the homeless, feed the hungry, mentor the disadvantaged and care for the sick. We develop youth as leaders, build playgrounds, raise funds for pediatric research and much more. We believe that helping a child helps the world.
Working together, Kiwanis members achieve what one person cannot accomplish alone. When you give a child a chance to learn, experience, dream and succeed, great things happen!
Each year, clubs…
Organize nearly 150,000 service projects
Dedicate more than 18 million volunteer hours
Raise more than $107 million
Who we are…
More than 8,500 clubs in 80 nations
Nearly 600,000 adult and youth members
Interested in learning more? Please contact us or find out how to apply to join our Kiwanis club here.
Kiwanis is a global organization of volunteers dedicated
to changing the world one child and one community
at a time. We meet every Wednesday from noon to 1:00 p.m.
at Shawnee State University's Morris University Center.
Our Portsmouth High School Key Club members passed out free books to the second graders in their district today as part of the Kiwanis Club of Portsmouth’s Cool Kids Read program! Thanks again to Frosty for coming from Wendy’s. Angel King, PHS Principal, serves as the school’s Key Club Advisor, and she is also a member of our club. Kiwanis Past President Dan DeLotell is the club advisor for PHS.
Welcome to our newest member, Connie Mayle, who has served as the Store Manager for Spectrum here in Portsmouth since October 2025. Connie is not new to Kiwanis as she has been an active member for 17 years, serving in clubs in both Huntington, WV, as well as Marietta, where she was a Past President and Lieutenant Governor of Division 18. She was also named Kiwanian of the year in Marietta. Congratulations, Connie, and we look forward to serving with you!
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Our guest speaker last week was Judge Howard Harcha who has served on the Common Pleas Court bench since 1997. He is pictured with Kiwanis President Kara Tieman and Past President Dan DeLotell who also works for Common Pleas.
During his career, Judge Harcha has witnessed a lot of changes, especially in the sentencing laws for Ohio criminals which now require judges to keep as many people as possible in the community and work with them rather than send them to prison. The law also keeps judges from sending someone to prison for committing low-level felonies. This makes it even more important to have local resources available to assist those who have been convicted.
There are also diversions for first time drug offenders as they can be entered into a program in lieu of conviction. Then their charges are dismissed and do not appear on their record. However, many offenders do not actually come to trial for 1-2 years due to a delay in receiving lab reports.
He said he is also seeing an increase in collection cases due to foreclosures, people not paying their bills, etc. He advises those who are involved in these types of cases to hire a lawyer and file an answer to the allegations within the 28-day deadline. He said about 90 percent of defendants ignore this deadline, resulting in a default judgment which basically means instant victory for the plaintiff and loss to the defendant without ever having had his day in court.
For the past 30 years, the judge has visited local high schools to speak to senior classes about how the law treats you differently once you turn 18. He remembers how invincible he felt at that age and wants to make sure the students know that what they do now affects them for the rest of their lives.
When he’s not on the bench, he likes to hunt and fish and is also a beekeeper. He is also the father of four with nine grandchildren and two more on the way. In addition, his own father was a long-time member of our club.
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Kiwanis Club of Portsmouth
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Kiwanis Club of Portsmouth!
Pancake Day April 22
It’s that time of year again! Please support our local youth at our annual Pancake Day! Get your tickets now from one of our Kiwanis members, buy them at the door, or message us for more information. This year’s event is sponsored by PNC Bank.
Your investment supports our annual Kids Day, our Cool Kids Read program, our new Kicks 4 Kids program, and more!
Our weekly meetings are hosted by:
Thank you to Shawnee State University for hosting our weekly luncheons at the Kricker Innovation Hub! Click on the logo above for more information about SSU.
What is Kiwanis?
Here is a quick video that explains what Kiwanis is.
Kiwanis empowers communities to improve the world by making lasting differences in the daily lives of children.
Kiwanis members dedicate more than 18 million volunteer hours and invest more than $107 million annually in projects that strengthen communities and serve children. We help shelter the homeless, feed the hungry, mentor the disadvantaged and care for the sick. We develop youth as leaders, build playgrounds, raise funds for pediatric research and much more. We believe that helping a child helps the world.
Working together, Kiwanis members achieve what one person cannot accomplish alone. When you give a child a chance to learn, experience, dream and succeed, great things happen!
Each year, clubs…
Who we are…
Interested in learning more? Please contact us or find out how to apply to join our Kiwanis club here.
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Kiwanis Club of Portsmouth
Kiwanis is a global organization of volunteers dedicated
to changing the world one child and one community
at a time. We meet every Wednesday from noon to 1:00 p.m.
at Shawnee State University's Morris University Center.
Our Portsmouth High School Key Club members passed out free books to the second graders in their district today as part of the Kiwanis Club of Portsmouth’s Cool Kids Read program! Thanks again to Frosty for coming from Wendy’s. Angel King, PHS Principal, serves as the school’s Key Club Advisor, and she is also a member of our club. Kiwanis Past President Dan DeLotell is the club advisor for PHS.
Kiwanis partners with Shawnee State University’s Project Bear program and Scioto County Public Library to make #CoolKidsRead possible.
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Welcome to our newest member, Connie Mayle, who has served as the Store Manager for Spectrum here in Portsmouth since October 2025. Connie is not new to Kiwanis as she has been an active member for 17 years, serving in clubs in both Huntington, WV, as well as Marietta, where she was a Past President and Lieutenant Governor of Division 18. She was also named Kiwanian of the year in Marietta. Congratulations, Connie, and we look forward to serving with you!
Connie is pictured below with Jay Hash, Past President and Membership Committee Chair. ... See MoreSee Less
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Our guest speaker last week was Judge Howard Harcha who has served on the Common Pleas Court bench since 1997. He is pictured with Kiwanis President Kara Tieman and Past President Dan DeLotell who also works for Common Pleas.
During his career, Judge Harcha has witnessed a lot of changes, especially in the sentencing laws for Ohio criminals which now require judges to keep as many people as possible in the community and work with them rather than send them to prison. The law also keeps judges from sending someone to prison for committing low-level felonies. This makes it even more important to have local resources available to assist those who have been convicted.
There are also diversions for first time drug offenders as they can be entered into a program in lieu of conviction. Then their charges are dismissed and do not appear on their record. However, many offenders do not actually come to trial for 1-2 years due to a delay in receiving lab reports.
He said he is also seeing an increase in collection cases due to foreclosures, people not paying their bills, etc. He advises those who are involved in these types of cases to hire a lawyer and file an answer to the allegations within the 28-day deadline. He said about 90 percent of defendants ignore this deadline, resulting in a default judgment which basically means instant victory for the plaintiff and loss to the defendant without ever having had his day in court.
For the past 30 years, the judge has visited local high schools to speak to senior classes about how the law treats you differently once you turn 18. He remembers how invincible he felt at that age and wants to make sure the students know that what they do now affects them for the rest of their lives.
When he’s not on the bench, he likes to hunt and fish and is also a beekeeper. He is also the father of four with nine grandchildren and two more on the way. In addition, his own father was a long-time member of our club.
Thank you, Judge Harcha, for you and your family’s service to our local community! ... See MoreSee Less
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