The Kiwanis Club of Portsmouth hosts its annual Cool Kids Read service project in partnership with Shawnee State University’s Project Bear program and the Portsmouth Public Library. Cool Kids Read, first launched In the fall of 2021, was developed and implemented to promote literacy to second graders in six different school districts in Scioto County and encourage them to get excited about reading.
The participants are members of the Kiwanis Key Clubs at Clay, Portsmouth, East, Wheelersburg, West, and Notre Dame high schools as well as Circle K Club members from Shawnee State University. The Key Clubs and Circle K club are service clubs sponsored by the Kiwanis Club of Portsmouth.
On April 26, 2023, the Kiwanis Club of Portsmouth received an award fromServeOhio through the Ohio Commission on Service and Volunteerism for our Cool Kids Read program. The award came with a $1,000 grant to support the continuation of the program.
The ServeOhio Awards, made possible through support from the American Electric Power Foundation, recognize outstanding people, groups, and initiatives in each region of Ohio who make great contributions to their communities through service and volunteerism.
Check out the photos from Cool Kids Read on our YouTube channel at the link below.
The Cool Kids Read campaign continued its second year for 2022-23 with Circle K and our high school Key Clubs again participating.
On Saturday, September 17, 2022, Shawnee State Circle K members distributed free books to all children who attended our annual Kids Day event in Tracy Park. Pictured from left are Olivia Holsinger (Circle K Secretary), Shawn E. Bear, and Makayla Aiken (Circle K President).
On October 11, 2022, Hayley Venturino, Director of Shawnee State’s Project Bear program, taught our Circle K and Key Club members a way to read in an engaging and funny way at our annual boot camp held at Gatti’s Pizza in Portsmouth.
In addition, the Portsmouth Public Library offered “The Bad Seed Take N’ Make Craft” at all locations during the month of November.
During the fall of 2022, our Key Club members visited the second-grade classrooms in their districts to read The Bad Seed. In the spring of 2023, they will return along with Shawn E. Bear to pass out free books to the same children. In some schools, the Key Clubs have been invited back to read to the second-graders every week.
Mary Magdalene Maggie Clark, 61, of Portsmouth, Ohio, formerly of Gallipolis, Ohio, passed away unexpectedly at her home in Portsmouth on Friday, May 10, 2024. Maggie was born on July 23, 1962 in Gall...
This makes what we do all worthwhile! Elisha Duncan, 12, takes a turn on our new ADA swing. She is the daughter of Kimberly O’Madden, General Manager of FC Daehler Mortuary, a Diamond Donor for our new ADA additions to our Kiwanis Playground in Tracy Park. #KidsNeedKiwanis... See MoreSee Less
We are so excited to have held a ribbon cutting today for our new ADA addition to the Kiwanis Playground in Tracy Park to make it accessible to children with disabilities! Thanks so much to our ADA Playground Committee Chair Misty Simco and our committee members: Sharon Carver, Bill Ogg, Todd Medley, KC Rase, Autumn Dowdy, Dan DeLotell, and Jamie Colley.
We also want to give special thanks to the following donors who made this playground addition possible:
Diamond Level: Kiwanis Children’s Fund FC Daehler Mortuary Carl Daehler and Family
Platinum Level: UK King’s Daughters Cottle & Duduit Investment Management Group Ken Rase and Company LLC Star Workshop American Legion Post 23 Portsmouth Elks Lodge #154 Hopesource
Gold Level: The Scioto Foundation
Silver Level: Desco Federal Credit Union St. John Lutheran Church Judge Howard Harcha III Del & Angie Duduit
Bronze: Judge Jerry Buckler and Lisa Buckler Buckler Callihan Law, LLC Alan & Carolyn Lemons ... See MoreSee Less
Cool Kids Read
The Kiwanis Club of Portsmouth hosts its annual Cool Kids Read service project in partnership with Shawnee State University’s Project Bear program and the Portsmouth Public Library. Cool Kids Read, first launched In the fall of 2021, was developed and implemented to promote literacy to second graders in six different school districts in Scioto County and encourage them to get excited about reading.
The participants are members of the Kiwanis Key Clubs at Clay, Portsmouth, East, Wheelersburg, West, and Notre Dame high schools as well as Circle K Club members from Shawnee State University. The Key Clubs and Circle K club are service clubs sponsored by the Kiwanis Club of Portsmouth.
On April 26, 2023, the Kiwanis Club of Portsmouth received an award from ServeOhio through the Ohio Commission on Service and Volunteerism for our Cool Kids Read program. The award came with a $1,000 grant to support the continuation of the program.
The ServeOhio Awards, made possible through support from the American Electric Power Foundation, recognize outstanding people, groups, and initiatives in each region of Ohio who make great contributions to their communities through service and volunteerism.
Check out the photos from Cool Kids Read on our YouTube channel at the link below.
from our 2021-22 Cool Kids Read campaign.
The Cool Kids Read campaign continued its second year for 2022-23 with Circle K and our high school Key Clubs again participating.
On Saturday, September 17, 2022, Shawnee State Circle K members distributed free books to all children who attended our annual Kids Day event in Tracy Park. Pictured from left are Olivia Holsinger (Circle K Secretary), Shawn E. Bear, and Makayla Aiken (Circle K President).
On October 11, 2022, Hayley Venturino, Director of Shawnee State’s Project Bear program, taught our Circle K and Key Club members a way to read in an engaging and funny way at our annual boot camp held at Gatti’s Pizza in Portsmouth.
In addition, the Portsmouth Public Library offered “The Bad Seed Take N’ Make Craft” at all locations during the month of November.
During the fall of 2022, our Key Club members visited the second-grade classrooms in their districts to read The Bad Seed. In the spring of 2023, they will return along with Shawn E. Bear to pass out free books to the same children. In some schools, the Key Clubs have been invited back to read to the second-graders every week.
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Mary Magdalene Maggie Clark, 61, of Portsmouth, Ohio, formerly of Gallipolis, Ohio, passed away unexpectedly at her home in Portsmouth on Friday, May 10, 2024. Maggie was born on July 23, 1962 in Gall...0 CommentsComment on Facebook
This makes what we do all worthwhile! Elisha Duncan, 12, takes a turn on our new ADA swing. She is the daughter of Kimberly O’Madden, General Manager of FC Daehler Mortuary, a Diamond Donor for our new ADA additions to our Kiwanis Playground in Tracy Park. #KidsNeedKiwanis ... See MoreSee Less
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We are so excited to have held a ribbon cutting today for our new ADA addition to the Kiwanis Playground in Tracy Park to make it accessible to children with disabilities! Thanks so much to our ADA Playground Committee Chair Misty Simco and our committee members: Sharon Carver, Bill Ogg, Todd Medley, KC Rase, Autumn Dowdy, Dan DeLotell, and Jamie Colley.
We also want to give special thanks to the following donors who made this playground addition possible:
Diamond Level:
Kiwanis Children’s Fund
FC Daehler Mortuary
Carl Daehler and Family
Platinum Level:
UK King’s Daughters
Cottle & Duduit Investment Management Group
Ken Rase and Company LLC
Star Workshop
American Legion Post 23
Portsmouth Elks Lodge #154
Hopesource
Gold Level:
The Scioto Foundation
Silver Level:
Desco Federal Credit Union
St. John Lutheran Church
Judge Howard Harcha III
Del & Angie Duduit
Bronze:
Judge Jerry Buckler and Lisa Buckler
Buckler Callihan Law, LLC
Alan & Carolyn Lemons ... See MoreSee Less
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Great job Kiwanis!!!
We stopped there and he loves it!
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