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Kiwanis Club to hear about Oak Ridge Library on Tuesday

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Julie Forkner

Julie Forkner

The Kiwanis Club will hear about the Oak Ridge Public Library on Tuesday, April 9.

At noon meeting will include a program by Julie Forkner, who is director of the Oak Ridge Public Library. She will describe library facilities and services. Included are the Oak Ridge Room, Center for Oak Ridge Oral History (COROH), the Library’s Organizations Index of Non Profit Groups, and the help that can be given to the Library through the Friends of the Oak Ridge Public Library (FOL).

Kiwanis Club of Oak Ridge meets at the Golden Oak Buffet in Oak Ridge. There is an optional luncheon at 11:40 a.m., and the program will start at 12:10 p.m. Tuesday. The meeting will be held in the small meeting room at the Golden Oak Buffet on the right side of the entrance door. The restaurant is located on 401 South Tulane Avenue in Oak Ridge, near the stores in the Main Street Oak Ridge shopping center. [Read more…]

Kiwanis to tour Emory Valley Center on Tuesday

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The Oak Ridge Kiwanis Club will tour the Emory Valley Center’s new Caldwell-Thompson Building for “Maximizing Human Abilities” on Tuesday.

The tour will start at noon on Tuesday, September 12, and it will be led by Janet Wood, the EVC vice president of community engagement, a Kiwanis notice said.

The tour was arranged by Terry Peek, who is director of the EVC Early Learning Center and also the Oak Ridge Kiwanis Club’s president-elect.

Those wishing to attend the tour can meet in the building lobby at 11:55 a.m. Tuesday for the noon tour. [Read more…]

Kiwanis Club talk to focus on Revolutionary War, Day One: Paul Revere, Lexington, Concord

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Don Edmands Jr.

Don Edmands Jr.

A Tuesday evening program with the Kiwanis Club of Oak Ridge will focus on the Revolutionary War, Day One. Topics to be included are the day that started the seven-year Revolutionary War, minute by minute: Paul Revere’s ride, lanterns displayed in Boston’s North Church, the British march to Lexington and Concord, and the battle at Lexington Green and Concord’s North Bridge.

The talk will feature Don Edmands, president of the Madisonville Kiwanis Club. It will start at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday in the smaller meeting room of the Golden Oak Grill Buffet.

The Golden Oak Grill Buffet is at 401 S. Tulane Ave. in Oak Ridge.

Kiwanis members, friends, and the public are cordially invited, a press release said. The 6:30 p.m. talk follows a 6 p.m. dinner. The dinner buffet will be available for people who come to the Golden Oak Grill Buffet, pay for the dinner, get their food from the many choices, and go to the smaller meeting room nearer to the entrance and cashier station. The program presentation is available to persons who go directly to the smaller meeting room.

Kiwanis Club meeting on Tuesday focuses on tetanus elimination project

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Joe Tolson with Eliminate MNT Banner

Joe Tolson with an “Eliminate MNT” banner from the Sweetwater, Tenn., Kiwanis Club at a Feb 15 Kiwanis meeting in Knoxville. (Submitted photo)

The Kiwanis Club of Oak Ridge will meet at the Golden Oak Grill Buffet on Tuesday, and the program will feature Joe Tolson, president of the Sweetwater Kiwanis Club. Tolson will talk about The Eliminate MNT Project, which is a Kiwanis International Partnership with UNICEF to prevent and eliminate maternal and neonatal tetanus, or MNT, across the globe.

The Kiwanis project’s goal is to raise $110 million to help UNICEF eliminate MNT and to ensure mothers have access to a safe birthing environment or three doses of the tetanus vaccine. Additional information about The Eliminate Project can be seen at the Web page http://sites.kiwanis.org/Kiwanis/en/theELIMINATEproject/home.aspx. [Read more…]