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Key Club, Kiwanis members, friends help with toy project at Holiday Bureau

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CHS and ORHS Key Club at Holiday Bureau

Clinton and Oak Ridge High School Key Club Members helped move toys at the Holiday Bureau on December 9. (Submitted photos)

 

Key Club and Kiwanis members and friends helped with a Toy Moving Project at the Holiday Bureau on December 9, a press release said.

The Key Club members were from Clinton and Oak Ridge high schools. They joined members and friends of Oak Ridge Kiwanis. Toys were moved from storage areas, and related tasks were completed such as filling grab bags with small gifts, the press release said.

Toys and gifts were selected by family representatives for their children and youth beginning Thursday, December 11. Toy selection followed clothing and food voucher distributions to families who registered with The Holiday Bureau at 728-B Emory Valley Rd in Oak Ridge. [Read more…]

Reader pic: Kiwanis presents credit union check to Emory Valley Center

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Kiwanis Club and Emory Valley Center

Oak Ridge Kiwanis President Mark Hembree, right, presents a check from Enrichment Federal Credit Union employees for the Emory Valley Early Learning Center to Kim Perkins, center, and Georgia Brownfield. (Submitted photo)

Oak Ridge Kiwanis President Mark Hembree recently presented a check from Enrichment Federal Credit Union employees for the Emory Valley Early Learning Center to EVC employees Kim Perkins and Georgia Brownfield.

The money will be used by the Early Learning Center.

It’s part of a Kiwanis service project, a press release said. The check presentation occurred after a program at the March 12 Kiwanis meeting. During that program, Perkins and Brownfield talked about the Emory Valley Center, the press release said.