Kin in the News

The Wasaga Beach Kinette Club is celebrating 40 years of community service and friendship.  Club members got together at Lakes of Wasaga Country Club in Wasaga Beach June 24 to mark the milestone.

The ribs have all been eaten, the 18 bands are finished playing on two stages, the carousel has come to a stop in the midway, the vendors have packed up, and the Kinsmen are ready for a rest. A massive thank you to each and every one of you who made the 16th Annual Sarnia Kinsmen Ribfest such a success.

Summerfest will make its return to Courthouse Park next month.  Deputy Mayor John Grace said thanked the Kinsmen for bringing the festival back to downtown Goderich.

Port Hope, ON - The Port Hope Kinsmen, organizers of the annual Canada Day Celebrations, are very excited to receive funding to enhance this years’ event, and invite everyone to come out and “Celebrate Canada” Monday June 30th and Tuesday July 1st in historic Port Hope!

For 50 years the St. Albert Kinsmen have been serving St. Albert’s greatest need. Since May 4,1964 the organization has contributed to the community in remarkably generous ways: by helping to build the Kinex Arena, the Larose Drive Clubhouse, the Kinsmen Korral and the Kinsmen RV Park.

Newspaper clippings remind us what has been achieved. They also motivate us to carry on the legacy.  That was exactly the atmosphere last weekend when the Kinette Club of Edmonton celebrated their 75th anniversary.

The Hensall Kinsmen are hoping to have construction of a splash pad in the village completed by August 1.

Collingwood Kinette and Kin Canada's District One Cystic Fibrosis / Service Director, Katie McKean was accompanied by fellow Kinettes Barb McArthur, Cathie Brillinger and President Monika McKean, on a tour of Great Strides Walks in District One on Sunday May 25th.  Great Strides walks are in support of Cystic Fibrosis research and are held nation wide the last Sunday of May annually. These ladies visited the Kitchener Waterloo's 10th anniversary walk which has to date brought in $136,000 and the Centre Wellington Kinettes' inaugural walk, bringing in approximately $5000.  Since 2005, the Great Strides Walk has brought in over $18.5 million nationwide.

This year’s Kin Home Lotto house has all the bells and whistles you might expect, and will be raffled to support causes the community has come to depend on, says the co-chair of the yearly service club fundraiser.

“All the funds raised will go toward annual Kinsmen and Kinette projects,” said Tony Hessian, vice president of the New Glasgow Kinsmen. “We have supported Pictou County projects such as the wellness centre, SSF, United Way and in addition, provided over $90,000 annually to emergency requests.