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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.
Bell Aliant Pioneers, Copperbelt Club, recently delivered 121 personalized readers to 10 classes in eight schools in Green Bay and White Bay areas. They got monetary help for the project from sponsors like Springdale Lions Club, Springdale Community Development Cooperative, Baie Verte Kinsmen, and the La Scie Kinsmen.
Half a century of generosity and service was marked Friday in typical Kinsmen Club of Stampede City fashion. They cut a cheque — this one for $1.31 million that’ll benefit 11 Calgary charities.
Construction of a brand new train-themed playground was on track and chugging along over the weekend. It was last spring that the Kinsmen Club of Calgary pledged $50,000 for the playground to be built in Heritage Park, and on Saturday and Sunday more than 40 people — including Kinsmen Club volunteers, Heritage Park staff and volunteers and a couple of contractors — began building.
The local Kinsmen and Kinette clubs nominated a High River couple to the province’s flood hero program for their kindness and tireless efforts to help their community following last June’s flood.