Membership Interest

The Kiwanis Club of Tellico Village offers its members opportunities for personal involvement in the leadership and improvement of Tellico Village, other Loudon County communities, the nation, and the world.  While service is what Kiwanians are known for, their club offers much more.  Meetings and projects provide sincere and lasting fellowship.  Kiwanis also provides its members insight into issues affecting the local and global community, opportunity to expand business and professional networking, and an arena in which to develop and use their talents and leadership skills.

Kiwanians have a legacy of service to the communities and of the world.  Being a member of this dynamic organization is challenging, satisfying, and exhilarating.  It is evident that the collective efforts of the entire Kiwanis family is synergistic:  more good deeds can be accomplished collectively than could possibly be done by each individual member acting on his or her own.  The fellowship is superb and the networking is valuable.  To be a Kiwanian is to be a valued citizen of the world!

Since its charter on March 16, 1999 the Kiwanis Club of Tellico Village has participated in a Kiwanis International major emphasis program, Children: Priority One, by supporting the local Parents Acting as Teachers (PACT) program in the Lenoir City schools system by preparing and distributing learning materials to parents of kindergarten children for home use. The club constructed, in partnership with the Tellico Village Woodworker’s Club,  a “Children’s Corner” in the Good Samaritan Center located in Lenoir City, and collaborated with the Tellico Village Retired Military Club in the State’s “Adopt a Highway” program to keep a 2.2-mile section of the Tellico Parkway clean of trash. In partnership with the Loudon County Health Improvement Council and Covenant Health, Kiwanians have distributed free “Child Safety Kits” throughout the county, participated in the “Family Affair,” provided financial support to children needing assistance for clothes and school supplies to begin the new school year, and held a community-wide “Prayer Breakfast” during the Kiwanis International Prayer Week held each May.  Additionally, the Kiwanis Club of Tellico Village holds two pancake breakfasts and a golf tournament annually as fund raisers to support the many community projects targeted to assist the less fortunate citizens of Loudon County.

A Key Club has been formed at the Loudon County High School.  Key Clubs are a Kiwanis International Sponsored Youth Program that is intended to provide young adults an opportunity to develop civic, social, and leadership skills while working on community projects designed to help those in need.

Future projects, in addition to those already mentioned above, will include a collaborative effort with the Loudon County Health Improvement Council and Covenant Health to provide incentives to parents of young children to seek pre- and post-natal care for young children through the age of 5 years.  The club will also prepare and distribute, in partnership with local pharmacies, “Vials for Life” intended for individuals who depend on prescription medication to identify those medications by placing their list of medications in prescription vials and storing them in the refrigerator, which will bear an identifying symbol. The vial will then help emergency response teams to identify critical medication information should they need to respond to an emergency call at an individual’s residence.  The Club will also host a division- and community-wide prayer breakfast to coincide with the Kiwanis International prayer month.

Our club will continue to support the Kiwanis International “Iodine Deficiency Disorder” world-wide service project.  This project seeks to help people throughout the world who have diets deficient in iodine.  Iodine deficiency can cause birth defects and a myriad of other adverse medical conditions, including mental disorders in a large segment of population.  Kiwanis International is collaborating with the United Nations’ UNICEF program to eliminate Iodine Deficiency Disorder throughout the world.  Kiwanis International has established a goal of $75 million in support this world wide project, and it has already raised about $50 million.  The Kiwanis Club of Tellico Village intends to be a full partner in this endeavor as resources permit.

Fund raising events planned for 2008 include a spring pancake breakfast at the Tellico Village Community Church's Christian Life Center.  All Loudon countians are invited to support this fun event.   Another fund raising event is a golf tournament.  All are invited to participate in this fund raiser to support the many projects undertaken by The Kiwanis Club of Tellico Village to meet the needs of those who are less fortunate than the majority of the citizens of Loudon County.

  [This page was last updated December 24, 2007 ]

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