Many people do not understand what the Levittown Kiwanis Club is all about. It is a Community Service Organization.

One dictionary defines community as: the people living in the same district, city, etc. under the same laws. It also defines service as: helpful, beneficial or friendly action or conduct; act of giving assistance or advantage to another.

If you put them together it means that the Levittown Kiwanis Club gives beneficial assistance to people living in Levittown. Could the Levittown Kiwanis Club collect just $1 from half of our residents living in Levittown? If we could, can you imagine how many people in our community we could help?

1. Young children

2. Needy residents

3. Elderly and many more.

So you say, we would collect more than we could ever use? If we had thousands of dollars left, wouldn't it be wonderful to give $1,000 scholarships to graduating high school students? You do realize we have four high schools in Levittown.

* Division Avenue High School

* Gerald R. Claps Career and Technical Center

* MacArthur High School

* Island Trees High School

Think about it?

Please be aware that this time every year the Levittown Kiwanis is selling their club raffle tickets. The cost is $25 and there is a drawing every month. The prizes are:

First prize - $100

Second prize - $50

Third prize - $25

but the December drawing is:

First prize - $250

Second prize - $100

Third prize - $50

Are you feeling lucky? Stop by one of our weekly meetings and buy a ticket or two. The proceeds go to scholarships and summer camp.

Please, be a Kiwanian!

Would you like to join an organization of community people who give back to their community? Are you interested in joining? Please come to one of our meetings for a Úquot;look see.Úquot; I guarantee you'll be impressed.

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Did you know Kiwanis has a website? For you computer hackers: check Kiwanis International Website at www.kiwanis.org.

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Please save all your soda/drink flip-top tabs and all your Campbell soup labels and General Mills box tops and turn them in to the Levittown Kiwanis Club at one of our meetings. You may ask: why labels and soda tabs? The labels and box tops go to St. Jude's Ranch for Children, where they redeem them for a monetary amount. The soda tabs go to the Bellmore Fire Department and Fork Lane School in Hicksville. They are redeemed for monetary donations to the Muscular Dystrophy Association.

The Levittown Kiwanis Club meets every Thursday night at 6:30 p.m. at: La Focaccia restaurant, 70 East Village Green, Levittown, NY 11756. Telephone - 796-4461.

Please stop by and get involved with the Kiwanis Club of Levittown and see what it does for its community.

Look for the Kiwanis Korner in the paper every week.