Kiwanis One Day 2016

KCOJ members (left to right) Lois, Colleen, Carol & Fran created blankets and packaged food & toiletry items for the area homeless. Not pictured are Pam and her family. (Mea culpa: photo error.)

The Kiwanis Club of Jackson, together with one of its sponsored youth groups, The Goetz Middle School Builders Club, participated in creating 15 blankets for the homeless. It also put together packages of food items and toiletries for the area homeless.

The two groups met at the Whitesville Firehouse Saturday, April 2, 2016.

The Kiwanis One Day Project is celebrated annually around the world. The Kiwanis clubs each pick their own project and partner with the sponsored youth clubs to  "improve the world one child, one community at a time."

Members of the Goetz Middle School Builders Club helped make blankets for the local homeless.

KCOJ donates a computer system to the Jackson Food Pantry

KCOJ president Fran Politto (left) presents Jo Corbiscello a laptop computer, printer and software to assist the Jackson Food Pantry with their administrative tasks.

The Kiwanis Club of Jackson presented The Jackson Food Pantry a laptop computer, printer and Microsoft Office Suite to assist the pantry with keeping track of donations and food inventory.

"The computer will provide a more reliable way of doing the administrative tasks that are required for running a food pantry," said Jo Corbiscello, director of the food pantry. "This donation is wonderful addition for us. The old computer took a long time to boot up and often made mistakes."

The food pantry is a project of Jackson Women of Today. The Kiwanis Club of Jackson and its sponsored youth programs (both Key Clubs its two Builders Clubs) has long supported the pantry with food donations and has helped with tasks as varied stocking shelves, cleaning and distribution of the food.