Lake City Kiwanis Club

Kiwanis Students of the Month for February 2025

Mar 5, 2025

The Lake City Kiwanis Club Students of the month for February are Adalai Benedict (right) and Josh Wohlers. Both were nominated by the Lake City High School Social Studies Department.

Dance team members speak at Kiwanis meeting

Mar 5, 2025

Lake City Kiwanis was privileged to hear from the award winning dance team at Lincoln High School. These dedicated athletes took both their jazz and kick teams to state this year again and placed seventh in both events. All dance team’s dedication to excellence can’t be questioned since they have...

Lake City Tiger sports broadcaster Craig Kennedy speaks to Kiwanis Club

Feb 26, 2025

Craig Kennedy recently told the Lake City Kiwanis Club about his career as a sports broadcaster. His first job while in high school was running the video camera for coach Berge. He confessed he didn’t inherit the Kennedy family athletic gene but was delighted to participate by broadcasting. Later...

Kiwanis’ January 2025 Students of the Month

Feb 12, 2025

Lake City Kiwanis Club’s January 2025 Students of the month Matalynn Mears (right) and Lawson Kane. Both were nominated by the Lincoln High School English Department.

Dealership manager speaks to Kiwanis club

Feb 12, 2025

Lake City Kiwanis members had an opportunity to get to know the manager of the new Mosaic Ford dealership this week. Chad Duellman spoke about the nearly 30 years in the auto sales business and how pleased he is to be in Lake City working in the former Tom Heffernan Ford location. Chad worked in...

City planner speaks to Kiwanis Club

Feb 5, 2025

Kristi Gross explained her duties as the new Lake City Planning and Community Development staff member. She works closely with the Port Authority staff on issues that are east of Highway 61 and with other staff on all other properties west of 61. One of those is the nearly 80 acres called the...

Dog park booster speaks to Kiwanis Club

Jan 29, 2025

Mary Nelson informed the club about the formation of the new city dog park. Mary, a new Kiwanis member, was the main driving force behind the creation of the dog park. $43,000 was raised in a collaboration between private fund raising and city funding to create the very popular park on city...

Berge shares coaching wisdom with Kiwanians

Jan 22, 2025

Lake City Tiger boys basketball coach Greg Berge let Kiwanis Club in on his secrets to the continual success of his teams for nineteen years. Teamwork, but that really is not a secret but building a culture of supporting each other, discipline like being on time and recognizing your personal...

Kiwanis hears from Carnegie Course aficionado

Jan 15, 2025

This quote “Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get”, is one of Dale Carnegie’s sayings that Kiwanis presenter Glen Kopperrud used to introduce his passion for the Carnegie courses he started taking as a young man while starting a business career. Glen and his...

Kiwanis: Toy drive served 55 families, 150 children

Jan 8, 2025

Lake City Kiwanis Club thanks the many people who donated toys and cash to the Toy Project this year. We served 55 families with 150 children and were able to meet our goals. We thank Lake City Fresh Market, Alliance Bank, Forward Bank, Edward Jones office, Anytime Fitness, the VFW, Pepin Plaza,...