The Kiwanis Club of Norfolk meets at Doumar’s Cones and Barbeque once per quarter to clean Monticello Avenue in Norfolk, between 21st. Street and Virginia Beach Boulevard. The event provides great fellowship as well as an opportunity for us to give back to the community. Some of our best gatherings are with the Key Clubs we support as well as other members of the Kiwanis Family. This is a club favorite!
We usually meet early on Saturday morning (at 8am or so). As the restaurant’s hours change, we pivot back and forth between eating first and picking up trash first. Regardless of the order of events, there is plenty of time to have breakfast, socialize, clean the street, and still be ready for our individual days by 10am.
You can tell that Friday nights are usually big on Monticello Avenue because the trash haul on Saturday morning is always significant. Our trash “trophies” have included whole cakes, car fenders, and mountains of glass bottles and cans. We’re sure some of this languishes for the three-month period between cleanings, but we find things we just know have been freshly deposited the night before.
One of our favorite things about this event is there is no cost. Many of our community service activities require some type of cash outlay. Although we donate our time — holiday toys for school children, food we offer as service to the community, and garden supplies like mulch and flowers we might need for landscaping, are not free. On these Saturdays though, the City of Norfolk graciously supplies gloves, bags, and everything else we need to make cleaning our street sanitary and fun.
What a great presentation, and so relevant for Kiwanis Club of Norfolk, this week! Thank you Mel Price is Principal and co-founder of Work Program Architects and Chuck McPhillips is Founder and Chairman of Next Step to Success.
The Norfolk-based “Next Step to Success” program revealed that they would be purchasing the former DePaul Hospital property that sits off Kingsley Lane in the Riverpoint area of the city and turning it into the “St. Vincent de Paul House.”
“The Hospital of St. Vincent dePaul,” was the name when the first medical facility opened up on the site in 1856.
The new development will include “learning houses,” a gymnasium, a dining hall, gardens and a regulation-size soccer field, all to serve 300 students as part of Next Step’s afterschool and summer “experiential learning” programs, according to a release. Program leadership said they hope to have the campus up and running in two years as their goal is lofty: cut the poverty rate in Norfolk by one-half within a generation.
Thank you Bob Rose for the content above from our club newsletter.
Our meeting this week will be another great one! Be sure to register Kiwanians and think about a guest you can bring along.
We enjoyed having guest speakers Brenda Garrett (left) and Shelly Averett (right) with Horizons for our last meeting in March. Brenda has been a long-standing leader in Kiwanis! Thank you for keeping us up-to-date on Horizons iniatitives! #norfolkva#givingback#kiwanis... See MoreSee Less
24th Street, 24th St, Virginia Beach, VA 23451, USA
Annual fundraiser for Virginia Beach Education Foundation.
The club has already contributed and received 10 tickets to the event.
Contact Neil Rose if interested.
(Precise location: 24th. and Atlantic)
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The Kiwanis Club of Norfolk meets at Doumar’s Cones and Barbeque once per quarter to clean Monticello Avenue in Norfolk, between 21st. Street and Virginia Beach Boulevard. The event provides great fellowship as well as an opportunity for us to give back to the community. Some of our best gatherings are with the Key Clubs we support as well as other members of the Kiwanis Family. This is a club favorite!
We usually meet early on Saturday morning (at 8am or so). As the restaurant’s hours change, we pivot back and forth between eating first and picking up trash first. Regardless of the order of events, there is plenty of time to have breakfast, socialize, clean the street, and still be ready for our individual days by 10am.
You can tell that Friday nights are usually big on Monticello Avenue because the trash haul on Saturday morning is always significant. Our trash “trophies” have included whole cakes, car fenders, and mountains of glass bottles and cans. We’re sure some of this languishes for the three-month period between cleanings, but we find things we just know have been freshly deposited the night before.
One of our favorite things about this event is there is no cost. Many of our community service activities require some type of cash outlay. Although we donate our time — holiday toys for school children, food we offer as service to the community, and garden supplies like mulch and flowers we might need for landscaping, are not free. On these Saturdays though, the City of Norfolk graciously supplies gloves, bags, and everything else we need to make cleaning our street sanitary and fun.
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What a great presentation, and so relevant for Kiwanis Club of Norfolk, this week! Thank you Mel Price is Principal and co-founder of Work Program Architects and Chuck McPhillips is Founder and
Chairman of Next Step to Success.
The Norfolk-based “Next Step to Success” program revealed that they would be purchasing the former
DePaul Hospital property that sits off Kingsley Lane in the Riverpoint area of the city and turning it into
the “St. Vincent de Paul House.”
“The Hospital of St. Vincent dePaul,” was the name when the first medical facility opened up on the site in
1856.
The new development will include “learning houses,” a gymnasium, a dining hall, gardens and a regulation-size soccer field, all to serve 300 students as part of Next Step’s afterschool and summer “experiential learning” programs, according to a release. Program leadership said they hope to have the campus up and running in two years as their goal is lofty:
cut the poverty rate in Norfolk by one-half within a generation.
Thank you Bob Rose for the content above from our club newsletter.
Our meeting this week will be another great one! Be sure to register Kiwanians and think about a guest you can bring along.
#givingback #kiwanisinternational #norfolkva ... See MoreSee Less
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We enjoyed having guest speakers Brenda Garrett (left) and Shelly Averett (right) with Horizons for our last meeting in March. Brenda has been a long-standing leader in Kiwanis! Thank you for keeping us up-to-date on Horizons iniatitives! #norfolkva #givingback #kiwanis ... See MoreSee Less
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