Lake City Kiwanis Club

Port Authority director speaks to Kiwanis Club

Jul 2, 2025

Lake City Port Authority Director Doug Grout was the guest speaker at a recent Lake City Kiwanis Club meeting. Kiwanians are always keen to meet new people and learn about the world around us. The word port in the directors’s title seems to indicate work around water and waterfronts. But that is...

Author of ‘Inner Rival’ speaks to Kiwanis Club

Jun 11, 2025

Kiwanis member Greg Schreck asked his friend Jeff Butorac to speak to Kiwanis about his life’s journey and the book he wrote because of that experience. After suffering anxiety and panic attacks required him to change carreers and his outlook on life, Jeff learned to turn those negative feelings...

Coding competitors speak to Kiwanis Club

Jun 4, 2025

This week’s Kiwanis speakers were Lincoln junior high students Shawn Hadler, Mason Kerwin, Elliot Kline, Izaiah Johnson and Lincoln High School technologist Chelsea Kerwin, who is the leader of the group. These student are first place winners in a computer coding competition of the Junior High...

Kiwanis hears from service to help seniors remain in their homes

May 28, 2025

Home Instead representative Karen Hansen, seen with past president Bill Otto, talked to the Lake City Kiwanis Club gathering about ways of staying in your own home instead of the nursing home. Home Instead provides staff to do housework, shopping, bathing assistance and medication planning and...

Kiwanis hears from softball and baseball coaches

May 21, 2025

Lake City Kiwanis enjoyed learning about Lincoln High School softball from head coach Rina Neihoff and baseball from head coach Logan Thomas. Both programs have show increased participation and improved results due to enthusiastic coaching, a network of assistant coaches and parental volunteers...

Kiwanis April, 2025 Students of the Month

Apr 30, 2025

The Lake City Kiwanis Club Students of the Month for April are Kylie Mann (right), nominated by the Lincoln High School Agriculture Department; and Kael Nibbe, nominated by the Lincoln High School Art Department.

Local author discusses Belgian heritage at Kiwanis

Apr 30, 2025

Lake City author Bob Nellis spoke to Kiwanis about his current writing this week. He and Lake City Kiwanian Al Le Captain are both of Belgian heritage and from the Green Bay Area of Wisconsin where Curly Lambeau, also a Belgian, became the namesake for the Packer football stadium. The Belgian...

Kiwanis Club donates dictionaries to Bluff View third grade students

Apr 23, 2025

Thank You, Lake City Kiwanis Club! We would like to give a big thank you to the Kiwanis Club for their generous donation of dictionaries to our Bluff View Elementary third grade students! Our students were so excited to receive their very own dictionaries, and they have already started using them...

Schwartz shares history with Kiwanis Club

Apr 16, 2025

Lake City native Don Schwartz was the guest speaker at a recent Lake City Kiwanis Club meeting. After a time away Don and his wife returned to Lake City and began to invest their efforts in preserving the history of Lake City through working with both the Wabasha County and Lake City historical...

Forward Bank representatives speak at Kiwanis

Apr 9, 2025

Guests at Kiwanis this week were Doris Schurhammer and Andrea Hazard of Forward Bank that purchased Lake City Federal Bank last year. Andrea explained that Forward Bank was started in Marshfield, Wis., over 70 years ago and Lake City is their 12th branch bank, with the headquarters remaining in...