Club History  

Each Christmas, we adopt 10 families and supply them with all the food for the Christmas dinner and gifts for each member in the family.

Our club sponsors the Good Friday Prayer Breakfast, where we subsidize the cost of the meal and organize a speaker and music to start the day. Many denominations are represented and the 250 tickets are sold out well in advance.

In 1957 the club took over the ownership and operation of Sunny Cove Camp on the shores of Rainy Lake. Originally the camp was only accessed by water but it has been expanded and developed and now has a paved road entering the site. The camp is on 29 acres of land, 2 beautiful beaches, 6 sleeping cabins, 1 handicapped cabin, showers, caretakers cabin and 2 dining halls. We are presently installing a water purification system. The camp may be rented by groups, usually church youth groups, for a week at a time and is usually booked well in advance. Kiwanis donates the camp to Day Care and the Home for the Aged, Others pay a nominal fee only as the camp is heavily subsidized by our club Selected youth from the D A R E Program are taken fishing by local law enforcement officers, then return to the camp for the awarding of prizes and a supper supplied and cooked by Kiwanis. We do a lot of cooking, the Relay For Life Breakfast at 5.30 AM, Parents Night at Day Care are a couple of examples, but our big show is the Steak Fry at the Canadian Bass Fishing Championships where we supply a complete meal including a New York Strip to over 700 people.