Kiwanis Club

The next meeting of the Harker Height Kiwanis Club will be on Tuesday, Feb 23, 2021 at noon at Zum Edelweiss German Restaurant in Harker Heights

The meeting can be joined by ZOOM. An email with the Zoom meeting # and passcode is emailed to club members

If you want to donate to the Key Club Food Drive for the HARP students in KISD you can drop non perishable foods or checks at the Harker Heights Community Center or bring to the next meeting and we can drop it off at the center.

Also if you have been collecting the aluminum pull tabs from cans for the Ronald McDonald House bring those to the meeting also. We can make a delivery soon.

The Key Club of HHHS is sponsoring a Food Drive to Feed the Families of the Harker Heights Community. Donations may be brought to the front office for those in the community and students may bring their donations to the CIS Room or Coach Franklin's class / Room 2205!

Donations must be non-perishable items, canned goods, rice, beans, snacks, etc. Cash donations are accepted at the cashier's office in the front of the school! Thanks for all of your help! Coach Franklin.  

The Harker Heights High School Key Club has been very busy! Not only has the club worked with other High School Clubs on fundraisers and drives, they have also headed up several projects!

First, the Key Club worked with the Stewart C. Meyer Harker Heights Public Library and Harker Heights Activities Center to provide community engagement during October 2020. The club packed bags of candies to be distributed at 7 locations around Harker Heights, TX on Halloween. In an attempt to encourage safe “trick-or-treating” staff members dressed up and invited the community to drive-through locations where the bags would be handed out. The Club even packed doggie and kitty treats to be handed out at the Pet Adoption Center. To provide much needed fun and levity, the Key Club also decorated pumpkins to be put on display in the Library and on the Library’s facebook.

Second, the Key Club developed a “Brain Break” program for elementary school aged kids. Acknowledging the difficulties of education both in-schools and at-home, the club designed virtual “breaks” in which they led kids in rhymes, movement, and music minutes. These breaks were posted each Monday on the Stewart C. Meyer Harker Heights Public Library facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/harkerheightspubliclibrary/ and in a “Key Club Brain Break” YouTube playlist at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moKPnsoIlW4&list=PLqnhisrCD0tdJ6a16wQnAoB-5DKnrp3YP. The short programs encourage children to take moments for fun in their educational days.

Third, the Key Club organized a “Hot Chocolate Kits” stuffing event for the City of Harker Heights “Santa in the Park” and “Farmers Market” events. Considering the need for increased precautions due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, the club worked with the City to provide fun, take home hot chocolate kits for families attending the events! Because so many kits were needed, the Key Club asked other High School Clubs to help out as well.

Fourth, the Key Club again organized a “Dance in a Bag” program. The City of Harker Heights generally hosts a family Valentine’s Dance. Even though large group programs cannot be safely provided at this time, the Key Club worked with the Activities Center to put together treat bags for families who want to host their own events. The Key Club members will also film themselves dressed up and dancing to be posted around Valentine’s Day.

Fifth, the Key Club recognized a need to provide food for individuals served by the Killeen ISD program for support of homeless children and families. The Club has organized a Spring Break food drive and hopes to gather staples and supplies to help feed those in need.

Sincerely,

Lisa Youngblood

The Harker Heights H S Key Club wanted to spread some much needed Christmas Cheer this year. They painted 4 windows on businesses in Market Heights with Christmas pictures and messages.

They also worked with the Interact Club to put together Hot Chocolate Kits that will be handed out at the Santa in the Park/Holiday Market at the Harker Heights Community Park.

The Kiwanis Club of Harker Heights held it annual Installation of Officers and Board of Directors & Awards Ceremony on October 10, 2020 at Zum Edelweiss German Restaurant in Harker Heights. Honored guests were Incoming Lt Gov Jeanne Passalugo, Ed Passalugo and Outgoing Lt Gov Rhonda Hershey

The new officers were installed by the incoming Lt Gov Jeanne Passalugo

The 20-21 Officers: President Paul Loughran, President Elect Ron Dalton, Treasurer Randy Stone, Secretary Vivian Marschik, Outgoing President Darrel Charlton

Board of Directors: Edita Frias, James McKinnon, Jeanette McNiesh, Charles Sweeney, Lisa Youngblood

Gifts were presented to Jeanne and Rhonda by Darrel Charlton

Certificates were presented for Perfect Attendance to Charles Sweeney and Vivian Marschik and Certificates of Appreciation to James Hoyle for 20 years of dedicated service and for serving on the board for 3 years. Also Certificates of Appreciation were presented to Jeanette McNiesh and Edita Frias

Legion of Honor Recipients: 40 years David McClure, 30 years Robert Bass and 25 years JamesMcKinnon

Highlight of the meeting is the presentation of "The Kiwanian of the Year" David McClure

Check out our Photo Gallery and our Facebook for all the pictures

The 2020 Scholarships were awarded to Harker Heights students at the Harker Heights City Hall.

The Robert Dunlap Memorial Scholarship awardees are Isabell Dela Cruz and Saniya Keeton. Isabelle will be attending Texas A & M and Saniya will be attending Tuskegee University

The Bill Davis Memorial Scholarship was awarded to Alexandra Mack. She will be attending Texas Women's University

The P R Cox Memorial Scholarships were awarded to Alyce Keys & Sidney Craig. Alyce will be attending U. T. Austin and Sidney will be at Texas A & M University

The Kiwanis Club of Harker Heights Memorial Scholarship was awarded to Jacquelyne Fuavai. She will be attending Texas A & M University

The Stewart C Meyer Memorial Scholarship was awarded to Tatiana Toribio

The Kiwanis Club of Harker Heights selection for the Sophomore of the Year is Destiny Delgadillo. She will be competing for a $600 scholarship in the Texas/Oklahoma District of Kiwanis

HHHS Key Club ready to serve up some great pancakes, bacon and sausage and EHMS Builders Club ready to help in the dining room. We couldn't have done it without these great kids help!!

Wright Brand/Tyson Bacon factory in Vernon TX donated 132 lbs of bacon for the 49th Annual Pancake Supper! Pictured with member Norm Dunbar is Cathie Bristo who arranged for the donation. Thank you to Wright Brand for helping us to invest in our youth.

Harker Heights Mayor Spencer Smith presented a proclamation to Kylie McKinzie who was awarded the Walter Hurst Sophomore of the Year Award from the Texas Oklahoma Foundation. She is a member of the HHHS Key Club, JROTC Color Guard, National Honor Society, Bowling Team and other organizations. She plans to pursue a degree in Aerospace Engineering.

We had some fantastic items up for auction at the 49th Annual HH Kiwanis Pancake Supper!!

Here are the winners!!

 1. A framed original watercolor by Joe Friddle Winner - Chuck Truesdale, Framed print by B L Herd - Mike Thompson,  Original quilt by Laura Winkel - Principal Carolyn Duggar and a timeshare vacation at Branson MO - Mike Delaune

Thank you for your support of the Harker Heights Kiwanis Club and helping to invest in our youth!

The HHHS Key Club and the EHMS Builders Club students were in the Christmas Spirit this weekend and volunteering in the community. Key Club members worked with the costumed characters at the annual Frost Fest so the children could get their pictures taken with them. Saturday night was the Killeen Christmas Parade and the Builders Club members participated in the parade along with Elsa & Anna from FROZEN. The weather was gorgeous this year and we weren't actually frozen this time.

Members of the EHMS Builders Club and AVID class helped sort over 50,000 lbs of food during the time they were at the Killeen Special Events Center. This is the main collection point where all the local donations are brought to be sorted by each type of food (corn, beans, cereal etc). Then the food is taken to the main warehouse where it will be allocated to families or each of the smaller food banks such as the one in Harker Heights.

Members of the EHMS Builders Club volunteered with the KISD Education Foundation to wrap boxes for the Festival of Trees Fundraiser. This fundraiser is for local scholarships at Texas A & M CT and Central Texas College. Faculty Advisor Lisa Burden gave the students a lesson in how to wrap the boxes. Builders Club members and Kiwanis Advisor Vivian Marschik worked with the Foundation members to wrap a little over 140 boxes to decorate the Festival of Trees.

Harker Heights Kiwanis Members Dick Dinwiddie, Norm Dunbar, David McClure, Lisa Youngblood & Vivian Marschik along with members of the Eastern Hills Middle School Builders Club and the Harker Heights High School Key Club participated in the 2019 Killeen Veteran's Day Parade. This photo was taken just before the "Fall cold front" blew in. In a matter of minutes everyone was scrambling to get coats, hats, scarves and gloves on. It started sprinkling rain and the wind was blowing all the leaves from trees near by in our faces. In no time it went from the upper 60's into the 40's. The parade started off with a bang! We Texans survived the cold front to finish the parade without losing anyone .  :-)

The Harker Heights Key Club members had a great time volunteering at the Halloween Hoople painting faces, helping with games and playing costumed characters.

Builders & Key Club members were at the HH Library Scooby Doo Party to help the children with crafts, secret decoders and to paint faces. They were having a little fun posing in the speeding Scooby van.

Builders Club members taking a face painting class given by Kiwanis member Lisa Youngblood, the Director of Library Services. The students will be able to paint the children's faces at the library programs

13 members of the EHMS Builders Club and HH Kiwanis Members picked up trash at our Adopt-a-Spot at the Harker Heights Community Park. The students divided into 3 teams. One team won the "#1 All Time Trashiest", one team won "Trash Talking" and one team won "One man's trash is another man's Treasure". We also had a cookout with hot dogs and s'mores. We all had a great time and did a community service for "Make a Difference" month in Harker Heights