Charlottesville K-Family Pulls Together to Make Christmas Trees Campaign a Success

by Jim Hart

For the seventy-eighth year, the Kiwanis Club of Charlottesville will be selling Christmas trees to earn money to support club service projects mainly benefiting children and youth. This year Key Clubbers from the five Key Clubs in the Charlottesville area and young service leaders from CKI at the University of Virginia joined with Kiwanians for three successive sessions making and decorating wreaths. In addition, on the Friday morning after Thanksgiving, the Key Clubbers and CKI members were instrumental in unloading 315 fraser firs from nearby West Virginia, while Kiwanians were out cutting 75 white pines in neighboring Buckingham County and bringing them to the tree lot. The two photos submitted illustrate both the power and the excitement of intergenerational volunteering which makes Kiwanis International the most outstanding service club in the world.