For the first time ever, a Key Club sponsors a Kiwanis club

Reversal of roles: A Key Club builds a Kiwanis club

The Winston County High School Key Club has made Kiwanis-family history. In what is a reversal of the usual roles, this Key Club chartered and sponsored the Winston County Kiwanis Club.
"Normally, this process is reversed," says Kiwanis International President Paul Palazzolo, who was in town for the chartering ceremony. "Normally, a Kiwanis club builds a Key Club at a local high school. We should hold up the Winston County Kiwanis and Key Club as examples for what we should do around the world. Kiwanis has been around for 96 years, and this is the first time this has happened. "

Alabama District Governor George Aiken commended the young people of the Winston County High School Key Club, a group whose roster includes 98 of the 280 students at the high school, for their efforts in forming the new Kiwanis club and hopes their energy will continue to positively affect the community through the new club. "This has been a wild ride for me," Aiken said. "Winston
County didn't have even the slightest thought of a Kiwanis Club when they were having their Key Club conventions. Now, six weeks later, we have a Kiwanis Club, all with the good efforts of these young people with the Key Club here.

"I have never felt as much electricity with any group of Kiwanians than here. I challenge you: keep this electricity crackin'!"

Read what the "Northern Alabamian" newspaper (http://www.keyclub.org/Libraries/Magazine/kiwanis-winston.sflb.ashx) had to say about his event.