Le Mars Kiwanis Celebrates Golden Anniversary with Special Event and Commemoration
Kiwanis Club Golden Anniversary
The Le Mars Kiwanis Club was organized fifty years ago and celebrated this milestone with a banquet Wednesday evening at the Le Mars American Legion Club. Club President Mark Gaul says a special presentation took place, honoring Larry Conger as a charter member and the only founding member still active in the club.
Barb Hames, a Le Mars club member and Region 3 Trustee for Kiwanis, gave a speech reflecting on the club’s 50-year journey. The Kiwanis Club of Le Mars was organized on May 27, 1975 with 22 members.
The club’s first fundraising project was held on September 4, 1975, with a watermelon feed for a 50 cent donation in the Red Owl parking lot in downtown Le Mars, which is currently the location of the Le Mars Public Library. Proceeds went to a new football scoreboard.
In May of 1977, the club moved the former Farmer’s Coop Elevator building onto the Plymouth County Fairgrounds Pioneer Village to become the Kiwanis Old-Time Bakery. The bakery has been running 48 years this summer.
The Aktion Club was chartered in 2005.
The Le Mars Kiwanis Club will host a Chamber Coffee on Wednesday, May 28, 2025, from 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. in the lower level conference room at Floyd Valley Health System.
