Awards & Honors

Grantville-Allied Gardens Kiwanis Club received two top honors at the October 3, 2020 Lieutenant Governor's Installation Zoom meeting.

2019-2020 Lieutenant Governor Craig Bratlien presented awards for highest participation in interclub meetings. This was a challenge among all clubs in Division 21 to attend meetings of other Kiwanis clubs, even if they were Zoom meetings. Our club not only participated, but took first place and the Gene Elmore Interclub trophy for 2019-20, showing our interest and involvement in our community, as well as others.  

The highest honor the Division can give is the Lt. Governor’s Most Outstanding Club Award. Grantville-Allied Gardens captured this prestigious award for 2019-2020. Lt. Governor Craig Bratlien felt that our club deserved this award because, in spite of the ongoing pandemic, we made every effort to be a vibrant, growing community leader in our neighborhood. He noted that we make continuous effort  helping our student leader members, held lively and entertaining Zoom meetings every week, with wonderful guest speakers from all over the State.  This year we continued giving Student of the Month awards to local students, collected thousands of dollars for Rady Children’s Hospital, helped deliver Meals On Wheels, displayed American flags on Waring Road on major holidays, and as many community service projects as social distancing restrictions would allow.  We even managed to add four new members to our group, in spite of not having in-person meetings.

Our Club President Alan Young was honored for how well he has led the club this year and congratulated Grantville-Allied Gardens Kiwanis Club as this year’s Most Outstanding Club in Division 21.

2019-2020 Distinguished Club Award

Crag  Bratlien, 2019-2020 Lieutenant Governor for Division 21, recently presented us with the 2019-2020 Distinguished Club Award. Kiwanis International gives “distinguished” awards to individual Kiwanis clubs that meet established criteria that demonstrate special dedication to service, membership strength and Kiwanis education. We were also given a Distinguished Club patch for our banner. This is a great honor and we appreciate being recognized for our service to Kiwanis and our community!