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Show Kiwanis Club celebrates 71st birthday and spent more than $40.4 million on community service activities, with a special emphasis on meeting the ' needs of underprivileged children. Members of the North Utah County Kiwanis Club recently noted the 71st birthday of Kiwanis International, according to Karl Johnson, club president. The first Kiwanis Club was chartered char-tered on Jan. 21, 1915, in Detroit, Michigan. Today, the men's service club has grown to number 8,200 clubs and 312,000 members in 76 nations around the world. Locally, service projects of the North Utah County Kiwanis Club include the Hope of America awards for sixth-grade students, and an honors banquet for outstanding high-school seniors. The club also sponsors students to educational conferences, helps needy families at Christmas, and organized several events for the American Fork Steel Days celebration including the children's parade, the mammoth parade and the pancake breakfast. t A tradition with the club is donating founds to help sponsor the boy scout troop at the Dan Peterson School for the handicapped. Mr. Johnson announced a new meeting schedule for the club, and a new type of club membership. He said the new schedule will include a lunch meeting - instead of the usual breakfast meeting - on the second Tuesday of each month. The new type of membership will involve a reduced monthly fee for those who wish to attend only two meetings - lunch and ladies' night -each month. Last year, Kiwanis clubs raised |