Kiwanis Club of San Marcos Leadership & Youth Programs

We cannot always build the future for our youth,
but we can build our youth for the future."

Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945)

THE KIWANIS CLUB OF SAN MARCOS IS PROUD TO SPONSOR THE FOLLOWING PROGRAMS:

	The Aktion Club of North County San Diego is a community-service group for adult citizens who live with a disability and is open to all persons living with a disability who are interested in providing service to their community. Individuals who live with disabilities often have many talents but little opportunity to develop or apply them. Aktion Club membership encourages their talents and allows members to contribute to their community. The Aktion Club of North County San Diego is co-sponsored by the Kiwanis Clubs of San Marcos and Escondido. Website coming soon…please check back! For more information, contact Linda Cook, Division 37 Coordinator, SLP at (760) 743-5490 or email: msilinda@aol.com.

CUB SCOUT PACK 662 SAN MARCOS	The Kiwanis Club of San Marcos is proud to be the Chartering Organization for San Marcos Cub Scout Pack 662. Pack 662 has been active in San Marcos for over 60 years! Cub Scout Pack 662 is an intricate part of the Kiwanis Club of San Marcos Flag Retirement Ceremony held each year on Flag Day and provides the Color Guard for the annual Kiwanis Club of San Marcos Holiday Parade. Cub Scouting is all about doing your best. Cub Scout learn core values that include building good character, spiritual growth, citizenship, sportsmanship, family, respect, friendship, fun and adventure, all while leading others and growing into young adults. For more information, please visit their website.

	The KIWANIS CLUB OF SAN MARCOS is proud to have been a major co-sponsor of the San Marcos Sheriff Station's KIDZWATCH ACADEMY since the very first academy was held in July 2000! The KIDZWATCH ACADEMY is an exciting 7-week program for parents and their children ages 5 - 11 year old. Each week focuses on a different and vital aspect of keeping our kids safe AND empowering our kids to be safe when they are not with us. Parents often remark that they have learned as many new things as their children! For more information, click here.

	The Kiwanis Country Kids Club logo was designed by a student at "The Country School" where Kiwanis Country Kids is sponsored by the Kiwanis Club of San Marcos. The students meet during school hours to conduct weekly meetings and work on community service projects. The Country School is both a private and a non-public school serving a maximum of 32 students with learning disabilities, ADD/ADHD, Asperger's Syndrome, or other forms of mild to moderate disabilities that affect learning and social skills. The Kiwanis Country Kids Club gives students opportunities to contribute to their community through their dedication and talents that would not otherwise be possible in a small, private school. For more information, visit their website.

THE KIWANIS CLUB OF SAN MARCOS IS PROUD TO SUPPORT THESE PROGRAMS:
	No single organization can solve the tremendous challenges facing children worldwide. That’s one reason Kiwanis International has joined in a memorandum of understanding with Boys & Girls Clubs of America to foster, nurture, and establish a legacy of serving children, a cornerstone mission for both organizations. Kiwanians support the Boys and Girls Club of San Marcos in a wide variety of ways...providing volunteer hours, raffle prizes for fundraisers and adopting families during the holidays. The Boys and Girls Club offers programs in Character and Leadership Development, Education and Career Development, Health and Life Skills, The Arts, and Sports, Fitness and Recreation. For more information, visit their website.

	Young Adventurers is a day-trip program of Los Caballeros de Aventura, a 501(c)3 organization. Young Adventurers take day trips on weekends to places that offer enrichment, exercise, fun, and adventure. Favorites are boating, hiking, flying airplanes--real and model planes--swimming, and exploring places of interested all over San Diego County. Since 1993 Los Caballeros has been offering Young Adventurers "Enrichment through Adventure." Los Caballeros de Aventura, Inc. was founded and continues to operate, in great part, through the efforts of the Kiwanis Clubs of both San Marcos and Hidden Valley. The founder of Los Caballeros (which loosely means ”Gentlemen of Adventure") was Lyle Davis of the Kiwanis Club of Hidden Valley Club. The purpose was to divert kids from joining gangs. Many of the members of that Kiwanis Club became volunteers. Through Lyle's continuing efforts, the Hidden Valley Club has donated to help support the efforts to recruit children from the Escondido area. The Program evolved over the years to attract more girls and to lower the age from 10 to 8 years of age. This was because children are being approached at an earlier age to participate in gang activities. We have seen that the kids had so much fun discovering and enjoying life’s adventures that they had neither the time nor inclination to join gangs. Funding is mainly from memorial donations to an endowment fund set up through the efforts of John Smylie (Kiwanis Club of San Marcos) and Lyle Davis (Hidden Valley Kiwanis Club). Members of the Kiwanis Club of San Marcos, and other volunteers, act as chaperones and generously use their own cars to provide transportation on these day trips. In addition to their regular on-going support, the Kiwanis Club of San Marcos sponsors two members of Young Adventurers to attend the Kiwanis Key Leadership Camp held each year in Julian. Enjoy a brief video by clicking here.

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