Community Driven Event

Kristmas Town Kiwanis, Helping Our Community – One Duck at a Time

The Bluegrass From the Forest festival is produced by the Kristmas Town Kiwanis Club. With the help of many volunteers like Shelton contractor and musician, Greg Linder, and many others who donate their time, this event is a labor of love for the community. When you meet our volunteers at the festival, we hope you’ll let them know their efforts are appreciated.

For 15 years Bluegrass From The Forest has been an important fundraising event for the Kristmas Town Kiwanis. Funds earned support a variety of community projects. Your dollars spent at this event and other events that the group hosts, are put right back in to local neighborhoods!

Bluegrass From the Forest’s founding purpose, the Callanan Park Renovation, has gone way beyond the construction of a single restroom! Other improvements, over the years, have included: installation of security lighting; construction of dugout benches with metal roofs for the seating areas; construction of storage shed; scoreboard repair; installation of handicap accessible drinking fountain; as well as the construction of a children’s big toy apparatus.

Funding from this event has been used to support other community items including: the Christmas parade; scholarships for graduating seniors; youth-Circle K; food baskets for the 40 et 8; Toys for Kids drives; and little league baseball and youth soccer program.

There are many other projects Kristmas Town Kiwanis volunteers work on each year. In June, reserve your winning duck for the Duck Race! The Kristmas Town Kiwanis kiddie train is a familiar and much loved sight at local events. It is especially popular at OysterFest, where the group also provide a variety of activities including free carnival games.

Holiday Magic in Shelton includes a Christmas parade as well as the lighting of the fir in Post Office Park. Presented the first Friday in December, Railroad is blocked for eveningbonfires and marshmallow roasting. Enjoy caroling, rides on the kiddie train and at dusk Saturday, take part in the Christmas Parade with over 50 entries as well as free cider, coffee, cookies and candy.

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Additional Kristmas Town Kiwanis fundraising include Aluminum Can Drives; Highway Trash Pickups; foster kids’ Christmas Wish Lists; Warm Hands Campaign in November/December in which members collect new hats and gloves to distribute to County elementary schools; and the School Supply Drive for the Mary M. Knight School; as well, the group supports sponsor Boy Scout Troop 112 and Mason County Literacy’s annual “Spellabration” event.

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Kiwanis International is a global organization of members dedicated to serving the children of the world. Kiwanis and its family of clubs—nearly 600,000 members strong—annually raise more than $107 million and dedicate more than 18 million volunteer hours to strengthen communities and serve children.

Members of every age attend meetings, experience fellowship, raise funds for various causes and participate in service projects that help their communities.

Members also make an impact throughout the world by participating in Kiwanis International’s global campaign for children.

For information visit kristmastownkiwanis.com or call (978) 729-9678.