Newest Member of Clark Kiwanis

Columbia Bank Asst. Manager Joins Clark Kiwanis Club

Clark – Jennifer Zollo, assistant manager of the Columbia Bank in Clark was inducted recently into the Kiwanis Club of Clark. At the dinner meeting, former state governor of NJ Kiwanis District Dean Konner welcomed the newest member and challenged her to work closely with the philanthropic club. “Your club’s purpose is to educate and inform children and teens how to become leaders in their school and community,” he explained.  “Because you are joining the world’s largest organization whose focus is children, I know that you see that ‘Children, Priority One’ is the basis of all that we do.”
      Governor Dean reminded her that the motto of Kiwanis International is “Changing the world, one child and one community at a time.”
     The Clark club that meets on the second and fourth Tuesday nights of each month at the Clark Public Library is the proud parent sponsor of the K-Kids Clubs at Hehnly School and Valley Road School as well as the Builders Club at Kumpf Middle School and the Key Club at the ALJ High School. The advisers of the clubs - Donna Kircher at Hehnly, Paula Spence, Susan Dzurovcik and Teresa Gotti at Valley Road, Lindsay Molloy at Kumpf and Ellen Zamboni  at the high school- encourage the students to be active in community service. They do walk-a-thons, car washes, food and clothing drives, bake sales and visits to nursing homes and hospitals.

Throughout the years, both the middle school and high school have won state recognition for their service to others. The Hehnly School’s club has been cited numerous times in the Jersey Kiwanian, a bi-monthly newsletter, for their outstanding community service.

All of the K-Family groups in Clark are currently participating in the Pennies for Patients drive this month to raise money for and awareness of children who have leukemia and other forms of cancer. This past fall, Key Club members and Clark Kiwanis members assisted in a 5-K Run/Walk which raised $50,000 for multiple myeloma research, a disease which Kiwanis member and co-originator of the event Sheree Pask is battling.

For more information about this philanthropic organization, contact the Clark president Susan Dougherty at crusadersue@hotmail.com.