The Kiwanis Club of Swainsboro held its weekly meeting Tuesday night, October 17, at the Rustic Grille at 7 p.m. With President-Elect Gary Couse presiding, they had 20 in attendance including two guests, Shari Watt and Joelle Romanchik-Cerpovicz. The Triple-Chocolate cake and the Snickerdoodle cake, donated by Tim Goodman, were won by Tim Goodman and David Gribbin. The Domino's pizza donated by Domino's was won by Wanda Ellis. Tim Goodman gave an update on the Trunk or Treat at the Franklin Memorial Library on October 13, and thanked the five Kiwanians who helped. They had 471 children/parents who were present at the library for the event. Lots of candy was given out with much fellowship. Tim also reminded them about three upcoming events in October and November. The annual Fall Festival in downtown Swainsboro will be on October 24 from 5 to 7 p.m. They will meet at the Boneyard at 3 p.m. to begin to make cotton candy and popcorn. There is another Trunk or Treat at the 4H Varner Center on October 31, starting at 4 p.m. They will be timing the Cotton Blossom Festival 5K on November 4, in Twin City. The run begins at 9 a.m. so they will need to be there at 8:30 a.m. Sign-up sheets for the events were circulated. Tim Goodman introduced Shari Watt the program for the evening. Shari is involved in many things in the community, and she focused her presentation on two of them, the Keep Emanuel County Beautiful campaign and the local Humane Society. She announced they would have a Tire Amnesty Day on November 18, from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. in which people can drop off tires at the landfill free of charge. They continue to encourage citizens to not throw out trash and to pick up trash. They are trying to get small groups together to adopt an area to keep clean, but no organized assignment of target areas has been made and one community clean-up is scheduled for this year. The recycling center has not gotten off the ground. Signs have been placed over the county to promote trash clean up. Shari indicated they have a cat/dog problem in Emanuel County. The Humane Society is promoting spaying and neutering and is hoping to get a lower cost for citizens to get their pet fixed. Currently the Humane Society is only dealing with dogs and the shelter is full. The Forest-Blade devotes one full page to the dog adoption program, but last month 55 dogs had to be euthanized. This Thursday, October 19, Emanuel County Live will videotape a program to show the inside of the shelter. She noted that taking cats and dogs to neighboring counties is against the law.
