What We Do

Projects

Our club is involved in a variety of projects that involve service to the Baton Rouge and LSU communities, fundraising to support projects, and assisting children and others locally and worldwide. Click on any of the various categories below for descriptions and pictures of our current and past projects.

Meetings

Except occasionally during holiday periods, we meet weekly on Tuesdays from 12 noon to 1 pm for lunch. We usually have speakers from the local area and beyond to share information, issues, organizations and events of interest.

During Fall and Spring semesters when LSU is in session, we meet in the “club room” at The Club at Union Square (formerly known as the LSU Faculty Club) in the center of the LSU campus at the corner of Highland Road and Veterans Drive diagonally across from the LSU Union. The lunch buffet is currently $12.49 including drink, dessert, tax and gratuity. When The Club is closed (primarily in summer), we meet at the same day and time in the small dining room at the Lod Cook Hotel on Lakeshore Drive on the east side of the campus by University lake.

Newcomers, visitors, guests and members of other clubs are always welcome.

Social Activities

In addition to the fellowship we enjoy at our regular lunch meeting, we try to plan some other occasions to socialize. We install our officers at a special night-time dinner each Fall and have a table at the annual Golden Deeds Award banquet coordinated by the Inter-Civic Council of Greater Baton Rouge of which our club is a member. The “prep” night to assemble and cut up ingredients for our annual jambalaya fundraiser is always a fun time. We attend charter nights for new clubs and other special Kiwanis-related events. Occasionally we schedule “happy hour” meetups or have informal events at members’ homes. We have also scheduled field trips for canoeing in the Atchafalaya basin and visiting a sugar cane field and factory or a power-generating facility.

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