Community Service

We purchased Maple Hill historic home to preserve it in the memory of the one time owner - Maurace McLaren - who was a member of our club. It is currently leased to a Montessori School. We have, to date, replaced inside flooring, replaced the shingles with steel roofing, removed old out buildings and cleaned up around the property. There are ongoing projects to refurbish the shutters and clean up the remainder of the property.

Food Trailer
We purchased a food trailer to be able to earn money for community projects and to promote Kiwanis with service at other venues. Our launch was the New Years Eve Circle in the Square celebration at City Hall. Barrie Childrens Day We provide the playground and food service for this annual event.

VIP Program
This year we funded the Values Influences and Peers program of Barrie Police Service.

Kiwanis Builders Club
We support one club at Codrington School and are discussing founding clubs at 2 other schools.

Tennis Ball Challenge
We collected old tennis balls, cut them and fitted them on the table and chair legs in the Public Schools for children with hearing impairments. The noise of the legs on the floor interferes with their hearing devices.

Breakfast for Learning
We funded the purchase of equipment such as fridges and freezers, microwaves for 3 schools.

Huronia Festival of Arts and Crafts
We participate with the Art Club in running this event yearly as well as doing food sales in 2 locations during the event.

Barrie Kiwanis Music Festival
We help the Golden K fund this event annually, and now have 2 members on the fundraising team for the festival.

Bingo
We work at Bingos to raise money to fund projects

Civic Night
Annualy we host the elected officials of Barrie, Oro-Medonte, Essa, Innisfil, and Springwater to dinner as appreciation for their service to the community. Their senior staff often attend also.

Pediatric Treatment Room

For the members of The Kiwanis Club of Barrie, the care of young children is Priority One. Priority One is a Kiwanis program which identifies the needs of young children in the community and develops projects to meet those needs.

One of those projects is the equipping of a Pediatric Treatment Room at Royal Victoria Hospital. The room offers young patients a comfortable setting to receive treatments such as conscious sedation. To date the Kiwanis Club of Barrie has purchased a pediatric cardiac monitor and an infant oxygen saturation monitor for the room.

These valuable pieces of equipment are used during procedures such as conscious sedation and are very much appreciate by young patients such as five-year-old Blake Vavala. Little Blake recently suffered a few mild seizures and in order to determine the cause, the Barrie boy needs to have an EEG. But there’s just one problem. Blake suffers from Autism and would never sit still long enough to go through such a procedure.

The other option would be for his mother Kyla to hold him tightly throughout the entire EEG. This just leaves Blake upset and Kyla exhausted and frustrated.

If only Blake was asleep for the whole thing it would be much easier on everybody     and that is exactly how Blake will have his EEG done.

Since November of 2004, and thanks to the generous support from The Kiwanis Club of Barrie, RVH has been able to offer children like Blake, the Conscious Sedation Program.

“Conscious sedation puts the child in a state of sleep where they can be roused by physical stimulation and always breathing on their own,” said Fievez, who performs two conscious sedations a week.

This type of sedation can be administered orally or through intravenous and is used for children who have to undergo tests which require them to remain still for the results to be valid.

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