Cookie Making Party!

The Kiwanis Club, for the last five years have baked, bought or otherwise obtained, enough cookies for each of the residents in Regency Care Canter, Arlington, WA.  The cookies have been gift wrapped in a variety of ways, including home-made felt stockings, brown lunch bags and snow flaked decorated cellophane bags.  Each gift bag contains about 6 cookies and then are tied up with ribbon or raphia with a greeting tag on them wishing the recipient a Happy Holiday Season from the Kiwanis Club of Arlington!                                                     

Some years, cookies have been made especially for diebetic residnts.  The Care Center has taken on the responsibilty of monitoring the people who are sugar intolerant. 

The gift packaging is done during one of the clubs regular meeting nights and then the cookies are delivered to the convelescent center, usually during the first week in December.  This year, the excess cookies were given to some foster care families in Arlington.

Other events recently, not pictured,  is the annual swag making work parties that always involve about 25 members of the Kiwanis Club.  The swags are then sold by the membership to friends and/or neighbors who have purchased them in previous years.  The swags adorn doorways of homes and businesses in and around Arlington.  More than 200 swags were made and sold during 2009.  The proceeds from the project benefit the youth & community service funds.  Visits to other Kiwanis Clubs for an Interclub have been part of the swags sales project, as well.