Thanks for Supporting Empty Bowls 2025!

Thanks to everyone who came out Sunday to Oakdale to make our Empty Bowls event a success! Also thanks to the volunteers and sponsors. We raised money for W.H.E.A.T. and for Ashland Kiwanis projects benefiting children.

#KidsNeedKiwanis

If you missed Empty Bowls 2025 but would like to help support W.HE.A.T. (Western Hanover Emergency Action Team) Please contact them at the WHEATHelp website!

Welcome our new 2024-25 Club Officers and Directors

The Kiwanis Club of Ashland, VA announces its New Officers for 2024-25.

The Ashland Kiwanis Club year runs from October to October.

The new Club officers are:

President- Mike Fonseca

President-Elect- John Dywer

Vice President- Art Bykonen

Treasurer- Ed Cooper

Secretary- Suzanne Dubose

Assistant Secretary- Ed Hutchinson

Immediate Past President- Bill Hefele

The 2023-25 Club Directors are:

John Hartman, Suz Morrison, Mike Carter and Drew Molloy

The 2024-26 Club Directors are:

Bill Barga, Cheri Shehane, PJ Edmonds and Pam Sopall

The officers were installed at the first club meeting of October.

The Ashland Kiwanis Club is one of the oldest Kiwanis clubs in Virginia, dating back to 1923, and the only Kiwanis club in Hanover County.

Throughout their history, Ashland Kiwanis’ service projects have been geared to the community – Ashland as well as the rest of the county.  The club believes youths are the keys to their future and to the future of our country.  Through their many and varied service projects and programs, they promote, nurture and guide the children of the county. They, in turn, can build and make local neighborhoods the types of places people can be proud to call their own.

Ashland Kiwanis plans the annual Ashland/Hanover Holiday Parade. This year the 55th parade will be held Sunday, November 24th.

The club welcomes all service-oriented men and women to become Ashland Kiwanians. The Kiwanis motto is serving the children of the world, one community and one child at a time.

More information about Ashland Kiwanis can be found at https://ashlandvakiwanis.org #KidsNeedKiwanis

Ashland/Hanover 55th Annual Holiday Parade Applications Are Due

The Kiwanis Club of Ashland is once again assembling the Olde Time Holiday Parade for the citizens of Ashland and Hanover County. This is the 55th annual parade to bring Santa to Town. We usually have about 100 entries in the parade so we must start early to get all the plans in place for this event.

As always, the parade will be held on the Sunday before Thanksgiving, this year that will be the 24th of November.

Again, this year, all invitations were emailed to all recent parade participants the second week of September. Note, we said Emailed. Look for Survey Monkey.  If your organization has not participated in the parade in the past and would like to be considered, please review the information at this application link:

parade application link

Submit your application through the link prior to the deadline. All entries are to be made through SurveyMonkey.  Entries are due back to us by October 11th.

 It is very difficult, if not impossible to add entries after the lineup has been established. We look forward to seeing you either in or at the parade on November 24th. We step off at 2:00pm.

Happy Holidays, early. You may contact us at [email protected] should there be questions.