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[edit] Kiwanis Music Festival & the Kiwanis organization
There is a disambiguation note at the beginning that states
- The Kiwanis Music Festival is an unrelated annual event held in Guelph, Ontario (Canada).
This disambiguation note is wrong on two counts:
- The music festival displays the Kiwanis logo and the Kiwanis web site mentions (though very fleetingly) the festival; the two are clearly connected, not "unrelated" as claimed.
- The music festival is not just held in Guelph, but many Canadian cities, including Toronto, London, and Ottawa (It is very well known in Toronto and I did not even know there is one in Guelph until I read this note)
—Gniw (Wing) 19:15, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
The web site for Toronto’s Kiwanis Music Festival, at http://kiwanismusictoronto.org/ (redirected from official site http://www.kmft.org which is being advertised in subway stations), should settle once and for all that the festival and the organization are related, not “unrelated” as incorrectly claimed in the article.—Gniw (Wing) 00:24, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Service Organization
Does anyone know why Kiwanis (and Rotary, Exhange, Sertoma, etc.) are not allowed to claim they are "service" clubs (category) as opposed to all being forced into a "Fraternal and service club" category that the media likes to force us into? If this is news to you, please don't answer! (Sorry) There's someone around that actually knows this answer off the top of their head. Student7 02:52, 4 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] help
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Was President Harding a Kiwanis? They built a memorial to him in Vancouver's Stanley Park. (154.5.194.215 02:57, 5 October 2007 (UTC))
- Yes. (Unfortunately. I had rather hoped not! :)
- See Vancouver's Park Student7 12:37, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Distinguishing Features
According to the article, the Kiwanis would appear to be paractically identical with any number of similar service organisations. Nonetheless, it would be surprising if this were really the case. Generally, over time and due e.g. to natural drift one would expect differences in make up between groups. Thus one organisation may develop a (usually self sustaining) reputation of being especially politically conservative. Another may be known to attract predominantly Catholics, a third may have a large contingent of people in a certain industry etc. Typically such distinguishing features are not reflected in the organisations charter and may even give rise to a certain amount of embarassment among the leadership; especially if the organisation purports to pursue some goal of inclusiveness (not uncommon among service organisations). Nevertheless it strikes me as an important characteristic, and that it's lack of treatment with respect to Kiwanis seems to me to be an important oversight in this article.
--Philopedia 16:51, 14 August 2007 (UTC)
