Kiwanis Clubs from all over the North Side will be out in the streets this Friday for their yearly Peanut Day fund-raiser.
This is the 80-year-old social service clubs’ only fund-raiser during the year. Those wishing to help with Kiwanis’ volunteer activities can do so by donating a buck or two when a peanut vendor approaches your car.
Volunteer Kiwanis peanut vendors will be manning street corners and intersections throughout Chicagoland wearing orange aprons and offering bags of peanuts for your donations.
On the North Side, clubs from downtown, Lincoln Park, Lake View, Ravenswood, Rogers Park and Forest Glen Mayfair will be working, selling peanuts throughout the day. Over the last ten years these clubs have raised over $500,000 in contributions for club projects, special causes and needy area charities.
“This is really our only time when we ask for the community’s support,” said Danny O’Donnell of the Lake View Kiwanis. “We raise over $20,000 in one day and, believe me, we make that money work like it’s three times as much.”
Organizations which receive funding from Peanut Day include most area high schools and many grade schools to honor student achievement and scholarship, literacy and citizenship organizations, local social service organizations, aid to the disabled, area libraries, shelters and resource centers.
“In light of the recent attack on our country, we cannot lose track of the less fortunate in our community who still are in need of help, even as our attention has been diverted elsewhere,” said O’Donnell.
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