The Taylorville Kiwanis Club worked earlier this month to prepare Kiwanis Park on Lake Taylorville, for residents to enjoy as we head into the summer.

Kiwanis members Duane Stock and Larry Kemner, co-chairs of the Kiwanis Park Committee, put time in cleaning, sawing, and moving portions of downed trees, rock, and the adjoining firepit.

Kiwanis Park was founded in cooperation with the City of Taylorville, in 1995.  A pavilion was constructed by the club that year, then over the years, playground equipment, a firepit, restrooms, a smaller pavilion, and a concrete pad for another yet-to-be-built small pavilion, have all been added.

The Taylorville Kiwanis Club Foundation, and donations from the community, will help replace the aging floor in the large pavilion, this year.

The Taylorville Kiwanis Club is part of a global organization of volunteers dedicated to improving the world one child and one community at a time.  Weekly meetings are held Tuesdays at noon at the Taylorville Moose Lodge.  For information on the club, go to taylorvillekiwanis.com.