By PEGGY REVELL T
Cameron Kemp joined the Medicine Hat Kinsmen Club in 2005 and now serves as the club's president. Kemp enjoys being a part of a club that offers free swimming and free skating to families in the community.
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he spirit of service lives on as new generations pick up the torch with community service organizations.
“Some people do book clubs, some people get together for girls night. I guess I do Rotary,” said 33-year- old Hatter Andrea Seiler. Rotary has always been a part of her life — her father was a Rotarian and the family hosted Rotary exchange students growing up. At 17 Seiler travelled to Germany as a Rotary exchange student.
Seiler joined an Edmonton Rotary club back in 2005. Moving back to Medicine Hat in 2008, she and others came together to charter the new PACE Rotary Club in 2009. It’s just one of four Rotary clubs serving the Medicine Hat community, alongside Sunrise Rotary, Saamis Rotary and Medicine Hat Rotary,
“I really appreciate the global perspective that Rotary brings to my life,” Seiler explained. “I like knowing that other people in other places are doing the same things and that our goal is to essentially help people.”
And helping people is what all these service clubs are about.
“It’s a way to give back to the community,” said Cameron Kemp, 34, who joined the Medicine Hat Kinsmen Club in 2005 and now serves as president. Growing up in Medicine
Hat, Kemp saw the various things the Kinsmen did for the community — free skating, free swimming, he even remembers participating in the Kinsmen Skate-a-thon at his school.
As he gets older he looks back and can see other ways the organization supported youth, such as the Kinsmen Childrens Library, the Kinplex and most recently the Kinsmen Aquatic Centre at the Leisure Centre and as a sponsor of the YMCA.
The Kinsmen project Kemp is most proud of was building the beach volleyball courts at Kin Coulee park when Medicine Hat hosted the Alberta Summer Games in 2008.
“That was the first project I was ever involved in where it was actually physical labour,” he said. “We helped haul the sand around, we cemented the posts in the ground, we spent many evenings getting together as a smaller group to get the various tasks done — so it wasn’t just us cutting a cheque.”
And when it comes to hours put into community service, it’s not just adults giving back.
Branching out from the local Kiwanis club is the Key Club at Crescent Heights High School.
“It’s a way that they learn to be giving and empathetic and it really opens their eyes to the bigger world out there,” said Heather McCaig, the teacher who has helped oversee the local club over the years. Working
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