The Kiwanis Club of Lewiston was officially chartered on May 17, 1958 with 64 charter members and has a organizational date of March 26, 1958. The charter was declared official at a Dinner held at Louigi's Restaurant in Niagara Falls, New York. Then Governor Dr. Fred Malone of Berlin, New York delivered to the local club its charter. This club was organized under the sponsorship of the North Niagara Falls Club, who with its president and many of its members Attended the meeting.
 

 The Kiwanis Club of Lewiston has continued to be an active and energetic club over the past 50 years supporting many local organizations for the betterment of Lewiston and surrounding areas.  Through several annual fund raising activities the club contributes in excess of $50,000 annually to local service projects.

Charter Members

The six permanent Objects of Kiwanis International were approved by Kiwanis club delegates at the 1924 Convention in Denver, Colorado. Through the succeeding decades, they have remained unchanged.

• To give primacy to the human and spiritual rather than to the material values of life.
• To encourage the daily living of the Golden Rule in all human relationships.
• To promote the adoption and the application of higher social, business, and professional standards.
• To develop, by precept and example, a more intelligent, aggressive, and serviceable citizenship.
• To provide, through Kiwanis clubs, a practical means to form enduring friendships, to render altruistic service, and to build better communities.
• To cooperate in creating and maintaining that sound public opinion and high idealism which make possible the increase of righteousness, justice, patriotism, and goodwill.