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The service clubs at record size: one Rotary club at full strength, and Kiwanis and Lions tested to a negative

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To November 2026 · documented strength only

Granger Sunrise Rotary — the set's one full entry: The Granger Sunrise Rotary Club is this ground's service club of record, a Rotary International club seated in Granger and documented across a decade of the township's own paper trail. Its signature commitment stands in the Parks record as banked and in the Harris Township file: when Harris Township proposed its new park on the east side of Elm Road, the club made a multi-year commitment to build the playground in it — swings, slide, picnic tables and a pavilion, construction expected that spring, with club fundraisers to finance the equipment and volunteers recruited to install it (Granger Does It Magazine's account, carried in the township's park file, January 2016) — and Harris Township Park at Elm Road, opened under Trustee Ken Lindsay and the Harris board in 2016 with its playground in place, is the built result the Parks leg carries. The club's own later record keeps the same working shape: its 2023 activities and service calendar (the club's ClubRunner file) lists the Euchre Night fundraiser, the outlet dinner, Cultivate food-processing service, the Girls on the Run 5K, Camp Mariposa family service, a South Bend Cubs outing and the Riverbend Cancer Center among its projects — a breakfast club's full year, printed at the size the file gives it.

Kiwanis and Lions — the tested negative: No Kiwanis club and no Lions club seated in Granger appears in the club directories, the Gazette-derived township file or any source reached for this section: the "Lions" of this build's Arts record is the St. Pius X parish school's mascot, not the club, as the register itself notes, and no Granger Kiwanis charter, meeting notice or project stands anywhere in the record. County Kiwanis and Lions clubs seated in South Bend and Mishawaka serve the area at their own seats and are not annexed. The set therefore prints as the register directs — documented strength only, thinner clubs thinner: one club whole, two clubs as a named negative, and the settler for any correction stated plainly (the district directories of Kiwanis International's Indiana District and Lions' district roster, read against a Granger charter).

Sources:

  1. Granger Does It Magazine, January 2016 (via the Harris Township park file, harristwp.com) — the Granger Sunrise Rotary's multi-year playground commitment at the proposed Elm Road park; the fundraisers and volunteer installation.
  2. Parks leg (banked) — the Elm Road park and the Rotary commitment as carried there; Harris Township record, September 2018 Gazette account — the park opened 2016 under Trustee Lindsay with playground, courts and diamond.
  3. Granger Sunrise Rotary Club, Activities & Service Projects 2023 (ClubRunner) — the service calendar as printed.
  4. Club-directory and build-wide sweeps for a Granger Kiwanis or Lions charter — none reached; the parish-school mascot distinction as noted in the register.

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Source: The service clubs at record size: one Rotary club at full strength, and Kiwanis and Lions tested to a negative, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/granger/charities/service-clubs-at-record-size-one-rotary-club-at/