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The service clubs as clubs, dated: a Lions club, a Kiwanis club, and the Rotary's missing charter

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1940–2026 · THIS GROUND — TWO POSITIVES THE FRAGMENTS MISSED, ONE NAMED GAP

The test the fragments failed, run properly: the register noted that "Lions" and "Kiwanis" returned no club hits anywhere in the build — the build's only Lions being a school mascot. Tested against the orders' and the press's own records, both clubs exist on this ground, and the findings print as positives. The Clay-Granger Lions Club is a Granger club in the federal record — Post Office Box 526, Granger, with a directory seat at 16360 Fairfield Lane — whose tax profile carries a ruling date of December 1940 (rendered "founded in 1940" by CauseIQ's profile; a ruling date is not a charter date, and the charter itself is not in the open record reached, so the club's age prints at exactly that strength). Its present life is documented in its own district's paper: District 25-G's Tales shows Clay-Granger Lions running Operation KidSight vision screenings in the county — September 2024 with the Lydick and Mishawaka clubs, and on 25 February 2025 at the Clay United Methodist Church pre-school, forty-nine children screened and three referred, members Andy and Kelly Edelbrock, Dave Coffman and John Krzyzanowski named — volunteering with Cultivate Food Rescue on 24 September 2024, serving Nelson's Port-A-Pit with the Boy Scouts at Charlie's Express 66, 215 East Cleveland Road, in the Tribune's community-meals listing, and thanked by name in the Granger Gazette of October 2018, Trustee Lindsay's column, for designing and installing the flower beds along the central walkway at Harris Township Park. The Knute Rockne Memorial Kiwanis Club of Granger stands in the Tribune's record by 2008 — "Granger Kiwanis Club has big plans for 2008," its president Roger Skurski, a retired Notre Dame economics professor, the club carrying gifts and money for babies at Hannah's House in Mishawaka under the Kiwanis motto — in the Indiana District's record through Jim Wruck of the Knute Rockne Memorial club, the district's governor in 2006–07, and in Kiwanis International's own record as late as the winter of 2023–24, taking a Children's Fund microgrant to make fleece blankets for Camp Evergreen, a bereavement camp for children; a 2000 Tribune listing has the club's golf outing at the Sprig-O-Mint course in Bremen. Whether it still meets in November 2026 was not verified in the open record reached; Kiwanis International's club locator is the named settler. Granger Sunrise Rotary is the roster's documented third: its works are in the build (the Elm Road playground commitment, from the January 2016 account) and in the Gazette (the park benches of October 2018), its ClubRunner house carries its 2023 calendar of activities and service projects, and its club number is 4168 in District 6540. Its charter date, however, was not found in the district's or the club's published record reached, and that sub-item closes as this section's clean named gap: the settler is Rotary International's own club record for Club No. 4168, held by the district office.

From the federal tax and directory record for the Clay-Granger Lions Club (P.O. Box 526, Granger; the December 1940 ruling date, labeled as such; 16360 Fairfield Ln); Lions District 25-G, Tales, October 2024 and April 2025 (KidSight, Cultivate Food Rescue, the named members); the Tribune community-meals listing (Charlie's Express 66); the Granger Gazette, October 2018 (the flower beds; the Rotary benches). Kiwanis: the Tribune, 2008 and 2000 (the Skurski presidency; the Sprig-O-Mint outing); the Indiana District of Kiwanis (Governor Wruck, 2006–07); Kiwanis International, kiwanis.org (the 2023–24 Camp Evergreen microgrant). 4168; the 2023 calendar); the charter date a named gap, settler named in the text.

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Source: The service clubs as clubs, dated: a Lions club, a Kiwanis club, and the Rotary's missing charter, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/granger/private-clubs/service-clubs-as-clubs-dated-a-lions-club-a/