Diversity Kiwanis of Sioux Falls

July 23rd, 2008 was a BIG day for the city of Sioux Falls. The Carson Barnes Circus presented two shows in our city, hosted by the Diversity Kiwanis Club of Sioux Falls. The Carson Barnes Circus is an old-fashioned 70 year old family circus that travels from town to town, city to city throughout the Midwest.
The BIG TOP was raised at about 9AM on Circus Day, an event open to the public. What an amazing process to watch a tent, the size of a football field, being raised by the elephants!! 275 stakes are driven each and every day as the tent goes up and down every 24 hours at each new stop by the traveling circus. In the afternoon, Circus goers were greeting by a petting zoo, where patrons were allowed to pet and feed the animals, including the elephants. Pony rides, elephant and camel rides preceded the two shows at 4:30 and 7:30. The event sported 3 rings with elephants, performers, motorcyclists, acrobats, puppies, and horses, all under the protection of the 2000 seat tent. No one left hungry as there was plenty of the normal Circus fare of popcorn, hotdogs, nachos, cotton candy, Carmel apples, ect. If you did not attend, you won’t want to miss the next Circus when it returns to Sioux Falls in 3 years!
The Kiwanis Circus was the first major fundraiser for this 1 ½ year old club. Billion Automotive was a very generous Sponsor for this event, which helped this club get a jump start for fundraising. A portion of the proceeds will go to CASA, or Court Appointed Special Advocates, an organization that supports abused and neglected children going through the court system. The remainder of proceeds have helped support many other projects including, purchasing books for kids in need, the purchase of sport equipment for children on the Rosebud Reservation here in South Dakota, money for costs to ship shoes to needy Guatemalan children, the purchase of material for the blanket project for local children, the purchase of food for the Mobile to You Food Bank here in Sioux Falls.
It has been a joy to have the funds to assist in the welfare of children, locally and abroad. We couldn’t do it without the donations of our Sponsors, and the countless hours of volunteer efforts of our members.
On behalf of Diversity Club of Sioux Falls, a big Thank You to all that helped to make our events and causes a success.


Over $2000 from the proceeds were donated to the Sioux Falls CASA program!!

A HUGE thank you goes out to all of our sponsors who made this event possible:

Billion Automotive

Results Radio

Argus Leader

Security National Bank

Plains Commerce Bank

NSS

Sunshine Foods

Pilates Center