Kiwanis Club Transforms Into Summit Community Club

The members of the Summit Kiwanis Club have formed a new organization aimed at supporting Summit's  Youth.

The new Summit Community Club in currently a group of five women all interested in projects to assist Summit's children. Their main projects are Project Graduation and assisting Golfer's Giving Inc., a 5013c started by Madeline Brown-Paris to support autism education.

The group will sponsor a Ladies Autism Golf Outing on September 11 at the Hyatt Hills Golf Complex in Clark.  Tickets are $125 and include a continental breakfast, 1 and 1/2 hours of golf lessons, lunch and nine holes of golf.  Reduced price tickets are available to anyone who brings in business card sponsors.

Proceeds from the event will be used to provide scholarships for individuals pursuing a career in Autism education. 

For more information about the golf outing and scholarship application, contact Madeline Brown-Paris at 908 578 8319 or send email to info@golfersgivinginc.org or info@summitcommunityclub.com.

The Summit Community Club meets on the first Monday of each month (second Monday in the event of a holiday) at 7:30a.m. at Café Mavi. Anyone interested in the group's mission or projects is welcome to attend.

"If you care about Summit's youth, this is an organization to be involved with," Tauber said.

While the Summit Kiwanis Club has been dissolved, the high school Key Club will now be sponsored once again by the Chatham Kiwanis Club.

Tauber said the new organization might evolve to the point where its members can assist other community groups in town with their projects, such as Bridges or Shaping Summit Together.

Tauber also said they would like to join forces with another community group to hold some sort of forum of event to discuss the youth issues surrounding the murder of 47-year-old Abelino Mazariego in July. Several teenagers, including several from Summit, have been charged with murder and conspiracy in connection with Mazariego's death. The victim was beaten to death in the Promenade on Springfield Avenue at 9:25 p.m. on a Saturday night.

"I think we need a more unified community response, perhaps a forum," Tauber said. "I would definitely like to see us get involved in that."

For more information about the Summit Community Club, contact Tauber at (908) 273-0525 or send email to info@summitcommunityclub.com.