Kiwanis Club Upgrades Community Center's Rock Wall

The rock wall at the Caldwell Community will be getting an extension thanks to a donation from the Kiwanis Club.

On Tuesday afternoon, Kiwanis Club President Mildred Fitzdurgh handed Director of the Community Center Robert Paterson a check for $2,500 to go toward lengthening the current rock wall by about 20 feet. 

"Kiwanis Club is an organization dedicated to changing the world one community and one child at a time," said Fitzdurgh. "The rock wall looks great." 

The donation, said Paterson, "validates what we are doing" at the Community Center, which is "giving back to the community … and giving kids a safe place to be … and giving families a safe place to put their kids when they go to work." 

The current rock wall is located in the Community Center's gymnasium and is 8-feet high by about 40-feet wide. The addition to the rock wall will be set up by the end of August. 

The rock wall was originally purchased using donated funds from the Kiwanis Club two years ago, said Paterson, and now the club is finishing what it started. 

"It was one of the things that I wanted when I first started here," Paterson said, because it is something everyone can use. 

"Physically it is phenomenal," Paterson said. "I have adults that get on it because it is a great physical work out … and the kids have a great time [on it] and they don't even know they are exercising."