Kiwanian Ron Lonicki, A Meriden Native Is Seeking Help; A Kidney
Kiwanian Ron Lonicki, A Meriden Native Is Seeking Help; A Kidney
May 05, 2021 11:13AM
After three decades of helping kids Kiwanian Ron Lonicki, a Meriden native is seeking help; a kidneyÂ
For nearly 30 years of his life, Kiwanian Ron Lonicki has helped people, particularly children.Â
As a member of five different Kiwanis clubs over the past 27 years in locales ranging from Delaware to Maryland to Wisconsin to Louisiana and now to San Diego, Lonicki has done it all. Â Â
Feeding the homeless, reading to children, stuffing and distributing backpacks to inner city kids, supplying Thanksgiving and Christmas meals to families, and mentoring college students are just some acts of kindness Lonicki has done to help make the world a better place.Â
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Ron Lonicki needs a kidney, and like many of the patients on the national waiting list for donor organs, he knows it could be a five- to six-year wait.
But the 63-year-old Escondido man is hoping that his family will come through for him with a live donor organ sooner than that. With more than 500,000 family members to call on for help, he might just be in luck.
For the past 27 years, Lonicki has been a member of Kiwanis International, a service club where members call each other family. As Lonicki’s career in the gaming industry took him to cities all over the country, he donated his time and money to clubs in Wisconsin, Delaware, Maryland, Louisiana and California, and picked up many family members along the way.
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The Los Rancheros Kiwanis Club, based in Rancho Bernardo, has not been able to hold in-person meetings in nearly a year, but that has not stopped the Kiwanians from doing good in the community.
The club was established in 1967 and this year will mark its 54th anniversary. The club’s membership comes from Rancho Bernardo, 4S Ranch, Rancho Peñasquitos, Carmel Mountain Ranch and Sabre Springs.
Kiwanian Jeff Shea said the club is focused right now on a clothing drive it has planned for 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, March 27 at the Westwood Club. Around 6,000 postcards will be going out to promote the event that benefits homeless veterans and military families in need during the North County Veterans Stand Down event in April. It will be an “all hands on deck” project, he said.