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Kiwanis Kapers Official publication of the Kiwanis Club of Fountain Hills, AZ

November 2014

Breakfast

with

Santa That’s right — just like the department stores, we can’t begin to talk about Christ-mas early enough!

Actually, Breakfast with Santa is probably our largest one-day event of the entire year, and it takes a massive amount of effort and coordi-nation to make it such a suc-cess that it is.

Club President Al Roselieb recently called together a planning meeting with a committee that is going to be working on the fun day, set for Saturday, Dec. 6, at the Fountain Hills Communi-ty Center.

The breakfast features a meal from McDonald’s, en-tertainment, pictures with Santa, beverages and more. Plenty of volunteers from the club will be needed to help with set-up, serving refreshments, dressing up like elves, clean up and tear down.

Ticket sales are beginning. So be sure to mark your cal-endar for that Saturday and see Al about volunteering for a spot, if he hasn’t al-ready done so...

Awards galore While plenty of awards were given out at

the year-end banquet in late September,

there were a few things that had to be giv-

en out in early October because some hon-

orees were unavailable for the officer in-

stallation at Eagle Mountain.

So Mike Scharnow, club president for

2013-14, handed out a few items at the

club’s first meeting this administrative

year. The biggest award went to Charlie

Fox, named the “Noon Kiwanian of the

Year” for his efforts in organizing and ad-

vising our Aktion Club at STARS.

“Forming this Aktion Club for challenged

adults at STARS was the most significant

project undertaken this year by our club,”

Scharnow said. “I’m proud to have been a

part of those efforts, and I’m proud to call

Charlie a friend. The Aktion Club truly em-

bodies what Kiwanis is all about, and this

effort will make a tremendous difference

with our club going forward. Charlie has

done a heck of a job with this service lead-

ership program.”

Mike Scharnow, right, presented the Kachina

Award to Paul Appeldorn in recognition of

his many volunteerism efforts.

Charlie Fox, left, was named the 2013-14 Noon

Kiwanian of the Year.

Jerry Comeau was named “most im-

proved Kiwanian” for the year.

Paul Appeldorn was honored with the pres-

tigious Kachina Award in recognition of his

leadership with Noon Kiwanis and his willing-

ness to take on so many projects and pro-

grams for our club. Paul also does many oth-

er volunteerism efforts in the Town of Foun-

tain Hills and is a willing Kiwanian at heart.

Finally, Jerry Comeau, a long-time Kiwani-

an, retired from his job within the past year

and has become much more active with the

club and its service projects. Scharnow rec-

ognized him with a small gift and honored

him as the “most improved Kiwanian.” Schar-

now said Comeau showed that club veterans

can step up and be examples to others.

Fellow Kiwanians:

In musical terms, this word provides direction to gradually increase the tempo or speed of the music. The word “gradual” is not the best choice because our club is asked to immediately ac-celerate our members’ involvement in several projects and fund-raisers during the months of October and November!

First, looking back, our thanks and appreciation to all the members who participated in the Ronald McDonald House on Oct. 5; the Tour de Scottsdale Bike Race on Oct. 12; the Pumpkin Patch between Oct. 18 – 30 for Deacon John Les Callett and the Anglican Church of Atone-ment; the Fountain Hills Make a Difference Day on Oct. 25; and finally the Halloween in the Hills Food Booth on Oct. 31. Wow, that’s accelerating our involvement all right!

During November we turn our attention to the Fountain Festival of the Arts, Nov. 14 – 16; an-other Kiwanis Blood Drive, Nov. 21 – 22; the Thanksgiving Day Parade (let’s help out Phyllis Horan and our Builders and K-Kids); Adopt-a-street on Nov. 11, and of course our Aktion Club meetings at STARS on Nov. 4 and 18. If you haven’t signed up yet to help at the fair, contact either Mike Scharnow or myself to help where you can! Don’t forget trailer cleaning at 8 A.M. on Nov. 6!

Welcome to our newest member, Marty Goodwin, who was sponsored by Phyllis Horan. Remem-ber: EACH ONE REACH ONE! Have you encouraged a potential new member to visit our club yet? Is coming to meetings important? In the words of my Minnesota friends, “You Betcha!” We have a couple of excellent meetings this month, including Pacesetters and Falcon Leaders awards; on Nov. 20 we hear from Jim Miller from Streetlight USA (whose mission is to transi-tion adolescent girls from trauma to triumph).

It’s great when you participate!

A WORD FROM PRESIDENT AL ROSELIEB Accelerando...

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Who is this Mystery Kiwanian? Our Mystery Person was born in Brooklyn, N.Y. and attended schools in

Queens and Brooklyn. He played high school football and intramural sports

and attended college at Staten Island, and grad school at NE University in Bos-

ton, Mass. with a math major. Upon graduation, he went directly to IBM and

spent 30 years moving to Maryland, Florida, Montana, and New Jersey. He

also was involved in consulting work after retiring.

He married his wife Joan in 1965 and they have one son and three grandchil-

dren in Connecticut. He enjoys golf and hiking, and he volunteers at Habitat

for Humanity, and Trail Maintenance, and is also a trustee at his church. He

became a Noon Kiwanis Club member in 2006 and was sponsored by Gary

Oakeson. He is the only Kiwanian to have a waste water storage container

named in his honor, the “Kiwanis Krap Kontraption” — Our wonderful trailer

boss and all-around fixer-upper, Bill Jaeger!

Note: President Al at each meeting will introduce us to a fellow member.

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We Made a Difference Club members pitch in for town-wide volunteer effort as part of a national project

Several Noon Kiwanians joined about 250

other volunteers from around Fountain Hills

to participate in Make a Difference Day,

which is organized by the Town of Fountain

Hills as part of a nationwide effort to plan

one day of volunteer service.

Club President Al Roselieb served as

worksite coordinator, and pitching in to help

were Jon Geller, Mike Scharnow, Charlie

Fox, Gary Oakeson, Brice Moorman, Jerry

Comeau, Bud Fuls, Jean Linzer and Paul Ap-

peldorn. Club members Phyllis Horan and

Pat Costa assisted on a different project, as

did Bill Jaeger and Larry Spade. Paul Ap-

peldorn, along with Jo Nelson, served on the

organizing committee with Town Volunteer

Coordinator Heather Ware to help lead the

town-wide effort. About 40 different projects

were performed that day.

While the club was given another outdoor

landscaping job, this one was slightly more

“doable” than previous jungles handed to

the club. There was a lot of weeding to do,

but most of it occurred on a slippery slope

of granite. Plenty of sore muscles were re-

ported the next day, but that’s the price of

volunteerism and helping our fellow neigh-

bors. Our benefactor this year was a widow-

er who has a difficult time keeping up with

routine maintenance around his house.

“Thank you for giving up a beautiful fall

morning to come out and help a resident in

need of assistance,” Ware wrote to the club.

“Many homeowners who are elderly, physi-

cally impaired, without family or financial

resources cannot keep up their yards.”

This is the fourth straight year in which the

club has participated in Make a Difference

Day, which is billed as the nation’s largest

day of volunteerism. The event started in

1992 when Leap Day fell on a Saturday and

USA WEEKEND asked its readers to spend

their extra day doing something good for

someone else. The response was over-

whelming and has since expanded.

We, as Kiwanians, spend our entire year

doing good things for other people, espe-

cially for children around the world. This

project is just one more way to demonstrate

to Fountain Hills what Kiwanis is all about

and why we give up precious hours on a

Saturday morning to help out fellow resi-

dents in this community.

President Al is behind the lens as he snapped this group shot at the work site.

Jerry Comeau and Al Roselieb tackled plenty of weeds during this volunteer project.

Charlie Fox tried his

best to stay out of the

prickly pear patch as

he worked to make

someone’s yard pre-

sentable to the com-

munity as part of

Make a Difference

Day.

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Kiwanis Kodak Moments

Pumpkin inspector Paul Appeldorn checks out the inventory at Church of the

Atonement’s pumpkin patch. Many of our Kiwanians pitched in to help Deacon John

LesCallett and his parishioners with manning the patch in exchange for a donation

to the club.

Charlie Fox found just the right

pumpkin to take home to daughter

Renee for carving prior to Hallow-

een.

Pitching in recently to help sort food and other tasks at Extended Hands Food Bank

were, from left, Charlie Fox, Mike Scharnow, Brice Moorman, Jon Geller and Al Rose-

lieb. Al was just returning from his summer break and decided a good way to get back

into the Kiwanis spirit was to volunteer for a service project.

Donna Yordy was queen for the day

— or was that king? Our fun-loving

group is always prepared to have a

good time and enjoy the fellowship

of members as they strive to make

the community a better place.

Let’s see, where do

the beans go? How

about snacks? And

these vegetable? So

many crates…..

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A spooky fundraiser A big thanks to the many Kiwanians

who helped out on Halloween night

(and day) to set up, man and tear down

our food concession at Halloween in the

Hills.

This is yet another fall tradition that

started about four years ago — setting

up a food booth to serve the many

young families and others who attend

the ghoulish festivities on Avenue of the

Fountains.

While final dollar figures weren’t in

yet as of presstime, let’s just say the

Halloween event doesn’t make quite

the bank as the two major arts festivals,

but it’s still a fun evening and a good

way to increase our visibility in the

community.

Plus, it’s one more function at which

we can utilize our auxiliary trailer to

haul around tables and chairs, a bor-

rowed grill from Christ’s Church and

all the other equipment and supplies

needed to put on a food concession.

Nate McGuire, Bill Jaeger and Jerry Comeau helped man the grill on Halloween.

Other scary

scenes from

Halloween

night….

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Serving up hope and happiness

Jo Nelson brings a smile in the Ronald McDonald kitchen.

Helping families cope with tough situations Our club members made several

visits to the Ronald McDonald House

over the summer months and into

early fall to help bridge the gap

with a slowdown in service projects

during that time of year.

Members have taken a genuine

liking to this type of service project

since we get to interact with fami-

lies, hear their stories and provide a

personal touch when sometimes the

parents and other family members

are going through difficult times.

Those with children who are in the

hospital with several medical condi-

tions truly appreciate coming back

to the residential facility known as

the Ronald McDonald House and

enjoying a home-cooked meal.

The Noon Kiwanis Club scheduled

visits throughout 2014 in conjunc-

tion with several other clubs from

Division 12, and it is anticipated that

a similar arrangement can be made

for 2015. That way, Kiwanis will be-

come known for the service it pro-

vides and for the blessings it gives

to families who are genuinely hurt-

ing and in need of comforting.

A resident is all smiles as

she dishes up some food.

Jon Geller visits with two ladies during a recent visit. Some-

one must have grabbed his camera while he wasn’t looking

and managed to get a shot of him….

Jon Geller and Charlie Fox pre-

sent pop tabs to a staffer with

Ronald McDonald House. Our

club collects kans, and the RM

House collects the tabs….

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Tour de Kiwanis assistance A big thanks to Kachina Award

winner Paul Appeldorn for once

again chairing a volunteer effort

to help with the Tour de Scotts-

dale.

The October bike race encom-

passes 70 miles and starts and

ends in Scottsdale, with the

route traveling through Fountain

Hills. Paul assembled a volun-

teer crew consisting of Noon

Kiwanis members along with

other community residents who

love to volunteer and help with

this event.

The volunteers manned an aid

station on the high school cam-

pus that featured beverages,

snacks, fruit, energy bars and

more. Bikers gladly refilled their

beverage containers before

having to trudge up Palisades

Blvd. as they made their way

toward Shea Blvd. and Scotts-

dale.

Not every project that features

Kiwanians has to be a Kiwanis-

branded program. Kiwanians

are becoming well known in

Fountain Hills for working on a

wide variety of service projects

that promote families, youths

and volunteerism in general.

Paul Smith alerts bicyclists there is an aid station available where they can take a break.

The volunteer crew assembled for a quick photo before getting busy on a Sunday morning.

These guys didn’t need no stinkin’ aid station…. Volunteers get drinks ready before the bikers arrive.

November 4 Aktion Club meeting at STARS

November 6 Luncheon meeting

November 11 Adopt-A-Street

November 13 NO MEETING; set-up for Fountain Festival

November 14-16 Fountain Festival food booth

November 18 Aktion Club meeting at STARS

November 20 Luncheon meeting; Jim Miller, Streetlight USA

November 21-22 Community Blood Drive

November 27 Thanksgiving Day Parade; no meeting

Upcoming Calendar of Events

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Kollecting Kans

Paul “The Kan Man” Ap-

peldorn continues to collect

kans from our members. Pro-

ceeds are used to help buy

clothing and other essentials

for needy children in Nogales,

Mexico as part of our Kiwanis

Across the Border project.

Look for a future announce-

ment regarding a trip to

Nogales, Mexico in January

2015.

Adopt-A-Street

We have the following dates

scheduled for the remainder

of 2014: November 11 (to get

ready for the fair) and Decem-

ber 30 (to get ready for the

New Year). Brice, welcome to our club!

Brice Moorman, center, recently joined the Kiwanis Club of Fountain Hills, with Paul

“Mr. Kachina” Appeldorn as his sponsor. Brice was looking to get involved with some

volunteer efforts in the community after retiring early from the computer industry.

Brice has already worked on several service projects for our club and we look forward

to his continued involvement throughout the year.