Kiwanis Nebraska-Iowa District

Vol. 54, No. 3 Kiwanian District Bulletin February ‘09-March ‘09

My job is to sell the Bellevue-Offutt community as a great place to live, work and play. Civic organizations like Kiwanis make my job easier through their work to impact the lives of children, share with the elderly and support the community environment through such events, and specifically a festival that is a cornerstone of our commu-nity image. I can describe our community to people, but Kiwanis shows the community.

Bellevue without Kiwanis and other civic organizations would be

like a painting without color. And without you working tirelessly for your community, who would? The government? Really, you all pay taxes, why not stay home take care of yourself and let your govern-ment do it?

Because in your heart you know that being part of a community

means taking care of that community. Because you will pass through this world only once, and any good thing that you can do or kindness you can show will make all the difference in the world.

You are - extraordinary people doing extraordinary work for your

community. Your service and commitment is why people stay in town or come back!

The kindness you show, the commitment you have, is impressive.

The people you impact will never be able to completely tell you how profoundly you’ve helped. But I’m telling you now what you are do-ing every day for people is POWERFUL.

The Kiwanian influence of a beautiful, helpful character is conta-

gious, and CAN revolutionize a whole town. Thank you for your beautiful spirit. Thank you for being a Kiwanian.

Megan Lucas Keynote Message Megan is the Bellevue Chamber of Commerce president. She gave one of the two Keynote addresses at the NE-IA Kiwanis District Midyear Conference on Saturday, February 7th.

Look at all the stuff in this project wagon. We have dictionaries, food for the food bank, Habitat for Humanity hammers, school supplies, playground equipment, etc. Who does this? YOU DO! KIWANIS CAN DO IT BE-CAUSE YOU HAVE THE CAN-DO ATTITUDE!

In every community, there is work to be done. In every community

there are wounds to heal. In every heart THERE IS the power to do it. The Kiwanis heart is very powerful.

Kiwanians give 6 million service hours a year – to who? To your

community and to youth. Why do you do it? You do it to change the world one child and one community at a time! You do it because you have the spirit of community, and you care for one another.

I can tell you that without Kiwanis the Bellevue-Offutt community

would lack heart – and I know several of your members, so I can also say that this community would miss your organization! I’m certain that the communities you serve know that you give the community heart – they may take it for granted, but they know it. Without you, who would build playgrounds, who would support the food banks, and who would sell peanuts?

Governor Don's Message

Our theme for this Kiwanian is “service leadership.” For the 2007-2008 fiscal year, the NE-IA Kiwanis District clubs provided over 135,000 hours of service to their communities and youth.

Community projects include blood drives, meals on wheels, highway cleanup, senior centers, community development, hospice, ticket takers, recycling, Habitat for Humanity and many others.

Youth projects include dictionaries for 3rd graders, mentoring at-risk children, YMCA, sponsors for Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, or Little League, volunteer hours at the library, school volunteer, tutoring students, reading programs, Special Olympics, Food Backpacks for Children, Miracle League, 4-H activities, Bring Up Grades, etc.

I want to thank each of you for the service leadership you provide. Together, we are “changing the world, one child and one community at a time.” Governor Don Glenn

2009 Midyear Conference (By Frank Murphy, District Secretary)

Over 300 Kiwanians attended the Midyear Conference at Bellevue

East High School in Bellevue, Nebraska on Saturday, February 7th. The theme of the conference was “Growth Through Service”. Our first Keynote Speaker was Gus Gustafson.

Gus battled for his life at age 9 fol-

lowing a tractor accident that took his right arm and shoulder and crushed his right leg. In spite of his injury, he was determined to excel in athletics.

He played varsity basketball

(Honorable Mention, All-State) and earned the respect of the coach who once said he'd never make the team.

For Gus, each set-back presented an opportunity to grow. Today,

Gus is a successful businessman and motivator. To experience his message is to lose all self-doubt and to find the strength to succeed. He'll showed us how, with three simple keys:

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1. Process the garbage in your life - once when he was down and despondent, his dad told him that he had to decide whether he was going to lay around all day in garbage or decide to make fertilizer out of the garbage. That changed his life

2. Never give up and 3. Have the courage to face

the next challenge. We marveled at everything this "one-armed

guy" can do and how he overcame obstacles of having only one arm! For all his amazing accomplishments, however, he connects with people, recognizing that everyone struggles with challenges. In Gus' story, we found inspi-ration and guidance to rise above our own limits - whether they're imposed by circum-stances, other people or ourselves.

Following the keynote, we

had two breakout sessions with 11 growth topics each. The topics included Growing out Foundations, Growing our Youth (K-Kids, Builders Club, Key Club, Key Leader and Circle K), Growing our Aktion Clubs and Special Olympics participation, Grow-ing the FUN in FUNd raising, Growing our Leaders, Growing Individual Members and Grow-ing Your Club. Many of the breakout presentations are be-ing put on our new Web site at www.ne-ia.kiwanisone.org.

Through out the day, the fol-

lowing information displays were available:

Governor Don’s Food Bank (Members were asked to bring canned food for the local food banks)

Kiwanis Store Key Leader Aktion Club Builder’s Club Key Club K-Kids Clubs Circle K Clubs Miracle League Field

(Des Moines Metro) District and Kiwanis In-

ternational Foundations James Gaul Award Kiwanis International Convention in Nashville (June 25-28) District Convention in Omaha (August 14-16)

Following lunch, the Mid-year Conference gave out over 100 awards, which included Distinguished Clubs, Out-standing Sec-retaries, Kiwanis Foundation Annual Gift Cam-paign, Foundation Awards, Club Web-site Awards, Club Newsletter, Club Brochure and Interclub Contest winners.

Our second Keynote address was by Megan Lucas, who is the Bellevue Chamber of Commerce President (see page 1 for her mes-sage). We concluded the Midyear Conference by all joining Roger Severson in singing “God Bless The USA.”

Key Club “Hat and Mitten Drive” By the Ogallala Key Club

Thanks to the generosity of Ogallala community members, over

625 warm clothing items were donated to the Ogallala High School Key Club Hat and Mitten Drive. During the month of December, collection boxes and trees were placed at several downtown locations and area churches.

Key Club members met with business representatives and made

arrangements for trees and posters to be displayed in their businesses. Key Club members also asked their home churches to sponsor a col-lection box during the month of December.

Steve Christensen and sponsor, Audrey Hunt, of PAKS Develop-

mental Services teamed up to help the Key Club with the project by collecting and sorting all the donations.

The group collected 116 hats, 32 scarves, 173 pairs of gloves and

mittens, 160 pieces of underwear and 138 pairs of socks. The dona-tions were in a variety of sizes.

The clothing was distributed to Head Start, Ogallala Public

Schools K-6, St. Luke’s Catholic School and St. Paul’s Lutheran School.

Photo caption: Mr. Jim Jeffres, Prairie View Elementary Principal, accepts a box of hats, mittens, gloves, scarves and underwear from Ogallala Key Club members Amber Flaming (front), Ryan Flaming and Walker Edwards (back).

We Made an Impression by Carol Hutzell, Algona Morwens Kiwanis Club

I accompanied my husband Floyd Hutzell to Bellevue to attend the

Kiwanis Midyear Conference. A number of attendees were staying at the Settle Inn motel. They were up early for breakfast in the lobby prior to leaving for the meeting.

I went for breakfast much later and found myself alone with the “breakfast lady.” I had no sooner sat down when she approached me and asked if I might know any of the folks who had been there ear-lier.

Yes, I said, one was my husband and I know a few others as well. “Well,” she said, they were the most polite and well behaved group of people she had ever witnessed in her job.

She went on that they were so polite and friendly to everyone and she wanted to know what group they were associated with because she wanted to tell her daughter, who lives in California about them.

So we had a long talk about Kiwanis and the types of activities which members are involved.

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2008-09 Calendar of Events for Nebraska-Iowa Kiwanis

Feb 14-22 Governor's Tour, Southern Caribbean Cruise

Feb 27-1 Circle K District Convention, Cedar Falls, IA

Apr 4 Kiwanis One Day

May 1-2 2009-2010 Lt. Governor Training

May 12 Kiwanis Club of Des Moines, 90th Birthday Party

Jun 25-28 Kiwanis International Convention, Nashville, TN

Aug 14-16 NE-IA District Convention, Holiday Inn Central, Omaha, NE

Oct 16-18 Iowa Key Leader Camp , St. Charles, IA

Nov 7-9 Nebraska Key Leader Camp , Gretna, NE

New NE-IA Kiwanis District Website

Since last year, we have been working on the development of a new NE-IA Kiwanis District Web site and have been migrating in-formation to the new Web site and including new information on the new website.

With this newsletter we are no longer updating information on the old Web site but will provide a link from the old Web site to the new Web site. Eventually, we will discontinue access to the old Web site.

The new Web site address is: www.ne-ia.kiwanisone.org. If you have an suggested improvements, please forward them to the webmaster@nikiwnais.org.

Fill The Bus for the Mission Kiwanis Club of Lincoln Northeast

In December, the Builders Club of St. John the Apostle School, Lin-coln, Nebraska, sponsored by the Kiwanis Club of Lincoln North-east, coordinated a school-wide drive to “Fill The Bus” with clothing for the Peoples City Mission of Lincoln. Over 4,000 pounds were collected. 32 Builders, their advisors, 6 Ki-wanians, and 4 parents helped load the bus, a trailer and 3 trucks. The students delivered the items, followed by a tour of the Mission. Touring the Mission was a very rewarding experience for the Build-ers especially, during December when the focus is on receiving.

Orchard Place Service Project Des Moines Westside

For years, the Des Moines Westside Club has hosted an annual holi-

day party for children receiving services at Orchard Place. Orchard Place is a private non-profit located in Des Moines providing mental health and juvenile justice services for more than 5,600 children annu-ally.

On December 9, we hosted a party complete with pizza and pop and,

of course, a visit from Santa. Club members choose names of children and purchased special gifts from their wish list. For years, this event has left us feeling as good as it has the children, but this year was different.

During the party, we learned of 12 additional children who had not

been adopted, and as we tried to process that, it stunned us all. Our families do not have any exceptional needs, and we could not imagine 12 children facing such a bleak holiday season.

Although time was very short, the elves of the Westside Club quickly

got wish lists from these 12 children, hurried out to purchase and wrap an additional set of gifts and hosted a second party.

How do we know it mattered? We got a lot of great appreciation from

the children and even personal thank you notes, but one young lady showed us the real spirit of the holiday.

Somehow the wish list for this young girl had an error. Her clothing

size was listed completely wrong. We had gotten her size as a 12 when she was actually a 2. Even though there was absolutely no way the clothes she got would fit, she was so excited to have new clothes.

She even talked about wearing them the next day, so the staff from

Orchard Place were going to go out first thing the next day and ex-change them for the right size. She was so appreciative and so sweet.

It really makes you stop and think – how many of us even had clothes

on our wish list? And how many of us could have shown so much joy in getting something that did not even fit?

That my friends is “Christmas Magic,” and we learned it from the

children. I wish we had photos to share with you, but these children do not have photo releases. Just imagine huge smiles on young faces and you have the picture.

Linda Young-Streit, Executive Director LINK ASSOCIATES "Providing people with mental disabilities

opportunities to achieve their personal goals."

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Kiwanis International Conventions Nashville June 25-28

Come to the 94th Annual Kiwanis International Convention June 25-28! You’ll meet new friends, reconnect with old ones - and have a blast in Music City. There’s a dy-namic program planned this year, with targeted educational tracks and specialized ses-sions on member retention, club development and growth. And don’t forget the fun! It starts with the Opening Session from 2:00-4:00 p.m. on June 25 and builds to the Satur-day Night Stampede on June 27 at the Wildhorse Saloon, where there will be dinner and dance lessons at an exclusive Kiwanis party.

Our District has been assigned to the awesome Gaylord Opryland Resort!! The rate

is $149/night with the price changing to $166 if made after April 25. Don’t wait, regis-ter for the convention and hotel soon!

We are planning a wonderful District Dinner (cruise departure at 6:15 with social

hour from 6:15 to 7:20; dinner and relaxation from 7:20 to 10:00) aboard the General Jackson Showboat. Please join Governor Don and First Lady Linda on Thursday, June 25 for an awesome evening along with the Minnesota-Dakotas District. The Southern Nights Dinner Cruise allows you to spend the evening on the outdoor deck of the Gen-eral Jackson Showboat while enjoying a delicious dinner buffet and relaxing as you sail along the Cumberland River in the Tennessee night sky. This peaceful and elegant cruise treats you to an evening under the stars. After a fabulous dinner, you can sit back and enjoy the beauty of the area, or dance with that special someone on the top deck in the Tennessee moonlight. Cruise lasts approximately 2.5 hours.

The cost for the dinner/cruise is $37, which includes tax and gratuity. The General

Jackson is located 8 minutes from the hotel proper and is on the complex …but not a good walk. The hotel has a free shuttle for individuals…and has an exclusive shuttle option for groups of 20 or more…they charge $6.00 per person for that (no tax), and will designate a specific departure point at the hotel and a dedicated bus to bring guests over; the return bus in not exclusive. There is also free parking for those who will be driving.

The General Jackson Showboat is wheelchair accessible, but the upper deck is restricted. Casual attire is recommended; cash bar; cruise is

non-smoking; there are interior rooms in case of inclement weather; cruises are appropriate for all ages. See you in Nashville.

Lenora Hanna, Chair On-to-International Convention

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Reservations and payment (checks made out to NE-IA District Kiwanis) need to be made at least 30 days prior to the dinner (by May 24)

Return form with payment to: Frank Murphy Secretary, NE-IA Kiwanis District

501 Raider Dr, Williamsburg IA 52361

____ I/we will be attending the dinner/cruise ($37/person) ____ I/we will want to take advantage of the exclusive shuttle ($6/person) Amount enclosed __________________ ____ I/we will be driving ____ I/we will be staying at the Gaylord Opryland Resort ____ I/we will be staying at another location __________________________________________________________ Any special needs ___________________________________________________________________________ Name(s) ____________________________________________ Phone # ____________________________________ Email ______________________________________________ Cell Phone # ________________________________ There will be no refunds after May 24th.

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Dental Hygiene Service Project Kearney Kiwanis Clubs

Three Kiwanis clubs of Kearney, Nebraska have joined to imple-

ment a ground-breaking children’s dental project during the past se-mester at a public elementary school in their service area. One club has as its member a licensed dentist who volunteered to design and serve as the supervising dentist for the project. The project design is based on strong scientific evidence that twice-a-day tooth brushing with fluoridated toothpaste reduces cavities in school children.

The purpose of the project

was to develop a model ele-mentary school tooth brush-ing program with in-school brushing two times daily. In Fall 2008, with Principal Deborah Turner’s endorse-ment, about 300 students of Gibbon Elementary School began a mandatory, super-vised twice daily brushing program during school hours using fluo-ride toothpaste, tooth brushes and other supplies provided to the chil-dren and school.

It is projected that a year’s practice at school will initiate a daily

habit of tooth brushing, if supported with a follow-up of tooth brushes and tooth paste supplies. Additionally, the project is de-signed to provide support for a second year to establish a life-time practice of tooth brushing.

Supplies greatly benefited from a generous discount from the local

Wal-Mart store. Kiwanis volunteers assisted by providing classroom assistance in setting up the tooth brushing supplies and providing as-sistance where needed.

After the project design was established and tooth brushing was

underway twice daily, a teachers’ aide was hired to provide class-room assistance, with her additional weekly hours being covered by funds from a grant from the Nebraska Department of Health and Hu-man Services.

The NE-IA Foundation awarded a $5,000 grant for children’s

toothpaste and tooth brushes to initiate the project. To sustain healthy dental practices, toothbrushes and toothpaste for children to use at home will be distributed on a quarterly schedule (August, No-vember, early March, and the end of school year).

A benchmark of tooth health at the initiation of the project is avail-

able from the Dental Hygiene Program at Central Community Col-lege, Hastings, which had dental students conduct a school survey as a practicum project.

It is planned that, at a future time, pre-brushing dental caries can be

compared to post-brushing dental records to gain a measure of the effectiveness of the strategy of twice-daily brushing. Approximately 15-20 members of Kearney’s three Kiwanis Clubs participated at least once or on an on-going basis in daily 25-mile trips to launch the project.

Initial steps are underway to work with the local WIC program to

introduce tooth brushing to parents and children there. Additionally, plans for expanding to another nearby town are being developed. We hope that a dental hygienist can be hired to do bench-mark and on-going dental screenings, through assistance of a grant from the Nebraska State Department of Health and Human Development.

Blood Drive Service Project Williamsburg Kiwanis

The Williamsburg Kiwanis Club sponsors three Red Cross Blood Drives each year. Each blood drive results in 60-80 pints of blood for the Red Cross. A local church provides their facilities at no charge for the blood drive. In preparation for each blood drive, the Red Cross sends postcards to all previous donors with information on date and location of the blood drive. Then, Five Kiwanis members make calls to all previous donors to remind them of the blood drive. On the day of the blood drive, Kiwanis members are available for set-up, checking-in and assisting donors, staffing the kitchen, providing cookies and juice to donors and then cleaning the church hall at the end of the blood drive. Myron Heitman, a Kiwanis member, is shown giving a dou-ble-red cell donation which allows do-nors to safely donate certain components of their blood in lar-ger amounts.

“Adopt A Road” Service Project Nevada Golden K

On a beautiful fall afternoon several Nevada Golden K members

took part in the “Adopt A Road” program and walked S. 11th Street to Indian Creek Country Club. Bob Gardner is in charge of the Adopt A Road project and had bags, picks, vests and gloves ready for the volunteers.

Pickups helped transport the filled bags and cars picked members

up and returned them to their vehicles after they competed the clean up. Adopt A Road is a twice yearly project for Golden K.

Front row: Gwen Ward, Fay Burdick, Marlene Anderson, Les Ander-son, Steve Highland and Evelyn Onstot Back row: organizer Bob Gard-ner, Leland Roegner, George Orsinger, Bill Ward, Johann Thiel, Bob Kruse and Marvin McBride

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K-Kids as a Service Project Glen Bauer, K-Kids Administrator

The Kiwanis K-Kids programs are an excellent way for a Kiwanis

Club to partner with a local elementary school to help children grow to their full potential.

The Bring Up Grades (BUG) and the Terrific Kids programs are ex-

cellent ways to begin such a partnership. I know there are many clubs in the NE-IA District who already have reading programs and mentor-ing programs at local elementary schools. The BUG program and the Terrific Kids program would be a perfect augment to the programs you now have in place.

You can get more information about these programs by visiting the K

-Kids Web site, www.kkids.org, including the order form for each of the program kits; the cost to the club for each of these kits is only $85.00. Another option, of course, is to build a K-Kids Club. There is a wealth of information on the K-Kids Web site under the resources tab on K-Kids and how to establish a club.

There are two kits, which are provided to the club without cost, with

the initial steps and information necessary to set up a K-Kids Club. There is also information concerning the Kiwanis Advisor and the Fac-ulty Advisor to the club and their respective responsibilities. The first step in the process is to make certain your club is interested in support-ing this program.

I would suggest that your Service Leadership Program Chair take the

lead on introducing the program to the club to get their support and of course to the school principal. The school principal will either ask for volunteers or assign a Faculty Advisor to the club.

The Faculty Advisor and the Kiwanis Advisors are both key positions

in the club. You need to have their commitment for involvement to have a successful club. The initial cost for setting up a K-Kids Cub is $460.00, which covers the cost of Club Banner, gavel and gong, and also the membership pins, certificates, magazines for up to 50 members, plus pamphlets for parents, etc.

After the initial year of being chartered, there will be an ongoing an-

nual renewal fee of $150.00, which also covers up to 50 members. We currently have 21 active clubs in the district, so as you can see there is a tremendous opportunity to increase that number. There are currently 15 active clubs in Nebraska and six in Iowa; however we have four clubs in Nebraska and one club in Iowa who have not yet submitted their re-newal fees.

I am hoping to see the renewal fees paid for by those five clubs in the

very near future. I would be happy to work with any club that would like to participate in the Kiwanis Kids programs, and especially if you are interested in building a K-Kids Club. I have the firm belief that we can positively impact not only the lives of the individuals we work with in these programs but the future of Kiwanis by getting the children in-terested in community service as early as possible.

There are many future Kiwanians within the Service Leadership Pro-

grams that are available for clubs to support. It all starts with the Ki-wanis Kids programs, especially K-Kids clubs. We have an opportunity in the NE-IA Kiwanis District to give many more children the positive experience of having been a K-Kids member, and hopefully growing in Kiwanis by being a member of the subsequent Service Leadership Clubs.

Glenn M. Bauer NE-IA Kiwanis District K-Kids Administrator 15811 Leavenworth Street Omaha, NE 68118 402-334-8304 gmbauer@msn.com

Service Leadership Programs

Kiwanians are volunteers changing the world through service to children and communities. Kiwanis members help shelter the home-less, feed the hungry, mentor the disadvantaged and care for the sick.

Through Service Leadership Programs, Kiwanis members develop

leadership in our youth, build playgrounds, raise funds for pediatric research, and much more. No problem is too big or too small.

Why? Because working together, members achieve what one per-

son cannot accomplish alone. When you give a child a chance to learn, experience, dream and succeed, great things happen!

The Service Leadership Programs that are sponsored by Kiwanis

Clubs include the following.

K-Kids K-Kids is the youngest and fastest

growing service organization for ele-mentary students worldwide. These clubs are ideally suited for students in grades 1 through 5 (ages 6 to 12).

K-Kids is a "student-led" community-service organization that op-

erates under school regulations and draws its members from the stu-dent body.

K-Kids clubs can also be established in a community-based organi-

zation. Such organizations might include, but are not limited to: com-munity library, Boys Club, Girls Club, YMCA, YWCA or a church.

K-Kids is unique because it's sponsored by a local Kiwanis club,

composed of leading business and professional people of the commu-nity.

Builders Club Builders Club is the largest service organization for middle school

students (ages 12 to 14), with more than 40,000 members worldwide. The first Builders Club was chartered in 1975. Today, there are

more than 2,000 clubs in Aruba, Australia, Bahamas, Barbados, Ber-muda, Canada, Italy, Jamaica, Korea, Martinique, Netherlands Antil-les, Philippines, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and the United States.

Builders Club is a “student-led” community-service organization,

which operates under school regulations and draws its members from the student body. Community-based Builders Clubs also may be es-tablished at community facilities such as: churches, libraries, YMCAs, or lodges. Builders Club is unique because a Kiwanis club, composed of leading business and professional people of the commu-nity, serves as the club’s sponsor.

Builders Club is structured only on the local club level but is sup-

ported by the Kiwanis International office in Indianapolis, Indiana, which provides programs, literature, and opportunities to relate to teenagers from countries all around the world!

Key Club Key Club is the oldest and largest service program for high school

students. What makes Key Club so successful is the fact that it is a student-led organization that teaches leadership through serving oth-ers. Members of the Kiwanis International family, Key Club mem-bers build themselves as they build their schools and communities.

Today, Key Club exists on more than 5,000 high school campuses,

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(USPS 376-560) The Kiwanian is published six times

a year in December, February, April, June, August, and October.

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Words of Wisdom Everyone who has ever taken a shower has had an idea. It's

the person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something about it that makes a difference.” – Nolan Bush-nell

People do not really care how much you know until they know how much you care." – Mike McNight

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. – Samuel Johnson

Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not al-

ways like being taught. - Sir Winston Churchill

You cannot define talent. All you can do is build the green-house and see if it grows. - William P. Steven

A Kiwanis Family Lincoln Southeast Kiwanis

Kiwanis continues to encourage growth toward it's one million

mark. Family oriented and geared toward helping children, what could be better than involving your entire family.

Think about this for a moment...if each current member brought in just one family member (e.g., spouse, brother, sister, mother, father, aunt, uncle etc.) in 2009, Kiwanis would double in size. The Lytle’s, of the Kiwanis Club of Lincoln Southeast, Lincoln, Ne-braska, believe in doing just that. Pictured (left to right) are Deanna, Ken (husband and wife), grandson Ben, and son Paul.

Kiwanis is about helping change the world, one child and one

community at a time. What better way than to involve your fam-ily and help keep Kiwanis strong.

primarily in the United States and Canada. Growth efforts, however, have taken the Key Club experience internationally to Canada, the Caribbean nations, Central and South America, and most recently to Asia and Australia.

Aktion Club Aktion Club is the newest member of the Sponsored Organizations

and Programs at Kiwanis International. Aktion Club is a community-service group for adult citizens who live with a disability. The mis-sion of Aktion Club is: To provide these

adults an opportu-nity to develop initiative and lead-ership skills.

To serve their community.

To be integrated into society

To demonstrate the dignity and value of citizens living with disabilities.

Aktion Club members strive to return to their communities the

benefits, help and caring they have received, as well as develop im-portant skills in the process.

Circle K Circle K International (CKI) is the largest collegiate community ser-

vice, leadership development and friendship organization in the world. With more than 11,000 members in 17 nations, CKI is making a posi-tive impact on the world every single day.

Circle K clubs are organized and sponsored by a Kiwanis club on a

college or university campus. CKI is a self-governing organization and elects its own officers, conducts its own meetings and determines its own service activities.

CKI blends community service and leadership training with the op-

portunity to meet other college students around the world. Projects such as the Six Cents Initiative, CKI’s International fundraiser that aims to provide water to the 2.2 billion children worldwide who lack safe drinking water, bring CKI members together to make a difference in the world.