Kiwanis Club of Fort Worth SUMMER 2015 www.fortworthkiwanis.org Kiwanis is a global organization of volunteers dedicated to improving the world one child and one community at a time. Summer 2015 Summer’s here. Days are longer. Vacations begin. Service continues. SAVE THE DATES K i w a n is SERVICE PROJECTS LOVE IT. SHARE IT. LIVE IT. Ronald McDonald: Meals from the Heart Monday, July 20 4:00 PM - 8:00 PM Back-to-School Shopping REMINDERS Two Saturdays in August 8 AM - 11 AM CLUB MEETINGS Shop Early at the Fall Fundraiser To help with your gift planning and Christmas shopping, stay tuned for a Fall fundraiser. Details coming soon. 1st Monday June 1, July 6*, August 3 Dos Gringos Mexican Restaurant 1015 University Drive, FW Welcome 6 PM 3rd Monday Satellite Committee 6 PM Trimble Tech High School Key Club Board of Directors 4th Tuesday Key Club Charter Party June 23, July 28, August 25 Monday, June 8, 2015 Whitaker Chalk, 301 Commerce Street, Suite 3500, FW 1003 West Cannon St., FW 76104 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM Room 108 June 15, July 20**, August 17 Blue Mesa Grill, 1600 S. University, FW 11 AM * Tour: North Fort Worth Boys & Girls Club ** Service project: Ronald McDonald House Check your e-mail for Evites, reminders and updates of meeting locations and service opportunities during the Summer months. www.fortworthkiwanis.org Kiwanis Club of Fort Worth Summer 2015 Page 2 Looking Ahead . . . Speakers scheduled for Summer Months Ronald McDonald House: Meals from the Heart June 1, we will welcome CEO Dick Lord, former minister of Monday, July 20, 2015 Ronald McDonald House 1004 7th Avenue 4 PM - 8 PM Rush Creek Church and author, who will provide details about Trauma Support Services of North Texas, Inc. (TSSNT) and will introduce one of its survivors. An invitation has been issued to other Kiwanians from Division 1. June 15, Chad Pendley will be the guest speaker at the Satellite Meeting at Blue Mesa. Chad is on the Steering Committee for Dirty Scurry and is in charge of Sponsorships. July 6, Juanita Holquin, Education Director at North Fort Worth Boys & Girls Club (where we have a BUG program), will conduct a tour of its facility for our first meeting in July. The address is 2000 Ellis Avenue, FW 76164. Meet at 6:00 PM for approximately 1 hour. Watch for evite and RSVP! August 3, we will welcome Becky Rasbeary, Volunteer Services Manager, and Barbara Shelton, Chief Development Officer, from ACH Child and Family Services, who will tell us about their organization and what types of volunteer activities they have. Trimble Tech Key Club Charter Party Monday, June 8, 2015 Green B. Trimble Technical High School 1003 West Cannon Street, Room 108 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM This year, a new Key Club has been chartered by our club: Green B. Trimble Technical High School (Trimble Tech) in downtown Fort Worth. To celebrate the chartering of this new Key Club, we will be holding a pizza party on Monday, June 8. The party will be during lunch hour from 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM in Faculty Advisor Joy Perry's classroom, (#108). Evite emailed on June 2. Hope some of you can join us! LIKE us on Facebook! A repeat of a favorite service project. Join Kiwanians as they prepare and serve dinner to the families at the Ronald McDonald House as part of the Meals from the Heart program. The menu will be Pioneer Woman’s Chicken Pot Pie, salad and cookies for dessert. Evite e-mailed on June 2. Space is limited, so sign up! Back-to-School Shopping at Sears Join us on two Saturdays in August at 8 AM, as we take 20 children from the North Fort Worth Boys & Girls Club and 20 children from Diamond Hill Elementary School shopping for new clothes at Sears-Hulen Mall. We will need as many volunteers as possible to make this day a success! As you know, this service project is funded by the Kiwanis Services Foundation and benefits those children who need new uniforms and other necessities to begin the new school year. Watch your e-mail for details and sign up! Did ya know? Important Dates for 2015-2017 June 25-28, 2015 Kiwanis International Convention Indianapolis, IN The 100th anniversary of Kiwanis in 2015 will be a Kiwanis Family convention that includes all Kiwanis, CKI, Aktion, and Key Clubs. August 6-8, 2015 Kiwanis TX-OK District Convention, Texarkana, TX June 25-28, 2016 Kiwanis International Convention Toronto, Ontario, Canada To find reminders of Fort Worth Kiwanis Club meetings, recaps of events, and news from Kiwanis International, sign in on Facebook and find Fort Worth Kiwanis Club. Check it out and be sure to LIKE us! July 13-16, 2017 Kiwanis International Convention Paris, France CONNECT and INSPIRE Kiwanis Club of Fort Worth Summer 2015 Page 3 Sponsored Youth Programs . . . Great News from Paschal High School Key Club The Paschal High School Key Club was busy in early April attending the Texas-Oklahoma District Key Club Convention (DCON). The hard work of the officers and club members throughout the year earned them a Top 25 club status in the district out of more than 300 clubs, specifically #19. The Paschal High School Key Club also won Distinguished Club, Governor’s Project Participant, and Outstanding On-Time Reporting Award. Sarika Sabnis was a talent show finalist, and Paul Ryu made the quiz bowl team where Texas came out victorious over Oklahoma! Included is a group picture from DCON and another with Junsung Lee, immediate past president, with Janet Diaz, immediate past secretary, holding up all of Key Club’s patches. —Heather Denton, Faculty Advisor News from a past Key Clubber: I had a call from Sai Gourisanker last week. He is graduating from UT, then the next week will be leaving on the Texas 4000 bike ride from Austin to Anchorage, Alaska. The ride will be stopping in Rowlett on June 2, and they will give a presentation about fighting cancer and raising funds for research that evening at 6602 Garner Road at 6 PM. Since the foundation has donated funds for the event, I thought you might be interested in that tidbit! —Jayne Naff, Club Advisor Terrific Kids at Diamond Hill Elementary More than 200 Terrific Kids were awarded certificates, bumper stickers, pencils and treats at the Terrific Kids programs that were conducted at the end of each 6-week period of this school year. Principal Marlyn Martinez and School Counselor Mary Bentley are huge supporters of the program and work hard with these students and their teachers to help these Terrific Kids attain their goals. Pictured below are photos from some of these award ceremonies. A child’s thank-you note for Kiwanis’ support of FWISD received at the PARTNERS Appreciation LUNCHEON at Ridglea Country Club, May 28, 2015. Nearly 300 partners and educators in Fort Worth were in attendance. —Don and Cheri Scharringhausen CONNECT and INSPIRE Kiwanis Club of Fort Worth Summer 2015 Page 4 March, April, May 2015 in review . . . April 11 2015 Texas Ramp Build 23rd Annual AIDS Walk Three of us (Dennis McCarty, Beverly Ford from the Texas Ramp Project, and I) built a 20foot ramp at a home in East Fort Worth. It was a lot of work (those thick plywood sheets are really heavy), but very rewarding. We started shortly after 8:30 AM and finished up just before 1:00 PM. Kiwanians set up an information table at AIDS Walk 2015 in Trinity Park on Saturday, March 21. Quite a few attendees visited our table, and some good connections were made with community volunteers. Thanks, Donna, Jill, and Mike for sharing the Kiwanis story! And then Dennis and I made it over to the Relay for Life to make it a full Kiwanis project day! —Clyde Haggard April 11 2015 American Cancer Society Relay for Life Kiwanians and friends volunteered for the Relay for Life event at TCU to support team ADVOCATES FOR A CURE. Mike brought in extra hands to help sell pizza and raise funds for the American Cancer Society. Below are some comments by Kiwanians: The Relay for Life is a very special and emotional event. Just hate I couldn't stay longer. Cancer is a strong disease, and we all have had someone in our life affected by it. Medicine has come a long way in treating it, but there is still work to be done, so the money is greatly needed. —Donna Kittrell Very well said and to the point. We need to support these programs or they won't be there to end the catastrophic diseases facing the world. —Dennis McCarty Wesley Mobile Pantry On March 28 and May 23, Kiwanians and Key Clubbers volunteered at the Wesley Mobile Pantry. Below are thank-you e-mails to our club from United Community Centers, Inc., which sponsors this monthly outreach effort in a north Fort Worth community: At the March 28 mobile pantry, it was a beautiful spring day made special by having served 379 households. Your assistance was greatly appreciated. —Pablo Calderon A HUGE THANK YOU to all of our wonderful volunteers who came out Saturday morning to Wesley Mobile Pantry!! In total, we had 80 volunteers show up to help us unload trucks and serve the community. YOUR HELP made an impact in serving 971 individuals, 275 households and 10,000 pounds of nonperishable food! —Celia Esparza R e a c h ou t, l e a r n m or e a n d g e t i n v ol v e d . CONNECT and INSPIRE Kiwanis Club of Fort Worth Summer 2015 Page 5 March, April, May 2015 in review continued . . . The Dirty Scurry Adventure Run On Saturday, April 25, Kiwanians, friends, and Paschal Key Clubbers joined volunteers from all over the DFW area at LaGrave Field to support Dirty Scurry in its Adventure Run, benefitting Cook Children's Medical Center. More than 1,300 kids participated in the 1.2 mile Adventure Run, while younger children played in bounce houses and had faces painted. Our Kiwanis Services Foundation was a sponsor by contributing a monetary donation earlier this spring, and members manned an information table at the Run. Key Clubbers helped in the kids‘ area. A week before the big event, Kiwanians volunteered at PT Fitness on Northside Drive to help stuff packets for the kids’ run. Great event for a great cause. —Cheri Scharringhausen Club News . . . Welcome New Kiwanian! Danielle Schroeder At the Monday, May 4, club meeting, we welcomed Danielle Schroeder into our Kiwanis Club. She is an Engineer at the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers and is a former Kiwanian from New Orleans. Danielle will be our club delegate to the Kiwanis International Convention this year. We look forward to getting to know her better and working alongside her on club activities. This E-newsletter has been created with content and photos provided by members of the Kiwanis Club of Fort Worth. For more news and a calendar, log in at www.fortworthkiwanis.org. Check us out on Facebook! Cheri Scharringhausen, Editor, [email protected], 214.912.7575 Congratulations! 2014-15 Sophomore of the Year Ishita Sneha Kumar At the Monday, May 4, club meeting, the Kiwanis Services Foundation recognized Ishita Sneha Kumar with a certificate of recognition and scholarship for being selected as the club’s Sophomore of the Year. She was selected from all the applicants from the sophomore class at Paschal High School. Standing with Ishita are Katie Holland and James Bretthauer, faculty advisors of the Key Club at Paschal High School. By w orkin g tog eth er, memb ers ac h ieve w h at on e p ers on c an n ot ac c omp lis h alon e. Ku dos t o m embers of t h e Ki w a n i s C l u b of F or t W or th f or a g r e a t s p r i ng f i l l e d w i th s e r v i c e a nd r ec og nition! CONNECT and INSPIRE
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