Volume 1. Issue 2. October 2011

Marketing & K-Family Relations: Mid-year IssueGreetings to the Mighty New York District!

Congratulations on making to the half way mark ofour service year! Take this time to reflect on and tocongratulate yourselves on all the amazing serviceyou've done since we started our year in April. Giveyourselves some extra credit for all your hard workin recruitment and kicking off the new academic year. Ok now enough reflecting because it's timeto pump yourselves up to end the year even

During our 4th Annual Sub F event stronger than we started. I've been communicatingwith everyone as best as I can and I'm truly proud andimpressed with all that you've done so far. You willfind plenty of service spotlights in this newsletter. Of

Contact me: course, we could definitely use some more so makeEmail: kelchan.cki@gmail.com sure as you're planning your year that you contactFaceBook: facebook.com/kelchansayss your counterparts and see what they have planned.Call/Text: 718-757-5687 Keep me posted of all the great events you have

planned so that I can include your club in mynewsletters and try and make it to these events!

Table of Contents:Introduction.........................1District Updates...................2 Yours in Service, Leadership and Fellowship,

What are K-Fam Hours?.....3Service Spotlight #1............4Service Spotlight #2............5Service Spotlight #3............6 NYCKI Marketing & K-Family Relations Chair

Service Spotlight #4............7Service Spotlight #5............8Random Stuff!......................9

Service

district updates!We are now a bit over the half way mark so lets seewhere we stand in terms of the amount of K-Familyevents and hours we have completed...

April: 13 events – 104.5 service hours – 20 social hours

May: 13 events – 176.0 service hours – 0 social hours

June: 8 events – 71.0 service hours – 0 social hours

July: 6 events – 79.5 service hours – 0 social hours

August: 3 events – 19.5 service hours – 0 social hours

September: 8 events – 101.5 service hours – 0 social hours

October: LETS GET IT TO AT LEAST WHERE WE WERE IN

APRIL AND MAY!

Total: 51 events

552 service hours – 20 social hours

NYCKI: Let's step it up, we are at the 50% mark but

have only hit 25% of our goal for the service year.

I know it's possible so together, let's make it happen!

Don't forget the fellowship tenet of Circle K,

get those social hours in as well, I know you

do plenty of fellowship, now go report it!

Leadership

What are K-Family Hours?Wondering what I'm basing these hours from? Thinking to yourself, what is a “K-Family hour”? Well let me explain:

ANY event you attend where other members of another branch of the K-Familyis present (K-Kids, Builders Club, Key Club, Aktion Club and/or Kiwanis).

BUT...don't forget the logistics:

If your club AND/OR the other club of the other branch has less than 30 members,you MUST have at least 3 members from your club AND from the other club in attendance.

If your club AND/OR the other club of the other branch has more than 30 members,you MUST have at least 4 members from your club AND from the other club in attendance.

For example, if your club has 16 members but the Key Club you work with has 39, if you goto their event with 2 of your members, IT DOES NOT COUNT.

With that said, if you have any updates you

would like to make regarding your events and

if they count as K-Family hours, please contact

myself and/or District Secretary Samantha

Pontillo (samantha.nycki@gmail.com) to make

your changes so we have an accurate account

of your hard-working hours!

Fellowship

Service

Spotlights! (1)

Service projects with Aktion Club always ends with a great time

and great experience because you work one on one with its members.

For those who does not know what Aktion Club is, it is a branch of

Kiwanis with members who have disabilities. On September 29 th we

went to Aktion Club with Kiwanians and Key Clubbers. The service

project was making masks to be donated to a hospital. We started

with painting the first coating of paint then left it to dry while they had

their election of club officers where the club members were voted into

the positions of president, vice president, secretary, and treasurer, as

well as having the immediate past president becoming another position

to assist the newly elected president. After the elections, we finished the

mask left them to dry. If the opportunity comes up, I would recommend

anyone to go participate in their local Aktion club because you leave

with a experience every time.

Jia Shi

Adelphi University Editor

West Hempstead

Aktion Club's

winning scrapbook

cover!

Service

Service

Spotlights! (2)This academic school year, Russell Sage Circle K transferred

sponsorship from Hoosick Falls to Troy Kiwanis. As president of

our club, I have been attending the Troy Kiwanis meetings

every Tuesday morning in our campus dining hall. Since our

sponsor club meets in the Russell Sage dining hall, it makes it

very convenient to keep them updated about our events

and stay in touch with their members. Their club has been so

welcoming, and we spend most having fun and laughing.

Troy Kiwanis has been supportive and encouraging of our club

activities this year, so we wanted to return the favor and

volunteered to help them at their Flea Market and Bake Sale

fundraiser in October. Myself and two of our club’s members,

Erin and Danielle, helped set up the tables the night before

and then staffed the tables on the day of the flea market. We

had a great time meeting people from the Troy community

and helping to raise money for Kiwanis. I even got to meet a

Kiwanis member who cannot attend the meetings on Tuesday

mornings. Overall, the event was a lot of fun, and I am looking

forward to spending more time with the wonderful members of

Troy Kiwanis at future events during my senior year here at Russell

Sage College.

Jane Spear

Russell Sage President

Leadership

Service

Spotlights! (3)On July 17th, my home club and my committee, hosted the K-Family

picnic to bring together members from all branches of the Kiwanis

family and build fellowships. The $300 raised that day was just a

pleasant add-on to it. The attendees of the picnic had a chance

to choose which of the 3 Kiwanis sponsored charities they wanted

the money to go towards and you guys chose Kiwanis Pediatric Lyme

Disease. When I made a phone call to the foundation, asking for

information on how to submit the money, the woman on the phone

sounded completely lost. It seemed that she was so shocked that

we raised money for KPLD because people rarely do. She thanked

me endlessly and happily gave me the information I needed. A day

later, I got an e-mail saying “thank you” again and that for an

additional $200, we could receive the Brittany Fellowship award. I

knew that this was an easy goal to reach and promised them that I

would do so. On October 10th, my home club and I hosted a K-Family

bowl-a-thon, had a great time and raised $420 for KPLD. These

events not only raised the funds that I had hoped for but it brought

all the participants closer together. I got to know members of strong

Key Club's that I didn't even know were active. There was this warm

feeling that hit when I saw that members I had met at the picnic came

to the bowl-a-thon as well- it showed me that we are truly a family and

that I can count on Key Clubber's to come through when I ask. Now, I

would like to thank everyone who came out to either of the events or

helped with any aspect. Also, congratulations to NYCKI, we are now the

proud recipients of the Brittany Fellowship award!

Your Marketing & K-Family Relations Chair,

Kelly Chan

Fellowship

Service

Spotlights! (4)

Bright and early on a Saturday morning the Kiwanians from the Ithaca Cayuga Kiwanis Club drove to

Cornell University’s North Campus to pick up six half awake Circle Kers who were ready to do some

service. As the participants put on hard hats, neon vests, and gloves they prepared to pick up trash

along a two mile stretch of route 79 in Ithaca. Three Circle Kers from Ithaca College Circle K joined in

the festivities as well. Nadia Daoud, secretary for Cornell’s club said, “My favorite part is meeting other

people and especially talking with Kiwanians.” Cornell Circle K has participated in this program for

three semesters now and will continue to foster the relationship with the Kiwanians and other K-Family

Clubs in the Ithaca Community as well as the Southern Tier!

Elissa Prout

Cornell Circle K President

LTG Olivia Prout and Elissa Prout, Cornell CKI!

Service

Service

Spotlights! (5)

On June 11th, the K-Kids Club of Franklin Square hosted a

Safe Kids training at their local library. The K-Kids invited CKI

members Lauren Sacks, Rickie Santer and I along with Key

Clubber Domenick Pesce to teach lessons on fire safety,

water safety,hand washing safety, bike and helmet safety,

and pedestrian safety. Everyone who attended this training

had tons of fun and learned a lot of new safety procedures.

In addition to learning the Safe Kids lessons, these K-Kids

also reached out to their community to promote this event.

Not only did this event promote safety, but they also got

some new recruits of K-Kids members. Overall this event was

extremely successful because we had 4 branches of the

Kiwanis family cooperate in the planning process and

supporting the event.

Thanks all,Kathryn Graves

New York District Project Chair

Leadership

Random!

Coming to New York

Speaking this weekend? Be sure

to attend the “Bringing all the

K-Houses together” workshop that

will be presented by LTG Olivia

as well as myself!

There is a friendly, family completion going on

The Circle K club to complete between all NY Key Clubs, Circle K and Kiwanis clubs

the most K-Family events from to see who can raise the most money for the American

October to the day we conclude Foundation for Suicide Prevention. Although the Out

our year at District Convention, of the Darkness walk has pretty much passed, it's not

will receive an ice cream social too late to host a fundraiser and donate to this great

for their members as well as their cause. Every 40 seconds there is an individual who

any of their K-Family counterparts loses their life to suicide, it is predicted that by 2020,

that they choose to invite! the rate of death will increase to 1 every 20 seconds.

Help us spread awareness, support others and support

the AFSP! Have all donations in by Feb. 2nd 2011 and

contact myself (kelchan.cki@gmail.com) or Jessica

Stola (jaesto520@gmail.com) for more info!