Metro Kansas City Kiwanis Council News January 2004

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1/30/04

  • Plans are under way for the annual Kiwanis Mom’s Day Baby Shower Drive, to be held the Saturday before Mother’s Day, May 8. Make sure to mark the date on your club calendars. Club presidents will be contacted for information regarding club contacts for the project and partnerships with benefiting agencies. This successful collaboration between individual Kiwanis Clubs, children’s agencies and Hy-Vee stores in the KC metro area has collected about $18,000 in goods and money for needy mothers each of the past four years.

  • The Kansas District is busy making plans for the official visit of International President Robert L. Moore and First Lady Jan during May. Division 9 will be the location for the highlight of President Moore’s visit - a banquet on Thursday evening, May 13, at the Overland Park Marriott. Invitations will be sent out to Lt. Governors and Clubs in MO-ARK Divisions 3 and 4 who might wish to attend President Moore’s visit to the Metro Area. President Moore will make his official visit to the MO-ARK District the following Saturday in Cape Girardeau. Proceeds from the banquet over the cost will go to support the Southwest Boulevard Family Health Care Services Clinic.

  • Division 4’s 51st Annual Pancake Day to support Kiwanis Student Assistance will be held from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m., Wednesday, March 24, at Bartle Hall on the corner of 13th and Central. Advance tickets will be $5 and will be available in February. If anyone has any questions about the event they may contact Ed Redhair at 816-920-6800.

  • A couple of good program ideas:

    • Sonny Wilson is available to speak about the Surviving Spouse and Family Endowment Fund (SAFE), which has been instituted by the Kansas City Metropolitan Crime Commission to assist dependent spouses and children of law enforcement, firefighting or emergency response personnel who lose their lives in the line of duty. Mr. Wilson can be reached at 816-960-6800, extension 236, or at swilson@kc-crime.org.

    • Christopher Hope heads up the Dictionary Project of Kansas City, part of a nationwide effort to provide free dictionaries to third grade school children. You can email The Dictionary Project at Director@DictionaryProjectKC.org or call them at 816-274-8670. For more information you can visit their website at www.dictionaryprojectkc.org. This is a very worthwhile and rewarding program that many Metro Area Kiwanis Clubs are participating in already.

If you have any program ideas you wish to share with other Clubs in the Metro Area, please contact Steve Russell at 913-234-8327 or send the information to stever24@everestkc.net.

  • The Merriam Kiwanis Club will hold a “50’s & 60’s Dance” fundraiser at 7 p.m., Saturday, Jan. 31, at the Knights of Columbus Hall, corner of Johnson Drive and King. Admission will be $15. Snacks, soft drinks and beer will be provided, and there will be door prizes. For more information contact Marcy Lichtenauer at 913-631-5066.

  • The Lenexa Kiwanis Club will hold its Second Annual Kiwanis Open Miniature Golf Tournament indoors at Dales Gym, 11301 West 88th Street in Lenexa. The fundraising event will be held from 12 noon to 5 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 28. For more information contact Christian Corley at 913-236-5711 or visit the website at www.kiwanisopen.com.

If you would like your Division or Club events, information or announcements to appear in this News-Action Letter, please contact Steve Russell at 913-234-8327 or stever45@everestkc.net.

12/22/03

Congratulations to:

  • The Old Mission Kiwanis club in Mission Kansas on their 45th anniversary on February 10, 2004

 

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