http://www.killearnkiwanis.org/index.html
Club Code # K10763
Tax Exempt # 85-8012667911C-2
Club Address:
6608 Tim Tam Trail
Tallahassee, FL 32309
Meeting Thursdays at 7 a.m. at
the Killearn Country Club
- 19th Hole
God Bless America
Future
Meetings
June 3rd, 2010
PL: ESHER SG: FACKENDER
PR: GRAGNANI
(John Robbins)
June 10th, 2010
PL: GRIFFIN SG: MEARS
PR: MILLS
(John Ryor)
June 16, 2010
Board of Directors Meeting
7 a.m. for one hour
Talley's Grille
Planning and Budgeting for
community service.
Participation by Officers, Directors,
and Committee Chairs is important. All members are welcome.
Minutes of Last Board Meeting
June 17th, 2010
PL: ORSILLO SG: ROBBINS
PR: RYOR
(George Sweat)
June 24th, 2010
PL: SWEAT SG: THEOBALD
PR: THOMPSON
(President Jim's Quarterly Club Report)
July 1st, 2010
PL: VARLEY SG: WALTER
PR: ZIEGLER
(Rick Theobald)
FUTURE PROGRAM SCHEDULE
Look for your name here. Plan ahead and email or call Chuck Walter at 284-3760 when you have a program scheduled.
July 8th .... LeRoy Thompson
July 15th .... Jim Varley
July 22nd .... Chuck Walter
July 27th .... Richard Ziegler
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Potential Speakers
Check the list on page two for potential programs.
Our Previous
Three Programs
May 20th
Al Eppinger
A golf tournament critique
May 13th
Brooke Lochoore, VP
Goodwill Industries
May 6th
Amy Mason Collins
Elder Exploitation & Abuse
GOLF TOURNAMENT
Click here to see our 2009 golf web page
Click here to see the Results of our 2009 golf tournament.
Click here to see photos of the 2009 golf tournament.
Click to see their names.
2008 Prize Donors
2008 Sponsors
FINANCING
NEW BUDGET FOR 2009-2010
Click Below To See:
- Current Treasurer's Report
Click Here
Minutes of Last Board Meeting.
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PHOTOS
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Miracle Field, July 25th
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Archives of Previous Newsletter
Collection Programs
Committee and Project Chairs
Division 3 Club Meeting Schedule
Division 3 Kiwanis Yahoo Group
Fund Raising Golf Tournament
General Mills Coupons For Education
How To Print This Newsletter
Objects of Kiwanis
Officers and Directors
Potential Speakers For Meeting Programs
Killearn Kiwanis Projects
Tallahassee Activities
at American Towns
2009 - 2010 Budgets
Foundation ( Service projects)
Click here for full details.
Some Highlights
K-Kids $1,000
The Miccosukee Community
Baseball League Sponsorship $500
Miccosukee Youth Education Foundation $2,635
Miccosukee Boys & Girls Club $2,635
Admininstrative
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2009 Golf Tournament
The Complete Photo Album
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We have photos of all the sponsor signs on the course if you want one to show to your sponsors. You can print them on your printer or you can order prints from this album.
Blue Light Teams
(A team work concept to improve membership growth and community service)
#1
BAERINGER
COOPER
GRIFFIN
ORSILLO
VARLEY
#2
BARGER
P. DOWNING
HOLLOMAN
ROBBINS
WALTER
#3
BULL
R. DOWNING
LATOUR
RYOR
MCBEE
#4
CARTER
EPPINGER
LUEBKEMANN
SWEAT
ZIEGLER
#5
COLE
ESHER
MAYBERRY
SULLIVAN
#6
COLMERY
FACKENDER
MEARS
THEOBALD
#7
COLOMBO
GRAGNANI
MILLS
THOMPSON
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ATTENTIVE
Team members are attentive to team and club member's needs including: health, other personal needs, speical days (birthdays, etc.) attendance, and any other club related activity or sponsored event.
RECRUITERS
Team members are encouraged to work as a team to recruit and retain new members to the club so as to grow the club and better serve the community at large. Each team should recruit at least one few member each year.
TRAINERS
Team members will serve as service leaders/trainers to the members recruited by the team.
Serving
The Children Of The World
DIVISION 3
FLORIDA DISTRICT OF KIWANIS
Kiwanis Club of Tallahassee - Killearn
Chartered August 26, 1982
A Wilbur Gold Outstanding Bulletin Award Winner:
(2000-2001) and (2001-2002)
1st Place: 2000-2001, 2001-2002, 2005-2006 & 2006-2007
Honorable Mention: 1998 & 2004-2005
Changing The World One Child and One Community at a Time.
Dedicated
to the memory of:
Arthur
D. Core, W. C. Hinton, Harlan Snodgrass, Joe Alfes, Dave Scherff, Val
Lynch, John Duke, Frank Gavigan, Earl Bufton, Cliff Tucker, Bernie
Higgins, Tom Yeatman, Tom King, Fred Parker, Doc Schow, Frank
Stephenson, Bill Kittel, Hal Allard, Jim Swenson, Jack Kerwin, Charles Nuzum, Vince
Puccio and John Alford.The Six Objects of Kiwanis
1. To give primacy to the human and spiritual rather than to the material values of life.
2. To encourage the daily living of the Golden Rule in all human relationships.
3. To promote the adoption and the application of higher social, business, and professional standards.
4. To develop, by precept and example, a more intelligent, aggressive, and serviceable citizenship.
5. To provide, through Kiwanis clubs, a practical means to form enduring friendships, to render altruistic service, and to build better communities.
6. To cooperate in creating and maintaining that sound public opinion and high idealism which make possible the increase of rightousness, justice, patriotism, and goodwill.
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BUDGET FOR 2009-2010
Click Below To See:
The latest Treasurer's Report
-New Foundation Community Service Budget for 2009-2010
-New Administrative Budget for 2009-2010
Minutes of Last Board Meeting.
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3201 Storrington Dr. Tallahassee, FL 32309
| This Week's Meeting May 27, 2010 Presiding: BARGER; Pledge: COLLIER; Song: R. DOWNING; Prayer: EPPINGER; Introduction: BARGER; Winner: THEOBALD; Attendance: 21; Brag For a Buck: RICK THEOBALD, preaching at Canopy Roads on June 21st. Guests: BILL DAWKINS, back again and planning to join us. GAVIN BOONE of the Southside Club. (NOTE: remember to get your guest's email address and forward our newletter to him/her.) ------ PROGRAM The Annual Hurricane Forecast by our very own expert and his forecast of 18 named storms, 6 hurricanes, 4 major; and a 45% chance of Florida landfall in August or September.  Bob Orsillo Condolences to Kim and Tommy Mills on the loss of her father, Robert Barnes, Monday. See Thursday's obituaries. Thanks for Prayers Bob & Nancy Bull's 15 month old grandson is recovering from kidney surgery. DESKS FOR THE RALPH DAVIS KIWANIS HOUSE STUDENTS
We will be building 12 desks for the students at the Kiwanis' Ralph Davis House on the FSU campus, the request is under the auspices of the Southern Scholarship Foundation. So far, in addition to Charley Esher, Norm Mears, Jim Barger, Tommy Mills, George Sweat and Rob Downing will help and possibly a couple more next Tuesday at Charley's house at 9 AM. $150 For The Southern Scholarship Foundation The check was given to Jim Wylie and will go to assist with a sponsored house in Gainesville. NEW CLUB BUILDING JIM WYLIE announced the formation of a new Kiwanis Club in the Bradordville area. They will be meeting at the Christ Presbyterian Church on the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of each month at noon. Jim explained "DUAL MEMBERSHIP" and asked our members to consider becoming Dual Members of this new club to help them get started. There will be an initial fee of $75 which will go to KI and The Florida District; and $10 per month dues. Nine more members are needed to charter. *******ELECTIONS*******
It all went as expected. President ......... Richard Ziegler, President Elect,. is the automatic nominee. President Elect .... CATHY COLE Treasurer .. BOB DOWNING Directors To replace Johnnye Luebkemann andTom Fackender ... until Sept 2012 ... JOHNNYE LUEBKEMANN and JOHN RYOR Directors continuing until September 2011 Pam Cooper .... George Sweat .... Norm Mears..... Secretary .... JERRY MCBEE was elected by the board of directors Thursday, the 19th and is beginning his training. JIM BARGER will be the Immediate Past President and Special Advisor THANKS TO ALL THESE FOLKS WHO HAVE AGREED TO BE PART OF THE LEADERSHIP. NOW, IT IS UP TO US TO SUPPORT THEM BY PARTICIPATING IN THE PROGRAMS THEY DEVELOP. If you have ideas for service give the board full details and be prepared to lead or help with it. ------ Officer/Club Leader Training
work day 9 AM - 2 PM on Saturday, June 12th in Havana at the Faith Funeral Home at 5972 US 27. This is especially for those officer/director positions and new club members. It is very important to attend. There will be a light lunch. listed at the bottom of the green column to the left. President Jim announced these teams and their purposes in his initial meeting back in October. A VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY A fund raiser for Big Bend Hospice is being held July 12th at Coventry Farms in back of Eastgate. Help is needed to assist with parking on two shifts; 8 AM - 1 PM, and 9 AM - 2 PM. President Jim has more details. Sounds like a simple job for a worthy cause. So far BETH CARTER has signed up. Four more are needed. MEMBER NOTES Members must be traveling: the VARLEYS, RYOR'S and possibly others. Keep our ill and grieving members and families, and travelers in your prayers. Potential Program for July or August 2010 Robin C. Johnston, MBA, CMC May is Membership Promotion Month John Ryor wants us to make a special effort to bring a potential member to a meeting. The goal is for each member to bring at least one guest. John issued a KI booklet, Kiwanis Is A Verb for each of us to read and use to help find potential members. If you didn't get a copy ask him. Give one to you potential members. ----- MEMBERSHIP GROWTH EMPHASIS John Ryor has worked very hard to develop a new approach to help our club grow. The goal is to reach 40 members, a size that we will be able to accommodate physically and give us a good group to support the projects we want achieve. Please click HERE and read all the details about Breakfast at the 19th. We all need to participate. It is important to our future success. MEMBERSHIP GROWTH AWARDS The Kiwanis International 1-2-3, You Hold The Key Awards Program Sponsor members: (1) earns a bronze key, (2) a silver, and (3) a gold. Invite potential members to visit us to see what they are missing and earn your full set of keys if they decide to join us. ----- Remember, your invited guest gets breakfast free the first time he/she visits us. Aluminum Tabs and Box Tops for Education Coupons Bring them in for Tommy Mills Many thanks to Marvin Doyal for staying involved with our club projects. ------ Aluminum Cans Remember to bring in your cans for Jim Varley. It would help if you rinse them out and crush them. PUBLIC RELATIONS CHAIR NEEDS HELP KATHY COLE is public relations chair and needs your help with articles on our many projects. Give her as many details as possible and she will submit an article. We need to publicize our service as much as possible. It will help with membership growth. Are Your Dues Due? Treasurer Bob Downing asks that you check whether or not your records show you are up to date in your dues, and if not, pay them ASAP. Collect Wire Clothes Hangers This is an on-going Southside Club project to raise funds for their children's projects. Clean out your closets and bring in the hangers. Bring them to the meeting and Chuck Walter will give them to Gavin Boone who will take them to the Southside Club. Thanks to those who have done this. Keep it up. Northeast Chronicle April 8th, article by Kathy Cole about our donatons to the Miccosukee Youth on page 6. http://www.tallahassee.com/chronicle. HELP THE EDITOR When you see errors and/or old information please email the editor, especially scheduled activities updates. ALSO, please provide, via email, information about your project activities so I can post them here. I don't know short hand and am a very slow note taker if anything is being said. There are also things going on that some of us never hear mentioned. Tallahassee Fuller Center for Housing The Center's web address is http://tfch.org/. Another project for you to help. COMING THIS FALL The New Builders Club at Deer Lake Middle School has been delayed until the next adminstrative year beginning October 1st, 2010. We have people dedicated to the Key Club, two K-Kids clubs and the AKtion Club. We need new people to help with this. Planning needs to get started early. EDUCATIONAL NOTE Click here to check these items each week to learn about Kiwanis history and trivia. Membership Growth Development - A two year trial for a new membership category has been developed for people who would like to serve but can't make a commitment to regular attendance. Click here to read the specifics. Print a copy to review when you talk with prospective new members. JUNE BIRTHDAYS Ziegler 6/14
Dealing with the burdens of life: Always wear stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it. K-KIDS  The DeSoto Trail K-Kids  See article above. -------- The Gilchrist Elementary K-Kids --------------------------- Thanks to all the committee members who are helping make this a successful effort for both K-Kids Clubs. Click below to see the K-Kids Page of KI Web Site Speaker Possibilities Go to page two and scroll down the left column. WEAR YOUR KIWANIS PIN! When someone asks you about it invite them to breakfast on the club. AWARDS FOR 2009-2010 Committee Chairs must submit committee reports to the District online at the District web site to be eligible for awards. It is easy once you get the feel of it. Get off to a good start by doing it now. Get the recognition we deserve. Serving The Club If you don't feel like you are involved enough in community service there is plenty to be done. Tell President Elect Richard Zeigler how you want to be involved in the coming year. A list of committees and projects is on page 2. Click here to review it. May Club Activities *AKtion Club -2 meetings *Labels and Coupons *Ronald MacDonald House *Lingerie - Refuge House *K-Kids at Gilchrist and DeSoto Trail *$150 For The Southern Scholarship Foundation FUTURE PROGRAM SCHEDULE Look
for your name in the Future
Meetings Schedule and below. Plan ahead and email or call Chuck
Walter at 284-3760 when you have a program scheduled.
REMEMBER: Our Bylaws prohibit programs which promote policital candidates or issues. It is permissable to introduce candidates, but not to have them do a program. ----- 2010 June 17th .... George Sweat June 24th ..... Quarterly Club Update .. President Jim Barger July 1st .... Rick Theobald INTERCLUBS PLANNED
Paul Downing requests that someone agree to help him with Interclub meeting scheduling for the rest of the year. Give him your support. Each member is encouraged to attend at lest one interclub meeting each year. Easy ways to do it are: Division 3 quarterly meetings, AKtion club meetings, Key Club and K-Kids meetings when in session. IF ENOUGH MEMBERS ATTEND. For every inter-club our club completes between October 1, 2009 and March 1, 2010, we will receive one entry into a drawing for a Garmin GPS Navigator! The drawing will be held at the Zone 3 Conference and Governor’s Visit on March 13th, 2010. The more inter-clubs our club participates in, the better chance our club has at winning the prize!! So get going!! What a great prize for having fun!! INTERCLUBS COMPLETED - Greensboro Interclub meeting on April 8th. (MILLS, BULL, COLE, B. DOWNING) TALLAHASSEE VOICES Click To Join and participate in local issue surveys. It is easy. To Do List: Get your guest's email address and send him/her the link to our Newsletter each week. Increase your efforts for the coming year. Help us grow toward better community service. YOU JOINED FOR COMMUNITY SERVICE Tell Richard Zeigler where you want to serve next year. If you don't tell him he will assign you and then you need to support him by doing the job. To Do List: Get your guest's email address and send him/her the link to our Newsletter each week. Increase your efforts for the coming year. Help us grow toward better community service. |
KIWANIS
INTERNATIONAL
---------- Serving The Children of The World President Paul G. Palazzolo from Springfield, IL the Springfield-Downtown Club. Meet him here. Click here to visit the President's Page and view his new video. ----- President-Elect: Sylvester "Syl" Neal Auburn, Washington The Valley, Auburn Club ---- International Convention 2010 Las Vegas, NV June 24-27, 2010 Plan to make it a family vacation. It is time to elect delegates
for the International Convention
which will be held in Florida's Past Governor, Stan Story of the Arlington, Jacksonville Club is a Kiwanis International Trustee. ---------- Kiwanis International Information Click to view a lot of information about current projects and helpful information for Committee/Project Chairs and members. READ YOUR NEW KIWANIS MAGAZINE The April issue has a center insert pullout about Circle K International, the college level Kiwanis Leadership Program On page 14 there is a KI Financial Report for 08-09. On page 11, a list of KI web pages. Check out some of them. Miracle Makers on page 36. KIWANIS CONNECTED KIWANIS INTERNATIONAL EMAIL MAGAZINE It is a quarterly complement to your hard copy printed magazine. Go to this page to view the October issue and subscribe. http://www.kiwanis.org/magazine/march06.asp FLORIDA DISTRICT OF KIWANIS Click here to read Florida District information.  2009-2010 Governor Donna Parton's Logo  The Governor's Inspirational Message About Haiti Relief Click here to read the message from our District Governor. --- 2010
Convention The Florida Kiwanis Foundation Click Here to Read About It. You can become a sustaining member for $25. ---- Read your April - May 2010 Florida District Magazine Page 16 Club Reports for 2009-2010 See messages from Governor Donna Parton and many District Committee Chairs, as well as news of service projects for other clubs. -------The Florida Kiwanian OnLine Version Check our club activities report. Lots of good articles by District committee chairs and clubs. Read it. --- Project/Committee Chairs and all members Click To See Florida District Committee Chairs Look at the entire list to see these people who are willing to give their time to help us be the best Kiwanians we can be. DIVISION 3 ACTIVITIES Lt. Governor Donna Wells of the Capital City Club
VOLUNTEER NEEDED DIVISION 3 COUNCIL MEETING Next Meeting Monday, July 12, 2010 7 PM Fellowship Baptist Church Fellowship Hall ------- Club voting members are: President, Pres Elect, Secretary and Interclub chair per the bylaws. President, President Elect, Secretary and Interclub Chair should attend. All others welcome. ------ Upcoming Events June 19th, Monticello Kiwanis Watermellon Run. Contact Jessica Corley at jessicacorley@gmail.com or Katrina Walton at (850) 510-9512. Richard Ziegler and Jim Varley can tell you about it. June 12th, Annual Club Leadership Training will be held at the Funeral Home in Havana. Click here to read the Division 3
Newsletter.
with important District and Division dates and announcements. AKTION CLUB  Meeting changes of dates, times and location. SECOND & FOURTH MONDAYS 7 - 8 PM at the Hancock Bank Community Room at the corner of Mahan and Riggins PLEASE HELP MAKE EVERY AKTION CLUB MEETING AN INTERCLUB. ------ MEMORIAL TREE PLANTING Tuesday, April 20th a tree was planted at the Adult Learning Center on Trojan Way in honor of Bonnie Flynn, long time AKtion Club member who passed away not long ago. Bob Bull said it was an impressive ceremony. ------ Aktion needs one of our members to volunteer to handle arrangements for their car wash fund raiser. Ask Bob Bull what is involved. ----- Many AKtion Clubbers are involved in The Miracle Activities this season on Thursdays so the club attendance is down. ----- Every member ought to experience an AKtion Club Meeting, or project. ------- Dog Wash at The Humane Society, SATURDAY, May 8th. BOB DOWNING attended with 6 Aktion Club members. BOB GRAGNANI had his dog washed and praised the Aktion club washers. ----- Collecting canned and dry food for The Adopted Family at each Meeting. FOR THANKSGIVING $200 worth of groceries deliverd to last year's adopted family (a mother with 5 children). FOR A NEW CHRISTMAS ADOPTED FAMILY Can and dry goods are being accumulated. You can help by giving some to Bob Bull. Key Club  Web Site Key Club Officers for 2010/2011 school year are getting organized. Our Bufton Scholarship will be presented at one of our meetings later.
------Richard Zeigler has been keeping up with some previous scholarship winners and has learned Maria is planning to go to Thailand to work with a medical group and Holly is returning to Tallahassee to work during the summer. Here is a perfect illustration why our work with these young people is so important. ------ Final Event of the Year Relay For Life Team - May 14th KEY
CLUB PLEDGE: I pledge on my honor to uphold the objects of KEY Club
International; to build my home, school, and community; to serve my
nation and God and to combat all forces whch tend to undermine these
institutions.
The blue outline indicates a link to the Aktion Club, Key Club, FSU Circle K & KI Home Page. CANS FOR JIM BRING IN ALUMINUM CANS TO RAISE FUNDS FOR OUR ADMIN ACCOUNT Collect Aluminum cans (not the tabs) for recycling. Jim Varley will collect what we bring in and take them to recycling. Preferably they should be crushed, but bring them either way. Collections Remember travel cosmetic items for Johnnye to take to the Refuge House. Ruby K Award If you have recruited 5 or more members you are eligible for this award; that is, if you can remember their names. Give the names of your recruits to George Sweat and maybe he will get the pin for you. Awards are made for increments of five members recruited. COMMITTEE CHAIRS SUBMIT ALL YOUR MONTHLY REPORTS FOR THIS YEAR. It is the only way your committee can be eligible for District awards. If you get behind you can catch up on the past due reports. A list of District Awards and the criteria is available on the District web site at 2009-2010 District Awards Criteria Find your District Committee Counterpart and communicate with him/her. Florida District Committee Chairs "Brag For A Buck" Just give a buck and state your brag in one minute or less. Over that time costs $5.00 One or Two Liners I Work Hard Because Millions On Welfare Depend on Me! -------- Answers given by 2nd grade school children: How did God make mothers? He used dirt, just like for the rest of us.... HOW TO MAKE UP MISSED MEETINGS TO MAINTAIN YOUR PERFECT ATTENDANCE RECORD Simply attend a meeting of another club, including AKtion, Key, K-Kids, or another Kiwanis Club, a Division Council meeting, a club project, or a Board meeting. With all these possibilities there is little reason not to have perfect attendance. PERFECT ATTENDANCE AWARDS Tell Al Eppinger how many years are shown on your current perfect attendance tab, if you have one. Also, tell him how many years you have earned. This includes previous membership in other Kiwanis clubs. This is not for calender years. It is for one year of consecutive meetings and/or makeups. Explore Your New eNewsletter Click below to see the K-Kids Page of KI Web Site and read about K-Kids. DISPOSE OF YOUR FLAGS PROPERLY Bring them to Bob Gragnani and he will take them to the American Legion for proper retirement. Or you can take them to the mail box at the American Legion marked "Flags". HUMAN & SPIRITUAL AIMS from LeRoy Thompson He who laughs, lasts. Aluminum Tabs Continue to collect the tabs and bring them to Tommy Mills. Potential Speaker ------ Lana Pate, Donor Relations Officer Florida Sheriffs Youth Ranches, Inc. (386) 688-4729 or lpate@youthranches.org BOOK COLLECTIONS Remember books for the Veteran's Clinics. (GRAGNANI) AND Books for pre-schoolers |
