knews 0615 Summer Edition - Kiwanis Club of Fort Worth

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
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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!
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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
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Summer 2015
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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
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Summer 2015
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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 .
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Summer 2015
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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, donandcheri@charter.net, 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.
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