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Help for
Haiti
continues
Due to continued publicity and efforts by club mem-bers, the fundraising cam-paign to feed starving chil-dren in Haiti has been going strong.
More than $3,800 has been accumulated and donated to our club on behalf of the Haiti project.
The club is partnering with Jack Reynolds of Fountain Hills, who founded the non-profit organization known as Free the Kids. The group is designed to financially sup-port the school and orphan-age in Haiti known as Pwoje Espwa (Project Hope).
Reynolds’ brother-in-law, Catholic priest Fr. Marc Boisvert, operates Pwoje Espwa, which was exten-sively damaged this fall by Hurricane Matthew.
Club President Ken Brown is hopeful the overall cam-paign can raise $30,000 in donations and grants to feed 350 hungry children in Haiti for one year.
“All the money will go into a restricted fund at Free the Kids and can’t be used for any other purpose except to buy food and transport it to where these children are,” Brown said.
He and fellow board mem-ber Roger Bates plan to fly to Haiti in January to visit the orphanage and help where they can.
Bloody good
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Kiwanis Kapers Official publication of the Kiwanis Club of Fountain Hills, AZ
december 2016
Community drives help save many lives It’s been a bloody
good year for blood
donations.
Our club, in conjunc-
tion with the Town of
Fountain Hills and Unit-
ed Blood Services,
coordinates five com-
munity blood drives
here a year.
The last drive of 2016
was held in November.
The five drives this
past year collected an
incredible total of 81.6
gallons of blood!
Club leaders thank
Paul Appeldorn and
Dr. Liz Smith for coor-
dinating the blood
drives this past year;
thanks to Sofrita and
Little Caesars for their
continuing support;
and thanks to the Town
of Fountain Hills and
the Community Center
staff for their incredi-
ble sponsorship.
A big thanks, also, to
the many folks who
have donated blood
this past year. An in-
credible amount of
lives have been saved
because of these ef-
forts.
Drives for 2017 in-
clude Jan. 20-21; March
31 and April 1; June 2-
3; August 18-19; and
November 17-18.
Can you find the 10 differences between these two pictures? Jon
“One More” Geller found himself on the other side of the lens at the
most recent community blood drive, as coordinator Paul Appeldorn
captured the moment on film. Or digitally. Thanks for giving blood,
Jon, and thanks Paul for telling Jon he had to pose for “one more”
photograph. Oh, the bloody irony of it all...
Kiwanian Craig Gildersleeve rolled up his sleeve to give blood.
Fellow Kiwanians:
Our club is linking arms with the Sunset Kiwanis club to form a new club satellite. This is a new venture that
Kiwanis International is encouraging clubs to consider to provide a new experience of Kiwanis for people who
have a career and can’t meet in a conventional club setting. It is designed to appeal to a younger clientele.
Members of this club satellite will be empowered to meet at times that are convenient for them at a venue
that suits them and they may choose to develop their own fund-raising projects or get involved in some of
ours. They will be members of either the Sunset or Noon Kiwanis club, depending on who recruits them to
join Kiwanis. But they will not be expected to be active in either of our traditional club settings because the
goal is for them to develop a new Kiwanis experience that suits their schedules and interests.
Predictably, many members of the club satellite will be younger than those in either of our traditional clubs,
which is really the point. Kiwanis International realizes the need to provide an experience of Kiwanis that ap-
peals to younger adults and suits them because so many of our traditional clubs are showing their age, literal-
ly. So this is an exciting new development for our club and provides an opportunity for Sunset and Noon Ki-
wanis to work together to foster this new satellite experience.
If you know people in town who don’t have an interest in the traditional Kiwanis experience, this club satel-
lite could be just the ticket for them. Please encourage them to contact me or invite them to come to one of our
regular meetings or simply give me their contact information and I will get in touch with them. We are excited
to be a part of sponsoring this new club satellite!
We have five new members who have submitted applications and payment to join our Noon Kiwanis club
this month. Plus there are several more people who have expressed strong interest in joining our club or who
want to become an active part of the new club satellite. So we are well on our way to meeting the goal I have
set as President of adding 20 new members to our club by May 31, 2017!
A WORD FROM PRESIDENT KEN BROWN
Exciting development, more
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Who better to recruit into the Noon
Kiwanis Club than your spouse?
President Ken Brown did just that,
as wife Margie was inducted into
the club Dec. 1. Margie works at the
law office of Tait Elkie and sings in
the Fountain Hills Presbyterian
Church Choir. We welcome Margie
as the newest member of our club!
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Two fun fundraisers bring $$$ These past few weeks have brought us two annual fund-
raisers that help replenish our annual budget to be used
for service projects, grants, scholarships, etc. Our Hal-
loween fundraiser garnered a new record of $1400,
nearly doubling what was budgeted. The November
Fountain Festival food booth brought in approximately
$6600, once again above the budgeted amount. Fea-
tured on this page are pictures from both fundraisers.
Special thanks to our Aktion Club as well as our Build-
ers and K-Kids members for their assistance!
Dec. 1 Luncheon meeting; update on goals
Dec. 3 Breakfast with Santa
Dec. 8 Luncheon meeting; FHHS Chorus at Comm. Ctr.
Dec. 13 Adopt-A-Street litter patrol
Dec. 15 NO MEETING
Dec. 17 Extended Hands Food Bank service project
Dec. 22 NO MEETING
Dec. 29 NO MEETING
Dec. 31 Serve dinner at Ronald McDonald House
Jan. 5 Luncheon meeting; Fountain View Village
Jan. 7 Extended Hands Food Bank service project
Jan. 12 NO MEETING
Jan. 19 Luncheon meeting; FH Community Garden
Jan. 28 Bicycle Safety Rodeo at MM Elementary School
Feb. 5 Super Bowl pancake breakfast
Upcoming Calendar of Events
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Another tie? No, it wasn’t Father’s Day, it was a special award
given to immediate past president Mike Scharnow
by Kiwanis International and club President Ken
Brown to recognize Scharnow’s recruiting effort the
past few years. “The Formula” is KI’s latest attempt
to increase membership across the globe and
strengthen existing clubs. Scharnow has recruited
15 new Kiwanians over the years, and President
Brown is urging members to reach his goal of add-
ing 20 new members to the club this year. We can
do it!