ICON and FMR Recap

Eliminate Update

Board Introductions

Table of Contents

Governor's Address

Division Updates

Goals Dashboard Meet the District

Board

DCON Promotion

FMR Recap

Eliminate Update

Icon Recap

Kiwanis Family Day Recap

Governor’s Address

It is my hope that you have had a successful transition

into the spring semester. Fall was an exciting and busy

time for the Georgia District. Fall Membership Retreat

was phenomenal and one of the best that I have ever at-

tended. If that is any indication for District Convention, I anxiously await to

see you all and participate in a weekend packed with Leadership, Fellow-

ship, and Service.

For those of you attending District Convention I encourage you to consider your future leadership within Circle K. Some of you will want to become a Club Officer and I congratulate you on taking that step. However, if you are unsure of what you might want to do next you, I invite you to look into running for District Office. Feel free to check our website for more infor-mation regarding elected officer positions or contact me at gover-nor@georgiacirclek.org. I am proud of all of the work that each club and member have done thus

far. We are well on our way to accomplishing our District Goals. To keep up

with our progress please visit our goals dashboard on our website. Please

remember that the District Board is here to serve you and is a resource. If

you need anything please contact us!

Yours in Service and in Friendship,

Greetings Georgia

Circle K!

Meet Your District Board!

Governor

Virginia Byrd

Secretary

Historian &

Awards Chair

Emma Hunnewell

Treasurer

Kylie Wilson

Bulletin Editor/

FMR Chair

Christine Farsi

Metro Division

Lorenzo Tolentino

Mountains Division

MD&E Chair

Christine Mayfield

Plains Division

Drew Kelley

Coastal Division

James Braswell

Executive Board

Lieutenant Governors

Meet Your District Board!

DCON Chair

Megan Fisette

Webmaster &

Multimedia Chair

Greg Johnston

Service (MNT) Chair

Reynaldo Del Toro

Guevara III

Assistant Administrator

Anla Ethridge

Assistant Administrator

Stacey Fountain

District Administrator

Brent Leslie

Committee Chairs

Administrators

Goals Update

1. The Georgia District will have 425 members by March 31, 2015.

2. The Georgia District will have 8 Circle K clubs represented at the Fall

Membership Retreat and 10 Circle K clubs represented at the District

Convention

3. The Georgia District will have 4 reactivated and/or chartered clubs by March 31, 2015.

4. The Georgia District will have 4500 service hours by March 31, 2015. 5. The Georgia District will raise $1800 for the Eliminate Project by March

31, 2015.

Current Goals:

The Eliminate Project is a partnership established between the Kiwanis Family

and UNICEF to eliminate maternal and neonatal tetanus, also known as MNT, through

a 5 year campaign by 2015 with a goal of 110 million USD. As of October 1, 2015, we

have started the final stretch of the Eliminate Project. We are now under the Celebrate

Banner of the campaign and that is how we will end the Eliminate Project during 2015

Kiwanis International Convention while also celebrating the Kiwanis Centennial!

The final year of the Eliminate Project is upon us and so we must have a small re-

minder as to what we are accomplishing with the Eliminate Project. As mentioned be-

forehand, the Eliminate Project’s aim is to eliminate maternal and neonatal tetanus.

This means that there has to be less than 1 in 1000 cases reported to be considered

eliminated. This is achieved through 3 shots, costing $1.80 each, to be given to the

mother. These shots protect all her future babies. The $1.80 not only covers the shots

but it also covers education for midwives regarding clean practices and proper utensils

for birth.

Maternal and neonatal is a deadly and painfully excoriating disease that now kills

one child every 11 minutes. Not only is it physically painful for a child, it is also emo-

tionally painful for the mother as she watches her child die painfully without being

able to do anything to help her child or to stop the pain. Tetanus spores in the ground

enter a baby’s system during birth in unclean birthing practices and locations. This is

easily prevented through the $1.80.

Through our efforts we have been able to reduce the number of babies dying of

neonatal tetanus by 15 percent! A huge drop in numbers, and a huge increase in lives

saved! As of October 16 , 2014, the Kiwanis Family has raised US$71,517,311.40*. As

of November 9, 2014 Circle K International has raised US$250,388.59*. This year the

Georgia District’s goal for the Eliminate Project is $1,800 by March 31, 2014. By accom-

plishing this we will be saving at least 1,000 lives!

*(Please note that these amounts may be inaccurate by the time the article is pub-

lished as Worldwide Report Day was on October 12, 2014)

Georgia District

Schedule a Visit!

You can have any member of the district board visit your club!

To request a visit: Click the “Visit Request Form” button on the

home page of the district website!

It was a good summer and now the new school year has started. Let’s recap what some of our clubs have done since April:

To celebrate Kiwanis One Day in April, the Georgia Southern Circle K Club part-nered with the Statesboro Kiwanis Club for the fourth Annual Bull, Broncs, and BBQ rodeo. This joint venture raised money for the Eliminate Project and also furthered the Kiwanis Family bond between the two clubs.

On April 25, 2014 at the 17th Annual Georgia Southern University Leadership Awards and Recognition Banquet, The Georgia Southern Circle K Club won sev-eral Awards: the Outstanding Community Service Project of the Year award for their work at the BBQ Hut during the Kiwanis Ogeechee Fair. Also, their club ad-visor, Kerry Greenstein, won Organization Advisor of the Year and our general member and current District Governor, Virginia Byrd, won the Higgs-McCarter Active Citizenship Award.

Division Updates: Coastal Division

Division Updates: Metro Division

GT Circle K as always is racking up the hours with their regular weekly projects - sandwich making for the homeless on Tuesdays, sorting surplus food at the Atlanta Community Food Bank on Wednesdays, and hanging out with some kids after school at the Boys and Girls Club on Friday. Just recently, they will also begin tutoring the same kids on Thursdays.

GT Circle K having fun with weird foods while helping sort and repackage 10,000 lbs of food at the Atlanta Community Food Bank

AUC Circle K has seen steadily increasing attendance at their General Body Meetings and service projects, thanks to investing in an advertising campaign to increase cam-pus awareness. With the new membership they have continually volunteered with elementary schools such as Parklane Elementary School and Heritage Elementary, as one of their focuses is to build a mentor-mentee relationship with their students. On top of that they have also volunteered at the Atlanta Community Food Bank and are looking forward to supporting local families with food, clothing, and toys this holiday season through the Department of Children and Family Services.

Hello Georgia District! Metro Division has been incredibly busy, completing at least 500 hours of ser-vice by all the clubs combined and all service projects are still in full swing. Here are some of the service high-lights of some of the clubs!

Other clubs have been serving in a variety of projects and attending events as well. Georgia State Circle K so far has been helping kids, homeless people in their service

projects. Recently they helped out at a fall festival where they assisted with food and games. Upcoming projects include doing arts and crafts and serving food at a Thanks-

giving Feast.

Georgia State Circle K Volunteering at a fall festival

University of West Georgia, despite a rough start with new running officers, ad-visers, and projects registration, pulled through with simple, honest communica-

tion within their leadership. Now closer than ever, they have led the club in participat-ing in numerous hunger and poverty related projects this past month, in addition to raising over $700 working the football concession stands this past season. They also brought four new members to this year’s Fall Membership Retreat, where they were mingled with clubs within the Metro Division as well as clubs all over the state.

UWG new member Kourtney (right) hanging out with Emma from YHC (left)

and Xian from Georgia Southern (middle) at the FMR service project

Last but not the least, we have Co-lumbus State University with about 120 hours of service completed. This is very impressive, considering that this is a building year for the club and that they have had to rely on on-campus service opportunities for their projects. In conclusion, a brief, 500-word article does not suffice in outlining the activities and accomplishments of the Metro Division. If you’re interested in finding more about our clubs’ activities, don’t hesitate to contact us! Peace,

Lorenzo Tolentino, Metro Division Lieutenant Governor

These college students were there for CKIx 2014, a six-day experience combining the Large Scale Service Project (LSSP) 2014 and CKI Interna-tional Convention (ICON) 2014. For LSSP, which transpired during the first third of CKIx, attendees travelled to different parts of the city to par-take in community service. A whopping 3800 service hours were com-pleted during LSSP, where Circle K’ers packed medical supplies, visited at-risk shelters, and cleaned up parks.

Simi Oludare (front row, far left) and Stefan Ludlow (back row, far right) at Project C.U.R.E.,

one of the volunteering oppor-tunities during LSSP

Nashville, Tennessee. The Music City. The stomping grounds of legendary artists such as Jimi Hendrix, The Black Keys, and of course, Miley Cyrus. Year round, tourists from all over the world venture to this unique southern city not mainly for the sights or smells, but for the sounds. But during the third week of June 2014, tourists, especially who stayed at the Loews Vanderbilt Hotel, heard not budding musicians nor seasoned artists, but the loud, lively, and at times, slightly obnoxious cheers and chants of 350 Circle K’ers from all over the world (but mostly from the US).

After LSSP, ICON followed with caucusing of international can didates and convening of the House of Representatives to dis-

cuss amendments to the CKI constitution. 206 clubs were represented, in-cluding 5 people from the Georgia District. The next day came the work-shops, but during this time some of the attendees were also allowed to ex-plore not only downtown Nashville, but new friendships from people all over the world as well.

Afterward came the announcement of the new 2014-2015 Interna-

tional Board and the awards ceremony. While Georgia District didn’t clean house, we collected our fair share of trophies. Props to Brittany Horton, Elizabeth Ludlow, and Shannon Weaver for being awarded Distinguished Governor, Distinguished District Secretary, and Distinguished Editor, respec-tively. Kudos to Georgia Tech for winning two awards as well: Club Achieve-ment Award, Bronze Division - 1st Place, and Single Service Award, Silver Division - 3rd Place. Did I also forget to mention that we won Distinguished

District, thanks to our lovely Dis-trict Administrator, Brent Leslie?

The Mighty Powerful Georgia District with their International

Awards In sum, it was a grand, fulfilling experience. I’ve mentioned some key stats previously, but I can’t leave out the $1000 everyone was able to raise for the Eliminate Project through a baby food eating contest fundraiser. Need-less to say, it was disgustingly entertaining. Regardless, as a result of the tireless efforts of the ICON committee, the event was highly engaging, with

FMR was one of my favorite

experiences of Circle K. As a

member of the district board

I am expected to go to all of

the events year round. This

year was my first FMR, and I

have to say that I will

definitely attend FMR until I

graduate! This retreat was a

great opportunity to meet other Circle K members from other colleges, and recon-

nect with previous friends of Circle K. Our theme was Clue, which was exciting and

very fun to play along with. We were able to attend a bonfire, play quite a few

“minute-to-win-it” games, make new friends, see familiar faces, share memories

and happy thoughts through our “letter bags” and most importantly, participate in

not one but two service projects! Coming from the University of West Georgia we

were able to bring many

members

and share the

experience

together.

FMR is a huge part of our year as Circle K-ers, and it

is something that everyone can enjoy, even if you

aren’t a member. Everyone had such a great time!

Kylie Wilson

District Treasurer

treasurer@georgiacirclek.org

President of UWG’s Circle K said Although it was my sec-

ond year attending, it was a whole new experience! The camp site

was beautiful and spacious, and with new leadership compared to

last year, I was able to enjoy the sessions in a different perspective.

Not only was this a great experience for me, but other members

we brought along to enjoy the fellowship, service, and leadership

that was wrapped up in the weekend!

The day started out pretty dreary, but spending time with my Kiwanis family al-

ways brightens the day right up! It was fun to eat lunch, play bean bag toss and

just share stories with other K-Family members. Kiwanians, Key Clubers and Circle

Kers were all there representing their age groups. Then we went all together into

the stadium to watch Georgia Tech play against Georgia Southern. I don’t know

about anyone else, but I got a jolt of pride when the Eliminate announcement

praising our clubs came on over the whole stadium. It was great to be recognized

for what good work the K-family does. That day $5 of every football ticket bought

through Georgia Key Club went toward the Eliminate Project. In one day we raised

$2,125 just having fun and spending time together. Way to go Kiwanis Family!

Chrisitine Farsi, Bulletin Editor

Hello Circle K’ers!

I hope you’re excited for DCON! As the multimedia chair, one of the things I’m do-ing to prepare for DCON is putting together a slideshow of the past year’s events, both at the club and district level, and I need your help. In the slideshow, I would like each club attending DCON to have one PowerPoint slide dedicated to them – this slide can have information about your club’s service activities, fundraisers, so-cial events, or anything else you want to talk about, and could include a picture or two as well (but you don’t need to prioritize that since there is plenty of space for pictures in the rest of the slideshow). If you don’t want to make a slide, you can also just send me information about your club and I will incorporate it into a slide. Please send your slide or information to multimedia@georgiacirclek.org by Friday, February 20. Another way you can make sure your club is represented in the slideshow is by submitting your photos or other media using the media submission form on the Georgia Circle K website. If it’s more convenient, you can also send this directly to multimedia@georgiacirclek.org.

Thank you so much, and see you at DCON!

Greg Johnston

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