Fall 2014 Newsletter of the Kiwanis Club of Pembroke

much bigger movement. With a focus on youth, Kiwanis supports youth clubs in elementary, secondary and post secondary schools. There are almost as many youth members of Kiwanis as there are adult members. We are proud to have youth programs at Highview School (Builders Club), Fellows High School (Key Club) and Algonquin College (Circle K Club). These youth Clubs

100 Years of Kiwanis carry out service projects, have fun and build leaders for tomorrow.

In 2015 Kiwanis International will be celebrating its 100th Anniversary. From a

Corporate Membership Has Its humble beginning of its first club in Detroit, Michigan on January 21, 2015 Kiwanis has Advantagesgrown to 8344 adult clubs and 7900 youth clubs in 80 nations. Recently Kiwanis International has created The 582,000 adult and youth members the category of Corporate Membership. carry out 18 million hours of service work Rather than individual membership in the annually. Kiwanis Clubs raise more than Club, Corporations can become members $100 million and sponsor 150,000 service and designate an employee of the business projects each year. A commendable record. to represent their business at meetings and Our local Pembroke Club, formed in 1922, events. has a long history of service work in the This allows a business to be affiliated with community. Kiwanis that is a well respected service club

in the area. It becomes part of their being a good corporate citizen in the community

New Divisional Lieutenant where they do business. Governor from Pembroke Our Club is fortunate to have 12 local

businesses as Corporate Members. Their Clublogos appear to the right. Kiwanis International is structured with 50

District regions throughout the world. The Kiwanis Music FestivalDistricts in turn have 7 to 40 Divisions each. The local clubs are grouped within the The 67th annual Kiwanis Music Festival is division. Our Club is set to go at Festival Hall from February 17th within Division 13 until March 6. This high profile event brings and our Kiwanian together the musical talent in the area to Mac Plaunt has perform in the areas of vocal, piano, been elected for a instrumental music and dance. Over the two year term as three weeks there will be over 450 L i e u t e n a n t performances that will be adjudicated by our Governor. It will be a four experts. The Festival has been a busy year as he starting point for local talent that have gone coordinates the 8 on and have music as an important part of clubs in our area. their lives. A few, such as April Verch and It is notable that the Josh Hopkins, have made an international President of Kiwanis career in music. International this The wrap up event, Festival of Stars, takes year is a Canadian, place at Festival Hall on March 26 where Dr. John Button, awards are given out and some of the from the Ridgetown winning performances are repeated. Mark Kiwanis Club. your calendar for this great event.

Admission is free.

Kiwanis is Bigger Than Kiwanis

Normally the local Kiwanis Club is considered to be the men and women of the community that get together for weekly meetings and take part in fundraising activities and work on the various Kiwanis projects in the area. But in fact Kiwanis is a

Fund Raising Projects - To support the new and ongoing projects of the Club, fundraising projects are carried out throughout the year. It should be noted all monies raised from fundraising is used for club service projects. Administrative costs for the Club and Kiwanis International are raised from dues paid by Club members. Thank you for your support of our Kiwanis Fundraisers which focus on projects serving children and building a better community.

Every year the Club serves a pancake Another annual fund raiser is the Haunted breakfast at the Field House at Riverside House at Hugli Berry Ranch. Members of Park for all of the visitors to Pembroke for the Kiwanis with help from the Key Club, Circle K Fiddle and Step Dancing Competition on and other high school students don spooky Labour Day Weekend. Lots of hard work for costumes to scare and entertain the visitors many of our members but great fun serving to the haunted house that is part of the and meeting the visitors to Pembroke. Halloween fun at the Berry Farm. Many thanks to owner and Kiwanian Brian

Hugli (and Judi) for allowing Kiwanis to be part of the fun and to raise money for Kiwanis projects.

Cross River SwimAnother great year for the Cross River Swim. This year there were four swimmers that dove into the water at 8:00 AM and set off across the Ottawa River. Chris Sanzo and Bob McLaughlin did the double cross, Danny Smith did the single cross and Bob Sheppard completed a half cross. The river is 2 km across at Pembroke so the distance the Nevada Ticketsswimmers covered ranged from 4 Km to 1

This year we have added Canadian Tire as Km.

another sale point for our Nevada ticket The swimmers get the bragging rights and

sales. Along with Perkins Convenience Store their sponsor’s contributions raised $9500 for

we now have two locations in Pembroke.Club Projects. Congratulations!

Haunted HousePancake Breakfast

Come and Join Our Fun The Kiwanis Club of Pembroke was formed in 1922 as a part of Kiwanis International that has over 580 thousand members in over 80 countries world wide. Locally we have weekly meetings at the Kiwanis Field House (Riverside Park) to hear a guest speaker, socialize and plan for our projects. Visit our web page at www.pembrokekiwanis.org or contact us a

for more information. We would love to have you join us.info@pembrokekiwanis.org

Service Projects - Serving the Community and the World

School Bursaries Boys and Girls Club Algonquin College Building Each spring our bursary committee Fundidentif ies deserving students for Dean Karen Davies and Jamie bursaries. This year $5250 was presented Bramberger attended an October to students from Algonquin College meeting of Kiwanis and were presented a (Business and Forestry), Fellows HS, cheque for $5000 towards our $50,000

commitment to the new Algonquin College Campus in Pembroke. The new campus is a wonderful addition for the Upper Valley and we a proud to be part of this project.

The Boys and Girls Club complements our focus on children. They have an important role in the community with programming run from their Clubhouse in partnership with other agencies in the area. This year we donated $4500 to help with

Bishop Smith HS, Equinox, Jeanne their after school and summer programs.Lajoie, and General Panet H.S. The presentation was made at the July 9th club meeting.