eBuilder - The Online Newsletter of the Capital District of Kiwanis International

November 2011

David Maloney, Editor

K-Kids Club Raises Money for
the ELIMINATE Project

by Jennifer Wolff, Kiwanis Club of Tysons Corner/McLean VA

The K-Kids Club of Pinecrest School (sponsored by the Kiwanis Club of Tysons Corner/McLean, Virginia) had a lemonade stand on October 21st at the school's Fun Fair carnival day. The students raised $227.01 for The Eliminate Project. Kiwanis International and UNICEF are partnering together on this project to eliminate maternal and neonatal tetanus, a deadly disease that steals the lives of nearly 60,000 innocent babies and a significant number of women each year...more

Sec/Treas Tom's Admonition:
"Get back to basics"

by Sec/Treas Tom Varner

At the recently-held K-Family weekend at Front Royal, VA 4-H Center, I heard many comments that kept leading me back to one phrase –“Back to the Basics.” This week I, along with all of the President Neal’s Class of Governors, received a very disheartened email discussing the serious loss in members that Kiwanis International experienced in September – over 5% of the membership...more

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Gov. Jeffrey's Msg
Haunted House
Story Time
BIS Builders Club
Food Drive

Gov. Jeffrey's Message

by Gov. Jeffrey Wolff

Greetings everyone, I hope that you all enjoyed your Thanksgiving holiday! For December, my message focuses on leadership and succession planning. One of the greatest advantages to our organization, Kiwanis and Service Leadership Programs alike, is that any member can step up into any of numerous leadership positions we have to offer. ..more

Haunted House at Coastal Delaware Kiwanis

by Rosemary Cummings

Sea Witch started with a cold, rainy, eerie day with Rehoboth Beach cancelling the parade Saturday. but Sunday was another day. The Kiwanis Haunted house was open both afternoons. As the door opened a scary old bat met and directed you to the old scout camping site with its old cemetery, then past the hanging pirate where travelers followed the trail past Ghost Mountain with some friendly and not so friendly ghosts, goblins and spiders, then through to the Ogres Banquet Hall where the ogres were feasting on brains, gizzards and eyeballs and invited guests to join them if they were not too frightened...more

Books Donated

Kiwanis Club of Wilmington, DE

by Charma Bell

Story Books and Stickers at the Salvation Army from The Wilmington DE Kiwanis. The Kiwanis Club of Wilmington, DE continued their monthly Priority One reading program at the Salvation Army Childcare Program located in the heart of the city...more

BIS "Builders Club" Officers Ready to Lead

by David Landis

Berlin Intermediate School (BIS) in Berlin, Maryland is the home of a "Builders Club" which is the elementary school level Kiwanis International Club. The young students learn leadership and community service and the workings of an after school organization. These children do projects such as the upcoming Trick or Treat for UNICEF project whereby they raise funds to help UNICEF eliminate Tetanus in third world countries, Tetanus is a preventable, but if untreated, deadly disease...more

Food Drive

by Rosemary Cummings

The day was perfect. K-Kids and Kiwanians greeted food shoppers at the local Super Fresh, as they entered (to give them a Kiwanis flyer and ask for a food donation) and as they exited (to look each person in the eye and say, "Thank you for your gift"). In just four hours on a crisp Fall October Saturday morning, the Lewes neighbors filled the Kiwanis grocery van with bags of groceries...more