Official Newsletter of Illinois-Eastern Iowa District of Circle K International Volume 52 Issue 2 May 2012 I-I got news for you! Club Edition Hot off the govna press In this issue! Hello Mighty I-I! Hot off the govna press 1 ..................................... 2 I have spent the past six weekends in the company of my Kiwanis Family within our district and beyond. ..................................... 2 ..................................... 3 Keeping up with the Gov: rd th March 23 – March 25 : I spent the weekend in Peoria for Key Club District ..................................... 3 Convention. I led the Key to College and CKI101 forums in an effort to educate the Key Club members and remind them there is life after Key ..................................... 4 Club…its called Circle K ! Make sure to reach out to the Key Clubs in your area! Show them how awesome CKI is. ..................................... 4 March 30th - April 1st: I spent the weekend in Peoria at Kiwanis Midyear Conference. The conference is a great way for Kiwanis to reenergize and get excited about the remainder of the year. April 12th-April 15th : I spent the weekend in Indianapolis with the 2012-2013 Governor class at Governor & Admin Training Conference. I learned not only from the material but from the other governors as well. Live to Serve, April 20th -21st: The 2012-2013 District Board got together for District Officer Training (DOT) in Bloomington. At DOT the board spent the weekend Love to Serve! learning the ins and outs of their positions, developing goals for the year, Circle K International and ultimately building the framework for the year. Check out the goals on the next page! April 27th-April 29th: I spent the weekend with the Wisconsin Upper Michigan district to spread the Subregion C love at their Spring Fling event! It is great to meet other district members on a more personal level. I love the WUM Would you like to serve district – they have such energy! on a district committee? These weekends are great but I would like to be really involved in Check this link out for the each one of the I-I clubs! A personal goal of mine is to visit each application and division as a whole once and each club once. Do you have an committee descriptions: upcoming project or banquet? Request a visit from me I would love http://tinyurl.com/iicomapp to visit! ! Requesting a visit is as easy as filling out this sheet. Apps will be accepted on http://tinyurl.com/govvisit a rolling basis. ! Serving with a smile, Sabrena Email: [email protected] Cell: (708)833-3032 Sabrena Lopez - Goals for the I-I District LEADERSHIP Setting Our Sights Although these goals were discussed and set by the FELLOWSHIP members of the district board there is no way we can achieve any kind of success without the work and dedication of the Illinois-Eastern Iowa District Membership. We have set some high goals this year but that does not make them unattainable but rather something we can reach for! Together the district SERVICE membership can work to go above and beyond expectation. 2012-2013 District Goals: Spastic Paralysis Donations: $8,000 Service Hours: 25 per Member Fellowship & Leadership Hours: 15 per Member Kiwanis Donations Outreach: 66 Individual Donations Club Building: 2 New Clubs Reactivated Clubs: 2 District Membership: 425 Active Members Attendance Goals: Kiwanis Family District Large Scale Service Project: 40 Leadership Training Retreat: 55 Holiday Embrace (Dinner & Dance): 250 Holiday Embrace (Dance Only): 30 District Convention: 100 International Convention: 15 International Large Scale Service Project: 5 What club members can do to ensure success: Keep an open mind and a positive attitude, lead by example and participate! What club officers can do to ensure success: Work with the district board to keep membership to date, inspire membership to serve as active members, provide opportunities for the members to go above and beyond, lead by example. What the district board will do to ensure success: Serve as a resource to the district membership, provide guidance to club officers, lead by example. Serving with a smile, Sabrena Email: [email protected] Cell: (708)833 -3032 Illinois-Eastern Iowa District of Circle K International Secretary’s ! Two Cents ! ! Hello again, CKIers! ! Forms Submissions: ! I hope all everyone has had a ! ! good and productive first Club Officer Contact March MRF ! month in his or her respective Ashford Univ. ! elected and appointed Augustana Coll. X X ! position. Aurora Univ. X ! Benedictine Univ. ! Secretaries: Bradley Univ. X X ! May 5th is quickly DePaul Univ. X X ! approaching. Please be sure Eastern Ill. Univ. ! to turn in your April Report Eureka Coll. X X Greenville Coll. ! Form. This documents all the ! Illinois Coll. X events you’ve had over the Ill. State Univ. X X ! course of the month, whether Ill. Wesleyan Univ. X X it is service projects, meetings John Wood Coll. or otherwise. The report form Knox Coll. X can be found online at the Lake Forest Coll. X Lincoln Land Coll. following link: Loyola Univ. X tinyurl.com/clubreportform Monmouth Coll. North Central Coll. X X To the right, you’ll find a table Northern Ill. Univ. X X of all the clubs in the I-I District Quincy Univ. and what forms they’ve Rock Valley Coll. X X submitted so far. Even if the Rockford Coll. SIU – Carbondale deadline has passed (e.g. SIU – Edwardsville March MRF), please submit it St. Ambrose Univ. X X to the best of your abilities. Univ. of Illinois X X Late is better than never! Western Ill. Univ. Wilbur Wright Coll. Be safe, be well, eat fruit. ! Thank!you!for!your!submissions!thus!far!and!keep!them! coming!!Remember,!late!is!better!than!never.!"! Yours in service, Kevin Huang 2012-2013 I-I CKI District Secretary Kevin Huang ! Secretary’s Two Cents ! Club Edition Volume 52 ! Edition 2 ! May 2012 Marketing & LEADERSHIP Technology Chair My name is Maci Mitchell, and I am the newly FELLOWSHIP appointed Marketing and Technology Chair for the I-I District. I am a sophomore at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois, but I am originally from the town of Sterling and will probably never be fully used to suburbia. I am majoring in sociology with minors in global studies and history of ideas. I have SERVICE been involved in Circle K since fall term of my freshman year and was my club’s secretary for the past year. In addition to being on the district board, I am also the new president of my club and am very excited for all the opportunities and challenges of the new service year. Outside of Circle K, I am involved in Focus, my college’s student-led worship group, have gone on and led service trips through North Central, and am a part of the Honors Program. I love service because I think that helping others is not only enjoyable but also that it is all of our responsibility as human beings to recognize ourselves as a family and respond to each other’s needs. I also think it is a fantastic way to meet new people and form awesome friendships with people who share my passion for serving others. My goals as Marketing and Technology Chair for this year include making good quality publicity for all events, working with other committee chairs to promote the goings on of the district, keeping the Maci (2nd from the left) with district website and facebook page up to date, the rest of NCC’s 2011-2012 and encouraging clubs to create their own CKI board after this year’s websites. In doing so, I hope to increase club Induction Banquet. ! participation at the district level and help clubs promote themselves by making information available to current and prospective members, hopefully fulfilling the goal of increasing membership. Thank you to everyone who has supported me so far in my time in CKI, and I cannot wait to see what this year brings! Maci Mitchell [email protected] Kiwanis Family Relations Committee SERVICE Get involved! YOU can be Hello Mighty I-I District! a part of the Kiwanis Family Relations My name is Ashley Wolfe. I am an English - Writing Emphasis and Committee! Neuroscience Major at Augustana College. I will be serving as your Kiwanis Family Relations Chair for this next year. There are Fill out the preceding form lots of new ideas coming into play this year for our District such and send to as a new I-I Kiwanis and Circle K career mentoring program. [email protected] Throughout the year there will be lots of opportunities through newsletters, webinar(s), social media, and events to learn more about what each individual branch of the Kiwanis Family has to LEADERSHIP offer. If you have ideas about how you want to see the Kiwanis Family Relations grow, feel free to contact me any time (information below). Also, consider applying to be on the committee so you can have an opportunity to be directly involved with everything K-Family! Yours in service, Ashley Ways to get involved with the other branches of the Kiwanis Family: Service: One of the main things that drive all of the K-Family is service to others. Get out into your community and help out! Social: Host a K-Family Dinner, enjoy the nice weather and host a picnic. Go Bowling, challenge another club to a game of Bowling to get to know them Informational: Give a presentation at the meeting. It could be about what your club is doing, or it could Be about something that is going in your community.