THE SISKIWAN CELEBRATING 35 YEARS SISTERS KIWANIS CLUB, SISTERS, OREGON APRIL 11, 2013 - VOL. 35 ISSUE 7 Almost There! We Need YOUR Help! by Tom Worcester Food Bank Fundraising Chairman • • • What? We still need funds for the Food Bank FOOD BANK BUILDING Project? FUNDRAISING 125 With less than a month to go before Sisters Kiwanis will break ground (actually, garage 100 As of 4/5/13 tear-down) for a new food bank structure, 84 the fund-raising portion of the project 69 $78,563 received from remains active. Another way to put it is, “If private sources + 53 you have not yet contributed to the project, $23,000 from club = it’s not too late!” 38 26 $101,513 to date As of the end of March, 26 current and Thousands of dollars of Thousands former members of the Sisters Kiwanis club 23 The Club has committed $23,000 of our Long Range Planning dollars to the project total need of $124,919 Food Bank have donated $30,372 of the $101,513 raised for the project. Kiwanian March 2013 gifts range from $100 to $10,422, including a $5,000 donation and 10 gifts of $1,000 each. Families It must be noted that the grand total above includes two $10,000 gifts 99 pledged but not yet paid, as well as $2,700 in additional promises. Adults Fortunately, all of these resources are reliable! 194 Children 6-18 So why do we need to keep asking for gifts? Construction costs have 75 been calculated at just under $125,000. At this point, only one of the Children 0-6 foundations solicited by the grand writing committee has responded, 17 and that response was negative. It is possible that none of the Value foundations will contribute funds for the project. $18,319.50 It is conceivable, also, that we could end up over-subscribed if Volunteers/Hours foundation money comes in. That is a quandary that has delightfully Kiwanis positive potential in the over-all context of a greatly improved 16/126 community food bank. Community 21/80 Our wish is to break ground on May 1st with funds supporting our efforts! www.SistersKiwanis.org SERVING THE CHILDREN OF THE WORLD www.Facebook.com/SistersKiwanis page 1 HEADLINES New Food Bank Building Progress Snapshot by Dave Roberts Food Bank Building Chairman • • • Building Permit Application. Demolition. The permit application is in process and the Once the old food store building is empty it will be construction plans are being reviewed by City/ made available to the local Fire Departments for use County staff. Appeal period initiated. Only minor as a training structure. No live fire, but the adjustments required to our plans at this point and departments will use the structure for search and the expectation is for permit approval by the end of rescue simulations. Initial schedule for last week of April. April. This will be a great Photo and PR opportunity. Construction. Public Relations. Our General Contractor (CG) is receiving bids for A push to further inform the general Sisters work to be performed. Local labor and trades are Country residents of our plans is underway. An preferred if costs are in line with expectations. informal poll indicates a lot of people are unaware of Some upward pressure on material costs being the project. That was a little disappointing and experienced but nothing that will seriously impact suggests fewer people read the local printed media the project. than we thought. Please keep the conversations about the project going. Grant Requests. A slow process but remaining grant requests still in History. play. One foundation sent out a representative to Our club historian will be assembling material for meet with Kiwanis and Food Bank members for an the production of a ‘history book’. It is hoped to on-site visit and a second foundation is planning a supplement pictures with written articles about the representative visit in about two weeks. No project and those connected to it, and produce a guarantee of funding but both visits indicates we are document that will have long term interest for the passing another hurdle in the grant request process. Kiwanis Club and Community. Local Fund Raising. Ground Breaking. Proceeding well but still a little short of our month The target date of May 1, 2013 is within sight. A end (April) goal for ‘money in the bank’. According small ground breaking party for food bank to our records 30% of the Kiwanis membership volunteers (especially non-K members) is being made personal donations. With the return of considered for the first Sunday in May. Watch for ‘snowbirds’ there is hope this number may rise. further details. Temporary Food Bank Location. Conclusion. Decision made to relocate food bank operations The project is proceeding at a good pace. A very during construction period for convenience and special thanks to Gary Kutz, David Hiller, Tom safety reasons. Temporary location selected and Worcester, and members of their committees for verbal agreement with owner indicates rental working so hard to make this project a reality, and period from April 1 to November 15, 2013. Expected of course a special thank you to all the Kiwanis total move to these premises in about two weeks. members who have made donations of time and Please watch for your opportunity to volunteer your money. time to help the food bank volunteer’s move all food stock and administration activities to the new space. Have a great month Site Preparation. and watch this space The Kiwanis storage shed will be relocated to a spot for future alongside the old house this month. Another developments! opportunity to volunteer assistance. www.SistersKiwanis.org SERVING THE CHILDREN OF THE WORLD www.Facebook.com/SistersKiwanis page 2 INSIDE THIS ISSUE PRESIDENT’S LETTER FROM THE PREZ - MARCH 2013 Letter from our President, Dave Huni, Dear Sisters Kiwanis Club, Hello all and welcome to April. This month finds us half way through our administrative year. To the average club member that Page 1-2: Headlines doesn't mean a lot, but to me as President it means things are getting busy. I hope that Page 3: Prez’s Column we are all ready to hustle in terms of getting things done. Page 4-5: Member News Think I'm kidding? Club elections are photo by Jeff Omodt Page 6-10: Project News coming up and I'm happy to report we have a slate full of dedicated folks that are ready to step forward and assume or Page 11: Social continue leadership roles in the club. Next up, our Food Bank project is about to start the destruction phase, so it has Page 12-13: From the been really important to get our temporary location set-up and ready to go. How Board great is it that that place is just a little west of our current one? Also by a stroke of luck, the timing worked out that putting the new shelving in became our Page 14-15: Key Club impromptu Kiwanis One Day project. Page 16-18: Calendar What more can I say? The hard work of some very dedicated people is really beginning to show in all aspects of the club's work. Be it fund raising, organizing Page 19: Volunteer! events, telling our story or just making our club work, I am once again happy to say, we all have reason to be proud to be a part of Sisters Kiwanis. Page 20: Join Us! Your humble servant, Page 21: Central Oregon President Dave Page 22: Contact Info JEFF OMODT DISTINGUISHED KIWANIAN Page 23: Mailer Page Our very own Past-President Jeff Omodt Want more? was awarded Distinguished Member 2001-2012 from the Kiwanis Pacific Visit our website: Northwest District. Jeff was one of 17 members in the PNW to earn such an honor. http://sisterskiwanis.org/ The criteria included: Siskiwan_Newsletter.html 1. Sponsoring two (2) new members 2. Attending a Midyear Conference, International Convention, District Convention, Regional Conference, Key Club Convention, Circle K International Convention, Aktion Club Convention, or Key Leader Event photo by Dave Huni 3. Participation in three (3) or more Kiwanis or SLP service projects 4. Personal contributions to the District or International Kiwanis Foundation Jeff was also recognized on page 30 of our PNW Kiwanisbuilder magazine Spring 2013 issue. Congratulations, Jeff! Job well done! www.SistersKiwanis.org SERVING THE CHILDREN OF THE WORLD www.Facebook.com/SistersKiwanis page 3 MEMBER NEWS WORDS OF WISDOM FROM BOB GROONEY “I would like to talk about the importance of words. Such as ‘Alcohol.’ Whoever heard of a great story starting with the word ‘Salad?’” - BOB GROONEY Happy Birthday, Bob! LAST MONTH’S PROGRAMS photo by Suzanne Carvlin photo by Suzanne Carvlin photo by Suzanne Carvlin Peter Murphy from the Oregon Patrick O’Keefe - Cascade Dana Perry - Director at Department of Transportation - Insurance Company - The STORIESconnectUS - Dana shared his video, “Bridging a Century of Affordable Care Act shared insight founded STORIESconnectUS which Service,” featuring Oregon bridges (as co-owner of Cascade Insurance and helps Central Oregon seniors write designed by Condie B. McCullough to advisor on Oregon’s Lifewise Health down their memories for future celebrate ODOT’s 100th Anniversary. Plan) about “Obama Care” and Oregon’s generations. Would you like to tell your He also discussed our Hwy 20 remodel. open enrollment on October 1st, 2013. story? [email protected] www.SistersKiwanis.org SERVING THE CHILDREN OF THE WORLD www.Facebook.com/SistersKiwanis page 4 MEMBER NEWS NEW MEMBER PROFILE photo by Jeff Omodt Suzanne Carvlin, Angela Linker and Gary Kutz smile as Name: Angela Linker Angela trades her New Member Badge for her Member Badge.