week “Girl’s State” educational program

at Michigan State University. Then, be-

sides receiving infor-mative facts on Ha-

waiian history and culture, we were en-

tertained by “Hula Lady” Joan with some

well performed Ha-waiian dances. Thank

you, Joan, for a most pleasant

“production.” The next program was on

“Disability Agencies,”

with the upcoming-themes “Tax Infor-

mation” and Addition to the Hospital” sure

to be informative and enlightening.

February is the month with two

important club pro-jects.

Firstly, there is the “Kiwanis Blood

Drive” for the Red Cross on Feb. 23rd

from noon to 6 p.m.

at St. Anthony’s Church Hall, chaired

by Christina Boyer. Christina cannot run

this event alone. She needs helpers for

unloading and load-ing, for manning the

Canteen and for pro-viding some sweets

and/or snacks. Vol-unteers, please sign-

up!

A Message from

the President

Fellow Kiwanians,

Time goes by quickly! The New

Year has started and you will have made

your resolutions for this year. I hope that

one of these resolu-tions is, to bring a

new member to our Kiwanis club.

In this re-spect, we have done

well with the start of

the year; and we can welcome our New

Members: Tim Groves with a Corpo-

rate Membership from Coldwell

Banker, Theresa and Tim Walker, and Jen-

nifer Rogers and Aly-cia Edison. As al-

ways, Joan and Bill VanArsdalen gave

them a thorough ori-entation, and we

were happy to induct

all five as new Ki-wanians” on January

24th. During our

interesting January programs, we

learned what two Hillsdale High School

juniors had experi-enced at the one

Secondly, we will have one of our

main fundraising events, the 18th An-

nual Chili Cook-Off, Arts and Craft Show

and Silent Auction on February 25th at

the High School Gym-nasium. Many letters

have already been distributed to poten-

tial cooks and craf-ters, and I hope that

we will get a record participation. I am

please that some

members have al-ready committed to

head committees for various tasks, for

which I thank you. However, we need

many more hands to help with the entrance

table, the concessions booth and the settin-

gup and controlling of the Silent Auction

booth. It is not neces-sary to explain that

Dave and Charley

need strong people to set-up in the gymna-

sium on Friday and clear up on Saturday.

An important pre-event task is the

collection of donated items for the Silent

Auction. Although the

Contined on p. 4

From the President’s desk.. .

HILLSDALE KIWANIS Contents

Anniversaries 2

Birthdays 2

Committee Chair

Invocations

2

2

Meals on Wheels

Students of the Month

K-Kids

2

3

3

2

4

January 2012 Volume 16, Issue 4

Greeter & Guest

Book…

Dictionary

Programs …

Feb/ 7—Colton

Easterday on the

Boy Scout World

Jamboree

Feb. 14—ISD Su-

perintendent, Mi-

chael Potts.

Feb. 21—

Marlanea Chestney

Publisher of the

magazine Simply

Hers

Feb. 28— Mott

Children’s Hospi-

tal Shower

Meals on Wheels…

FEBRUARY

Friday—3—Tom Os

bourne

Monday—6—Nancy

Hastings

Friday—10-

Monday 13—Roger

Brook

Friday—17—Mike

Potts

Monday—20-

President’s Day—

closed

Friday—24—Rob

Miller

Monday—27– Beth

Caswell

COMMITTEE

CHAIRS

Interclub-

Bob Scholl

Meals on Wheels-

Rosemary Burke

Flag Project-

Jim Rowen

Membership -

Lisa Roberts

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Editor’s Note

Deadline

FEBRUARY 15

February

9—Michael Potts

10—Maribeth Watkins

18—Tom Osbourne

19—Doug Ingles

12– Roger Brook

Christine & Joe Levack Feb. 2

Jim & Ann Touse Feb. 5

Greeter

and

Guestbook

7 - Val White

14 - Lisa Roberts

21 - Roger Brook

28 - Tom Osbourne

Calendar of Events

Motts Children’s Hos-

pital Shower

February 28

Chili Cook-Off

February 25

INVOCATION…

7 –Val White

14 - Lisa Roberts

21 - Cindy Rowe

28 - Tom Osbourne

K-Kids Charter

The K-Kids of Bailey Elementary School received their official charter on Thurs-

day, Dec. 15. Twenty-one members and their families were present to officially

charter the K-Kids club, with a total of 52 members in all. The children received

A pin and certificate as well as the official K-Kids Banner, to be displayed in the

school. The K=Kids Club now completes all levels of Kiwanis leadership clubs.

The goals of K-Kids are to promote leadership opportunities, service, and to

learn to work together in a way that enables growth for the children of the Hills-dale Community. The members participated in bell ringing for the Salvation

Army in December. They plan to have a “Hat Day” at Bailey to raise money for

the Hillsdale Humane Society. The members also voted to help with doll making

for Motts Children’s Hospital and continue to collect Box Tops for Education, to

help with updating and purchasing educational equipment for the school.

Emma Brown is 18 years old and a senior at Hillsdale High School She enjoys participating in the school

musical every year during the Artrageous Festival and also being in the annual collage concert every De-

cember. She performed in the Hillsdale Arts Chorale’s Fall concert and is a member of the high school

choir. Emma also leads the Girl’s Bible Study this year, a study on Hannah, and very much enjoys Wednes-

day luncheons when they meet.

One thing that’s always been of interest to her is singing. She said, “I discovered my passion for vocal

performance, and singing in general, early on, and enjoy learning different songs of different genres and

various languages. Through the years I’ve also discovered English to be particularly appealing;. I enjoy

writing and challenging myself to think on a deeper level in AP English.”

One of her goals for the future is to graduate and further her education by going to college. She plans to

major in communications and minor in vocal performance. As of now she plans on going into journalism so

she can write for a newspaper or a magazine.

Emma said, “Also, whenever God sees fit, I would like to get married and have a family. My main goal for

the future though, is to just follow God’s plan for my life and whatever that may entail.

Page 3 Volume 16, Issue 4

STUDENT OF THE MONTH —January— Emma line Brown

STUDENT OF THE MONTH —

January—Brock Eves

‘I would like to thank the Kiwanis for

recognizing my hard work as a mid-

dle school student and for having me

here on this fine afternoon. My name

is Brock Eves and I am an 8th grader

at Davis Middle School.

‘I have been presented with many

great opportunities at Hillsdale

Schools, one of those being running.

Way back in 6th grade, I started run-

ning with the high school cross coun-

try team. It was one of the best things

I did. I have learned so much from

it—dedication, hard work, setting

demanding goals, leadership, that just

being a few things.

― I have had the chance to compete n

many meets around the league and

large meets such as Portage with 579

competitors where I took 4th place. I

would like thank my coach Mr. Pas-

tula and my teammates. They have

played an important role in my life. I

also play basketball and run track.

More importantly Hillsdale Schools

has presented me with opportunities

to take advanced classes. I am taking

Algebra, Earth Science and English

9 , which are all freshman classes.

I’m taking advantage of having these

classes.

―It sure is not easy and I couldn’t do

it without the help of my mom, dad,

along with my grandpa and grandma,

and I can’t forget the teachers and

staff at Hillsdale Schools. They have

helped me get through tough times

and getting where I am today.

My future goals are to run cross

country at the college level, while

preparing for a career that would take

me to the wilderness in Alaska.

lists with contact companies and persons have already been given

to individual members, we need you to approach more firms.

Please volunteer to collect donations, as the Silent Auction raises a

lot of income at this event. You do not need to be a “high power

sales person”. If you tell prospective donors the reason and give

them the prepared letter of request, 99 percent will support our

cause to “Help the Children of the World and, particularly, the Chil-

dren of Hillsdale County.

I am sure that everyone will make an effort to get in-

volved in the 2012 Chili Cook-Off which is a significant annual event.

As you all know, on this occasion we not only raise funds for help-

ing children, but we also have a good opportunity to expose our

Kiwanis Club community service activities here in Hillsdale.

Thank you for your support of our focus on Helping one child and one community at a time!

Sincerely,

Karl

In addition to that,

the project also distributes

100 Spanish-English diction-

aries to all the students of

Spanish at Hillsdale High ,

and 30 French-English dic-

tionaries to all the students

studying French at Hillsdale

Academy. This program is

one of the farthest-reaching

of the projects that we do,

as it touches not just every

student within Hillsdale

County, but also their sib-

lings and their entire house-

The Kiwanis Club of

Hillsdale participated in the

Dictionary Project for the

8th year now. Members of

the club along with Hillsdale

College Circle K, who also

plated each dictionary and

thesaurus, and members of

Eta Sigma Phi, the national

Classics honorary society,

under took to distribute over

500 dictionaries to all 3rd-

graders and 500 thesau-

ruses to all the 7th graders

in the county.

hold. Such an impact could

not be possible without the

tremendous amount of help

from the membership of the

Kiwanis Club and Hillsdale

College Circle K. Many thanks

to all who have distributed

books throughout the

county, and if you have any

photographs of your distri-

bution, please bring in a copy

to share with the club and to

put in our scrapbook.

Dictionary Project by Joe Garnjobst

The Dictionary Project

Hillsdale Kiwanis

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President’s letter

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