KIWANIS CLUB of CABOT St. John's, NL., Canada |
Club Officers & Directors 2002 - 2003 Imm. Past President................................. Joan Dawe President................................................. Bill Squires President-Elect........................................ .Les Russell Vice-President .......................................Linda Bishop Secretary .....................................................Ed Wade Treasurer ...............................................Brenda Picco Directors Arch Munn Gerry Leahy Darren Hunt Brenda Picco Janet Hewson Eric Thompson |
CLUB ROSTER 2002 - 2003 Owen Antle Linda Bishop Steve Collett Ed Dawe Joan Dawe Jackie Feltham Clayton Handrigan Janet Hewson Tim Hopkins Darren Hunt Gerry Leahy Joan Madden Arch Munn Brenda Picco Al Randell Clarence Randell Les Russell Lisa Russell Phil Saunders Bill Squires Phyllis Swyer Eric Thompson Paul Thompson Derek Tuck Ed Wade Wayne Young |
MEETING TIME & PLACE Airport Plaza Hotel Every 2nd. Wed., 6:00 for 6:15 p.m. |
MAJOR FUND-RAISERS 1. Our first fund-raiser at the beginning of each Kiwanis Administrative Year has traditionally been the sale of Purity "kisses." Purity Kisses are candy manufactured right here in St. John's by the local firm known as Purity Factories. These are unique to our province and are always a big hit with customers. The "kisses" come in a variety of flavours - banana, molasses, peanut butter, etc. Our Club buys in bulk and bags the candy ourselves. (Great for Club fellowship!!) Bags of approximately 12 oz. sell for $2.50 and we raise approximately $1000. 2. At Christmas time we sell a variety of Belgian chocolates. This is a new fund-raising project for our Club, with 2000 being the first year we tried it. We started small, but the product seemed to sell well so we'll probably enlarge on the amount of product for 2001. 3. Our Club's major fund-raising project each spring takes place on St. Patrick's Day. It is what we call an IRISH MOOSE/BEEF STEW & SILENT AUCTION. Irish for St. Patrick's Day, of course; moose or beef for what goes in the stew; and a silent auction of about 140 different items donated by the community and collected by our members. This fund-raiser has now become practically an institution in our community, with regular patrons returning year after year. Usually 100% membership participation is achieved with this project, and it has become a real generator of Kiwanis spirit and fellowship. It's lots of hard work - especially for about 12 hours on the day of the stew - but it is always worth it to see the smiling faces of "regulars", and to receive the many compliments from them. Usually all the Kiwanis Clubs in the area attend the function as groups, and often four different Interclubs are the result. Net proceeds are usually in the area of $4000. 4. Two or three times a year members donate items to complete what we call "Feel Good Baskets." These are literally wicker baskets filled with anything to make you feel good. This includes candles, wine, bath oil, soap, massage oil, a good book or two, music, etc., etc.... The list is endless, and is limited only by members' imaginations. These baskets are then offered on tickets - one at Valentines (what better time?) and another during our Stew & Auction - with the winner taking home a basketfull of ideas for a "feel good" experience. |
The Kiwanis Club of Cabot was Chartered on May 10, 1965. It is situated in North America's oldest city - St. John's, Newfoundland & Labrador, CANADA. This the tenth province of Canada, and we joined the Canadian confederation in 1949. Newfoundland is the most easterly part of the continent of North America - an island in the Atlantic Ocean - but there is a large portion of our province which is attached to the mainland of the North American continent as well. This is known as Labrador - the "Great Land." Together the two parts make up the province of Newfoundland & Labrador - our official name - abbreviated as NL. Our Kiwanis Club is one of 10 Clubs which make up Division 21, Caribou Division, which is one of 28 Divisions which make up the Eastern Canada & Caribbean District of Kiwanis International. We are one of the few Districts in Kiwanis that is truly "international," because it is comprised of no less than 14 different countries - the eastern part of Canada and 13 more island countries in the Caribbean Sea. Kiwanis Club of Cabot presently has 26 members. (See Club Roster below.) This roster consists of no less than six (6) Division Past Lieutenant Governors - three (3) of whom are Distinguished. The Immediate PLG of Caribou Division 21, Clarence (Bud) Randell, is a Past President of our Club, as well as a Past President and Charter Member of the K.C. of Grand Falls-Windsor - also in our Division. Our Club became co-ed immediately after the KI By-Law was changed to permit female members, and we boast the first female Club President in our Division and the first female Lieutenant Governor in our District. This is, of course, the same person, DLG Phyllis Swyer. Along with DLG Phyllis, there are seven (7) other female members, and three (3) of these are also Past Presidents of our Club. Our Club has a good mix of male and female members who work well together for the good of Kiwanis service in our community, nation, and the world. Our Club meets bi-weekly for the months of September to June each year. In July and August we meet once per month, with the meeting taking the form of a Club BBQ to which all Partners are always invited. At least one of these BBQ's is also used as an internal fund-raiser for the Club's Administrative, or Operating, Fund. We invite you to read on and learn more about us. Email us a greeting if you like, or better still, come and visit. You'll be more than welcome!!! |
HOW TO CONTACT US EMAIL: cthjfh@hotmail.com SNAIL MAIL: 14 Cherrington Place Conception Bay South NL, Canada A1W 3A9 |
PROJECTS 1.YOUNG CHILDREN: PRIORITY ONE: Our main project under the major Kiwanis emphasis of YC:PO is the support of the Froude Avenue Community Centre in St. John's. This Centre, the most successful one in the city, has, as its purpose, the betterment of life for low income earners and under-priviledged individuals in the Centre's immediate area. The Centre is housed in a building almost completely enclosed by apartments occupied by the people it serves. Kiwanis Club of Cabot activities involved with the Centre include: - coordination of donations of used clothing, books, and household items. These are distributed FREE to needy persons who belong to the Centre. - financial assistance to the Centre's Pre-School and Breakfast Programme. - individual Kiwanian participation in the Centre's reading programme. 2. WORLDWIDE SERVICE PROJECT: When this worldwide project of Kiwanis International began in 1995, Caribou Division 21 asked all Clubs to pledge $5000 each towards it. Kiwanis Club of Cabot was one of the first to do so, and completed its committment within the five year term of the Project. As a result, our Club awarded ten Mel Osborne Fellowships to Club members whose Kiwanis service over their years of membership deemed them worthy of such an honour. Our small Kiwanis Club is proud of its contribution to this truly worthwhile efford by Kiwanians around the world. 3. ESCASONI SENIORS' HOME: Once each month, members of our Club and some of their Partners give a couple of hours service to this facility assisting the clergy of one of the city churches in its regular Chapel Service there. We assist in getting the patients downstairs to the Chapel in their wheelchairs. One of our members is the pianist for the service, another regularly plays his guitar and sings, others take part in the service from time to time, and all assist in helping with the songbooks. This is truly a "feel good" project which costs only time. 4. VISITOR-OF-THE-WEEK: 2001 is the 20th. anniversary of this project for our Club. It has gone through a few changes over the years, but basically its purpose and modus operandi remain the same. Each summer, our Club forms a kind of "partnership" with the provincial police force, the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary, which assigns a number of Officers to this project on Thursday of each week in July and August. On that day, the Officers scour the tourist "hot spots" in the city and find an "out-of-province" couple who are planning to be in the area on the next day, Friday, and who appear to be people who would like a little adventure. Once the police have made that decision, they inform the couple that they have been "arrested" and that they are commanded to make themselves available for most of Friday. On Friday morning they are picked up by a police cruiser and driven to St. John's City Hall. There they meet, for the first time, their Kiwanian hosts, (a Kiwanian and his/her Partner), for the day. They are then escorted to the Mayor's office where they are treated to morning coffee, a tour of the Council Chambers, (with photos in the Mayor's Chair, and often a gift from the City), and are read and presented with a formal Proclamation signed by the arresting Officer and the Kiwanian hosts, declaring them to be the Kiwanis of Cabot "Visitors-of-the-Week". Following these formalities, they are then hosted by the Kiwanians to a personally guided tour of the area and visits to churches, shops, parks, botanical gardens, or any place in which they might show interest. Lunch for the 2001 "Visitor-of-the-Week" Project is being provided compliments of the Heritage Restaurant on Duckworth Street. A local radio station provides some publicity, and both the Provincial Department of Tourism and Hospitality Newfoundland & Labrador provide some souvenir gifts for each of the visitors. This is a truly partnership project spear-headed by the Kiwanis Club of Cabot, and is this year being coordinated by Kiwanians Ed Wade and Frank Ramjattan. It has gained a fair degree of prominence in the city, and many members of our Club have gained life-long friends. Some of these "visitors" have returned for private visits to our city and to the homes of their Kiwanian hosts, and several of them have written sincere letters of thanks to our local newspaper and have also informed their own communities about their experience when they returned. In September each year, the partners in this project are guests at a regular meeting of the Club, where they are formally thanked and presented with Certificates of Appreciation. The entertainment for the evening is always the recounting of various anecdotes concerning the summer project. 5. OTHER PROJECTS: During the 2000 - 2001 administrative year, we have also supported financially the following community projects: (a) Child Find: Newfoundland and Labrador (b) Brighter Futures Coalition (c) Children of Chornobyl - a project which each summer brings children from the radiation area of the Chornobyl Nuclear Plant in Belarus, to Newfoundland for 6, 8, or 10 week periods. They live with Newfoundland families and avail of the fresh air, sunshine, fresh fruit, milk, and vegetables, in order to be enabled to live longer and healthier lives. (d) Victorian Order of Nurses. |
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