The newsletter for Kiwanis Club of Asheville
Charter established August 11, 1919 Asheville, NC
The Asheville Kiwanis Club meets for lunch, a business meeting and a guest speaker from 12-1:30pm each Tuesday at St. Mark's Lutheran Church, off Merrimon Ave near downtown.
You will now be receiving the Skywanian on a weekly basis. Please reply to this email if you have any questions, comments, or see an error that needs to be corrected.
Elaine Grella
February 2, 2016
Jensen has emailed members an updated race sponsor packet for the race. We need to ALL work to get sponsors. He's asking members to take sponsor information to businesses they may have a relationship with and talk to them about being a sponsor for our race. If you need a copy of the packet click here to download.
Feb 16 is the monthly board meeting at 1:30. If you have anything to be discussed let Dawn know.
No meeting March 15 because of the election.
The Fatz Pancake breakfast fundraiser will be March 19th.
We received a thank you from The Baptist Retirement home for our delivery of the flowers at Christmas.
Tiffany Wooten, the adviser of the Key Club at Erwin HS, visited our club today. This is their first full year as a charter club. Last year they had 12 members and this year there are 34! Some activities they are doing are selling candy grams to students for Valentine's Day and volunteering at Manna Food Bank and Brother Wolf. They are planning on helping with the race in May.
Darshan fell on the ice last week and broke some bones. We wish him a speedy recovery.
Happy Pig
Jessica Stavish will be working at On Track, providing free tax preparations. If you, or someone you know, need help with taxes contact her, or see the website for more information. http://ontrackwnc.org/tax_time.htm
Our speaker was Asheville Police Chief,Tammy Hooper.
This is her 30th year of law enforcement.
She comes to Asheville from Arlington, Va..
Her first task when she got here was to even out workloads and responsibilities of those on the force.
Her vision is for Asheville to be the leading law enforcement agency in WNC.
She has realigned patrol districts to improve response times.
Officers will begin having body cameras by summer. It will be about 3 years until all officers have them.
The most surprising thing to her about Asheville is the number of homeless people.
The most enjoyable thing to her is being in the outdoors.
Next Week's speaker will be our District Governor, Dawn Puderbaugh.
Mission Statement
Kiwanis is a global organization of volunteers dedicated to improving the world, one child and one community at a time.
Officers
Dawn Morton, President
Jensen Gelfond, President-Elect
Kenneth Allen, Vice President
Harry Michel, Secretary
Tony Seker, Treasurer
JoAnn Morgan, Past President
Board of Directors
Russ Martin
Amy Euler
Dale Wykoff
Homer Yeannakis
Rick Robinson
Paul Tremoulet
Jessica Stavish
