News from the Kiwanis Club of Asheville
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The Skywanian
 
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 in the fellowship hall of St. Mark's Lutheran Church, on the corner of Merrimon Ave. and Chestnut St. (across from Harris Teeter) 
 
Guests are always welcome!
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March 26, 2019
  • Scott Hick's. daughter Toria
  • We have a new website! Thanks to new member Scott Hicks for setting it up.  There is a member directory at the bottom.  We gave out the password at the meeting.  If you weren't there, you can get it at the next meeting or email Elaine.  
  • Our April board meeting will be April 12th.  12:00 at First Bank downtown.
Ashley presented a check for $250 from our club to Sarah from the Erwin Youth League.  They serve over 500 kids ranging in age from 3-14 who play softball, baseball, football and cheer and are the only youth league that is not supported by the county.  They rely completely on sponsors.  Kiwanis Club of Asheville will have a banner on their field at Erwin Middle when the season starts April 6.  
Welcome to our newest member, Bina Sarai.  She is the daughter of longtime Kiwanian, Darshan.
  • Dale had a stroke.  He is currently in medical at Deerfield.  
  • Karen V.'s husband had a bad fall last week and had to have surgery.  She will be out caring for him for a few weeks.
  • JoAnn Morgan's husband, Ray, has been diagnosed with stage 4 liver cancer. He will be seeing an oncologist soon to discuss treatment 
Remember JoAnn Roberson and her family in your prayers.  Her daughter, Diane, died last week.  There will be a memorial service at a later date.  You can see the obituary here.
                      Race Update
Our race is May 5, 2019.  We're getting close to our goal of $15,000 in sponsors.  Please help us reach our goal!  Print out a sponsorship packet and take it to a business you frequent. It's $500 to have a logo on our t-shirt and the deadline is THIS TUESDAY, APRIL 2.   Please share the race website on your social media.  
Erwin Key Club
 Erwin Key Club helped  raise $5,302.19 to donate to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society for the Pennies for Patients/Pasta for Pennies program.  
 
Enka Key Club
Enka Key Club's  big project this semester is a school-wide shoe collection in cooperation with Soles for Souls.  The collection effort runs 4/1 through 4/12.  We'll collect shoes for them at our meetings on 4/2 and 4/9.  Please bring in any size new or gently used shoes the next 2 meetings .  You can watch a short video about the program here.  Let's help support the Enka Key Club! 
 
Reynolds Key Club
The Reynold's Key Club had a soup dinner to raise money for Manna Food Bank. The event itself raised over $1,400. They anticipate a total donation of $5,500 to Manna in addition to the food that they collected.  The funds and food donations were raised through classroom competitions, a silent auction, and the soup dinner. 
The STEM lab at Johnston has a few needs for upcoming projects that our club can help them with:
  • Empty Cardboard Tubes (Paper towel size is preferred.)
  • Shoe Boxes with Lids
  • Cylindrical-shaped containers (Pringle's cans, coffee containers, disinfectant wipes container, etc...)
Please bring these each Tuesday as you collect them and Elaine will take them to Johnston when she volunteers on Wednesdays.
The Johnston Garden club is gearing up!  They will meet on Friday afternoons (March thru June).   If you  would be willing to assist with the prep work to help get the garden cleaned up, or help them on Friday afternoons, or any day that works for you, please let Elaine know.
They could also use kid sized tools such as shovels, gloves, hoes and trowels as well as compost/organic fertilizer, lime, seeds and plant starts. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Johnston is collecting box tops which earn money for their school!    Many products you buy have them.  Click here to see a list.  There will be a jar at the check in table.  Bring any box tops you've collected during the week, and Elaine will deliver them to Johnston when she goes to volunteer.  Johnston will be collecting these all year long, so let's all bring in those box tops to help them!
 April 2 - John Boyle, Columnist/Reporter for the Asheville Citizen-Times
 April 9 - Pauline Heyne, Southern Appalachian Highlands Land Conservancy
 April 16 - Marcela Moreno, City of Asheville Bus Transit System on the new electric buses and transit planning
 April  23 - Ashley Lucas, Sports Nutritionist
 April 30 - Bill Eaker, Senior Environmental Planner of Land of Sky Regional Council. Bill has been with the Land of Sky Regional Council for 30 years. He will speak on some of his current projects as well as his work with Haywood Waterways Association that sponsors the successful  Polar Plunge fundraiser in Lake Junaluska, NC. 
Mission Statement
 
Kiwanis is a global organization of volunteers dedicated to improving the world, one child and one community at a time.
Officers

Windell Camanse, President 

Ashley Huggins,
Vice President

Elaine Grella, Secretary

Tony Seker, Treasurer

Jessica Stavish, 
Past President
Board of Directors
Bryce Gilbert
Scott Schwarzkopf
Gregg Stamey
Karen Vickers
Foundation Board
 
Scott Schwarzkopf,  President

JoAnn Morgan, Vice President

Darshan S. Sarai, Secretary

Tony Seker, Director

 Russ Martin, Treasurer
Skywanian Editor
     Elaine Grella
Past Skywanian Issues
Kiwanis Resources
Kiwanis International
Carolina Kiwanian
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