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Happy Holidays, Indiana Circle K! While you are wrapping up your fall/winter terms at your respective campuses, I just wanted to briefly touch upon an event that you simply cannot miss!

You may not be aware yet, but this is the year that our district turns 50!! And what better way to celebrate our golden year than by attending our annual district convention (DCON). DCON will be held at the Marten House Hotel in Indianapolis from February 26-28, 2010. For those of you who have not been to DCON before, the weekend is intended as a celebration of the past Circle K year. However, this coming February, not only will we be paying tribute to the 2009-2010 year, but we will also be looking back at all the past years that have made Indiana Circle K the district it is today. In addition, you will also have the opportunity to attend various workshops at DCON, recognize the excellence in leadership and service at the awards banquet, as well as

elect the district board who will serve Indiana Circle K as we enter into the next 50 years! And a Circle K event just wouldn’t be complete without a dance!

On behalf of the 2009-2010 district board, I would personally like to extend the invitation to you to join us as we celebrate fifty years of service! More information will be provided in the coming months, and it is my goal to visit all of your clubs to ensure we can get the largest convention attendance we have ever seen! If you have any questions or ideas in the meanwhile, please don’t hesitate to contact me.

Sheremy Cabrera, DCON Coordinatorsheremycabrera@gmail.com

DCON Preview

In this issue: MDEC Recap // Project Reflections // Feed Families with STUFH // Better Know Taiwan! // District Goals Update

This year, MDEC was held at the Shiloh Retreat Park in Marion, IN. Many students from the Indiana district came together for a weekend full of service, leadership, and fellowship. To kick off the theme, “Adventures in Service,” the weekend began with a scavenger hunt to claim the service idol. Saturday was filled with wonderful food, leadership training, service projects & even coloring! That night’s events consisted of the INCKI pageant, second annual awards night, and a fabulous dance. A first time attendee from Manchester College, Ashley Roth thought “MDEC was amazing and so much fun!! I encourage everyone that can go next year to go. It is such a great experience.” Teirreney Fincher had a similar response to MDEC with “MDEC was really fun, I enjoyed

myself and the fact that I got a chance to get to meet new people who were interested in the same things that I was interested in. I really enjoy both the scavenger hunt and the workshops that we participated in. I like the fact that the workshops helped me learn some new things about Circle K, UNICEF, and more. I really enjoyed everything about the convention especially the food.” Many of the students who attended MDEC have the same input on it. It is a great experience and it’s something that a member should try to go to if at all possible. It was a great weekend that left students excited for DCON in February.

Sarah KubornBEEP, Manchester College Circle K

MDEC Recap

BETTERKNOW A DISTRICT

Taiwana.k.a. “臺灣”

Watch out! It’s time for another exciting installment of...

About Kiwanis in TaiwanTaiwan is one of the districts that makes Kiwanis a truly

international organization. Through my trusty interpreter Liz Wang, we found a section on the Kiwanis Taiwan website urging college students to join Circle K. Though we couldn’t find a link to a website for Circle K in Taiwan, there were plenty of pages about Kiwanis and lots of pictures of their activities. Looking at their photos, they seem to be a pretty exciting bunch! A current service project mentioned on the Kiwanis website is helping out at a local orphanage. It’s fun to remember that students and adults on the other side of the world are participating in the same service projects and conventions we love.

Girls heavily outnumbered guys at MDEC, so Brandon, Cliff, and Rigo took some time to reassert their manliness.

Many Circle K members are also masters of deception, as the game Mafia demonstrated.

Congrats to our first Mr. & Miss INCKI, Rigo Gonzalez and

Amanda Carter from UIndy!

Project Ref lection

On November 14th Notre Dame Circle K had their annual Turning Over a New Leaf project. Through this project over 100 Notre Dame Circle K members as well as other Notre Dame students helped in cleaning nearly 55 homes in the South Bend community. The homes that participated in the project consisted of people in the community that were either elderly or had a disability which prevented them from being able to clean their own yards. Notre Dame Circle K gladly helped clean the yards by raking up the large amount of leaves that had fallen on the lawns of these 55 homes. As many of the members enjoyed this project Notre Dame Circle K hopes to continue this annual project in the years to come.

Mathew DominguezHistorian, Notre Dame Circle K

FALLinto service

 

What is the one time of year you can dress up like some kind of monster and terrify little kids — over and over again? Why, the annual Boo at the Zoo of course! Each year Purdue Circle K is a part of an event put on by the local Columbian Park Zoo in Lafayette, IN. The entire zoo is decorated with Halloween costumes, carnival games, scary statues, and a spooky train ride. The event encompasses two entire weeks, and the Purdue Circle K club volunteers for each of the three segments included. The first segment is set-up, where PUCKI helped set up a crazy hay maze, carnival booths, ghost statues, and decorated animal cages to look like monsters. The last segment is clean-up, where PUCKI helps tear down everything for the whole event. The second segment however, is where all the fun is had.

It only took a matter of seconds before the head volunteer coordinator recognized the Purdue Circle K club. Night after night for over five years, PUCKI has provided a plethora of student volunteers for Boo at the Zoo. On the first night of the event, the head coordinator knew exactly who PUCKI was. “There’s Circle K, don’t worry, we’ve got the train ride already reserved for you,” was the constant response received by the club. It is a known fact that the Purdue Circle K club has the gift of acting. Each year, a few brave members will volunteer to act out fairy tales on the event’s spooky train ride trail. This year was no different, as many Oscar performances were born. Through

the course of the week, brilliant performances were put on by: Kirsten Hall as the Prince, Kim Esworthy as Rapunzel, Grace Yung as Snow White, Cody Bates as the Evil Witch, Susan Owens as the Evil Queen, Kirsten Luethy as the Mirror, Kim Bell as Little Bo Peep, and Haley Keller as the Sheep. The entire Seven Dwarves was also cast by: Vanessa Young, Lyndsay Fairchild, Sean Lombardo, Nick Archer, Danielle Woodward, Raymond Miller, and an unforgettable “tumbling over a sign post” by Michael Dunbar. More performances were also put on by: Kyle Smith, Nick Archer, and Sean Lombardo as the Three Little Pigs. The most terrifying of all perhaps, was the masterful performance of the Big Bad Wolf by Raymond Miller. Many other PUCKI members manned the Halloween carnival games for the children and families of the community. Such games included: pumpkin bowling, body part soup, pumpkin fishing, the fortune teller booth, pumpkin carving, and pumpkin golf.

No matter what the task was, Purdue Circle K was there. Over the course of the event, PUCKI sent over 30 members to the event and logged nearly 100 service hours, if not more. On top of that, a new PUCKI record for hot dogs eaten, little kids scared to death, broken signs, popcorn ingested, Oscars won, ghost statues set up and torn down, and sheer amount of fun experienced was set. When it comes to making a difference in the community, Purdue Circle K is the first there.

 

 

Hi-Ho, Hi-Ho, it’s Off to Serve We Go!Written by: the Big Bad Wolf

Kyle Smith, Nick Archer, Sean Lombardo, and Raymond Miller as the Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf.

Purdue Circle K at the scene of the crime!

Service is always in season with Circle K!

Project Ref lection

Happy Holidays from the

Indiana District!

If you are looking for a great project to participate in at the end of the semester, STUFH is a great organization to get involved with. As one of Circle K International’s service partners, STUFH is also a great way to get involved in the Governor’s Project. Here is how you get involved: First, get boxes or bins to place in dorms and buildings throughout campus. Be sure you talk

with your Student Activities Coordinator to let them know and to also get permission. Second, find a local food bank that you would like to donate your food to and designate a time that you will be dropping the food off. Third, promote and publicize your food drive. STUFH can provide generic posters, just simply contact Dan Kahn at dkahn@stufh.org to request some. Lastly, hold the drive! Some ways to get people more involved are to hold competitions between dorms or Greek life. You can also hold a canpetition with all of the can goods collected. Visit http://www.youtube.com/ckitv to see on awesome video of a canpetition held on a college campus in Texas. If you have any further questions, contact International Service Chair, Kristen Reed, at subregionf@circlek.org.

Mackenzie Pearson, District GovernorUniversity of Indianapolis // gov.kenzie@gmail.com

Hello all,Happy End of the Semester! I hope all of your studying and projects are going well as we round out another wonderful semester of service! As of Dec. 4th I have new statistics for our wonderful District…and we are really going places!Service Hours Performed: 3,680.5Interclubs (both with Circle K and K-Family): 67

“But what does this mean Alex?” you ask…• We need 12,000 hours of service this year. We currently have 30.67% of our goal…this is a jump of more than 10% from the last issue. You all are really making a great difference in all of our communities.• As for interclubs this month alone we completed 20 which is down from the last issue but with a total of 67 we are doing a lot of work together. Let’s aim high for the next month so we can really boost that number higher!

So we are half way done with our year. Please keep in mind why we are doing this…school is hard and life is stressful. Let Circle K and the service and fellowship you do be your escape from the stresses of school and work! Have a wonderful and save holiday break and I hope to see you all in February!

Live to Serve, Love to ServeAlex Kocher

DISTRICT GOALS UPDATE

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