Don't Forget Guys and Gals!
Welcome to our new digs!

After weeks of discussions and research...

The Sardis Kiwanis Club is excited to announce we have changed locations for breakfast. We are now meeting every Tuesday morning at 7am at the IHOP on 45466 Yale Road.

Here we go!
Election Day for our 2018/2019 Board of Directors! 
Our Club is so active and so busy in our community our Board of Directors help maintain excitement and a vision for the upcoming year. Our Board members work tirelessly to ensure everything works well and communicates openly to make sure all details are taken care of. 

To Al P and Bill W. thank you for your time and dedication to making our club the best ever. 
As per the election today, here is your 2018/19 Board of Directors. 
President
Michelle S. 
Vice President
Kiefer M. 
2nd Vice President
Peter B. 
Secretary
Courtney B. 
Treasurer
Ken S.
1 Year Directors
Barry D. 
Sheila S. 
Doug H. 
2 Year Directors 
Pat M. 
Doug M. 
Gilllian H. 
Immediate Past President
Dennis S. 

Thank you to all the candidates and we all look forward to working together throughout the 2018/19 Kiwanis year! 

In other Kiwanis updates and news: 

• Congratulations to Vic M celebrating 50 years of married bliss this week! 
• Happy Birthday to friend of Kiwanis Mary L too this week! 

Key Club has started making Comfort Dolls, which is awesome! Gillian presented a thank you card and blanket for our support of the Elevate Volleyball team. And we are a go for Operation Red Nose this winter season so watch for emails and request for support. 

• May 1 - Board Meeting at the Chilliwack Library 
• May 2 - Walk and Knock, 5:15 at Vedder Middle 
• May 2 - McDonalds Day 
• May 12 - Run for Mom 
• May 12 - Chilliwack Birthday Party 
• May 24 - Key Club Tea at 3:30 in the Pit 

Thank you for making today, and every day awesome team! See you next week! 

Michelle 

Happy Halloween everyone! It is not too often we get Halloween on a Tuesday but this is our year and the challenge was issued!
Look at this good looking crew!

Updates from the floor today included: correspondence from the Salvation Army, the Canadian Foundation, ORN update, Food Safe certification update, and a reminder that Key Club will be in attendance next week. Additionally, not only was it Halloween, and a costume extravaganza, but we also had a few awards and the installation of our newest member. It was a great meeting to relax and reconnect with our fellow members.

We also celebrated the birthdays of Arley and Joene, as well as Ev and Joene's anniversary.

We wrapped up the morning with a reminder to slow down and watch for all the littles out and about for Halloween and a fabulous round of Happy Bucks!
Till next week, I hope it is a great one!

Michelle

This morning was another perfect summer morning, except I forgot the cheque book (I know Ken, you left me one job, and I forgot) so I had to run home and get it. Thank goodness for my VP and partner in crime Peter for bailing me out there! On the positive I was only 4 minutes late!
This morning we had Mike Ayers from the Ann Davis Transition Society as our guest speaker. We have been avid supporters of the Ann Davis House and Society since we came to be as a club! The Ann Davis gardens I have come to learn was one of our very first projects we took on as the Kiwanis Club of Sardis. This service in Chilliwack is critical, and we so lucky to be able to support them with monetary donations every year. We learned today that they have hired a child counselor to help with their backlog of over 100 children on their wait list. Mike also outlined some of their additional services that the Ann Davis provides. You can check out their website (Ann Davis Transition Society) to learn about all of these different services. As you all may remember, we have been collecting soaps and basic toiletry items for Ann Davis since late May. I currently have a dozen or more shoe boxes full of soaps, shampoos, brushes, wash cloths, dental hygiene products and all the other essentials waiting for us to sort into kits. Mike informed us that we do not need to make hundreds of kits but rather just a few 'family packs' and then they will take all of the rest of our donation and distribute them as they need. This is wonderful news, so we will get the family kits packed up and I will deliver our donation in the next few weeks.
That means if you have any more soaps, etc, please bring it in sooner, rather than later!
Other club updates that were shared included:

• A wrap up report on the 9th Annual Pig Roast and Installation, Abbotsford, Clearbrook, Bellingham, Chilliwack, Sardis and Golden Ears were all in attendance, a lovely night full of laughter, fun and good times. Check out Facebook for pictures including our own Dennis being Installed as the new Lt.Gov!
• Hogan Park car show was a success, sounds like it was a great time! Thank you to all those who were there.
• Do not forget to bring you Bubbles and Stickers for the Pediatric Observation Unit to next meeting so we can make a special delivery to Jessica and the nurses up there to bring a little extra cheerfulness to the ward!
  

We wrapped up with a good round of Happy Bucks and wishes of safe travels to all our members heading to Kennewick, WA for the Kiwanis conference.

Yours In Service,
Michelle

"When you see an elephant that needs to gain weight you do not keep weighing it- you feed it."
~Unknown

What a treat today! A brand new speaker with a story, and a program for the ages!

This morning we welcomed Mary, and Wings of Hope: Dave Smith, Dave Cook, Russ Airey and David McElroy.
We broke the program up into two sections this morning.
Our first program started with David recounting his flight around the world, in 80 days! He shared amazing images, incredible tales and fascinating facts. You can see from the image above, that was his route. A true sense of adventure and an accomplishment of epic proportions!
We then took a break to enjoy our breakfast and to allow our guests a chance to eat as well. We did a few club updates during this time. Do not forget the Pig Roast is August 19 at 2pm, dinner at 5pm and Installation afterward. Soup kitchen coming up on Saturday, see Sheila for the sign-up. Meals on Wheels starts again for the month of September we will be delivering on Mondays and Wednesdays, more details to follow. We also have the big car sow at Hogan Park on August 20. After the interlude, we headed back for part 2 of our program.
This is where things got really inspiring.

"... to those who are given, much is expected..."

Give Hope Wings
Hope Air (Click on the link above to explore their website) is a national charity that arranges free flights for Canadians in financial need who must travel to healthcare far from home. Since its establishment in 1986, Hope Air has arranged more than 111,000 free flights to healthcare. This has impacted countless Canadian families over the years. They have a volunteer base of 9 and those 9 alone did 11,000 flights for sick kids and their families to get to medical attention. Their tag line is "We're not an airline, we're a lifeline" and have Dr. Roberta Bondar and their patron, they are doing all the right things. These guys certainly are a lifeline. The work they are doing is some of the most unique and thoughtful we have seen yet. Click here for some specific stories about how they gave hope back to some sick kids and their families. They also do public speaking and they believe the biggest limitation in life of youth right now is that they cannot imagine a bigger life for themselves.
I think we can all agree to that, if you dream big the universe is the limit!
Maybe we can look into supporting this group in the future?

We wrapped it all up with Happy Bucks and a resounding celebration for Sheila's birthday this week.
Till next time,

Michelle

"My education was interupted only by my schooling."
~Sir Winston Churchill 

Every now and again, and it does not happen often, we get a little down time. A chance to reconnect with our fellow Kiwanians, have some fun, laugh a little and enjoy each other's company.
That was today for us, as we had a cancellation.
We enjoyed a morning meeting full of laughter and good memories as Barry kicked off O Canada with Happy Birthday and the whole morning continued on.
We had a brief update from the Chilliwack Evacuation Centre and dialogued about the fire situation here in Chilliwack and of course in British Columbia. We had greetings from Phil Matthews get delivered. And Dennis is headed to Ferndale so if you have a chance, road trip with him. Also a pleasant reminder that we have our Board Meeting tonight at 7pm.
We wrapped up the down time with a solid round of happy Bucks.
It was wonderful to relax and enjoy the morning.

Thank you all for all you do.
See you next week,

Michelle