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

"Do not forget, no one else see the world the way you do,
so no one else can tell the stories that you can tell about the world."
~ Anom

Another great morning!

Today we welcome Mike and Cindy from Bowls of Hope as guests, and I was delighted to welcome Doug McLean again this morning, not as a guest though, but as our newest member! Welcome to the team Doug! We look forward to working with you more! We celebrated the birthdays of Courtney, Bill and John! And we welcomed Vic back!
Such an awesome morning!
Some Updates:

• Kiwanis Kurling - March 5 at the Abbotsford Curling Club 1pm to 5pm. COme enjoy an afternoon of throwing rocks!
• IHop Pancake Breakfast, for the Children's Hospital, a sign-up went around for March 7, 7am to 7pm, Dennis has the sign-up if you are interested 
• Sheila has Super Reader while Arley is away, she has a few assemblies so thank you to everyone who is helping out.
• Our District Council Meeting (DCM) is March 13, in Sumas at 7pm, SIGN meeting takes place at 5pm. All are welcome to attend and get an inside scoop about what's happening around the district.
• Last night we held our Budget meeting- great turnout, looking forward to supporting Sardis Secondary and their Key Club starting soon! Another great opportunity to work with kids of our community!
• Also we got invited to Kiwanis Golden Ears' Canada 150th Birthday Bash - March 25 6:15pm, dinner at 7:30pm $25. I have more information if you would like it.

We had two programs on deck today as Program. Bowls of Hope. and Operation Red Nose.
We are blessed to present a cheque to Bowls of Hope to help continue their amazing contribution to our community schools. We learned that they now serve 20/31 schools and have the Chilliwack School District as a partner! These are fabulous developments since we last saw them about 6 months ago! They also have their Annual Dinner Auction coming up on May 5 (click the title to visit the link). Maybe we can get a table together and attend?
We also had a recap from Ken and Derek, who shared the final Operation Red Nose presentation with us! As a club we need to begin thinking about taking on this fundraiser again. It's such an amazing program, and it does so much good around the holiday season. Discussions will be happening over the next few weeks and I will let you know when we have our club vote about continuing on with this program.
A reminder, if you have anything, please let me know, so I can share with everyone!
We wrapped the whole thing up with Happy Bucks, and off we go to make another week amazing!
See you all soon,

Michelle

Communications:

• A reminder of the Valerie Tunbridge memorial tea this week.
• Canadian Diabetes, St. Mary's School, and SIGN all sent us some mail, which was circulated for review
• Super Reader- Arley is always looking for help and volunteers for assemblies, so please let him know if you are interested in helping or can help
• Do not forget the Key Club Bottle Drive account at the Sardis Bottle Depot, help them attend their Portland Conference, account number #123
• ORN we are coming up on the end, thank you to everyone who helped and participated, please send your thoughts and reflections to Derek
• February 14 - Key Club will be attending to have a Inter-Club
• Students of the Month are January 31 and February 6, it will be a full house!
  
• IHop Pancake Day is March 7, watch for more information coming soon!
  
• Vic continues to recover and same for Courtney's dad, so we continue to give our wishes of strength to them both
• Next week you will see some budget/ committee worksheets, please take the time to evaluate the projects we do so we can more forward, and/or be even better

Program:
One of the Kiwanis madates is YCPO, which stands for 'Young Children Priority One', we had the privilege of welcoming Mary Ives from a branch of CYC, and Effective Parenting. She came with a celebration of 20 years of support and partnership with the Kiwanis Club of Sardis and to talk to us about their programs here in Chilliwack. One program that she showcased was the Circle of Security. Circle of Security is relationship based parenting program developed by clinical professionals over a period of 20 years. It provides parents with a roadmap to understanding their children’s needs as well as a guide on how to get there. It is practical, understandable and portioned out in bite-size chunks. The method minimizes the shame and blame cycle and teaches parents reflective functioning. Building on strengths without ignoring the struggles. Circle of Security® trained  facilitators are  leading this series.

The 8 week program will take place 9:00am – 11:00am at Sardis Family Place. Childcare is provided.
Her presentation was followed by some great questions! We are very fortunate to have such a service here in Chilliwack. 

Be sure to check out our Instagram feed, @fvekiwanis to get photos and updates of all we do!
Till next time, all the best, yours in Kiwanis,

Michelle

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things that matter." - MLK Jr.

Communications:

• A card was circulated for Valerie Tunbridge, the meeting voted on sending a donation to the Spina Bifida organization in her name from our Club for all her work for the cause.
  
• GW Graham Bottle Drive - Thank you Barry and team!
  They have an account set-up at the Sardis Bottle Depot, so bring your empties in from the holidays and help the Key Clubbers attend District Convention in Portland.
  
• Super Reader Assemblies have started - Thank you Arley and team!
  66 students at Robertson last week, 374 at Promontory
  
• Soup Kitchen
  Saturday past was January's soup kitchen, 139 meals served.
  
• Operation Red Nose - Thank you Ken, Derek, Ann and team!
  Final touches and clean-up items left, thank you for all your hard work and dedication. A small crew is finishing up with the shadow boxes and evaluation of this year.
  
• Students of the Month - Thank you Peter!
  Peter pleasantly reminded us that we have Students of the Month coming up on January 31 and February 7. First one in our new location, so maybe try to be early for a seat.
  

No guests this week, instead we focused our attentions on brushing up on our Facebook networking skills. Lots of fun little tricks were learned and many of us made new Facebook friends! Thank you Courtney and Kiefer for helping guide the learning and answer questions!

Till next week, cheers,
Michelle

I am pretty sure we have all the snow in all the world! So we'll break it up with this lovely sunshine!
Today we send our strength to Vic M. for a safe and healthy recovery. We also welcome back Shirley in good health! Dennis has also returned from his vacation.
We had updates from our Board meeting, Super Reader (assemblies are about to start), and Operation Red Nose (reminder the volunteer reception is on January 11- aka tomorrow). An update about the GWG Key Club Bottle Drive that was cancelled, they now have an account set-up at the Sardis Bottle Depot, so you can make your donation there!
The program today was an update about the Saturday Soup Kitchen and how the Sardis and Chilliwack clubs are coping. So far so good, but soup kitchen will come up at our budget meeting in February.
Other then that nothing too much new to report!

Make it an awesome week, see you all tomorrow!
Michelle