Message from the President

By Robert Bell

As our Kiwanis year progresses, our club continues to be very active. On Mondays and Thursdays each week, we show up to support the Packed with Pride food pantry, sponsored by the Foundation for Tigard-Tualatin Schools. Members of our club spend over 24 hours each week helping provide meals for hundreds of food-insecure families with children in the Tigard-Tualatin School District. Twice each month, we prepare and serve anywhere from 25 to 40 dinners for the residents at the Tigard Good Neighbor Center, which serves homeless families with children. On December 10th , members will be ringing bells for the Salvation Army at the Tigard Fred Meyer. Bell ringing for the Salvation Army at the Christmas season has been a project of our club for over 40 years. We continue to sponsor the Sherwood High School Key Club and its community service activities. Our Key Club Advisor regularly attends their meetings. Our club members work with Key Club members on some of their community service projects. At our meeting on November 16th, Division Lt. Governor Susie Meyer gave an excellent program regarding Kiwanis Youth Protection Guidelines, training many of our members and several members of other Kiwanis clubs on how we can protect students in our Service Leadership Programs. At our December 7th club meeting, Skye Burnes from the Mt Hood Kiwanis Camp will speak to us regarding what’s going on at the Camp. At our January 4th meeting, Scott Burns will speak to us about Oregon’s dynamic geology. We plan to continue having programs at one meeting each month. We have formed a Finance Committee to endeavor to identify the various projects our club may pursue to serve our community, how much funding our club will need for these Table of Contentsprojects and how our club can generate funds to accomplish these projects. We have had two very productive meetings discussing projects to fund and what our club may do to generate Message from the President funds. Page 2 Pay it Forward Page 3 Good Neighbor Center Page 4 Packed with Pride Page 5 Alzheimer’s Walk Page 6 Kiwanis One Day Page 7 Youth Protection Training Page 8 Salvation Army Bell Ringing Page 9 Club News Pages 10-17 Division News Pages 18-19

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