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Table of Contents
Table of Contents 2 Table of Contents 3 Monthly Welcome 4-5 Member Spotlight 6-9 MD&E Events 10 - 20 October Recap 21 TOT4TH 22 - 23 Fun Stuff 24 - 27 Shout Outs
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Hey everyone! It's Alexandra, your Editor for the 2021-2022 year. I can't believe it's already November! October was such a busy month with a TON of big events like Fall Rally, Big/Little, and TOT4TH. This newsletter is going to be a long one, so I hope you enjoy it! :)
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Monthly Welcome
Monthly Welcome Happy fall, everyone! It's your favorite UF CKI VP, Olivia. We have officially passed the half-way point of the fall semester, and I can't believe how much we've already accomplished together! Before you head off to read the rest of the newsletter, I wanted to take a moment to thank all of you who came out to Trick-or-Treat for the Homeless! The event was a huge success, and we collected an insane number of donations for the homeless population here in Gainesville thanks to all of your hard work. Now, enjoy a break while taking a look at everything we did this month! :)
Here are some movies that Olivia recommends! Kiki's Delivery Service (1989) Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010) Promising Young Woman (2020) Cars 2 (2011) Easy A (2010) La La Land (2016) Volume 13, Issue 4
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Member Spotlight
New Member Spotlight Emily Miranda Emily is a second-year student who joined our CKI family this semester. She hopes to participate in meaningful service while meeting new people and getting to know all of us even more! Here, she describes her favorite memory so far: "At the bat fest service event, a bunch of us found out that we all liked anime, so we dubbed Destyni's car the Weeb Car and blasted anime openings on the way home." Fast Facts: Major: English and Economics Favorite Tenet: Fellowship What she enjoys in her free time: "Going to the gym and lifting heavy things, creative writing, watching TV."
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Returning Member Spotlight Johnny Brinson Johnny has been part of our CKI family for three years. He says, "It’s a great place to talk to some amazing people while helping others! It’s not procrastinating on your work if you’re making the world a better place." His favorite memory was "A trail cleanup in Lake City! The place and weather were beautiful, we got screamed at by trucks, walked through a Christmas light park thing at night, and saw a concert with singing and dancing snowmen." Fast Facts: Major: Chemical Engineering Minor: Materials Science Engineering Favorite Tenet: Fellowship Hobbies: "I do a lot of reading and hiking, I watch anime, work out, and I’m an amateur baker!"
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MD&E Events
MD&E Events: Skydiving Contributor: Amelia Glas
"Two years ago when I was a freshman, I had the idea to have a skydiving social with CKI. I thought it was an awesome idea, but when I presented it to Patrick (the president at the time), he told me that it would never happen and that he would give me a challenge point if I could make a skydiving social happen. Not one to back down from a challenge, I immediately got to work making it happen. We had 12 people sign up, we picked a date, and then the morning we were supposed to go, Skydive Palatka called saying they had to cancel our appointment because of weather. So, we rescheduled. The next morning, we headed out to Skydive Palatka and waited for 4 hours before they finally told us that the event would not be happening because of cloud coverage."
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"Then, the holiday season hit and everyone was busy. Spring semester started and we were trying to regroup and find a new date and then COVID hit. By the end of the year, the event hadn’t happened, but Payton (the president after Patrick), promised to uphold the promise of a challenge point. Because COVID was still raging last year and the vaccine wasn’t out yet, it didn’t happen, but Sam (our current president), promised to uphold the promise as well. Finally, on October 16, the Skydiving Social happened! Myself and 5 other CKI members all jumped out of a plane from 2 miles above the sky and made it back to land safely, earning our social point and I received the long awaited challenge point."
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MD&E Events
MD&E Events: Big/Little Contributor: Amelia Glas
"One tradition that CKI has is Big/Little. Big/Little is usually an event held by sororities that CKI adopted as a mentorship program. Basically, for the span of about two weeks, there are tons of social events where bigs and littles get to know each other. At the end of the two weeks, the MD&E chair has everyone send in who they want to have as their big or little and then gets to work matching people up. This process can be pretty tricky sometimes since the preferences don’t always line up and it becomes a fun challenge of matching people based on their personalities."
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"For the week after preferences are due, bigs text their littles from an anonymous phone number, sort of as a way for the little to try to guess who might be their big. Finally, at the end of the week, reveal happens and littles learn who their big is! Every year, family groups expand. A little might find out that they have siblings, a GBIG (grand-big), cousins, and maybe even a GGBig (great grand-big)! This year, reveal is at Lock-in, so make sure you attend if you’re participating in Big/Little!"
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October Recap
October Recap October was full of so much service and fellowship! In this section, you'll find a recap of most of our October events, but a couple of our bigger events have their own section.
October 3 - Adopt-A-Street This month, members from the Kiwanis Club of Gainesville helped us pick up litter from our adopted street.
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October Recap
October 3 Try-A-Coffee-Shop Social After Adopt-A-Street, we went to Curia on the Drag for our monthly coffee shop social. We also made a TikTok that you should check out on our account @ufcirclek! October 6 Try-A-Gainesville-Restaurant Social After the GBM, we ate at Satchel's Pizza, a local restaurant in town. If you haven't caught on, we're big on supporting our local businesses! October 10 Santa Fe River Canoe Cleanup For the start of our Big/Little events, we helped clean up at the Santa Fe River.
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October Recap
October 10 Big/Little Smoothie Social Following the canoe cleanup, we cooled off with some smoothies from Elliano's Cafe! Go check out the TikTok we made here too. October 11 Bat House Social We hung out at the UF Bat Houses to kick off spooky season. Everyone should see the bats come out at least once during their time at UF! October 12 Gainesville Kiwanis Meeting We checked out what the Kiwanis Club of Gainesville was up to during lunch at Dos Mamas.
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October 13 Wilmot Botanical Gardens We volunteered at our campus botanical gardens, helping to remove weeds and layer straw.
October 13 Big/Little Speed Dating After the GBM, bigs and littles spent one minute getting to know each other during Speed Dating! October 14 Big/Little Pottery Night We went to the Arts and Crafts Center at Reitz and painted pottery pieces together. Send a picture of your finished piece in the Study Buddy GroupMe!
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October Recap
October 15 Haunted Corn Maze Social Continuing spooky season, we hung out at the Newberry Cornfield Maze and made some new friends! ;)
October 16 - Skydiving Skydiving had been in the works for two years, and Amelia FINALLY made it happen! Hear more from Amelia on page 6.
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October 16 Cade Museum We helped run exhibits and interacted with visitors at Cade Museum for Creativity and Invention.
October 17 Bob Ross Fundraiser Bob Ross painting is a club-favorite fundraiser! We sat in the Plaza of the Americas and followed Bob Ross tutorials. This was also a Big/Little event!
October 17 Bat Fest Set-Up After our club fundraiser, a couple members helped set up for the annual Halloween Bat Fest.
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October Recap
October 18 Gainesville Community Ministries We organized and aided in a food distribution at a local Gainesville pantry.
October 18 Big/Little PowerPoint Night Bigs and Littles first presented a slide about themselves and then played the PowerPoint game.
October 19 Salvation Army We helped organize items at the Salvation Army Thrift Store!
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October 20 Chalking Before the GBM, we chalked at Reitz and the Plaza of the Americas to recruit new members.
October 20 Frosty Fox Fundraiser After the GBM, we got boba at Frosty Fox for this Socials/MD&E/Fundraising collaboration.
October 21 Paint-A-Pumpkin Social We set up at Plaza of the Americas and got into the Halloween spirit with mini pumpkin painting!
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October Recap
October 22 Murder Mystery Party Amelia, our MD&E chair, planned a Big/Little Murder Mystery Party where members get into character to find out whodunit. October 23 - Fall Rally We volunteered at Apopka Elementary School's Fall Carnival and later engaged in fellowship activities at Blue Jacket Park. This event was planned by Amber, our District Conventions Chair!
October 23 Balance180 Trunk-orTreat We handed out candy and interacted with kids at this Trunk-or-Treat event.
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October 24 Kiwanis One-Day Park Cleanup We helped clean up Northside Park and left behind positive messages through chalking! October 26 Tabling at Newell Rudolph and Rachel recruited new members at our Tuesday tabling event. Table with Rudolph or Amanda to earn your recruitment point!
October 27 Lock-In Decorating We began preparing for LockIn by creating decorations! Find out what jail is at Lock-In this Friday, 11/05.
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October Recap
October 27 Halloween GBM Shout out to everyone who came to our GBM in costume! October 28 Days for Girls We assembled sustainable menstrual health solutions for girls who would otherwise miss school during their periods. October 29 Back to School Kits We made back to school kits for elementary students.
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October 29 Halloween Social We had our annual Halloween social!
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TOT4TH
Trick-or-Treat for the Homeless TOT4TH is one of our biggest and most anticipated events of the year! Thank you to everyone who made TOT4TH so successful this year! October 24 Bag Distribution We went to Gainesville neighborhoods and left bags with instructions on how they could contribute necessities to St. Francis House. October 31 Main Event On Halloween, we returned to the neighborhoods, in costume, and collected bags from those who participated.
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Fun Stuff
Fun Stuff TOTAL SERVICE HOURS COMPLETED SO FAR:
723
October Photo Challenge Congratulations to Chloe for being the winner of the October Photo Challenge! Her picture is featured on the cover of the newsletter.
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This or That: Spoopy Edition See how your results compared to others!
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Shout Outs
Shout Outs Shout outs are a way to show your appreciation for literally anything inside or outside of CKI! Send in your shout outs to ufcki.org! Thanks to everyone who came out to Trick-or-Treat for the Homeless! - The E-Board Shout out to Destyni for having the best playlist ever!!! - Connor Nugent Shout out to Alexandra! The newsletters are so cute and amazing!!! - A past editor Love those Circle K-ers who cleaned up NW 10th Ave on Oct 2! - patti bartlett KCoG Shoutout to Amanda for letting us use her house for the Halloween Social!! Shoutout to Marlene at St. Francis House! - Olivia L shout out to amelia for all her hard work with big little!
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Sam. Just a general all-around shout-out because you are amazing! s/o to Olivia for all her hard work planning Trick or Treat for the Homeless!! - Amelia Shout out to the person who shouted out Azhar in the last newsletter.
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Shoutout to Amber for planning Fall Rally! Shoutout to Marlene for having her main character moment when we stopped by the St. Francis House for TOT4TH donation drop off. #iykyk s/o to patrick, payton, and sam for my challenge point :) - Amelia SHOUT OUT TO SOAKA!!!! Shout-out to Azhar! Shoutout to everyone who wore awesome costumes at either the meeting, Halloween social, or TOT4TH! anti-shoutout to the mosquitos at teastori after tot4th Shout out to Kandai for jumping out of the sky with us the first day he met us. - Destyni
Congrats to Amelia for being Board Member of the Month!!!! shoutout to john’s dogs shoutout to olivia for planning an amazing tot4th!!!! - Karen Shoutout to Deanna for being a great friend and giving me the book this week. Your Olivia Rodrigo costume was also iconic and deserves all the love <3 - Sarah
Shout out to the skeleton man from the Haunted Maze social! He looks scary but he's actually a big softie - Destyni
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Shout Outs
Shout out to Mr. Worldwide for taking the time to grace us with his presence shout out to sam for helping me out with the last newsletter - alex Shout out to Bubbles the Shark for being there for us! shout out to destyni, shes queen Shout out to those who send pics! shoutout to my future little, julia <3 <3 <3 - Your Big <3 Shout out to John’s dogs !! shoutout to patrick for coming to the meeting
Shout out to Amanda's ACTUAL dog!
shout out to amelia for contributing to the newsletter! - alex Shout out to Rachel and Alexia for planning the fall lock-in! Can’t wait to attend! shout out to everyone who came out in a costume!
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Shoutout to everyone who participated in Trick-or-Treat for the Homeless! We couldn’t have done it without you! <3 #spookyservice - Olivia L
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