Circle of Sharing, Volume 26, Issue 3, September 2021

Volume 26/Issue 3 /September 2021

Circle of Sharing THE OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE WISCONSIN UPPER MICHIGAN CIRCLE K DISTRICT

Table of Contents 03 Upcoming in WUM 04 A Message from Jonathan our Trustee 05 Social Medias 06 WUM CKI Theme 2021-2022 07 WUM DEI 08 Kiwanis Family Picnic Reflection 09 COR Reflection 10 Bulletin Brain Game 11 CKI Acronyms 12 District Board Directory

WUM DISTRICT BOARD-BOARD MEETING IN-PERSON

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Upcoming Events in WUM WUM's Upcoming Events: Camp Wawbeek Boardwalk Repair: On October 2nd at 11am, we will be rebuilding parts of the boardwalk at camp that have been damaged. And we need your help to make this happen!

Sign up to help @ Boardwalk Repair New Member Night: New Circle K members are welcome to attend an event for you! Come and learn more about CKI and what it means to be a member, on October 5th at 7pm CST! I also hear that there will be games too!

Sign up to attend @ New Member Night WUMderful Nights: Each month the district will host a night to where members of the district come together and do service virtually. These are a great for when you could use a homework break! Keep an eye out for these each month!

Membership Awareness Conference (MAC) 2021: Mark your calendars, our first ever Hybrid MAC will be held October 1517th at Camp Wawbeek or on Zoom. Learn more on page 7 about what to expect about MAC! Sign up @ MAC2021

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A Message from Jonathan our Trustee

Hello WUM CKI!

With tremendous gratitude, it is an honor to be serving you all as your International Trustee for this Circle K term. I’m psyched beyond belief to represent the great District of Wisconsin-Upper Michigan on the International level and can’t wait to attend your events to the fullest extent possible! My aim is to get to know WUM as best as I can and to support all your endeavors in the most achievable ways possible. As your International Trustee, I’d want nothing more than to immerse myself in the ways of WUM and to get an inside perspective on how your district achieves its success.

With the challenges put in place because of the global pandemic, we can only go up from here! Let’s move forward together and show our communities what makes Circle K International special and recognizable. Fortunately, Circle K International has awarded us with a stellar pairing of Districts that we all get to collaborate with, known as our sister districts (aka, SISTRICTS). Those include: The LouisianaMississippi-West Tennessee District, the Indiana District, and the Caribbean District. Together, we make for an all-star team of leaders that no other student led organization can match! As your Trustee, with my passion and commitment to service, together, let’s focus on a post pandemic recovery that’ll get us reaching for the stars and on a path towards organizational growth. As the leaders of tomorrow, only we stand in the way of what we can/can’t achieve. Thank you for your cooperation and let’s go and get serving till the cows come home!

Yours in Caring and Service, Jonathan Varano

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Social Medias

WUM Instagram Page: wumcki Facebook Page: Wisconsin-Upper Michigan District of Circle K International

Sea Cow Sistrict Hello! As a member of the Sea Cow Sistrict, you can stay up to date on our Sistrict operations by following us through our Instagram page at “Sea_Cow_Sistrict.” You’ll have access to read up on my monthly newsletters where you’ll find club resources and stay up to date on future events/meetings. You can access the newsletters and find more club resources through the Linktree link found within the page bio.

Thank you!

Jonathan Vorano

Sistrict's Socials Indiana: inckiofficial Louisiana-Mississippi-West Tennessee: LaMissTenn Circle K Caribbean: ckicaribbean

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WUM CKI Theme 2021-2022 Hello WUMderful Members. We have some exciting news. If you haven’t heard, this year we are focused on you WUMderful members. Our motto for the year: 3-6-5 for WUM CKI. Our goal is to recruit as many new members as possible and celebrate all of our members throughout the year through various methods. To start this celebration of our members, we would love to hear your reasons why you joined and stayed in CKI. If interested, please contact Kiara at bulletin@wumcki.org or Douglas at superior@wumcki.org for more details. Along with the CKI Whys we will be putting on district challenges for clubs to go head to head. The first challenge is to join The District Board in the WASH 6K challenge throughout the month of October. We challenge each club to also do the WASH 6k Challenge throughout October using as many members in your club as possible and take plenty of photos to send to Kiara at bulletin@wumcki.org. Some of the photos may be posted to our social media to show off all of the WUMderful work that is happening. Stay tuned for the other district challenges we will be having during the year!

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WUM DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) WUM DEI Task Force Looking for Members Breaking news out of WUM! WUM DEI Task Force has begun and we want you to join us. Our mission is to make WUM a place where everyone feels welcomed, teach how to be a good advocate, and learn about our fellow CKIer’s identities and culture. Our mission will make WUM a more inclusive place, set WUM up for the evolving world of CKI, and create international friendships. If you have interest in being part of the WUM DEI Task Force and helping with positive change, please fill out this form: https://forms.gle/nkdfdqUZnN3gptH68.

Have questions, reachout to me, Douglas Arnett-Arnold, your WUM DEI Task Force ChAir!

Fight for what's right

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Kiwanis Family Picnic Reflection Hello, all of you WUM-derful Circle K members! My name is Elizabeth Johnson and I am the Wisconsin-Upper Michigan District of Circle K’s Kiwanis Family and Outreach Chair for 2021-2022.

On August 20, 2021, I organized a new event with the Wisconsin-Upper Michigan District of Kiwanis to kick off their 2021 District Convention! This super, awesome, and fun event was our first ever Kiwanis Family Picnic. With an attendance of around 80 Kiwanians, 15 Circle K members, and four members of Aktion Club, we all had a blast eating hamburgers, listening to music, and of course playing some exciting games.

At the picnic, we fundraised for Camp Wawbeek, an Easter Seals camp within Wisconsin Dells that provides an opportunity for individuals with disabilities to have a summer camp experience. The primary fundraisers were bingo and our cornhole tournament, upon which we raised over $170 for Camp Wawbeek! A huge thank you to all that participated in our picnic festivities and donated to one of Circle K’s near and dear organizations.

I had so much fun with members of the Kiwanis Family at the picnic! It was such a wonderful opportunity to be in person, celebrating a fantastic service year of Kiwanis, and have the opportunity to get competitive with cornhole and bingo.

Having the opportunity to be social, laugh, and be in person together, especially in the world we currently live in, is so special and meaningful. I know I will not be able to forget the memories I made at the picnic.

I look forward to working on more events with the Kiwanis Family throughout the rest of my term, especially the Kiwanis Family Hockey Night! I would just like to say a big thank you to Rosemarie Dick, Olivia Groenewold, the WUM CKI District Board, and everyone who attended the Kiwanis Family Picnic for all of the support in planning such an amazing event and attending!

Yours in Service, Elizabeth Johnson

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Club Officer Retreat COR 2021-2022 Thank you to all the officers that attended COR this summer! It was great to meet our new officers, and I hope you learned a lot. If you want access to any of the PowerPoints or information shared, please send MDG Chair, Joanna, an email at membership@wumcki.org.

We talked about: The Kiwanis Family Recruitment & Retention The WUM Club Resources Folder Engaging Meetings & Meaningful Service Managing committees Social Media & Promotion If you were not able to attend COR, please reach out to the District Board, so we can schedule your officer training.

Joanna Carman Membership, Development, & Growth Chair

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Bulletin Brain Game This section of the bulletin, is going to be an interactive part. With each new issue, there will be different games or activities that will test you! This issue it an I spy!!

WHERE IS THE WORLD IS BESSIE THE COW THERE ARE 3 COWS HIDDEN BELOW, CAN YOU FIND THEM?

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CKI Acronyms Here in Circle K International we use a lot of acronyms. Learning what these acronyms are will help so you aren't confused.

CKI

Circle K International

WUM

Wisconsin-Upper Michigan

DCON

District Convention

MAC

Membership Awareness Conference

ELC

Education and Leadership Conference

COR

Club Officer Retreat

MRF

Monthly Report Form

LTG

Lieutenant Governor

KFAM

Kiwanis Family

KFBG

Kiwanis Family Baseball Game

KFHN

Kiwanis Family Hockey Night

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DISTRICT BOARD DIRECTORY DISTRICT GOVERNOR ANNIKA HENTZ governor@wumcki.org 608-566-4606 DISTRICT BULLETIN KIARA MILLER bulletin@wumcki.org 608-214-2194

DISTRICT SECRETARY BROOKE STEENO secretary@wumcki.org 920-609-7857 CAPITAL LTG ALEX VORPAHL capital@wumcki.org 608-617-8645

METRO SOUTHEAST LTG SUPERIOR/CHIPPEWA LTG SHANNON GEGARE DOUGLAS ARNETT-ARNOLD metrosoutheast@wumcki.org capital@wumcki.org 262-939-8545 906-396-5525 DCON CONVENTION CHAIR OLIVIA GROENEWOLD convention@wumcki.org 920-843-4047 SPECIAL EVENTS CHAIR JAMES OSCAR events@wumcki.org 262-220-8827 ASSISTANT ADMINISTRATOR LENA SCHEIBENGRABER assistantadmin@wumcki.org PHONE 414-418-9779

DISTRICT TREASURER GAVIN LLOYD treasurer@wumcki.org 715-370-7484 LAKES LTG SOFIA PARADAS lakes@wumcki.org 262-875-1026 AWARDS, REG. HISTORY CHAIR NOAH LARSCHEID awards@wumcki.org 920-639-9428

KIWANIS FAMILY OUTREACH CHAIR ELIZABETH JOHNSON kiwanisfamily@wumcki.org 262-914-1011

MEMBERSHIP, DEVELOPMENT & GROWTH CHAIR Joanna Carman membership@wumcki.org 920-460-5138

ASSISTANT EVENTS CHAIR ANTON MASLOWSKI assistantevents@wumcki.org 608-381-0336 ASSISTANT ADMINISTRATOR ANN PILOT adminteam1@wumcki.org 262-939-1614

DISTRICT ADMINISTRATOR JUSTIN HAHN administrator@wumcki.org 414-510-1609 ASSISTANT ADMINISTRATOR RACHEL LEADER ADMINTEAM2@WUMCKI.ORG 952-240-9481

ASSISTANT ADMINISTRATOR ASHLEY DEFAZIO ADMINTEAM3@WUMCKI.ORG 262-308-2135

Website: wumcki.org Facebook: Wisconsin-Upper Michigan of Circle K International Instagram: wumcki

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