YOURS, MINE and OURS
Kiwanis Family Bulletin of the

KIWANIS CLUB OF ST. MARTINVILLE
November 14, 2007  •  Vol. 16 - No. 7

Editors/Publishers: Peggy Hardy, Carol Lagarde and Gerry LeBlanc

and occasionally, Marti Harrell

BOARD MEETING
THIRD THURSDAY OF THE MONTH 7:00 p.m.

• Builders Club Meeting:  2^nd Friday of the month @ Trinity Gym @ 1:00 p.m.
• Key Club Meeting:  Every Thursday in the library @ 11:20 a.m.

NOVEMBER BIRTHDAYS: Marlene Champagne 11/1; Elaine St. Julien 11/4; Guy Cormier 11/5;
Calie Latiolais 11/20; Mary Arton 11/24; Jennifer Bostick 11/27
AND ANNIVERSARIES:  Larry & Sarah Roy 11/18; Marti Harrell & Don Stanfield 11/21

CALENDAR OF EVENTS:
11/12-16 – Key Club Week
11/15 – Board Meeting – Leslie-Host (Church parking lot 6:45)
11-21 – Regular Meeting

THOUGHT/QUOTE OF THE WEEK:
Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of  self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the Best you are capable of becoming.  --John Wooden

The Third Object of Kiwanis:  To promote the adoption and the application of higher social, business, and professional standards. 

Kiwanis Education #59:   The European Federation of Kiwanis International is composed of the eight districts and nondistricted areas of Europe: the Iceland-Faroes, Norden, Netherlands, Belgium-Luxemburg, France-Monaco, Switzerland-Liechtenstein, Germany, Austria, and Italy districts, and areas such as the Iberian peninsula and eastern Europe. The European Federation has more than 1,000 clubs and stages an annual convention to elect federation officers and promote Kiwanis goals and training. 

This Week:  Great time had by all at the Kiwanis meeting.  You should make the effort to get to a Wednesday morning meeting – it gives the day and week such a lift!  Guest speakers at our meeting were representatives of Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Acadiana – Ginger Collier, Sharon Landry and Phillip James, Community Coordinator who resides and works in St. Martinville.  Basically there are several options to participate in the Big Brother/Big Sister program: 
      - Community based program which offers a commitment of at least twice a month for at least one hour where you are matched with a child of similar interests and you spend time together
      - School based program where your commitment is in the school, one hour per week where you get together with the kids
      -  High School Bigs program where high school kids are matched to primary school kids
      -  Amachi (West African word meaning “who knows but what God has brought us through this child?”) Program which provides one-on-one mentoring for children with incarcerated parents.
If you would like to be a volunteer, call Phillip James at 394-4472 or you can check out their website at www.acadiana@bigs.com

Gerry is asking for help on a project.  K-Bar-B Youth Ranch is located in Lacombe, LA and is a residential treatment facility for abused and neglected children, who have been placed in the foster system.  Since foster children are near and dear to our hearts, we would like to extend assistance to this facility.  The Kiwanis Club of New Orleans purchased 75 acres of land in 1946 to open a summer camp for underprivileged children.  Since 1973, the ranch has been dedicated to treating abused children.  One of the items needed for each child is a journal.  If you would like to contribute either $$$ or journals, you can do so within the next two weeks.  Gerry will package and ship the items all at one time.  (There are inexpensive journals to be purchased at CVS or the dollar stores.)

Key Club Week is being celebrated on Friday at St. Martinville Sr. High in the library at 11:15 p.m.  If you would like to help with this project by attending the meeting and helping serve pizza and soft drinks, call Gerry @380-4300 or show up at school!

Our thoughts and prayers are with Kiwanian Calie Latiolais who is having surgery on Thursday, 11/15.

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