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TABLE OF
CONTENTS District Administrator Welcome...1
Never Grow Tired of Service……2
Budgeting for Your Club………...3
Recruitment………………………..4
Eliminate: Saving the World One
Baby at a Time…………………….5
District Project: Kids Against
Hunger………………………………6
Contact Us…………………………7
Thank you for supporting the
Rocky Mountain District of CKI!
CKI CHRONICLE A ROCKY MOUNTAIN DISTRICT PUBLICATION
SEP
TEM
BER
20
13
I am so excited for you
Rocky Mountain District
CKIers as you are coming
off a banner 2012-13 year
and headed to an even
more exciting year! With
Gov. Alyssa Smalley at
the helm, she has
gathered together a
District Board that is
motivated, sharp and
excited for this school
year.
At our recent District Board
meeting every officer led an
informative session that
inspired our imaginations and
made us think BIGGER! Be
ready for great fellowship,
service, leadership and more
clubs in formation! The
officers and I are here to
serve YOU – please call on
us!
Jan Brown Reed,
CKI District Administrator
WELCOME TO THE NEW SCHOOL YEAR
By District Administrator Jan Brown Reed
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NEVER GROW TIRED OF SERVICE By District Governor Alyssa Smalley
I would like to be
among the first to
welcome you to the new
school year for Circle K.
We as a District are very
excited about this
upcoming year and
everything it holds for our
organization, as I’m sure
you are as well. The
beginning of the year is
an exhilarating time as
clubs are full of good
ideas about how to start
the year off right with
recruitment and
projects. I want to
encourage you to fuel
that energy throughout
the entire year and
remain passionate about
service. Never grow
weary of service! Many
times we get bogged
down by everything else
in our lives, but
remember that even a
little can make a big
difference.
It is a difference felt by those
who lack even basic
necessities, like food or
clothes or homes, that we so
often take for granted. They
are the reason we work so
hard, and they are always
grateful for it.
Always remember that you
are not alone in this journey.
By being part of the Rocky
Mountain District of Circle K
you are a member of the
Kiwanis family, and that’s
truly what we are: a family.
You are surrounded by fellow
Circle K Members who will
work alongside you
throughout the year, by
Kiwanians who thrive on
supporting you to help you
succeed, and by a District
Board that is behind you one
hundred percent. Please,
don’t hesitate to contact
any of us throughout the
year with any questions or
assistance you may need.
You are here to help others,
and we are here to help you
do that. I look forward to a
great year of service with
you this 2013-2014 year!
Yours in Service,
Alyssa Smalley
Rocky Mountain District CKI
(970) 388-3247
I don
’t kn
ow w
hat y
our d
estin
y will
be,
but o
ne th
ing
I do
know
: the
onl
y on
es a
mon
g yo
u wh
o wi
ll re
ally
be h
appy
are
thos
e who
hav
e sou
ght
and
foun
d ho
w to
serv
e.
Al
bert
Sch
weitz
er
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BUDGETING FOR YOUR CLUB And Realizing a Few Dollars Here and There is Not the End of the World
By District Treasurer Michaela Robidoux
At the beginning of the year,
whether it be the school year or
the calendar year, it is essential
to create a new plan for
financing the year to come. The
most important aspect of
financing is to establish a
budget or a plan, always with a
little room for emergencies. This
way you are prepared and fully
aware of how much money you
can really contribute to the
newfound emergency. This
allows for errors in planning, and
unforeseen emergencies, so
you won’t accidentally
endanger your finances for the
future. So whether it’s your own
personal finances or your club’s
finances, they should both be
treated with the same kind of
attentiveness and care that you
would put into caring for the individual people of your club.
It’s also important to remember
that your finance plan can shift!!
If you planned for an event to
be a certain amount of money
and you end up being two
dollars over, it is not the end of
the world. Flex your plan to
accommodate for this
unexpected two dollars and
move on. Money that your club
has is there to help you, not
hinder you. If you find yourself
paying more attention to the
amount of money you have
rather than the amount of
people your club is helping, you
are worrying about the wrong
thing. Make your financial plan
fit with the values of your club.
As long as you are smart and
attentive about your finances
everything else will fall into place.
Con
tact
Distr
ict
Tre
asu
rer
Michaela
Rob
idou
x a
t tr
easu
rerm
d@
gmail.c
om
for
ass
ista
nce in
creating
a b
udge
t
for
you
r club
!
SAVE T
HE
DATE DISTRICT CONVENTION
will be February 14th-16th
in Longmont, Colorado.
Look for more information in the
upcoming months!
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As a member of a
new club that is starting
out, I and my fellow
members have found
recruitment can be a
challenge. Students are
no strangers to busy lives
and it can be hard to find
time for extra-curricular
activities, even when they
are so important. With
already full schedules,
encouraging students to
see why they should join
CKI is a matter of showing
that it is rewarding and
well worth the time.
While having the
extremely welcoming
atmosphere that CKI is all
about is important, taking
students schedules into
consideration will be
appreciated by them. A
few ways to do this are by
inviting people to come to
meetings or service
projects when they have
the time.
THE HOW’S AND WHY’S OF RECRUITMENT
By FRCC Liaison Celena Evans-Walk
After a day of sitting
through class, coming to
attend a meeting is not
always something to be
excited about, so another
way to get people
interested is by inviting
them to a service project
first. This will give them a
chance to be out doing
something and seeing
what it is all about.
Other ways to
recruit are by using your
school’s resources. Our
club is advertising in our
school’s monthly
newspaper that is posted
around campus. We are
also advertising on T.V.
monitors around the
school. The second week
of school we have a
campus resource fair that
we will participate in. This
gives people a good
chance to talk to us in
person about any
questions they might have.
Look for your own school’s
resources for advertising.
Recruitment can be
challenging but there are
many ways available to
make it work. While using
resources available from
the school and doing
what your current
members can in your own
way are important, never
underestimated word of
mouth! Talk about the
club with people in your
classes and you will surely
find people who are
interested!
Another way to get
them interested is
by inviting them to
a service project
first.
Even though it is
important to be aware of
potential members’
schedules it is also
important to manage your
own club’s time. Students
appreciate stability and
having a set time and
place to meet.
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ELIMINATE: Saving the World One Baby at a Time
By C
olora
do M
esa
Liaison
Am
anda Jablonsky
Kiwanis and UNICEF have joined forces to eliminate maternal and neonatal tetanus, or MNT. This deadly disease claims the lives of nearly 60,000 newborn children yearly. MNT also claims the lives of several mothers as well. To Eliminate MNT the total cost will be $110 million. For just $1.80, you can save a life. That’s right; it costs less to save a life than it does to buy a cup of coffee from Starbucks in the morning.
As the Rocky Mountain Circle K District, our goal is to raise $1009.00 for the Eliminate Project this year.
The reason behind having a goal of $1009 is because every nine minutes a baby dies from MNT.
Here is a list of fundraising ideas to help your club start raising money:
Bad Movie Night: Host a “free” movie night and play bad movies. To get out of the door, you have to pay $1.80.
Bake Sales: Charge $1.80 for all goods
Shots4Shots: Have a 50/50 raffle at basketball games and charge $1.80 for all tickets. At halftime draw a ticket and if they make a half-court shot, they get half of the proceeds and the other half goes directly to the Eliminate Project. If the shot is missed, all the money raised goes to Eliminate.
At the International level, there is a recognition program to award clubs who have gone above and beyond in their fundraising efforts.
The awards are as follows:
Bronze: $350 (190 lives saved)
Silver: $500 (275 lives saved)
Model Club: $750 (416 lives saved)
So get out there and do your part in eliminating maternal neonatal tetanus!
Picture from The Eliminate
Project Walk at International
Convention in Vancouver, BC,
Canada in June 2013
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By Rebekah Romberg,
K-Family Relations Chair
I’d like to start by
introducing myself and
saying hello. My name is
Rebekah Romberg and I am
the K Family Relations Chair
for the Rocky Mountain
District CKI this year. Hello!
I’m so excited to be serving
on the district board and to
tell you more about our
district project.
As a district board,
Rocky Mountain District CKI
has decided to make our
district project Kids Against
Hunger. The name really
explains it all. Kids Against
Hunger is a nonprofit
organization, which operates
internationally to combat
world hunger. One of the
cornerstones of this
organization is the food they
send. It contains a
combination of white rice,
soy, vegetables, and a
vitamin and mineral powder,
which when combined
creates a meal that combats
children’s hunger unlike other
food. These food packages
are
sent to families across the
United States and to over 60
countries across the world.
So where does CKI
come in? What is the actual
district project? Our goal is to
have each Circle K club in
the Rocky Mountain District
raise enough money to do a
packaging event. Packaging
events essentially consist of
packing boxes with food
packages to be shipped
locally or internationally. Our
goal is to host this packaging
event at the CKI District
Convention. As the K Family
Relations Chair, one of my
biggest goals for the event is
to bring members together
from every branch of the K
Family from all over the
Rocky Mountain District.
I bet you’re wondering
how you can help, aren’t
you? Come to CKI District
Convention! Whoever you
are, wherever you are, we
want your help at the
packaging event!
KID
S A
GA
INST H
UN
GER
Visit the Kids Against Hunger website at
www.kidsagainsthunger.org/ for more information about
this organization!
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CONTACT US The 2013-2014
Rocky Mountain Circle K District Board
Alyssa Smalley, Governor
Austin Good, Secretary
Michaela Robidoux, Treasurer
Andy McKay, Events Chair
Rebekah Romberg, K-Family Relations
Chair
Allie Moe, CO Club Building Chair
Selena Hammer, WY/NE Club Building
Chair
Jan Brown Reed, Administrator
Matthew Carter, ASU Liaison
Amanda Jablonsky, CMU Liaison
Leah Jaron, CSM Liaison
Maritza Arizaga, CSU Liaison
Noha Kikhia, CU Boulder Liaison
Celena Evans-Walk, FRCC Liaison
Sophi Robbins, UNC Liaison
Jennifer Anders, UW Liaison
David Limjoco, Subregion B Trustee
