Bowlathon

Sunday is our Bowlathon for the kids at Thurstons. We need every one who can come to help with the bowlathon. We will also have pizza and soda for the kids.

Kiwanis Basketball Game

Our Annual Kiwanis / Faculty Basketball Game is this coming Friday, March 16th. We need to have everyone attend and help out with all aspects of the game and pregame activities. We need plenty of people for the Hot Shot Contest and the Three Point Shoot Out. We also need people to sell 50-50 tickets as well as have people at the door and to help with the benches during the games. Please take note, we will not have a meeting next Saturday. Us old folks will need the extra sleep to recover from the game and after game festivities.

March Newsletter

Meeting Notes
Feb. 24th Dan Harter from Erie Educational Services gave a small presentation on Erie Ed. and what they do. We also discussed the Basketball Game, the Pancake Breakfast, and the Spring Raffle. On March 3rd. we just had a short meeting and handed out assignments for the Pancake breakfast. Also we discussed the Basketball Game and the need for every one to stay and help with the Jr./Sr. game. We also have the use of the lot accross from the fair ground for parking during both the County Fair and the Irish Festval.

March Birthdays
March 16 Dave Miller
March 17th Joe Tamburro
March 23 Steve MacMurry

Check the upcomming events to the right as well as the assignments for the Pancake Breakfast in the previous entry. Also remember the Basketball game, we need everyone to aatend and help out. Don't forget the Bowlathon.

Pancake Breakfast Assignments

Our Pancake Breakfast is coming up fast. So we need every one to participate to help make this a successful event, we have set up committees and assignments for each member to do. We need every one to attend and do their part. Your assignments are as follows.


Pancake Breakfast Assignments

Publicity
Bill Evans
Vinny Palmieri

Food
Don Gross
Bill Evans
Andy Barberio
Joe Long

Dinning Room
Chuck Vivacqua

Set up and Serve 6:30 to 10:30
Mark Vivacqua
Pete Ciaola
Irv Bunce
John Burress
Frank LaPuma

Serve and Clean up 10:30 to 1:00
Joe Long
Mark Scalice
Lou Licari
John Piseck
Fred Pumilio
Mac

Kitchen
Don Gross
George Amendolare
Gary Ciaola
Tony Acquaviva
Steve MacMurray
John Piseck
Kelly Brown

Door
Dave Miller
Angelo Riente

No Assignment
Tony Caruso
Kevin Enea
Ray Lenarcic
Sal Stokes
Joe Tamburro
Key Club Volunteers
Builders Club Volunteers

First Name on List is Committee Leader

Pancake Breakfast

We have our Pancake Breakfast Tickets. Don has the tickets. Please come to a meeting to get your tickets. We will also have them at the Basketball Game on March 16th. We need help for all aspects of the event. We also need help at the basketball game. We need everyone to come to make a good showing to the community. At this time we only have four or five people to play in the game, we need a few more. Be advised we will also be getting our spring raffle tickets soon. So please come to our meetings.

Kiwanis Basketball Game

We need help for the Basketball Game. We also need to have people to play in the game as well as help out with the Three point shoot-out and Hot shot contest. Please sign up at our meetings or contact Gary Ciaola.
Remember the game is on March 16th, at the Frankfort Schuyler High School Gym, starting at 6:00PM

Feb. Newsletter

Frankfort Key Club
We had the Frankfort Key Club visit our meeting on Jan.20th. Both advisers from Key Club and Builders Club attended. They gave us a brief presentation on what they have been doing and what they hope to accomplish in the new year.

Salvation Army Cafe
On Jan 22nd, we did our monthly service at the Salvation Army Cafe. We served about fifteen people. Our next date of the SA Cafe is Feb 26th. We had four Kiwanis members and three Key club members as well as Don’s wife help.

Blood Drive in Ilion
On Jan.27th we helped out The Red Cross at their blood drive at the Ilion Municipal Building. We received a Thank You note from Diane from The Red Cross. They reached 100% of their goal. We had ten members and Dan Long come to help out at the blood drive. Maybe we could help out again the next time they hold the drive.

Kiwanis Vs Faculty Basketball game
Our annual basketball game is scheduled for March 16th at the High School Gymnasium. We will also hold the Hot Shot Contest for the kids before the game. Gary has tickets and we need everyone to sell ticket. Contact Gary or come to our meetings to get your tickets. We also have a sign up sheet for people to sign up to play or to help out with tickets and other activities during the evening. We need people to play basketball, since our membership has dwindled in past years.

Palm Sunday Pancake Breakfast
Our annual Pancake breakfast is on April 1. We will be having the breakfast at the Catholic Church this year. The price will be $6.00 this year. Don will have tickets available soon. The meeting on 2/24, we will set up a committee for the breakfast. Also Don has ordered the tickets and will be getting them to us ASAP.

Recent Happenings
On our Feb. 10th meeting, we had two guest speakers. First up was Fran Reina from Frankfort’s Youth Basketball Program. we have been a sponsor of the program for many years. They have 125
kids in the program from 1st grade to 8th grade.
Next up was Katie Baker from Reality Check. Reality Check is program to educate our children about the dangers and health effects of smoking. Their programs are ment to keep our children from starting to smoke. We also invited Katie to attend and set up a table at our basketball game in March.
Katie made a presentation on a program called Screen Out. Screen Out is a program to get smoking out of movies that our children are seeing. They have evidence that when children see smoking in movies, they are likely to take up smoking. The motion picture industry won’t change it’s policy until parents get behind the program to get smoking out of movies.

The book drive that Joe Long put on was successful again this year. We raised or purchased over $200.00 for the drive. Special note, Kelly Brown donated $100.00 from The Polish Community Club in Herkimer to the drive.

Andy talked with Joe Penre at Thurstons and set up a date for our Bowlathon on March 25th. We will invite the kids from both elementary schools as well as Builders and Key Club Members.

We held our Ladies Night Out on Feb. 10th at The Brass Tack. We had 14 people attend. We plan to have another Ladies Night later in the year.

Kelly Brown participated in the Red Cross Chilli Challenge at the Herkimer VFW. While he didn’t win any prizes, his chilli was still pretty good. We had a small Kiwanis contingent attend and had a pretty good time.

Mac and Dave did the monthly report and we had 72 % attendance this past month. We could do better.

Upcoming Birthdays
Feb 21 John Burress
March 16 Dave Miller
March 17th Joe Tamburro
March 23 Steve MacMurry