Tiffany

Tiffany Pugliese was diagnosed with Wilm's Tumor in May 2005, when she was just 6 years old.

In November 2005 she found out she was cancer free, until May of this year when she relapsed and is currently undergoing chemotherapy treatments at University Hospital in Syracuse. Wilm's Tumor is a rare form of childhood
cancer that affects the kidneys. In 2005, Pugliese underwent a nine-hour surgery to remove one kidney along with her tumor, “which was the size of a grapefruit,” according to doctors. She had 42 lesions on her lungs and was
classified as having Stage IV cancer, the highest stage, which means the cancer has spread to another organ. After the surgery she had quite a long recovery. She underwent eight radiation treatments and 24 weeks of
chemotherapy.
She was cancer free for 18 months. However, in May, another nodule was found on her lung and a biopsy found she had a recurrence.
She's just 8 years old and this is extremely difficult for her, the cancer requires frequent hospital stays, often five days every two week. Pugliese suffers from fevers, low blood counts, and has to have many blood transfusions.
Pugliese will be entering third grade this year at Benton Hall Academy in Little Falls.


To help offset the costs of the treatment, a benefit is being held for Pugliese on Oct. 28 from 1-7 p.m. at the Best Western in Little Falls. The cost is $10 per ticket and children under 5 are free. There will be food, music, games,
raffles, door prizes, a Chinese auction, karaoke, a clown for the children, a kids' corner and more.

On Sept. 8 there is a Little Falls vs. Dolgeville football game at Little Falls and all proceeds from the raffles will go to benefit Pugliese.

On Sept. 23 the Holy Family Parish in Little Falls is holding a breakfast at the church from 9 a.m. to noon with proceeds going to Pugliese.

Oct. 20 will be “teeing off for Tiffany” which is a golf tournament in Little Falls with tee times at 8:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.

Also at Benton Hall, there is a common cents program where at the end of each month the grade level that brings in the most extra change gets a prize. One month has been dedicated to Pugliese and the proceeds from that month
will be donated to her. The school will do “trick-or-treating for Tiffany,” where students dress up and collect donations for her, and also a “tree for Tiffany” where students and community members will be able to buy ornaments
off a Christmas tree with proceeds going to the Pugliese fund.


To make a donation to help Pugliese and her family, checks should be made payable to “Michelle L. Miller for benefit of Tiffany Pugliese,” and should be sent to 18 Gordon Ave., Herkimer, 13350.
For more information call 866-3145, 823-1582, or 823-3053.

Saturday and Fair Parking

This Saturday we are NOT having a meeting. Our next meeting will be Aug. 25th.....


WE need help parking cars at the fair.. especially on Friday Night and Saturday. Please help out ....

Updates for the month of August....

This Fair Parking month. We start of this weekend with our Skip a Meal.. that means we don't meet on Saturday at the Knight Spot. We will however meet at Big Willy's Pizzeria on Saturday at 8:00 am. we will have a special
breakfast.


Fair Parking starts on Monday night the 13th. We set up on that night. We will probably meet around six that night to set up the site. New signs should be ready this week and our tee shirts should be ready also. We need every one to come and help. So if you haven't signed up to help out with parking, contact Andy or myself and sign up for our parking event.
Thursday is usually the big night, because of Demo Derby and Battle of the Bands. we really need a lot of people on that night to help out.

Monthly Newsletter June 2007

Salvation Army SA Cafe

June 25th we cooked and served at the S A Cafe. We will take the summer off from cooking., then take a look at whether we want to continue with our regular monthly night before fall starts up again.

Kiwanis Round Robin

June 13th Don, Dave and Joe went to New Hartford for an Interclub. On June 27th, Dave, Pete and Mac went to Rome for the another Interclub. We have just Booneville and Old Forge to do to complete the Round Robin . We should go to Booneville this month, maybe the 26th of July. Then Old Forge in August. We usually go visit Westmoreland on the morning of Fair Parking, when we don't have a meeting that morning.

Graduation Awards

We gave out several awards at graduation at both Frankfort and Ilion Schools. At Ilion, Keith Willner won the Kiwanis /Key Club Award. In Frankfort, The Kiwanis Commercial Prize went to Danielle Florentino and Lauren Maneen. The Rudy Egnaczyk Award went to Anthony Reina. The Outstanding Teenager went to Sarah Palumbo. The Key Club Award went to Lauren Maneen. In The future, the Key Club Award will be known as the Jerry C.Crimmons Award.

Upcomming Events

The final Divisional Meeting will be on August 7th at the Lee Town Park. We went last year and had a good time.

The Incomming Presidents orientation will be on July 26th at the Colonial on Turin Rd.

Chuck Vivacqua will once again ride in The Ride For Kids. For the Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation.The ride starts fron Deerfield Fire House and ends up in Old Forge.

Skip A Meal will be on Aug. 4th at Big Willy's. Bill has something special in mind for us this year. So we need to sign up at one of our prior meetings before Aug., so Billy can get all the fixin's before hand.

July 14th, the Frankfort Fire Dept. will be holdimg a Blood Drive at the Fire Station.

Vernon Downs Night is August 11th. $18.00 per person. The money has to be in no later than Aug 4th. Please sign up if you are going to attend.

Fair Parking

Don't forget The Herkimer County Fair is August 14th through the 19th. We will need lots of help for our parking. Save some time from your busy summer to help out with the parking.

Don't forget that if you want to get a Tee shirt, sign up for one in the next few weeks. Mark want's to get them and have them distributed in the beginning of the month. The cost of the shirt is $5.00 and we need the money in before hand.

Birthdays

Fred Pumilio July12th
Gary Ciaola July 14th
Don Gross Aug 2nd
Chuck Vivacqua Aug 22nd

Have a Nice Summer

Fair Parking Shirts

Mark Scalise talked with Joe Dovi. He's the guy who does our shirts. If we want to get just like a plain color shirt for the parking, it will be around 5 dollars a shirt. Can you email and have everybody that wants one either email you or I or sign up at the next meeting. I want to have the shirts by the end of July so I could get them passed out before parking. Thank you.

So if anyone wants a shirt, let me know or sign up at the next meeting.....

By the way, we should be having our Kiwanis Hats very soon.

Monthly Newsletter for June

Salvation Army SA Cafe
We will be cooking and serving a meal in June then we will take the summer off. We will take a look at whether we want to continue with our regular monthly night before fall starts up again.
Spring Raffle
Our Spring raffle has finished. Don will have the list of winners if anyone is interested in getting a copy. We made three hundred and fourteen dollars after everything is paid out. Remember that's three hudred dollars we didn't have before we started. Next year we might be doing something different for a fundraiser.
Kiwanis Round Robin
Last month Mac, Dave and Tony Caruso went to Clinton for the Prayer Breakfast the Clinton Club had at the Lutheran Home. New Hartford, Booneville , Old Forge and Rome are the only clubs left to comlpete the interclubs for this year. We are looking to go to New Hartford on June 13th for their student of the year. We went last year on that night. All those who would like to go in an interclub, keep in touch with Dave or Mac or come to meetings.
Recent Happenings
On May 19th, we gave our Evert Day Hero Award to Lucile Hand.Lucile is instrumental in the Gram Loraine Program and a lot of other progarm to many to mention.
Several of our members helped out at The Blood Drive in Ilion at the Municipal Building. We also had a contingent of members attend the Habitat for Humanity Big Breakfast the same morning as the Blood Drive.
We also had the interviews for our Outstanding Teenager from FSCS, We had several qualified students. RJ, Chuck, Dave, Joe, Pete, and Mark V. did the interviews. We will also give a $500. prize to a Key Club member as well.
We also have two youngsters going to Camp Kiwanis this summer. We will have them down before or after they go to camp.
Andy, Joe, Chuck and Stevie Mac helped put with the After Prom Party .
We will also have our new slate of officers in the next week or two for the next year.
We sent cards to Shawn Bernier for his birthday a few weeks back. Shawn is the boy who has terminal cancer and wanted a lot of cards for his birthday wish.
Upcomming Events
The final Divisional Meeting will be on July 7th at the Lee Town Park. We went last year and had a good time. The Incomming Presidents orientation will be on July 26th at the Colonial on Turin Rd.
Fair Parking
Don't forget The Herkimer County Fair is in August and we will need lots of help for our parking. Save some time from your busy summer to help out with the parking.
Birthdays
May
Andy Barberio 5/12 Jim Accatatto 5/23
Sal Stokes 5/26
June
Mark Scalise 6/01 Fred Pumilio 6/12
Chuck Vivacqua 6/14

Shane Bernier

Shane Bernier is an eight year old boy with Leukemia from Ontario Canada. His only wish for his eighth birthday, is to receive as many birthday cards as he can get, as this may be his last birthday. His birthday is May 30th. Every one who would like to send a birthday card to him should bring one in to the next meeting or drop one off at the Parish office at Our Lady Queen of Apostles. You may also give one to anyone who is in the Herkimer Lions Club as well, or even get them to Ray Lenarcic. Ray told us of Shane a few weeks back.

Also if anyone has any raffle tickets , we need them to be turned in.