Middle School Kiwanis Club Makes a Difference

At the Kiwanis Zone Conference in Pullman, Washington, Moscow (Idaho) Middle School Builder's Club President and Club Advisor were honored for raising over $1,000 for Central Asia Institute. Founded by Greg Mortenson (Three Cups of Tea), the money will be used to build more schools in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Kiwanis Events in February

Just for fun, Kiwanis went to dinner at El Sol Restaurant in Cheney and then went to the Cheney Community Theater. The play, directed by Patty Steen, was "A Fairy Tale Courtroom."

Our next big event was delivering 500 + bouquets of flowers for Joy Dahl, owner of Chet's Flowers, on Valentines Day. Delivering flowers on Valentines Day is a pleasure for both the receiver and the giver. Wouldn't it be nice if all of our Kiwanis Projects were so heart warming.

Kiwanis guests prepare to sleep outdoors

After a hot breakfast at the last Cheney Kiwanis meeting of the year, our guests had training classes, made shelters for themselves in the forest, and settled down to sleep in the snow. The Cheney Kiwanis guests were 30 cadets from the Civil Air Patrol and U.S. Navy Sea Cadets. They were on an outdoor survival training exercise at Camp Comia. The temperature the night of their campout was about 4 degrees below zero. When you are a Sea Cadet or a Civil Air Patrol Cadet, you must be of strong character. Happy New Year!

Kiwanis-EWU Halloween Party 2010

Ghouls and witches, from toddlers through fifth grade, wore their favorite costume two days before Halloween in the Harvest Tour and Carnival at Eastern Washington University (EWU). Co-sponsored by Cheney Kiwanis and EWU, the tour went through EWU buildings and ended in the Pence Union Building Lounge at 4 pm. At that point the children enjoyed Halloween fun, carnival, games and goodies. All of the carnival games were run by CKI (Circle K), Cheney High School Key Club, and Cheney Kiwanis with EWU contributing popcorn, and drinks. International students from EWU taught the children origami, the Japanese art of paper folding. In a variety of ways, everyone had fun.

Coats 4 Kids Kiwanis Project

Coats 4 Kids is an annual Kiwanis project. This year approximately 365 coats were collected. The coat distribution in Cheney at Salnave Elementary of 170 coats on October 16th will be followed by distribution at Sunset Elementary in Airway Heights from 10 to noon on Saturday October 23rd. Airway Heights Kiwanis is planning on helping at Sunset. A new distribution this year will take place at "Feed Cheney" at the United Church of Christ in Cheney on October 25th. Any remaining coats will be given to the Cheney Clothing Exchange.

CKI Tree Planting

On Saturday, October 16th, EWU CKI Club (aka Circle K) planted trees at Turnbull National Wildlife Refuge. The challenging part was finding ground without rocks. About 20 students from EWU took part in the tree planting. Right to left: CKI Club President Ashley Podplesky, Anh Le, Azaria Podplesky, and Natasha Vanderlinden.