 May 22, 2009
Quilt distribution After a year of quilt making, the project closes with a quilt distribution of over 60 quilts to a local nursing home. Thank you to all those Kiwanians, and CKIers for all the hard work. April 17, 2009 Cazadero (Cazalala) We enjoyed our time with Circle K at Cazadero in April. For more information and pictures, please see the link: Cazadero Project Cazadero Pictures September 27, 2008 LongFellow Athletic Room Project John and lovely wife Traudel rip apart boxes for recycling after removing equipment On hot Saturday, 24 sponsored youth joined Kiwanis in helping Longfellow middle school set up some athletic equipment, move things to and from area to area, then move some books from one room to another,(same books we moved last year mind you). Finally, after many hours of work, the school had useable space for an afterschool program, a weight room, and a teacher resource room! September 23, 2008 Berkeley Kiwanis Installation New Madam Prez Denise Haughin hefting her newly introduced fine "box". It was Fiesta Tuesday at Chevy's as we celebrating the new year. Prez Khong gave up his gavel to incoming president Denise Hauglin. President Denise has some great ideas and enthusiasm for the upcoming year, so stay tuned for all the great upcoming service! September 14, 2008 Solano Stroll Denise and Linda smiles as they calls over potential customers at Solano Stroll An overabundance of Kiwanians came to help support our fundraiser of selling EcoMetro guides and E-books. Even without a Kiwanis banner, the Kiwanians promoted their cause and raised lots of money for service! June 7, 2008 Edible Garden Denise & Debra working side by side planting some new seedlings. Berkeley Kiwanis helped MLK Middle School's Edible Garden staff maintain their garden. It was a good opportunity to learn more about one of those amazing programs Berkeley school district have. All the kiwanians and CKIers that joined had a wonderful time. May 24-26, 2008 Quilting Project Kiwanis helped to make and distribute quilts for senior centers, hospitals and veteran centers. There was interclubbing galore as sponsored youth, Circle-Kers from all over Northern California joined us in Linda and Bill's lovely home. May 3, 2008 LeConte Elementary School Workday In under 3 hours, a group of 6 Kiwanians and 5 CKIers packed up an entire library in preparation for painting the school library. We organized by the dewey decimal system and flipped through childhood favorites! April 25-27, 2008 Camp Gualala Expert post-diggers Duane and Bob pause for a photo. More picturesAnother one of our K-fam favorites! We spend the entire weekend with our favorite college sponsored youth club, there were 10 projects completed this year and with plenty of time leftover for a swim in the swimming hole, where there were striped bass sightings April 19, 2008 Camp Cazadero A k-fam favorite! Each year, we drive up to Camp Caz to help this nonprofit music camp set up for the summer. With the help of Kiwanis and Circle Kers, this camp saves thousands! April 12, 2008 Kiwanis One Day: Longfellow School Workday K-Family group photo after a hard One Day's work. This year, we went down to Longfellow Middle School to help them with a variety of school projects. There was gardening, some classroom rearrangement, cleaning and light handyperson work. What was expected to be an in-and-out projects turned out to go 2.5 hours over our estimated completion time, what with all the books and shelves and reorganizing, but our CKI'ers and Kiwanians were real troopers. We can be really proud of all our hard work. March 30, 2008 Shooting Range Social Duane and Bob look down the outdoor range Duane rallied up the gang and we went down to San Leandro for a fun day of shooting practice. The NRA folk were nice enough to give us a few safety (and history) lessons and share their equipment. After we ate a bbq lunch of hamburgers and hotdogs. March 22, 2008 Cook for Y.E.A.H Pres Phuoc and Steve chop up fresh veggies to serve homeless youth We prepared meal for homeless youth 18-25 at YEAH (Youth Emergency Assistance Hostel). On the menu: tacos. We chopped veggies, cooked rice, beans and meat. One volunteer even made delicious chocolate chip cookies despite being short on sugar. March 12, 2008 Reading is Fundamental Frank inspires future musicians with his violin, music and literacy, a perfect match! This March, Berkeley Kiwanis distributed books to 6 different pre-schools. Frank even played his violin for the kids! The kids loved their new books, and just as promised, one young child stuck the book in her mouth. Y.E.A socks Berkeley Kiwanis collected socks for Y.E.A (Youth Emergency Assistance) located in Berkeley CA. The socks were donated to homeless young adults who are trying to get back on their feet. December 22, 2007 Christmas Caroling Berkeley Kiwanis visited a local senior center on Ashby ave for noontime Christmas caroling. Several Seniors sang along the entire time. One young volunteer, Seb, brought out his saxophone and led us in Deck the Halls. December 6th, 2007 Berkeley's Annual Holiday Auction Bill raising this paddle high! Thanks Russ, Oakland Kiwanis for the great pictures! The Holiday Auction was a tremendous success! Among our visitors were many other Kiwanis clubs from our division! There were so many great thing to buy. I know I got my holiday shopping done! November 28th, 2007 Volunteer Readers at Cragmont Elementary Several members will be hiking up Spruce to spend some of their day reading to K-2nd grade students. The students love guest visitors in the classroom and reading out-loud helps these students develop as independent readers. There were a couple glitches, but I hope that we can continue to have projects with the local schools like these! November 20, 2007 Berkeley Police Annual Thanksgiving Drive These Kiwanians are all smiles as they join the community in this wonderful project Crowds of volunteers come out on this cold early morning to help pack Thanksgiving dinner for families. We helped set up, then participated in the packing of the food. Our fearless president Phuoc climbed aboard the truck to unload. November 18, 2007 Annual K-family Thanksgiving Dinner/Potluck It's the annual Thanksgiving dinner! We'll be making Turkey, you bring a appetizer, side or dessert. We'll spend the evening eating, chatting and occasionally singing. October 13, 2007 First Annual Oktoberfest: Dinner & Party. LIVE MUSIC!!! Edelweiss UM PA Band! Gemutlichkeit! Authentic German Dinner! German Raffle! The event was a huge success! It was a great night, everyone had a good time dancing away. It was a great fundraiser for our community service projects! October 6, 2007 Berkeley Kiwanis Installation BBQ President Jeff gives special thanks to those who have helped his year run smoothly President Phuoc hosts his induction ceremony at Live Oak park. There we celebrated the great work of the year prior and celebrated the new year to come with delicious bbq ribs and heart-warming speeches. Kiwanians from all over, former CKIers, current CKIers and other friends and family came to give Phuoc their full support for this 07-08 term. August 13, 2007 Love for Schools: In order to protect the floors and your tax dollars for years of enjoyment, we helped a local elementary school collect used tennis balls which will be used to cover desk and chair legs. The tennis balls second as a noise reducer as the padding provided by the balls help muffle the sound of metal chairs and table legs on the ground. And it's good for the environment! The balls that otherwise would be tossed into the landfills will be used in the classroom for years and years! (Love for Schools now called Project reServe) May 6, 2007 Kiwanis One Day: MLK middle school track renovation Kiwanian and CircleKers pose to show a day's hard work This was a new project this year, led by wonderful Don, It develops that this summer the track will be refurbished so it is fitting that Kiwanis and Circle K will gather at 9 AM to clean up the weeds and other mess that has gathered since our last work party there. Don mentioned that the Club’s credit card will be used to provide pizza, etc., for the workers April 27-29, 2007 Camp Gualala: Another one of our K-fam favorites! We spend the entire weekend with our favorite college sponsored youth club, embarking on projects that we determine the campground needs! This year, we made steps, we worked on the bridge, we painted the entire dining room area, we fixed yet another porch! Kiwanis and CKI love Gualala!April 21, 2007 Camp Cazadero: A k-fam favorite! Each year, we drive up to Camp Caz to help this nonprofit music camp set up for the summer. With the help of Kiwanis and Circle Kers, this camp saves thousands! In spite of pouring rain they got the canvas tops to the tent cabins up. March 18, 2007 St. Patrick's Day Dinner A Berkeley Kiwanis tradition, full of friends, fun and all the beer, corned beef and cabbage you can handle. Members and guests only. We have to keep some of the fun to ourselves! Drop Everything And Read day: Members of this Berkeley Kiwanis club dropped everything and read to children in local elementary schools during their DEAR day. Some classrooms received brand new school books. And we could tell by the smiles that the children loved the company! Many of our past events were archived on our Picassa page. While it is no longer being updated, you can view some of our pictures there! Click Here! There are also many events and mobile updates that appear on our facebook page! 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