Kiwanis Club of Grant Ranch

Kiwanis is a Global Organization of Volunteers Dedicated to Changing the World One Child and One Community at a Time.

Welcome to the Kiwanis Club of Grant Ranch
President            Joe Turnage   jturnage@jeffco.k12.co.us
President-Elect John Weksler
Secretary            JB Green
Treasurer           Bill Duddleson

Welcome to our new Kiwanis Club of Grant Ranch website. Grant Ranch Kiwanis is now an official club. We are in the process of building this new and exciting tool for the community. We meet every Friday morning from 7 to 8 AM at the IHOP on Bowles and Long Drive. The address is 7733 W Long Drive, Littleton CO 80123; phone #303-904-9609.

Please come and visit us to see what we have to offer for our community.

Kiwanis is an international service organization comprised of 600,000 adult and youth members in 91 nations whose mission is to improve the quality of life for children and families worldwide.

Service Slogan

"Serving the Children of the World"

History

The first Kiwanis club was organized in Detroit, Michigan, in 1915. Kiwanis became international with the organization of the Kiwanis Club of Hamilton, Ontario, in 1916. Kiwanis limited its membership to the United States and Canada until 1962, when worldwide expansion was approved. Since then, Kiwanis has spread to all the inhabited continents of the globe.

Kiwanis was defined as "an organization for men" in the constitution, adopted in 1924. Membership was opened to women in 1987, and today women serve in leadership positions at all levels of the organization.

The Kiwanis Name

The name "Kiwanis" was coined from an expression in an American Indian language of the Detroit area, "Nunc Kee-wanis," which means, "we trade" or "we share our talents."

Administrative Chairs:

Program Chair: Peggy Fulster, Pete Holst, John Weksler
Newsletter Chair: JB Green
Website Chair: Pete Holst, Joe Turnage
Interclub Chair: Sandy Blomeyer, Steve Stith
Social Chair: Tom Ashe
Club Shirt Chair: Steve Sandifer
Thank You Chair: Harriet Coussons
Blue Heron Elementary Liason: Kerianne Ebel, Janet Greggson, May Motoyama and Denise Shields
Blue Heron Elementary Volunteers: Drs Harriet & Tim Coussons, Cindy & Pete Holst, Hazel Kinzer and Sarah West
Grant Ranch K-8 School liason: Jennifer Wilson
Grant Ranch K-8 Volunteers: Hazel Kinzer and Sarah West
Summit Ridge Middle School Liason: Alan Morawiec
Summit Ridge Middle School Volunteer: Peggy Fulster
YCPO: Sarah West
Public Relations: Peggy Fulster
Fundraising Chair: Undetermined
Community Service: Undetermined

Typically the Board meeting will be held the 4th Monday or Tuesday of each month from 1:30 to 2:30 PM. The next meeting will be on Tuesday, May 26, 2009 at Blue Heron School. The next scheduled meetings are:

Monday, June 22nd - Grant Ranch

Tuesday, July 28th - Blue Heron

Monday, August 24th - Grant Ranch

Please contact President Joe Turnage with any questions at #303-982-2770 and/or jturnage@jeffco.k12.co.us.
Here is our speaker schedule for the 2nd Quarter of 2009:
June 26th: Cassie Parks - "Start Talking: 8 Conversations To Teach Kids Money Matters"
3rd Quarter 2009 Speaker Schedule:
July 3rd: No Meeting -"Happy 4th Of July"
July 10th: CLUB DAY
July 17th: Susan Osborn - "Change is Inevitable, Growth is Intentional" (What Rocks Can Teach Us, Metaphorically Speaking)
July 24th: Judy Sabah - "Cardiovascular Disease"
July 31st: Judy Schiller, MA, Simplicity Coach and Trainer - "How To Create More Time, Energy and Happiness"
August 7th: CLUB DAY
August 14th: Chula Fleming - "Wake Up. Live The Life you Love! Finding Your Life's Passion"
August 21st: Investigator Mike Harris, Jefferson County DA's Office - CSOII (Child Sex Offender Internet Investigations) - "The Cheezo Educational Program"
August 28th: "Ole" Ferguson , Development Manager - "Lost And Found Inc"
September 4th: CLUB DAY
September 11th: Dr Paul Price, Chiropractor - "Maximize Living"
September 18th: Jerry Chesser, Business Coach - "To Recession or Not to Recession?"
September 25th: "CHANGE OF COMMAND" DAY
4th Quarter 2009 Speaker Schedule:
October 2nd: Peggy Green, Wellness Coach - "Eat This! Don't Eat That...Great Health is Just a Few Bites Away"
October 9th: CLUB DAY
October 16th: Andrew Bolton - "Do You Want To Be Pain Free? Massage Is The Answer"
October 23rd: Gail Hamilton - "Your Desire to Fly Has to be Bigger Than Your Fear of Falling"
October 30th: Kent Montavon, Investment Advisors International - “How to Get a Great Long Term Care Benefit with NO Monthly Out of Pocket Expense and NO Medical Exam!
November 6th: CLUB DAY
November 13th: Suzanne Robinson, Colorado Sprint WebCaptel Outreach Specialist - "Help Understand Hearing"
November 20th:
November 27th: No Meeting - "Happy Thanksgiving"
December 4th: CLUB DAY
December 11th:
December 18th:
December 25th: No Meeting - "Merry Christmas"
1st Quarter 2010 Speaker Schedule:
January 1st: No Meeting - "Happy New Year"
January 8th: CLUB DAY
January 15th:

Please feel free to call Joe Turnage with any questions regarding Kiwanis. Joe can be reached at 303-982-2770.

The following is a link to Kiwanis International:

www.kiwanis.org

The following is a link to the Rocky Mountain Kiwanis:

www.RMDKiwanis.com

(Follow the link above to view the Rocky Mountain District newsletter)

Kiwanis Club of Grant Ranch calendar
Collecting food for the Jeffco Action Center.
Blue Heron PTA golf tournament at Racoon Creek - Spring 2009.
Start BUG (Bring Up Grades) at Blue Heron Elementary and Grant Ranch Elementary Schools sponsored by the K-Kids Club.
The Summit Ridge MS Builders Club is collecting shoes for the Holocaust Shoe Project, collecting used cell phones for battered women and the homeless and collecting toothbrushes for AIDS victims in Malawi, Africa.