Fort Worth Southwest Kiwanis Club!

Directions to Rise & Shine for our weekly breakfast meetings:
Meeting every Wednesday Morning at 7AM at Rise & Shine Restaurant, 3636 Alta Mesa Blvd, Fort Worth, TX 76133, for an intersting program, fun and fellowship. From I-20 SW820 exit McCart (exit 435) and go south approx 2 miles turn right on Alta Mesa restaurant is on the right just before the 1st stop light at Vega.

Six Objects of Kiwanis

+ TO GIVE primacy to the human and spiritual, rather than to the material values of life.
+ TO ENCOURAGE the daily living of the Golden Rule in all human relationships
+ TO PROMOTE the adoption and the application of higher social, business, and professional standards
+ TO DEVELOP by precept and example, a more intelligent, aggressive, and serviceable citizenship
+ TO PROVIDE through Kiwanis clubs, a practical means to form enduring friendships, to render altruistic service, and to build better communities
+ TO COOPERATE in creating and maintaining that sound public opinion and high idealism which make possible the increase of righteousness, justice, patriotism, and good will

CURRENT UPDATE: September 12, 2011

Dear Kiwanians, Prospective Kiwanians, and Friends:

Hope to see you Wednesday September 14th. Our Speaker will be Lt. Gov. Gordon Stone. He will tell us about the TO District Convention at Sea, share some awards, have a message of growth for new and prospective Members and he may be joined by another Lt. Governor. Invite friends and neighbors, and prospective Kiwanians.

The 2011 Cowtown Classic Bike Ride is History. Nearly 600 Riders enjoyed cooler weather and sunshine. Some of the comments were: “Best CCBR ever!” , “Best Police presence on any ride I have been on!” “Well Marked”, “If you could just keep the dogs off the Course”. Please respond to this email with any suggestions for improvements, better use of volunteers, and any suggestions to make the next ride better, more popular, and more fun and smoother. Let’s start getting ready for a bigger and even better ride September 8th 2012. We had great help from our Key Clubs and 4 other Kiwanis Clubs at our Rest Stops.

Saturday September 17th, Division Key Club Training Conference at North Crowley High School. 9AM Kiwanians and Key Club Members are welcome and should attend.

September 21st to be announced. If we have enough new or prospective members present this would be a great time for our “New Member Orientation”

September 28th the Challenge of our New Kiwanis Year 2011-2012

October 5th 7 AM Rise & Shine New Board Meeting Back Room (regular Meeting spot)

Next Noon Meeting October 5th Doug Ray and the Tarrant County Auto Theft Task Force

October 8th Step Up Step out Clinic Texas Oklahoma Governors Visit 9AM to 3PM Haltom City

October 12th Dan Smith “Historic Ancient Maritime Survey”

October 19th “The New Health Care Law”

November 2nd 14th Annual Clergy Appreciation Luncheon.

Coming up Kiwanis Night Banquet and New Officers Kick-Off. Turn in your questionnaire with new ideas and suggestions will attach another copy to this email, if you haven’t already filled one out. Let’s add some new members at our Banquet. Although Texas beat Oklahoma in our membership drive don’t stop inviting folks to share our fun excitement and service to youth and our community.

PAST UPDATES

August 22, 2011 Dear Kiwanians, Key Clubbers, friends and prospective Kiwanians, and RE/MAX Trinity Agents:

I hope school went well for all the Teachers and Key Clubbers. Don’t forget this Wednesday at 7AM, we will be having Donna Smith come and tell us about her seven day Bicycle Ride across Iowa. She has two grown children so she made a special effort and trained for several months for this big event. She did suffer a mishap near the end so come hear about it and she will also probably mention the Ride for Hero’s in Aledo she is heavily involved in. Should be very interesting.

If you got multiple or duplicate emails from me last week, I apologize. I thought it went out fine but it was still in my outbox and I tried to clear that and you may have gotten duplicate or multiple copies of it. We have some other great programs coming up as mentioned in that email so you might read it again and forward it to friends. And invite someone. I will probably send this email to our RE/MAX Trinity Agents too as they may want to come out and support Donna.

We had two successful packet pick ups for our Bike Ride Sat & Sunday. Thanks to those who helped.

Next week in addition to the final Preparation for our ride we may have the Director of Fort Worth Municipal Courts come tell us about their new facility in the old Southwest Bank Building and the next Wednesday the first Wednesday of the month September 7th we will meet at Noon and we will have Howard Miller come and tell us about his recent climb up Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa.

See you Wednesday.

July 25, 2011 Dear Kiwanians and Prospective Kiwanians and friends:

Program 7/27/2011 at 7am will be Judy Jones from the newly built and recently opened Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT). Should be a very interesting program. Invite guests. Forward this email and follow up with a call. Ask them to bring another friend with them.

August 3, 2011 will be our Second Noon Meeting. Invite even more folks to this one and if people can’t make our Breakfast Meetings maybe they would be interested in the Noon meetings. This month we will have local artist Nancy Ann Beaulac talk about “Carving the Saints” She comes to us from a devout Catholic Background. It should be very interesting.

The Cowtown Bicycle Ride Applications are now available and keep looking for some last minute sponsors of $100 to $500 Variety.

June 08, 2011 Dear Kiwanians:

We decided to meet at noon the first Wednesday of the month this Summer – the first one being July 6th, Program to still be determined. Be thinking of People you would like to invite to a noon meeting. Let’s fill the Room.

We also decided to go to the Friday Night July 22nd, Cat’s Game as a Social outing. Let John Nagely know how many Tickets you would like for yourself, spouse, children, Grand Kids, other friends and possible recruits. Tickets are $5 each and most of that goes to the Children’s Miracle Network. John Nagely and RE/MAX Trinity will pick up the bill for the tail gating party that will start at 5PM with Hot Dogs, Beer, and Soft Drinks. Look for the RE/MAX Balloon and Tents just North of the Stadium. You might want to bring your own lawn chairs. Parking is $5/vehicle so you may also want to Carpool as well. This is a fun event RE/MAX has been doing this for at least 5 years. Please let John Nagely know how many tickets you want asap but no later than July 13th. The RE/MAX Sky Divers bring in the first ball around 7PM and a Full Size Hot Air Balloon will be in the outfield Weather (Wind) Permitting. Cat’s games are fun and Family Oriented. There are things for the Children to do. If you would rather just Party and not go in to see the game you wouldn’t need a game ticket, but I need a reservation for food and drinks, but the Ticket is a donation to Children’s Miracle Network. Call if you have questions?

June 07, 2011 Dear Kiwanians and prospective Kiwanians:

Program tomorrow will be a power point presentation on Membership Growth. It will focus on the difference between getting younger members and the older members. It was put together by some past & present Circle K members. Invite old and new, older and younger people for an interesting discussion and a shift of focus.

June 9th Division Council Meeting eat at 6PM Meeting at 7PM Papa’s Burgers

Next week June 15th we will have Ed Ireland with the Barnett Shale Education Council Update us on the Current happenings in the Barnett Shale

June 22nd we will have a special program Dr. Dick Ellis, ex Chief of Staff at Cook’s Children’s will give us a little History and tell us about the book he wrote on that subject

May 23, 2011 Dear Kiwanians and Friends and Prospective Kiwanians:

Tomorrow Tuesday, May 24th is North Crowley Key Clubs special awards day at their meeting in the School Library on the second floor. Try to be there if you can. Wednesday, May 25th Greg Kubes of Edward Jones will be our speaker. Let’s have a large crowd for him. We will also hold our annual Election. Wednesday June 1st Aaron Holt of the National Archives at Fort Worth will be our speaker. If you ever wondered how you might be able to find out more about your Heritage and Family tree this will be a golden opportunity to learn about some of the Resources you have available to you. Come on out to hear about this and invite your friends and family to this one too.

May 10, 2011 The program scheduled for tomorrow, May 11, will be Sean Meredith from Bicycles, Inc. regarding their stories, products, and Bicycle rides in general. Bicycles, Inc. has been a long time sponsor of our Cowtown Classic Bike Rides.

The following have agreed to serve next year as your 2011-2012 Officers. We still need 2 positions on the Board and if you would like to run for the Board or any of the exisiting offices including President please notify me immediately.

President: John Nagely
Vice President: Donna Newsham
Secretary: Keith Pugh
Treasurer: Terry Slotsve
Immediate Past President: Rick Ivey
Board Member: Joe Pierce

The Election will be the 25th of May, two weeks after this notice.

April 26, 2011 The following week 4/27/2011 the Key Club’s from North Crowley & Southwest will present a program regarding their recent Texas Oklahoma District Convention. Come and find out how they both got in the top 10 of over 200 Clubs. Crowley also won an award. Be there.

Click HERE to view an article about Buddy Williams receiving a Lifetime Achievement Awards and Memory Book!


Southwest Named one of three Distinguished Clubs in Division 1 for 2009-2010 Year, Lt Gov Terry Slotsve Left, President of Southwest John Nagely Center.

Board Meeting Aug 31st 7AM at Rise & Shine

We have our Packet Pick up at:
Colonel’s Bikes at 3053 S. University 10AM -2PM Sat. 8/28
Sam’s Club 4400 Bryant Irvin 10-2PM Thur 9/2
Sam’s Club 4400 Bryant Irvin 4-8PM Sat 9/4

Tue Aug 31 is Charter Night for the new Aktion Club. 6:30 PM It will be at Texas Wesleyan University on Campus in the Baker Building NW Corner of East Rosedale and Wesleyan, RSVP Toni Glover for Reservations. ToniRGlover@sbcglobal.net and details. We need to have a large Interclub there. Charter Nights are BIG Events. We have only had 2 in the last 10 years or so in Division 1 . This Club will probably have 50 -70 people there. We need large Numbers to show them how Big and special an Organization they are joining.

Upcoming Programs are:
September 1, DJ Hieger new manager at the Pearl Izumi Factory Store, will Share with us about Pearl Izumi and bike rides in general to help Kick off our Cowtown Classic Ride.
September 8, Last minute Preparation and Details for the Cowtown Classic
September 15, Fitness from 5 to 95 “Training with Weights” retired FWST Executive Gerald Zenick.
Division Council Meeting is September 9 at Papas eat at 6 meet at 7
Southwest’s Annual Banquet will be coming soon in September look for details soon.

Please invite prospective members. Ask them to help with our ride, Invite them to Charter Night, we need at least 3 new members by Oct 1 to Kick off the new year with some momentum. Remember we have that Pink Monkey on our Back. We need some energetic men and women to become devoted members for our club.