Good morning, !

This Saturday, March 15, 2025

8:30 a.m. Breakfast meeting. Speaker: State Senator

Ceci Maher, Deputy President Pro Tempore

Norfield Congregational Church parish hall.

MARCH BIRTHDAYS

March 5, Dan Lerner

March 10, Bill Brady

March 15, Dallas Kersey

MARCH WEDDING ANNIVERSARIES

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LAST WEEK

Rep. Jim Himes at Saturday, March 8, 2025 Meeting

Program co-chairs Karen Chrisley and Lisa Wexler produced a very popular program attended by more than 100 members, including an inter-club visit by the Kiwanis Club of Wilton and many guests last Saturday. Congressman Jim Himes spoke and addressed the audience's questions for over an hour.

Jim McMorris, Ross Tartell, and John Kalamaries contributed photographs of the event seen in the nearby collage and also memorialized in the event album accessible at the button below.

Lieutenant Governor Patrick Welcomes Governor Kristin to Division 17 Visit

Kiwanis New England and Bermuda District Governor Kristin Holden with Division 17 Lieutenant Governor Patrick Tokarz at the governor's annual visit to our division.

Visit the event album to see a collection of photographs of the event.

Governor Kristin's visit included a service project, creating meal packets at the AME Cross Street Zion Church in Middletown to bring back to the individual club's communities. Clubs are donating the meal packets to their local soup kitchens, churches, and school food backpack programs. End Hunger NE is the group we partnered with to make the packets. End Hunger NE will supply the meal ingredients, tools to assemble the packets, and packaging. Members packaged the meals and enjoyed working with other Kiwanians, Key Clubbers, Circle K'ers, Builders Club, and K-Kids! Each meal packet serves six people and costs only $1.80 to make. 

The Kiwanis Club of Weston was not able to participate directly this day because we were hosting Rep. Himes at our weekly meeting. We donated $500 to the cause, and other clubs in our district packaged our meals for us. President Tom drove to Middletown after our own meeting and picked up our meals and drove them back to Weston, where, working with Weston Social Services Director and Kiwanis Club of Weston Community Service Committee Co-chair Allison Lisbon they delivered the meals to the food pantry.

Members Visit 2025 Reservoir Run Beneficiary

Members have selected Ronald McDonald House of Connecticut in New Haven as a beneficiary of our 2025 Weston Kiwanis Reservoir Run half marathon and 5K foot races and kids fun run in October.

Frank Ferrara arranged a visit for Kiwanis members Bill Brady, Dan Gilbert, and Harry Spencer to Chief Development Officer Emily Brady to see the Kiwanis Room and the house yesterday. Accompanying them was former member George Moraitis.

These photographs were contributed by Harry and Dan, who commented,

"The site is extraordinarily well maintained. ... I can recall reading that before the Ronald MacDonald House program began, many parents of children being treated at CHOP (Children's Hospital of Pennsylvania) and other hospitals slept in waiting rooms and hallways. I suspect that many still do. I can’t imagine how good a hot shower, a hot meal, and a clean bed may feel to a parent praying for a child being treated for cancer." 

The group enjoyed lunch at Sally's Apizza before returning to Weston. 

St. Patrick's Lunch at Kiwanis Club of Wilton

Harvey Luftand and Bob Uzenoff visited the Kiwanis Club of Wilton yesterday. They enjoyed a warm welcome and shared in conversation, camaraderie, and Chefs Jane's and Bill's holiday lunch of Irish soda bread, cabbage and corned beef, and Irish oat lace cookies. Wilton has a program format similar to one we have enjoyed in our club, Getting to Know Your Fellow Kiwanian (GTKYFK).

President-elect Whitney Janeway and newer member Steve Erickson shared abbreviated stories with an interesting twist. The members give the audience three or four statements about their lives, one of which is not true. They then challenge the audience by voting on each one to identify the fact that is not true. Nice twist.

MARCH

Next Weekend March 21-23, 2025

Kiwanis New England and Bermuda District Midwinter Conference, Holiday Inn Portland - By the Bay, Portland, Maine

Next Saturday, March 22, 2025

8:30 a.m. Breakfast meeting. Program: State of the Town, First Selectman Samantha Nestor, and Weston Public Schools Board of Education Chair .

Norfield Congregational Church parish hall.

SAVE THE DATE

Saturday, April 26, 2025

Green Up Day

Saturday, May 3, 2025

Annual meetings of the club and foundation including approval of amended club and foundation bylaws and the election of officers and directors for the club and foundation.

June 25–28, 2025, Kiwanis International Convention, Forge the Future, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

August 14-17, 2025

106th Annual Kiwanis New England and Bermuda District Convention, Sheraton at Bradley Airport, Windsor Locks, Connecticut

Saturday, August 23, 2025

Kiwanis Summerfest. Date. location, and details to be confirmed.

Sunday, October 26, 2025

14th Annual Weston Kiwanis Reservoir Run half marathon and 5K foot races and kids fun run.

Kiwaniscope is the award-winning newsletter published weekly for the members and friends of the Kiwanis Club of Weston on Thursday mornings September through June. Kiwaniscope is edited and published by Bob Uzenoff, who takes responsibility for the content.

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