Good morning ! This week in Kiwaniscope - at Saturday breakfast, meet Rick Amill's family who will be visiting, an appreciation from Friends of Lachat Town Farm, what you missed last week, and Danbury's June 1 bike rodeo preview.

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THIS SATURDAY

Next Saturday, May 18, 2024

Breakfast meeting. Rick Amill family Kiwanis appreciation.

Rick's children will be at this Saturday's meeting. This will give Alex, Andy, and Sally the opportunity to meet a lot of the members and friends Rick had at Kiwanis and know how he was indeed a valued friend and member.

Norfield Congregational Church parish hall 8:30 a.m.

NEWS

LACHAT TOWN FARM PROUD KIWANIS PARTNER

By Anita Dinwoodie via Facebook

Lachat Town Farm is so honored to partner with the Kiwanis Club of Weston. These unsung heroes quietly go about our community doing amazing things. In our case, they generously offered their time, tools, and talent to assemble and finish five outdoor tables for the farm! Thank you! And we are also so grateful to Susan and Philip Gaynes for their generous donation of funding for these beautiful tables!

Lachat Town Farm is not part of the town budget - we are not supported by tax dollars - instead, we rely on the generosity of folks like Susan and Philip and the Kiwanians.

Anita Dinwoodie is the executive director of Friends of Lachat, Inc. at the Lachat Town Farm at the Juliana Lachat Preserve. Steve Thomas organized and provided a major effort for this project. Barbara Gross brought this story to the attention of Kiwaniscope.

LAST SATURDAY

GETTING TO KNOW YOUR FELLOW KIWANIAN (GTKYFK)

Last week Our own Michael A. Schwartz, M.D. provided the latest installment of Getting to Know Your Fellow Kiwanian (GTKYFK).

Michael's middle initial is A. but should be M. for modest - here's his author information from the jacket of the book, which is scheduled for publication on June 26:

Michael Alan Schwartz, MD is retired as Joint Professor of Psychiatry and Humanities in Medicine at Texas A&M Health Science Center School of Medicine. A Board-Certified Psychiatrist, he is a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association and a Founding Editor and Editor-in-Chief Emeritus of the journal Philosophy, Ethics and Humanities in Medicine. Presently Dr. Schwartz continues practicing psychiatry as well as writing and editing psychiatric books and articles. His work focuses on advancing pluralistic, person and people-centered approaches to psychiatric assessment, care and treatment.

Follow this link to download a copy of Michael's handout from the meeting with the book jacket and chapter-author list.

DANBURY INTER-CLUB

Danbury Past President Fil Magrino (between Juan Negroni and Jennifer Barron) and Danbury Secretary and Past Lieutenant Governor Foster Crawford of The Kiwanis Club of Greater Danbury joined us in for an inter-club visit at last Saturday's meeting.

Foster shared goings on at Danbury and fielded questions on their June 1 bicycle safety event. See more about this event in the division news further below.

MAY AND JUNE

Save the dates.

Next Friday May 24 - Monday, May 27, 2024 (No Saturday breakfast meeting.)

Kiwanis Food Service at the Memorial Day Weekend Fair

Hurlbutt Elementary School South House Field

Saturday, June 1, 2024

Breakfast and business/board meetings.

Norfield Congregational Church parish hall 8:30 a.m.

Saturday, June 8, 2024

Breakfast meeting.

Norfield Congregational Church parish hall 8:30 a.m.

Saturday, June 15, 2024

Breakfast meeting.

Norfield Congregational Church parish hall 8:30 a.m.

Saturday, June 22, 2024

Breakfast meeting. Youth Awards

Norfield Congregational Church parish hall 8:30 a.m.

Saturday, June 29, 2024

Breakfast meeting. Last meeting until September.

Norfield Congregational Church parish hall 8:30 a.m.

SATURDAY, MAY 4, 2013

DIVISION NEWS

THE KIWANIS CLUB OF DANBURY

Upcoming activities include an inter-club with Weston this Saturday and their family and a bicycle safety event on Saturday, June 1, 2024.

See images below from a previous rodeo downloaded from https://kiwanisct.org/

Kiwaniscope is published weekly for the members and friends of the Kiwanis Club of Weston on Thursday mornings September through June by the Kiwanis Club of Weston, Connecticut, Inc.