Good morning ! This week in Kiwaniscope - at Saturday breakfast, Getting to Know Your Fellow Kiwanian (GTKYFK) Michael Schwartz, Danbury Inter-club, a new Green Up Day picture, Glenn Van Deusen asks Who knew?, a Kiwanis Tulip Festival, a look back at Cinco de Mayo 2013, and Danbury's June 1 bike rodeo preview.

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THIS SATURDAY

This Saturday, May 11, 2024

Breakfast and program: our own Michael A. Schwartz, M.D. provides the latest installment of Getting to Know Your Fellow Kiwanian (GTKYFK).

The Kiwanis Club of Greater Danbury will join us in an official inter-club visit. Read more about this great club further below.

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

NEWS

LAST WEEK - SERVICE AND LEADERSHIP AWARDS

Weston Kiwanis Awards Committee Chair Dawn Egan presented the club's Service and Leadership Award to deserving Weston High School students Madeline Jung and Aidan Baker. Their parents and others were on hand supporting these amazing young people.

GREEN UP DAY

Dan Lerner with the impressive results of Dan's and Harry Spencer's litter pickup along Weston Road on Green Up Day, Saturday, April 27, 2024.

Before heading out on Green Up Day, Dan and Harry asked Green Up Day chair Tom Failla if there was going to be any training. Tom assured them: "You'll pick it up as you go along. "

Kiwanis photograph contributed by Harry Spencer.

Triumph Tulip (Tulipa 'Kiwanis')

Who knew? Weston Kiwanis 2016/2017 President Glenn Van Deusen wrote Kiwaniscope last Friday:

Diana and I are in the Netherlands this week for the tulip festival and look what we discovered! I wonder how many Kiwanians know this “interesting but often little-known fact?”

Ciao,

Glenn 

"Digging" into this further, Kiwaniscope learned this from the Rotteveel Bulb Company, a wholesale supplier of flower bulbs and perennials directly shipped from the Netherlands to the United States.

This fragrant white tulip is great for pot production. Tulip Kiwanis is very suitable for early Easter forcing. It has sturdy stems and large ivory-white flowers. Easy to grow and reliable!

KIWANIS TULIP FESTIVAL

In searching for information on Kiwanis Tulips, Kiwaniscope learned that last weekend was the Kiwanis Tulip Festival in Holland, New York (Erie County), a three-day event with games, rides, food, arts and crafts show, parade, Tulip Queen Pageant, beer tent, and live music.

The celebration starts before the weekend with a Boys & Girls Club 5k run/walk, an elementary school parade, the Upstate Auto Group Classic Car Show, and more. Find many pictures on their Facebook page.

An impressive community-engaging and fundraising event. Holland Kiwanis (membership is 68) Secretary Larry Johnson reports this year's event had probably record attendance (the beer tent almost ran out of hot dogs the first night) and fundraising.

Also spotted on the Kiwanis Club of Holland's website - a member's vehicle proudly proclaiming Kiwanis membership.

MAY AND JUNE

Next Saturday, May 18, 2024

Breakfast meeting. Rick Amill family Kiwanis appreciation.

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

Save the dates.

Friday May 24 - Monday, May 27, 2024

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

Our festive Cinco de Mayo breakfast from 11 years ago.

Mariachi musician from Rancho Alegre .

2012/2013 President Don Gary (RIP).

Nina Daniel and Barbara Gross with our mariachi musician.

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.