Greetings!
The New York District Board met on Long Island last weekend (July 10th to 12th) for its summer board meeting, and we have some exciting updates!
This year's theme for New York Speaking (the weekend of October 30th to November 1st) is "It's A Service Life for Me!" In other words, we’ll be celebrating Halloween with a pirate theme and having a “Masqu-arrr-ade”!
I am also happy to announce that we have selected Charlotte Owens, a New York Circle K alum and a member of the Young Professionals of New York City Kiwanis, as our keynote speaker for New York Speaking. Charlotte is a former NYU Circle K member, a charter member of a Young Professionals Kiwanis, a Kiwanis Advisor to Key Club and Circle K, and an assistant district attorney in Kings County (Brooklyn), helping to keep the community a safer place.
We're still waiting to hear back from Kamp Kiwanis about whether we'll be able to have a clean-up/meeting there in September. Co-Conferences and Conventions Chairs Carolyn Frantz and Maggie Bryant will be looking into that.
We're also going to be placing a lot more focus on NYCKITV, so please continue submitting ideas for videos. If you'd like to make any on your own, please run them by me, and if they work out well, we can upload them to the YouTube channel.
In the next month or so, we'll also begin holding NYCKI online chats, and we'll try to hold them over the course of the year. They will focus on relevant topics over the course of the year.
I have selected LTG/Chair Josephine Lukito to serve as our Western Division Liaison, since she is the closest to the Western Division. She will keep in contact with the division until we find a Lieutenant Governor for the division.
For those attending ICON, our district shirts will cost $10 each, and our pins will be $3 apiece. OTIC Chair Kristen did an amazing job designing them! If you’re not attending ICON, don’t worry. We’ll be selling leftovers at New York Speaking! This is the design for our district pin, which centers around our Governor’s Project, “Neighborhood Nourishment: Feeding Our Friends and Families”:
We had a very successful meeting, and for that, I would like to extend thanks to some of the people who made the weekend possible.
I want to first thank Club Building Chair Kristin Leverone and her family for so graciously putting us up in their house for the weekend (in addition to feeding us dinner on Friday and breakfast on Saturday and Sunday!). I would also like to extend my thanks to LTG Rickie Santer and his family for arranging a meeting room for us at the Levittown Public Library and buying us lunch after the meeting on Saturday!
-Governor Michael
With District Treasurer Allison Jean Carruthers (left) and Club Building Chair Kristin Leverone.
