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Circle K Office Max Discount

Greetings CKI!

OfficeMax is offering all Circle K members the opportunity to take advantage of the negotiated Kiwanis International corporate discount contract pricing for District, club and personal purchases. You can order your personal office supplies on www.Officemaxsolutions.com at the Kiwanis negotiated price and have your product delivered the next day to your home address or you can walk into a local OfficeMax store with a Retail Connect Card to receive contract pricing. All the information that you will need to sign up for your Members Benefit Program is listed below. Thank you to Kiwanis for this wonderful opportunity and including Circle K as a part of this exciting offer.

Welcome to the OfficeMax Kiwanis Member's Program!

As a Kiwanis family member, you can take advantage of substantial savings on all your office supply, paper, toner and print needs through OfficeMax for personal use or club use.

IMPORTANT! To place orders on www.OfficeMaxSolutions.com, you will use the generic username and password listed below. Every club member will use this same username and password. To place orders, a credit card is required along with the address you would like the product shipped to. Please do not use the Retail OfficeMax site (www.OfficeMax.com, Solutions is not part of the name!) since your negotiated pricing will not be on this retail internet site.

USERNAME: Kmembers (case sensitive)
PASSWORD: omax1 (case sensitive)

More information:

• Kiwanis Quick Reference Sheet
  This document provides you key sales and customer service contact information along with some brief information about the OfficeMax program.
  
  
• Kiwanis Members Benefit Purchase Program and Retail Connect Card
  This document gives you instructions on how to use our internet ordering system and our retail stores across the country to purchases supplies for your personal or club needs. The retail connect card can be presented at our stores at the time you checkout and your Kiwanis negotiated pricing will be reflected. You will get the best price available for each item: Kiwanis contract pricing, promotional pricing or shelf pricing. Printing is also discounted. (Retail Card is on the bottom of page 2. If you take it to the ImPress Printing area of the store, they will laminate it for you.)
  
  
• Internet User Guide
  This tutorial navigates you through the ordering site, www.OfficeMaxSolutions.com.

Thank you for reading this exciting new opportunity for CKI and feel free to forward on to any of your members that could benefit from this information.

-Kristen

Have you hugged a Kiwanian lately? I have!

Hi there everyone!

Last night I attended my home Kiwanis Club officer's installation and retirement. I want to take a quick moment to blog and say congratulations to James McFaddin on an awesome year as President of the Norwood Kiwanis Club. Norwood Kiwanis has been sponsoring the Norwood Key Club and Circle K Club for close to 70 years and Jim was an excellent president that did so much for my home CKI club!

If you get the opportunity be sure to take the time out of your day to say "Thank You!" to your home club Kiwanis advisor and Kiwanis club for all that they do to support your club and CKI as an organization. Web-sites such as hallmark.com and egreetings.com are excellent sites to send your club and advisors a free e-card. It takes very little time but I'm sure it would mean so much and make their day! Afterall, Kiwanians do love Circle K'ers!

I hope everyone's week is going great and a HUGE shoutout goes to the Wisconsin-Upper Michigan District -- I can't wait to spend time with you guys this weekend!

Live to Serve -- Love to Serve,

--Kristen

Membership Round-Up, YeeeeHaw!

In the pictures above you will see CKI Sub-region F International Representative Eric Hotchkiss, myself, Kiwanis International President Dave Curry, Key Club International President Kia-Albertson-Rogers, and Key Club International Trustee Jessica Morris. Also, the next picture to the right is me with one of my many sets of NY Kiwanis "parents" Joanne and Justin Underwood. Click photos to enlarge.

This past week I had the distinct honor to attend the NYD Kiwanis Membership Round-Up in Syracuse, New York. The Kiwanians of the Ontario division pulled out quite the red carpet for President Dave, myself, and President Kia. The dinner hall was completely decorated with cowboy decorations, western boots, and everyone in attendance was wearing their best bandannas, cowboy hats, and spurs!

President Kia and I were both given the opportunity to address the dinner with messages from our respective organizations. For those of you who don't know, I have known Kia for 5 years having had his brother Wren serve as my District Editor my year as KC Governor and his mom serves on the Kiwanis Committee for Key Club. When Kia gave his speech I couldn't have been prouder! To know Kia for so long and watch him grow up, give a remarkable speech, and have such a charming/warming presence in the room there it's no wonder why KCI selected him to be their president this year. Kia's greetings also included presenting President Dave with the first ever Anthony J. Palangi Memorial Service Recognition award for Dave's commitment to serving the children of the world. When it was my time to speak I asked all the Kiwanians in the room what their favorite past time was when they weren't busy serving others and if anyone liked baseball? After a few roots and cheers from my fellow NY Yankees fans I read my favorite quote to everyone -- "I've learned you should not go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands, you need to be able to throw a few things back!" This is a quote that many of you may have heard me say in caucus and in my address to the Kiwanians I promised that Circle K would be working very hard to throw some things back to Kiwanis and work with them this year to better Kiwanis Family Relations. I also presented President Dave with a CKI Survival Kit! The kit included a plastic red CKI megaphone, CKI navy drawstring bag, DVD on Kamp Kiwanis, Six Cents Initiative pin, and the 08-09 NYCKI pin. Dave was a huge fan of our CKI Megaphone and used in numerous times through the evening!

The purpose for this dinner was to install 12 new Kiwanians of the Ontario Division and also to be the main call center for reporting new members from around the entire NY District. My Kiwanis Governor Don Herring asked each Lt. Governor in the district to hold a "Membership Round-Up" to recruit new members to join Kiwanis. Every "round-up" site called in to our dinner hall and reported throughout the night how many members they had recruited to join Kiwanis. The NY Kiwanis division of Long Island South Central called to report they had recruited 45 new members to join! 45 new members in one night! How incredible? To say I was impressed would be an understatement. The night wrapped up with President Dave installing the new Kiwanians and a very lengthy raffle of nifty prizes including gorgeous dream catchers and gift baskets. At the end of the evening the NY Kiwanis District had gained a grand total of 233 new Kiwanians. After all of the numbers reported were accumulated Governor Don announced that the small goal that was set for the evening was 100 new Kiwanians and the big goal for the district was 200 new members.

Congratulations to the NYD of Kiwanis for not only meeting their small goal but exceeding their big goal as well!

Being that this is the very beginning of our 2008-2009 Circle K year, Representative Eric and I were very lucky to have had the opportunity to spend some quality time with our fellow Kiwanis and Key Club International leaders! After speaking with President Dave on the state of Kiwanis and their fabulous convention in Orlando and talk to President about the new and exciting Key Club Web-site and initiatives in the works I have never been more excited for an excellent year of K-Family Relations!

For more information on the Membership Round-Up (super cool idea!) check out the NYD Kiwanis Web-site and in Kiwanis they always say -- One CAN Make a Difference! Well, it is exciting to know that this ONE event brought in 233 more Kiwanians to join our Kiwanis family to make a difference as well!

K-Love,

--Kristen







In the pictures above you will see Kia, Eric, Jessica, and I "monkeying" around our favorite ficus in the dinner hall. To the right, Kia and I check out each other's new International President's pins. Last but not least, me with Mrs. & Mr. Eppolito. Mr. & Mrs. E, as I like to affectionately call them, were my Key Club District Kiwanis Committee Representatives when I was a KCI Lt. Governor and Governor in High School! Click photos to enlarge.