May / June 2006 Issue

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Kiwanis Club of Washington Installed its 2006-2007 Officers at The Washington Country Club. Lt. Terria Baynor was in attendance to install the new officers.

President Wayne Correa presented Russell Lilley with Kiwanian of the year for his outstanding support during the 2005 - 2006 Year during the Installation Ceremony.

The Kiwanis Club of Washington Welcomes both Governor Harold Garner and Lt. Governor Clyde Alexander to its weekly meeting. many awards were given out during this meeting including: 

Appreciation Awards for Service to both Reggie Baker for his work as Committee Chairman on the School reading Program and Luther Davis for his work as Committee Chairman for the Relay for Life

Terria Baynor received Distinguished Member as well as Distinguished President awards 

The Kiwanis Club of Washington received Distinguished Club Award

Along with the club awards the Kiwanis Club of Washington gave out its annual Scholarships (see article below )

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2006 Scholarship Winners 

Theresa "Renae" Braddy

 Lauren Hunt

 Rebecca Ellis

Mark Hamilton

 Latrice Collins

Alison Killy

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Kiwanis Club of Washington Announces its 2006 Scholarship Recipients

During our May 15, 2006 meeting the Kiwanis Club of Washington presented the winners of the club’s annual scholarships with awards. Two students from each Beaufort County School received a $1,000 scholarship and one additional $1,000 scholarship was given to an eligible Washington High School student in the memory of Christopher Francisco for a total of seven scholarships. Students, parents, and their school Kiwanis Key Club sponsors attended this event. The Kiwanis Club of Washington pays the scholarships directly to the students designated school. Lt. Governor Clyde Alexander and Governor Harold Garner were in attendance to witness this great event. This is just one of the Kiwanis Club of Washington’s many programs to support the children of Beaufort County. 

 The 2006 recipients of the Kiwanis Club of Washington Scholarship are:

Theresa "Renae" Braddy - Northside High School

Lauren Hunt - Northside High School 

Alison Killy – Southside High School

Mark Hamilton – Southside High School 

Rebecca Ellis – Washington High School

Latrice Collins – Washington High School

The 2006 recipient of the Kiwanis Scholarship given in the memory of Christopher Francisco is:

Latrice Collins – Washington High School

The Washington Daily News was at our 2006 Scholarship Dinner and reported on our meeting. Click the Graphic to the left or HERE to see the article.

Kiwanis Club of Washington sponsors the City of Washington Annual Christmas parade. 70 participants joined in with Santa to make this year's parade a big hit with adults and kids alike.

In this photo Curtis Brookshire from the Kiwanis Club of Washington helps a couple of parade participants find where they are supposed to be. 

Local Kiwanians donated their time to help out the Salvation Army raise money. Here are Henry Moore and Committee Chairman Bob Culler at Wal-Mart ringing the bell!

Representative Arthur Williams from the North Carolina General Assembly joined the Kiwanis Club for dinner and provided a program on current events in the NC legislature.

The Kiwanis Club of Washington came out and sold Lobsters to fund our many children's programs. Kiwanis of Washington sold 900 Lobsters to bring in over $3,500 to go towards funding our children's programs. Thanks to all the Kiwanians and community members that helped make it happen. 

The Kiwanis Club of Washington presented the two winners of their annual BCCC scholarship to both Robert Dunn and Melissa Jones. Read about it in the Washington Daily News here

Kiwanis Club of Washington Installed its 2005-2006 Officers at The Washington Country Club. Lt. Governor Clyde Alexander was in attendance to install the new officers.

President Terria Baynor presented Cliff Toler with Kiwanian of the year for his outstanding support during the 2004 - 2005 Year during the Installation Ceremony.

Kelley Kaplan, President Aktion Club of Eastern North Carolina, visited our weekly meeting and discussed the Aktion club that is being formed in Greenville. Here is a picture of Kelley from the Charter night of the new Aktion club in Greenville, NC. 

Please congratulate Cliff Toler our 2005 Quiet Kiwanian! At the Governors visit in Greenville he was presented with an award from our Governor Bev Martin. Here are some pictures from the Governors visit.

The Aktion Club of Eastern Carolina held their Charter night with 30 members. To see the newspaper clip click here.

The Kiwanis Club of Washington sponsored the City of Washington's annual Christmas Parade. The club coordinated all efforts leading up to the parade and the club came out to ensure it went smoothly. We had the local Key Clubs leading the parade with the Kiwanis banner to further promote our club. As the care takers of the annual parade the City of Washington makes a donation to our club to help with our many children's programs that we support. Wes Somerville Chaired the Christmas Parade Committee this year and we all want to give him a big thanks for making sure it went so smoothly.

Here is a picture of the Parade Santa after he made his way around the Parade Route. 

The Kiwanis Club of Washington came out and sold Lobsters to fund our many children's programs. Kiwanis of Washington sold 1,000 Lobsters to bring in approximately $3,500 to go towards funding our children's programs. Thanks to all the Kiwanians and community members that helped make it happen. 

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Todd Siebels, District Lieutenant Governor, visited our weekly meeting and discussed new club building, new opportunities in advertising our club, and Aktion club that is being formed in Greenville. Todd asked our club to help sponsor a new Aktion club as well as join other clubs in sponsoring billboards around the district promoting Kiwanis. 

Kiwanis Club of Washington awards scholarship to BCCC students Sheri Oakley Barber and Stephanie Buck. Click Here to see full Article 

Mike Voss from the Washington Daily News spoke at our weekly club meeting. He provided an interesting presentation about the history of the paper, common editing mistakes, and his experiences with the paper over the last 17 years. The club had a lively questions and answer session that covered a wide array of questions about local and national news coverage as well as guidelines for requests for coverage from the paper.  

Washington Kiwanians cook up breakfast for Cycle N.C. and earn a donation for our local programs. The club cooked up breakfast for 300 of 1,100 cyclists going through Washington, NC. to the outer banks. The fund raiser was a success raising over $1,300 for our local children's programs. Wes Somerville made the first pot of coffee at 4am and Kiwanians served breakfast till 8am.