Circle of Sharing Volume 25, Issue 1, May 2020

Circle of Sharing

Volume 25 | Issue 1 | May 2020Â

The Official Publication of Wisconsin Upper Michigan Circle K District

DCON 2020 RECAP A congratulations to our District Convention award winners and a thank-you to our graduating members.

MEET THE NEW BOARD The 2020-2021 District Board is filled with some new smiling faces, and you could be one of them!

CKI IN A PANDEMIC Find out what you can be doing to stay active in CKI.

Table of Contents 02 District Goals 03 CKI Acronyms 04 Calendar of Events 05 DCON Recap 06 DCON Award Winners

07 A Word from the DCON Chair 08 New District Board 10 District Board Opportunities 11 Member Spotlights 12 CKI during COVID-19 13 COVID-19 Resources 18 District Board Directory

DISTRICT GOALS At the start of each CKI year, the newly-appointed District Board publishes the goals for the district. The timeline to complete these goals run from April 1, 2020 to March 31, 2021 for this CKI year.

350

4750

60

25

Total Members

Service Hours

K-Family Events

Interclub Events

$1500

$550

$2500

35

Camp Wawbeek

Bay Cliff

Other Charities

Spring Fling Attendance

10 CKIx Attendance

75

50

85

100

Kiwanis Family Membership Awareness Kiwanis Family DCON Baseball Game Conference Hockey Night Attendance

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A C R O N Y M S

Circle K International has a lot of acronyms that can be confusing if you don't know them. Let's start off the year right by learning what all of these acronyms mean.

CKI

Circle K International

DCON

District Convention

CKIx

Circle K International Convention

COR

Club Officer Retreat

KDCON

Kiwanis District Convention

KFBG

Kiwanis Family Baseball Game

MAC

Membership Awareness Conference

KFHN

Kiwanis Family Hockey Night

LTG

Lieutenant Governor

MUC

Membership Update Center

MRF

Monthly Report Form

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MARK YOUR CALENDARS!

WUM CKI DISTRICT EVENTS 2020-2021 Virtual Spring Fling - April 25th, 2020 CKIx '20 - July 19ish, 2020 - VIRTUAL Club Officer Retreat (COR) - July 24-26, 2020 Kiwanis Family Baseball Game - September 20th, 2020 Membership Awareness Conference (MAC) October 16-18, 2020 - Camp Wawbeek, WI Dells Kiwanis Family Hockey Night - Winter District Convention - February 26-28, 2020 - Green Bay EMAIL WUMCKI.GOVERNOR@GMAIL.COM WITH ANY QUESTIONS

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DCON 2020

Recapped

We recently held the 57th annual Wisconsin Upper Michigan CKI District Convention (DCON) in Madison, WI on February 28 - March 1, 2020. This was a weekend full of service, leadership, and fellowship where clubs were able to meet members from other clubs throughout our District. We started the weekend with activities and service projects to get to know members from other clubs and serve our community. At DCON, members attended workshops to develop their leadership skills and learn more about the Kiwanis Family. Members met Kiwanians and other members of the K-Fam at the Kiwanis Family Luncheon. Attendees also had the opportunity to run for District Board for the 2020-2021 year, and members from across the District were elected to serve on the District Board. On Saturday night, we thanked our past District Board and Club Presidents at the Presidents and Parents Banquet. On Sunday, the new District Board was installed, and we celebrated another successful year of Wisconsin Upper Michigan CKI District.

-Joanna Carman

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DCON 2020

Award Winners

This year, there were so many amazing applications for District Awards, and choosing winners was not an easy task. We would like to thank everyone who applied for awards and congratulate our winners for their work last term!Â

Club Awards: Outstanding Club President: Alexandria Prostko, UW-Madison Outstanding Club Vice President: Madeline Dimeo, UW-Madison Outstanding Club Secretary: Katelyn Van Buren, UW-Madison Outstanding Editor in Chief: Sofia Paredes, Milwaukee School of Engineering Distinguished Alumni: Katie Rash, UW-Platteville John D. Lee Outstanding Faculty Advisor: Laurie Miller, UW-La Crosse Robert S. Wilson Single Service: St. Norbert College, Challenge Walk MS Outstanding Club Member: Alyssa Belling, UW-La Crosse Preferred Charities Award: Michigan Technological University, Monster Mash for UNICEF Outstanding Club Social: UW-La Crosse, Coins for Cause & UW-Oshkosh, Circle K Potluck Most Improved Club: UW-Madison Frat Craanen Outstanding Kiwanis Advisor: Ken Saville, Edgewood College & Kathy Sims, UW-La Crosse Club Achievement: UW-Oshkosh Outstanding New Club Member: Austin Rovge, Milwaukee School of Engineering Interclub Award: UW-Madison Outstanding Club Fundraiser: Michigan Technological University, Annual Charity Ball Outstanding Social Media Presence: St. Norbert College Outstanding Kiwanis Family Relations: UW-Oshkosh

District Board Awards: Outstanding Executive Board Member: Annika Hentz Outstanding Lieutenant Governor: Jessica Wells Outstanding Chairperson: Katelyn Van Buren Janet M. DeGroot Unsung Hero Award: Jessica Wells Michael J Pierski Golden Gavel Leadership Award: Katelyn Van Buren William H. Lamberg Sparkplug Motivator: Gavin Lloyd

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DCON 2020

A Word from the DCON Chair

Hello, everyone!

Thank you SO much to all of you who were able to attend the 2020 WUM CKI District Convention back in February. It was an incredible weekend filled with some amazing memories, and I hope that you enjoyed it just as much as I did. With an attendance of 141 guests, it was our largest convention since 2015!

If I had to choose my favorite part of the District Convention weekend, it would certainly be meeting all of you. Having members come together from across Wisconsin and Upper Michigan with a common love for service makes for a great time; I could not ask for a better weekend. Having the chance to interact with each other and share ideas is one of the best parts of our organization, and this all happens at DCON! I may be biased as the DCON chair, but this is hands down my favorite event of the CKI year.

It was an absolute honor to be able to plan DCON 2020 alongside of a spectacular committee. I would like to thank Maddy Dimeo, Kevin Jacobson, Joseph Rinaldi, Lauren Pondikati, Maggie Ollmann, Dayna Porter, Bilguun Altangerel, Alexandria Prostko, Reid Parks, and the 2019-2020 District Board for putting in the effort that allowed for such a successful convention. Without all of these individuals, there is no way that DCON would have been as spectacular as it was.

I now have the pleasure of serving as the 2020-2021 Wisconsin Upper Michigan CKI District Governor, and I am thrilled to be a leader in this organization once again. I hope that you will all join us for the next District Convention, taking place February 26-28, 2020 in Green Bay, Wisconsin!

-Katelyn Van Buren 2019-2020 WUM CKI District Convention Chair

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Meet the new District Board!

Elected at DCON 2020, a new District Board began their terms April 1, 2020. Check out these District leaders for the 2020-2021 CKI year!

Katelyn Van Buren

Brooke Steeno

Annika Hentz

District Governor

District Secretary

District Treasurer

University of Wisconsin-Madison

University of Wisconsin-Platteville

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Gavin Lloyd

Ella Dykstra

Meagan Ebertz

Capital Lieutenant Governor

Chippewa Lieutenant Governor

Lakes Lieutenant Governor

University of Wisconsin-Platteville University of Wisconsin-La Crosse

St. Norbert College

Jonathan Totsky

Douglas Arnett-Arnold

Luke Neumann

Metro-Southeast Lieutenant Governor

Superior Lieutenant Governor

Awards, Regulations, & History Chair

University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Michigan Technological Univeristy

University of Wisconsin-Platteville

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Meet the new District Board!

Elected at DCON 2020, a new District Board began their terms April 1, 2020. Check out these District leaders for the 2020-2021 CKI year!

Joanna Carman Membership Development District Convention Chair Kiwanis Family Outreach Chair & Growth Chair University of Wisconsin-Madison University of Wisconsin-Platteville University of Wisconsin-Whitewater Maddy Dimeo

Grace Bartow

Trevor Ciebell

Maggie Ollmann

Service Chair

Special Events Chair

University of Wisconsin-Platteville

Edgewood College

Justin Hahn District Administrator Waterford Area Kiwanis

Lena Scheibengraber Assistant Administrator Metropolitan Milwaukee Nights Kiwanis Club

Angel Yang

Assistant District Convention Chair University of Wisconsin-Madison

Ann Pilot Assistant Administrator Metropolitan Milwaukee Nights Kiwanis Club

Rachel Leader Assistant Administrator Madison After Hours Kiwanis

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A Place for YOU on the District Board...

The District Board is a great way to gain leadership experience, become more involved in CKI, and make life-long friends. Lucky for you, there are ways that YOU can still join the District Board in leading WUM CKI.

Open Board Positions: Bulletin Editor & Asst Special Events Chair There are currently just TWO open positions left on the 2020-2021 WUM CKI District Board, and one of them could be filled by YOU! We are in need of a District Bulletin Editor and an Assistant Special Events Chair. Each of these roles is unique and an important part of our team. To learn more about these positions and to apply, reach out to Governor Katelyn Van Buren (wumcki.governor@gmail) or look on our website at wumcirclek.weebly.com

Join a Committee!

If you are looking to get a bit more involved in CKI, joining a District Committee may be the perfect move for you! Help out a District Chair by joining their committee and being a leader in the organization. This is your chance to get involved at the District Level as a leader without a high level of commitment. Our new chairs would absolutely love to talk to to you about their committees, and you can reach out to learn more!

Awards, Regulations, and History wumcki.arh@gmail.com

District Convention wumcki.dcon@gmail.com

Kiwanis Family and Outreach wumcki.kfam@gmail.com

Membership Development and Growth wumcki.mdg@gmail.com

Service wumcki.service@gmail.com

Special Events wumcki.events@gmail.com

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M E M B E R S P O T L I G H T S

Club officers choose an outstanding member from their club to spotlight each month. We want to show our appreciation to the following Member Spotlights that were submitted from April!

Brystal Schultz

Carthage College

Maggie Ollmann

Edgewood College

Maeve Kim

Ripon College

Katelyn Vanastern

St. Norbert College

Alicia Barber

University of Wisconsin-La Crosse

Angel Yang and Joseph Rinaldi

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Alexis Oliver

University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh

Brooke Steeno

University of Wisconsin-Platteville

Sydney Goldman

University of Wisconsin-Whitewater

Congratulations to each of you, and thank you so much for all that you do!

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CKI during COVID-19 The world is in a weird place right now. We don't know what will happen in the future, but we do know that we as CKI members can continue to make a difference in the world. Just because we are in a pandemic does not mean that we have to stop living and loving to serve.

We can still live out our tenants of service, fellowship, and leadership from home.

The WUM CKI District has created resources for you with ideas on how to stay active in CKI during this pandemic. The following pages of this newsletter include these resources for you to check out. Circle K International has created a Google Folder compliling all COVID-19 resources for you utilize as well. This can be found at https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/10z2rofo2_MMFkTtawUsL29Xcc_4Q8ly If there are any clubs in need of assistance, ideas, or are struggling during these times, please reach out to District Governor Katelyn Van Buren (wumcki.governor@gmail.com) or any District Board Member. We are 100% committed to helping our members and making sure that we are all okay.

-Katelyn Van Buren 2020-2021 WUM CKI District Governor

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KI DURING A PANDEMI : WHAT S THERE TO DO? C

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CONTINUE TO STAY ACTIVE IN CIRCLE K!

Virtual Service

(these can all be done over a group video call!)

Make cards for nursing homes Send virtual cards to children's hospitals Find them on the websites for St. Jude Children's Hospital or March of Dimes Write letters to soldiers and veterans through A Million Thanks Make Love Letters for Literacy (all you need are paper and writing utensils) Color pictures with Color-a-Smile Make "plarn" out of plastic bags sitting around Spring cleaning? Make dog toys out of old tshirts!

Volunteer online with Crisis Text Line sign up and be trained for free to be a crisis counselor Search for online service opportunities through Catchafire Make popsicle stick puzzles for children Pick up litter (but make sure you wear gloves and wash your hands after!)

Help out animal shelters virtually through FreeKibble.com Decorate lunch bags for Meals on Wheels Learn about food insecurity and donate rice by answering trivia at FreeRice.com

Fellowship Online Host a social over group video call (Google Hangouts, Facebook Messenger, Facetime, Skype, etc) and play online games such as Quiplash or online Cards Against Humanity. You could even play Cool Math Games at the same time!

Get matched with a Social Distancing Buddy! Sign up and make a new friend: https://forms.gle/fmpucszKjL5tMxhe6 Have a CKI family dinner! Everyone makes the same meal at home and you all eat together!

Try a new recipe and see whose food turns out the best.

Do a trivia night! One person comes up with trivia and puts everyone to the test on Kahoot.

Watch a movie together! Pick a film on Netflix and everyone starts it at the same time!

Leadership Continues Train your new officers virtually! Make the transition into the new Circle K year smoothly by helping new officers understand their roles in the club.

Set goals for the year with your officer team and come up with a plan to accomplish them!

Get ready for fall recruitment! It may seem early, but it will be here before you know it!

Watch Ted Talks on leadership!

Find free leadership development courses offered online.

Questions? Reach out to WUM's Katelyn Van Buren at wumcki.governor@gmail.com

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CKI MEETINGS DURING A PANDEMIC CKI DOES NOT STOP, WE ADAPT! Hold club meetings despite not being able to see each other in person! Here are some ideas for getting to know your members, quick ice breakers, and fun games to play as a group during meetings!

GETTING TO KNOW YOUR MEMBERS: Soul Mate One person acts as the leader and closes their eyes or turns around in their seat. They begin listing facts about themselves. If the fact is true for the audience, they will keep their camera on. When an audience member hears a fact that is not true for themselves, they turn their camera off. When there is only one member left with their camera on other than the leader, they are declared the other's "soul mate" and will be the next leader to list facts. This is a great way to get to know club members!

Two Truths and a Lie OR Two LIES and a Truth A classic. Everyone goes around and says two truths about themselves as well as a lie. The rest of the group tries to guess which of the three facts is a lie. As a change up, you can make it where each person says two lies about themselves as well as a truth and everyone else needs to figure out what the truth is. This can be super fun and interesting!

Baby Picture Matching Before a meeting, ask everyone to send in a picture of themselves from when they were a baby/very little. Put them all in a powerpoint and go around during a meeting trying to figure out who is who. This will most likely lead to members sharing stories from when they were younger and help you all to get to know each other a bit better.

Contact WUM CKI District Governor, Katelyn Van Buren, at wumcki.governor@gmail.com with any questions!

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Pet Show and Tell People LOVE showing of their fur babies to others. Designate a time during your meeting to let everyone introduce their pets (and maybe a story about them)! This can be a good ice breaker or nice time to take a brain break if you are covering a lot of content.

Spin the Wheel Before a meeting, go onto https://wheeldecide.com/ and create a wheel with random getting-to-knowyou questions such as "what's your favorite food?" or "tell us your favorite joke" During the meeting, go around and spin the wheel for each member to decide what they will share with the rest of the group.

The questions that you decide on are super flexible and will set the tone for how the activity will go.

Make sure each member has a chance to share!

Wow, Pow, Chow, Now A good activity for the start of your meetings depending on the size of your club. For this activity, everyone will go around and share about themselves. Wow is a high from the week, pow is a low, chow is something good that they've eaten recently, and now is how they are currently feeling. This is a really good way for members to be able to open up! It's very similar to "highs and lows," but has an extra little spin on it to make it more fun.

Personality Tests Have members take a few minutes to take some sort of personality test such as a free Enneagram quiz or a Love Language test. Everyone can go around and share their results (if comfortable) so that everyone can get to know each other a bit better and ultimately find out what the best way to connect with individuals would be based on their results.

House/Apartment Tours If members are willing, have them go around their house or apartment and show you around! It can be super interesting to see where other people live (channel your inner HGTV).

Contact WUM CKI District Governor, Katelyn Van Buren, at wumcki.governor@gmail.com with any questions!

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Ice Breakers and Games: Kahoots!

Kahoots can actually be used for both fun and getting to know your members. You could do a random trivia Kahoot OR you could ask members for facts about themselves and turn it into a Kahoot for the rest of the group to play. (ie have a true/false slide on a specific member or list a fact and then have 4 different member names as options so that the group can guess who the fact applies to)

Draw What You See Have one person in the meeting be the "describer." You can give them 2-3 minutes to describe to the group how to draw a random item in their house (without revealing what the item is until the time is up).

For example, they may have a calculator in front of them and start telling the group to "draw a rectangle with the longest sides going up vertically." Then, they would keep going to describe how to draw a calculator. At the end of the time frame, the describer will reveal their object and the group shows off what they've drawn based on the descriptions given to them.

Modified:Â search for some basic images on google such as a train or a rabbit and send the picture out to chosen members who will be describers. They will describe that image during the meeting.

Special Edition/Final Round:Â have everyone do their drawings on top of their heads so that even they cannot see what they are doing! This makes for some interesting results to say the lest.

Scavenger Hunts Come up with a list of common household items. During the meeting, set a timer for 30 seconds and have members go around their house individually to search for as many items that they can find in that short amount of time. Have the person bring the items back to show everyone and calculate their total (ex items: toilet paper, a spoon, a hairdryer, etc.). Members can also be palce into teams to count up scores and make it more competitive.

Contact WUM CKI District Governor, Katelyn Van Buren, at wumcki.governor@gmail.com with any questions!

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Charades The leader of the meeting can either come up with a list of charade words to act out or go to https://www.thegamegal.com/word-generator/ to have words generated for members. Send the actor a list of words to try to act out and see how many they can have members guess in 30 seconds-1 minute. This will get everyone involved and can be a really fun bonder.

Alibi

Pick one person to be the "detective." This person will turn their volume all the way down/leave their computer. The rest of the group comes up with a fake crime to report out (the crime doesn’t really matter, it's just a fun part to be creative with). Also, pick one person to be guilty of the crime. Invite the detective back and tell them what the crime is. Next, everyone will take a turn sharing their alibi, what they were doing at the time of the crime. (Ex: “I was making green tea, I was walking my dog around the block, I was helping my sister with her math homework, etc.). Next, everyone will share their alibi a second time, except the “guilty” person who will change their alibi (Ex: I was making green tea, I was walking my bulldog around the block, I was helping my sister with her math homework, etc.) Finally, the detective has to guess who changed their alibi (in this case -”dog walker” to “bulldog walker”) and is guilty of the crime!

Pictionary A super easy way to play pictionary with your group is through https://skribbl.io/. One person should go to this site, click the blue button that says "create private room," and then they will get a link to be able to copy. They can send the link to the rest of the group, and you all take turns drawing and guessing what other people are drawing!

No Smile Game This one is GREAT for breaking up a meeting or getting people warmed up. What you do is, for 60 seconds, have everyone have their cameras on and Zoom call in gallery mode while they try their best to not smile. If they smile, they turn their cameras off and "lose." After the minute is up, the leader will start telling jokes to get people to smile until the last person remains.

Contact WUM CKI District Governor, Katelyn Van Buren, at wumcki.governor@gmail.com with any questions!

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District Board Directory The 2020-2021 WUM CKI District Board is here for each and every one of you! Please do not hesitate to reach out to any of us with any questions, comments, or concerns.

District Governor Katelyn Van Buren wumcki.governor@gmail.com

District Secretary Brooke Steeno wumcki.secretary@gmail.com

District Treasurer Annika Hentz wumcki.treasurer@gmail.com

920-557-1475

920-609-7857

608-566-4606

Capital LTG Gavin Lloyd wumcki.ltg.capital@gmail.com

Chippewa LTG Ella Dykstra

Lakes LTG Meagan Ebertz wumcki.ltg.lakes@gmail.com

wumcki.ltg.chippewa@gmail.com

715-370-7484

920-238-3970

Metro-Southeast LTG Jonathan Totsky

Superior LTG Douglas Arnett-Arnold

wumcki.ltg.metrose@gmail.com 262-894-7195

wumcki.ltg.superior@gmail.com 906-396-5525

District Convention Chair Maddy Dimeo wumcki.dcon@gmail.com

Assistant DCON Chair Angel Yang

920-517-1844

Awards, Regs, History Chair Luke Neumann wumcki.arh@gmail.com 414-881-0867 Kiwanis Family Outreach Chair

wumcki.dcon.assistant@gmail.com

Grace Bartow wumcki.kfam@gmail.com

608-477-6141

920-860-0254

920-306-5690

Membership, Development, & Growth Chair Joanna Carman wumcki.mdg@gmail.com

Service Chair Trevor Ciebell wumcki.service@gmail.com

Special Events Chair Maggie Ollmann wumcki.events@gmail.com

608-921-0090

715-281-0235

Assistant Administrator Lena Sheibengraber lena.wum.cki@gmail.com

Assistant Administrator Ann Pilot ann.wum.cki@gmail.com

414-418-9779

262-939-1614

920-460-5138

District Administrator Justin Hahn wumcki.districtadvisor@gmail.com

414-510-1609

Assistant Administrator Rachel Leader leader.rachel@gmail.com 952-240-9481

Webiste: wumcirclek@weebly.com Facebook: Wisconsin-Upper Michigan District of Circle K International Instagram: wumcki

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