Kiwanis K-Kids’ Club – is open to all students in 1^st – 5^th grades. K-Kids get to learn about neighbors-in-need in Sammamish, Seattle & in foreign countries, along with the needs of distressed animals, and the environment. Members choose whom/what to help and then decide how to facilitate those service projects from start to finish. All K-Kids are leaders to their school and community. More info: http://www.kkids.org/kkids/

Meetings: 1^st & 3^rd Wednesdays of each month

From 1:15 to 2:15 in the Music Room

We’ll see you Sept. 2007!

‘Join K-Kids’ parent permission forms are on the PTSA community board or contact:

Susan Evans 313-0642 or Brooke Noone 391-4622

s-evans@comcast.net brookenoone@comcast.net

Give it to a homeless person who needs to carry everything they own at all times. Have your child drop their gently-used backpacks in the K-Kids’ donation box in the school foyer by noon on Tuesday, June 26^th. All are welcome to join Kiwanis K-Kids in giving these backpacks, which will be filled with hygiene kits, & donated emergency foods, to the homeless. We will meet at noon on June 26^th at CRE to carpool to Seattle and serve a hot lunch with Operation: Sack Lunch & distribute the backpacks. We will be back to CRE by 2:30. Please RSVP to Susan Evans at 313-0642 or s-evans@comcast.net. More info about OSL at http://www.opsacklunch.org/ .

THANK YOU to all CRE families for your generosity this year!

Thank you for clothing the homeless served by Chief Seattle & children at Eastside Baby Corner; for feeding neighbors-in-need through the Issaquah Food Bank & pets at the Humane Society, helping orphans & children-in-need in Mexico, providing socks & hygiene items for the homeless. It is so amazing to see that no matter how many requests for donations are given, Cascade Ridge families give abundantly to each outreach as if it were the only one of the year. Thank you – you are a truly generous and compassionate community! Thank you from Kiwanis K-Kids Club and all those whose lives you have changed forever!

Recap of outreaches K-Kids voted to do this year:

Week of Nov 6^th	- Collected warm clothing for Chief Seattle & Eastside Baby Corner
Oct 31^st	Trick or Treated for UNICEF – collected $234
Nov 15^th	Collected food in Trossachs for Issaquah Food Bank http://www.issaquahfoodbank.org/
Dec 6^th	Served homeless with Operation: Sack Lunch in Seattle www.Opsacklunch.org –passed out 150 pairs of socks, candy canes, & was led in song by Mr. Cady
Week of Feb 5^th	All-school collection for Mexican orphans & children-in-need The $900 you earned & donated bought 16 toddler chairs, a ‘sand & water play table’, & two 10-cubbie wall storage units for Open Arms Day Care. Also donated over $200 worth of Scholastic books at the Book fair. See photos of the Mexican children that you befriended & the day care you helped start at http://photoshow.comcast.net/watch/xZ7rW2VM
Feb 14^th	Garden Care Center – cheered up the elderly with Valentines
April 4^th	Joint meetings with First Place School K-Kids’ Club www.firstplaceschool.org to plan a joint collection of toiletry items.
April 25^th	Join Discovery K-Kids’ Club in cleaning up Klahanie Blvd.
May 2^nd	Humane Society tour & deliver catnip toys & collected dog/cat food
May 16^th	First Place School K-Kids’ Club returned to help us assemble over 400 hygiene kits to give to Operation: Sack Lunch www.Opsacklunch.org
Last week of school	Collect gently-used backpacks & school emergency snack foods
June 26^th	Serve a hot lunch & pass out backpacks filled with hygiene kits & donated emergency foods to the homeless through Operation: Sack Lunch www.opsacklunch.org