CSU Fullerton
The Carnival
The carnival was amazing, seeing the kids smile is what keeps us going and helping the community. The high spirits from the kids and seeing how much fun they are having enjoying playing games and winning small prices.

De Anza
To prepare for Special Games, De Anza Kiwanians and De Anza Circle K worked together building easels and preparing decorations for De Anza Special Games on May 16th 2008.

Foothill College
Club Day: It was held in Foothill College Campus Center. We successfully recruited over ten new members for the upcoming quarter. Hopefully, they will continue their membership in the fall.

Long Beach
Our club’s best service project for the month of April was the Kaleidoscope event held on campus. The event was created to display the numerous clubs and organizations we have on campus to the community, incoming freshmen, and anyone else who is interested in attending. Our turnout for the event was phenomenal. We helped to make “crazy hats” for kids and were able to attract prospective members for the club. The kids definitely enjoyed the event despite the hot weather as well as the members. By the end of the day we accumulated a total of 62.5 Hours! This event proved to be very successful.

Sac State
St. Philomene’s Soup Kitchen. Usually every other week on Tuesday, our club goes to St. Philomene Catholic Church in Sacramento to help the group who runs the event, Sharing God’s Bounty. We help feed the homeless by serving plates of food, pouring drinks, serving desserts, busing tables and helping clean up. This month we went to three of the four scheduled days and this month has been especially special because we have had the most participation from our club in attendance. In addition we have been able to make a better connection with the guests and socialize with them.

UNR
Relay for life at the University was our best service project this month. Before the event we raised $3,070.26 which is more then we were able to raise last year. We had twenty four people attend the event with over 200 service hours.

SDSU
For the month of April, our service project of the month is Relay for Life. We were able to bond with UCSD and Grossmont College while raising money for a cause that affects everyone whether it be through a close friend or relative or themselves. We also had our DCM there, which ended in a massive water balloon fight and an amoeba run with everyone in our division. Since we were all together for 24 hours everyone got to know each other better and create more ties to strengthen our divisional unity.

UCLA
Our best service project this month is no doubt our Pillow Fight 2008. For the past five months, our club members have been working effortlessly on putting together this large scale fundraiser. What started off as a simple idea to try and break a world record became a service project that really got everyone involved. Members from other clubs came and participated on the morning of April 20. With hundreds of people in attendance, guest celebrities, and of course… Pillows, we were able to fundraise nearly $2000 just in donations. This does not include the future matching donation we will be receiving as well. Because it was our first time putting on something so large here at UCLA, we hope that next year’s fundraiser will be even bigger and better than this… who knows, it may just be another Pillow Fight… two-thousand-nine??

SFSU
With a total of 15 members in the event “Relay For Life 2008”, hosted by The American Cancer Society, we have completed 147 service hours by walking around the track for 24 hours. This walk symbolizes the struggle that cancer patients go through as we try to help in finding the cure to cancer. Not only did we walked, we also did a Football Fundraiser, which we raised $162.30 to fund the American Cancer Society in researching the cancer problem.

UCR
Rubber Ducky Regatta, which is also our Kiwanis One Day, is our club’s best service project of this month. We had a good attendance of members plus the chance to do service with our beloved Kiwanians at the University of Redlands. Our club bought a total of 20 rubber duckies to race down the river stream. All profit made from rubber ducky sales go to Pediatric Trauma Prevention.

PCC
On April 26th, members gathered together to attend the Rebuilding Together – Pasadena Chapter event. During this event we were helping to clean up and refurbish Mrs. Davis’ house. We were taking out the weeds and other unknown plants that were growing in her back yard and inside the house we were repainting her walls.

UCSD
Reality Changers is dedicated to helping build first-generation college students by helping them apply to college and scholarships. The typical agenda for the evening withe the students at the Downtown San Diego Reality Changers is as follows: SAT practice, dinner (that the parents provide), life lesson/speaker, small group tutoring.

This program is meaningful and has a strong impact in the community. Students are able to get one on one tutoring from the members, and members are given a chance to be mentors and share their college experiences. Everyone at Reality Changers is very welcoming. Both the students and tutors are dedicated to helping the students do well in school and achieve their academic goals.

OCC
The Pancake Breakfast was a successful event, we made and served breakfast. It wasn’t a fundraiser for us, but It was for the Kiwanis. We had a good number of our member to show up and we all had fun along with helping the community.

Whittier
One of the club’s best service project for this month would be the “Walkathon” that took place on Saturday April 19. We actually had a couple of girls that participated and gladly gave up their Saturday morning to participate in this event.

CSU East Bay
On April 12th, our club got the opportunity to help our Kiwanis club fundraise on their annual Pancake breakfast day. It was a very good project because we worked along our Kiwanis and Castro Valley Key Club. We arrived early in the morning and helped them set up the tables and make loads of pancakes. After, we served the attendees their drinks, pancakes with sausage and eggs, and their fruit. There also were a few raffles we helped with. In the end, it was very successful; they made a little over $1,000 in profit.

UC Berkeley
This month’s featured service project is Camp Gualala. 24 members spent an exciting weekend renovating a YMCA camp. Some tasks were painting Coalman Lodge, installing new stairs and building new benches. We enjoyed time at the creek and just hanging out with each other and our Kiwanis. Steak night lived up to the hype since Phuoc and Jack made it absolutely delicious. On Sunday, we finished up the last of the tasks and cleaned up. Hooray for Camp Gualala!

UNLV
Our club’s best service project of the month was Kiwanis ONE Day where, our Circle K club, in participation with all the KEY Clubs across the valley as well as some Kiwanis Clubs, gathered at the Vera Johnson Housing Complex and completely renovated the entire complex by re-painting the buildings, cleaning out the lawns of any trash and debris, re-painting the playground structures, and touching up all around the complex.

UC Davis
YMCA Healthy Kids Day was a free, fun-filled day of activities designed for kids to learn about health as they have fun and play games. Circle K members at UC Davis helped with various activities such as the Jump Houses, the Health Fair Exhibit, and many different games. Hundreds of kids and their parents were there, and we were able to work alongside many other student organizations. We facilitated both educational games as well as fun games, and supervised the jump houses and the batting house. We also assisted in the Health Fair Exhibit, where kids came in to explore and learned many health-related issues and facts. They also had Sumo Wrestling, which we even got a chance to try! It was a lot of fun helping kids learn, but at the same time promoting safe fun!