Many thanks to our hosts at Spanish Hills Country Club.  Spanish Hills has upcoming holiday events and special holiday offers.  For more information, click on the links below:

*  Home for the Holidays – November through December Take-Home Menu

*  December 11, 2009 Share A Holiday Buffet, 6pm-10pm

*  December 20, 2009 Holiday Brunch, 10:30am-3pm

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Other event participants included:

*  Residence Inn Marriott – representatives were present from the new hotel that will open near the YMCA at Village at the Park off the Dawson Drive exit of the 101 freeway.

*  Royal Gardens of Camarillo – representatives were present from this assisted living and dementia care facility located in Camarillo across the street from the Community Center on Carmen Drive.

*  The Ventura County Star – representatives promoted The Star’s “A Pre-Holiday Mixer to Remember,” to be held November 19, 2009 at the California Welcome Center at 1000 Town Center Drive, Ste 135 in Oxnard, from 5:30-7pm.

*  Morbrook Institute – the delightful ladies of Morbrook brought a healthy dose of lightheartedness to the event with their bubble-blowing efforts.  Morbrook provides a Girls Empowerment Group on Tuesdays from 4pm-5:30p, a Parenting Support Group on Tuesdays at 6:30pm, and a Couples Support Group on Tuesdays from 6:30-8pm.

If you are another  participant with the Kiwanis Club of Camarillo at any type of mixer/networking event, be sure to stop by our table to tell us about yourself and learn more about us and we will provide information about your organization on our blog when we publish our post-event report back to our members.  This content is seen by our club members and visitors to our site.

Club members are encouraged to volunteer to do bell ringing on December 19, 2009.  If you can volunteer to spend an hour or two ringing the Salvation Army bells in front of local stores, please contact Don Medley at (805) 482-8761.

Every year, the Kiwanis Club of Camarillo helps out with Rose Bowl activities in Pasaden, including float decorating.

We involve our regular club members and our Sponsored Leadership Program clubs, such as Key Club and Kiwins from our local high schools.

If you would like to volunteer to help out with this year’s Rose Bowl activities, please contact Don Medley at (805) 482-8761.

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The Kiwanis Club of Camarillo will once again be assisting with the annual Christmas Parade on December 9, 2009.

If you are interested in volunteering to help out with the Christmas Parade, please contact Don Medley at (805) 482-8761.

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This year’s Peanut Day is November 14, 2009.  This is a one-day event and once the nuts have all been handed out, it’s over until next year.

This November 14, 2009, if you’re out and about and see a Kiwanis volunteer handing out nuts, please think of the good work we do to change the world one child and one community at a time and make a charitable donation.  We are a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that performs community service work for the benefit of the citizens of Camarillo.

If you are a Kiwanis member and are available to volunteer on Peanut Day, please contact Joe Dilibert or Ted Williams.  Their contact information is on our Service Projects page.

Volunteers from the club are needed to assist with this year’s race, which is scheduled for April 10, 2010. If you are interested in becoming a Kiwanis volunteer and helping out with the race, please contact us at online@kiwanisclubofcamarillo.com.

October 3-4, 2009 marks the dates of this year’s annual Relay for Life walk at Adolpho Camarillo High School.  The Kiwanis Club of Camarillo will once again provide our traditional pancake breakfast for Relay for Life walkers the morning of Sunday, October 4.

Kiwanis volunteers are needed to help with set-up and take-down.   We need extra hands Sunday morning to cook and serve breakfast to over 300 walkers.

If you are able to volunteer even just an hour or two of your time for this event, please email Allen Grizzard-Paul at allengrizzard@msn.com.

If you are not currently a member of Kiwanis and are interested in helping out with this event, please email us at online@kiwanisclubofcamarillo.com.

Please donate your old Christmas card fronts

The Community Advisory Committee of the Ventura Youth Correctional Facility is collecting old Christmas card fronts so that the youth can recycle them to make their own Christmas cards.  If you have any old Christmas card fronts to donate, please contact Anne Zachry at online@kiwanisclubofcamarillo.com or through our Facebook group.

The Kiwanis Club of Camarillo received a notice from the Cal-Nev-Ha Foundation regarding its Kiwanis Hospital Doll Project, asking clubs to contact their local hospitals to introduce the program and coordinate amongst the members and/or local sewing clubs to make the dolls, which are then donated to the hospital.

Click on the image at left to read the full announcement.  If you are interested in participating in this project, please contact Anne Zachry at azachry@kps4parents.org.  We may be able to get at least some of the materials donated.

View from Topa Tower - 101 at Rose

On July 22, 2009, the United Way of Ventura County’s Young Leaders Society hosted a Mega Mixer at the Topa Tower Club in Oxnard, inviting members of young professionals’ groups from across Ventura County to participate.  Kiwanis Club of Camarillo member Sandra Walker, who is the Director of Operations for the Camarillo Chamber of Commerce, arranged for fellow Kiwanian and Internet Club committee chairperson Anne Zachry to speak to the group about Kiwanis membership through the Internet Club format.

The event was well attended and hosted in a lovely setting by the Topa Tower Club, overlooking Oxnard, Camarillo, and Ventura from the 21st floor of the Topa Tower in Oxnard.  About 100 young professionals from across Ventura County networked with one another and heard presentations from representatives of the various young professionals’ groups in attendance, prominant business people, and representatives from non-profit groups seeking volunteers.

Anne and fellow Kiwanian Peter Johnson manned a table with information about Internet Club participation in the Kiwanis Club of Camarillo and answered questions from interested Mega Mixer participants about the club’s online membership option for busy professionals.  This information was very well received and a number of event participants expressed serious interest in membership.

For more information about how you can give back to the community of Camarillo without compromising your other responsibilities, or if you would like us to come speak to your group about online membership in the Kiwanis Club of Camarillo, please email us at online@kiwanisclubofcamarillo.com.