HOLA!

Congrats to everyone and their hard work this past week with the

FOOD BANK, GREAT RACE EXPO, and THE GREAT RACE.

What's up this week!

Children's Institute Bingo--Thursday 10/1, meet at 6:20pm

Adopt a Block--Saturday 10/3, meet at 9:45am

A-Vent--Sunday 10/4 meet at 10am, 11-3

Pumpkinfest--Saturday 10/10, 3 shifts 9-12, 12-5, 4:45-6:30

"You must be the change

you wish to see in the world"

-Mahatma Gandhi

Hey Ckerrrrs!

Wanna know what you missed this week?

--check it out

Volleyball:
Wednesdays and thursday nights ---time's not available yet.

Fundraisers:
1. T-shirts
We REALLY want to get sweet t-shirts for Circle K --we need your ideas,

Decide what YOU will be wearing.

2. Max and Erma's
In the near future, we will be handing out flyers for Max and Erma's (a restaurant in Shadyside) to advertise for people to go there on a particular day. Max and Erma's has agreed to give our club 20% of the total purchases for that day…more information will come soon!

Think about what committee you might want to join for next week. Basically pick your favorite officer and just go hang out with them ;) haha jk!

Upcoming Events:

Feel Good Friends-Thursday 9/17, 10:30 AM-3:30 PM
One Thursday each month, we will help "Feel Good," a non-profit organization geared towards ending world hunger, sell grilled cheese in the Union. You can sign up for one-hour slots, but only 2 people can work each hour…if you are interested but don't get a slot, try again next month!

WQED-Thursday 9/17, 7:30-11:30 PM
Sign-up to answer telephones from individuals making donations to the radio station WQED (we will even be on TV!). You can sign-up in one-hour increments; we will meet at the Union and walk over together.

G-20 Southside Clean up-Saturday 9/19, meet at 9:30 AM
In preparation for G-20 coming to Pittsburgh, we want the city to look "spick and span". So, if you are interested in helping clean up the city in preparation for the arrival of 20 global leaders, come join us on Saturday morning!

Junior Great Race-Sunday 9/20, meet at 9:45 AM
This is the non-competitive, kid version of the "Great Race." We will be helping to serve refreshments to the participants until about 2 PM.

Great Race Packet Stuffing- Wednesday 9/23, meet at 2:30
This year, the Great race is expecting over 10,000 participants. We will be putting the great race packets together for the runners and walkers and should be done by 5 PM.

Great Race Set-up-Saturday 9/26, 11-3 and 3-5
Saturday will be the pre-registration and organizational set-up for the Great Race. With the G-20 right around this time, volunteers are especially needed to help. You can either sign up for one or both time slots.

Great Race-Sunday 9/27, meet at 6:30
Finally, the day of the race! The race starts at 8:30 AM and we will need to be there by 6:30 AM to help with refreshments and organization of the runners-we should be done by 10:30 AM (in time to go back to sleep for a few hours…).

Fact of the week:

Pitt-o Circle K has already earned 300 hours for the month of SEPTEMBER!!

AWESOME JOB guys!

What's coming up this week!

WQED PLEDGE DRIVE - saturday 9/10 2-6

JDRF Walk - Saturday 9/12 meet at 7am

G-20 KIKO - Saturday 9/12 meet at 9:40

Caitlin smiles - Sunday 9/13 meet at 2

WQUD pledge drive - sunday 9/13 1-6

Family Hours Dinner - Tuesday 9/15 meet at 4:45

Email an officer if you want to sign up

And remember if you can't make a project,

email one of the officers ASAP!

"Remember that the happiest people are

not those getting more, but those giving more"

--H. Jackson Brown Jr.

***Keep it up Circle-Kers!***

Here's the officers!

A lot was going on at tonight's meeting, So in case you couldn't remember the officer names.

Here we are! (left to right)

Dave, Lauren, Lisa, Courtney,

Whitney(me) and Alex :)

Contact us!

Dave (Treasurer) - dpr12@pitt.edu

Lauren (VP of membership) - llm26@pitt.edu

Lisa (Secretary) -lcb14@pitt.edu

Courtney (VP of Service) - cem43@pitt.edu

Whitney(Editor) - wds8@pitt.edu

--please note that I am no longer a brunette :)!

Alex (President) - aeh42@pitt.edu

WE WANT YOU!

Welcome new members! Tonight was the first meeting of the 09-2010 PITT-O Circle K! Our meeting started off at 9pm in David Lawrence and the turnout was AMAZING! Lots of interested new members. Some things we talked about. First off, Welcome! and if you love to volunteer and have fun, then you have found the right Service group! Secondly, several sign ups went around about the Juvenile diabetes walk, cleaning up oakland, children's institute bingo and more. If at any time you can not make it, PLEASE CONTACT AN OFFICER. My (whitney-editor) Email is wds8@pitt.edu. for example. Also, We meet in front of the STUDENT UNION as a group before EVERY project. Lastly, we want you all to have fun, and enjoy giving back to your community.

We hope to see you all either at our projects later this week or next week Tuesday at 9pm

in 205 David Laurence.

Hope everyone's first week back went GREAT!!!