Kinsmen and Kinette Club helps team members and the community to win!
By Joan Janzen
joanjanzen@yahoo.com
The Kinsmen and Kinette Club is a relatively new club in town, but it is moving forward in 2020 by hosting one survivor challenge after another. Their previous Kin Booze Survivor was successful, enabling the club to make contributions to the Kindersley Food Bank, West Central Abilities and the Crisis Centre. And that’s exactly what the club is all about.
The club’s vice-president, Lisa Kirtzinger said, “We’re a newly chartered group and our mandate is serving the community’s greatest needs.” After a period when the Kinsmen and Kinette club was absent from Kindersley, the club chartered a group about a year ago, and now has over twenty members.
“It was going good for a while. We were on a roll, then Covid hit, and our fundraisers were cancelled. It was kind of tough,” Lisa explained. “This is our new way of trying to raise funds for our community.”
The club’s next fundraiser is called “Kin Kash Survivor”, a virtual elimination draw. Teams of six enter online at a cost of $40 per person, with a maximum of 65 teams accepted. All team members must be at least 19 years of age. First place winner takes fifty percent of the pot; second place winner takes thirty percent; third place takes 15 percent, and the first team eliminated gets five percent of the pot.
Live draws will take place on facebook from November 10th to 15th. “The fundraiser was well received in the spring. We’re trying to promote ‘shop local’ and it’s a way for those who join to get extra cash in time for Christmas,” Lisa explained. “We’re half sold out, but we’d like to get as many teams as possible to make it successful for our community. Half of the money raised goes to the winners and the other half goes to our club to use for community purposes. The profits we make go back into the community.” And this all is made possible when teams register online at https://forms.gle/uELKLaQiBxVboTBfA
Be sure to have your team brain storm and come up with a fun name for your team. “That’s the best fun - hearing the names as we do the live draws!” Lisa said. So if you want to hear your team’s name announced, be sure to get registered soon!
