Mt. Vernon Club

by Bruce Malkin

On March 2, the Mount Vernon Kiwanis Club featured two of its seven student clubs that it sponsors as Guest Speakers at its dinner meeting at the Mount Vernon Country Club.  The Circle K Club at NOVA Community College (Alexandria campus) was represented by four of its officers, Ryan Pierpoint, Jasmine Gonzalez, Amsley Pietranton, and Sandra Vargas, while the Stratford Landing Elementary School's K-Kids Club was represented by Lorna Helal, Parent Advisor, and three of her K-Kids children, Julia, age 10, 4th grade, Olivia, age 8, 3rd grade, and Ashleigh, age 6, kindergarten.  All of the Circle K students and Mrs. Helal made brief presentations on their Kiwanis community service experiences this school year. Before they left, they were all given special Kiwanis pens by Student Club Program Coordinator, Bruce Malkin. Pictured is MVKC President Kahan Dhillon and Student Club Program Coordinator Bruce Malkin pose with Mrs. Helal and her K-Kids children and 4 officers from the Circle K Club.

On March 2, Dr. Seuss' birthday, the Mount Vernon Kiwanis Club participated in the Read Across America day sponsored by the Fairfax County Office for Children's Head Start Program and held at the Gum Springs Children's Center on Fordson Road in the Mount Vernon area.
This event was part of a nation-wide effort by the National Education Association to have every child reading or read to in the company of a caring adult on that day.  The morning was organized by Claudine Christie, Early Childhood Education Administrator, and the Kiwanis Club was represented by Betty Puscheck, Joanne Malkin, and Bruce Malkin.  Pictured MVKC's Betty Puscheck reads to pre-kinders at Gum Springs Head Start Center.