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Next Date: November 8, 2026, 6PM
Topic: TBA

Meeting ID: 841 2675 3241
Passcode: 601552

Governor’s Welcome

It is hard to believe that October 1st has already arrived. This calendar year has flown by! And I should say that the 2025-2026 Kiwanis year has gone very quickly as well. And you know how the saying goes~~Ready or not, here we go!!

Are you ready??

Ready for what, you may ask?

Looking at the commercial world, you may not be sure if you should be thinking Halloween, Thanksgiving, or Christmas because there is a little of all of these available in the aisles.

But I am asking you about KIWANIS! Are we ready for an amazing year of Great things and Growing together in Great ways??

I am ready and I want to take each of you on this journey with me. I am excited about the coming year as your Governor and I look forward to meeting so many more Illinois-Eastern Iowa Kiwanians.

Please mark your calendars for the Second Sunday of the Odd numbered months (Nov., Jan., March, etc) at 6:00pm. This will be our Kiwanis Conversations: A Talk with Tracy. We are planning to have some great Kiwanis specific topics that will help your club grow in focused areas. I really encourage your clubs to participate.

Check in with your Division’s Lieutenant Governor to learn about the Distinguished status for 2026-2027. This is for members, clubs, and Divisions.

And, start making plans now to be involved in both our District and International conventions this year. Kiwanis is such a BIG family and you have members all over the states!!!

This year, we will certainly continue to work as a team in the I-I District because together, we want to Do What Matters!! Won’t you join me along the way?

In the Spirit of Kiwanis,
Tracy Armstrong-Fyffe
2026-27 Illinois-Eastern Iowa District Governor

About Kiwanis

Kiwanis is a global organization of volunteers dedicated to improving the world, one child and one community at a time. Kiwanians are volunteers changing the world through service to children and communities. Kiwanis members help shelter the homeless, feed the hungry, mentor the disadvantaged, and care for the sick. They develop youth as leaders, build playgrounds, raise funds for pediatric research, and much more. No problem is too big or too small. Why? Because working together, members achieve what one person cannot accomplish alone. When you give a child a chance to learn, experience, dream, and succeed, great things happen!

The I-I District consists of all K-Family clubs located in the State of Illinois as well as those in the following counties of Iowa: Allamakee, Clayton, Delaware, Dubuque, Jones, Jackson, Clinton, Muscatine, Scott, Louisa, Henry, Des Moines & Lee.

The members of the I-I District are very proud of our midwestern heritage and our long standing Kiwanis service in our communities. Having chartered on September 27, 1920, the I-I District K-Family has provided service to children for over 100 years!

The term “Kiwanis” comes from a native term closely resembling, “we build.” Our district volunteers with communities in Illinois and Eastern Iowa. We acknowledge our service occurs on the ancestral lands of the Osage, Myaamia, Sauk & Fox, Kaskaskia, Kickapoo and Peoria peoples. As we give back with our hands and hearts, let us honor the original stewards of these ancestral grounds, the living land that we collectively gather upon, and acknowledge the strength of all indigenous peoples.

Birth of Kiwanis