On Thursday, June 12, 2008, the Builders Club of the Woodbridge (VA) Middle School, received its Kiwanis International Charter. The Charter was presented by Steven Keen, Past President of the Woodbridge Kiwanis Club. The young Woodbridge Club has had a remarkable year of school and community activities, including the following:

1. cleaning up school grounds at least once a month (trash pick-up)
2. selling pictures/refreshments at dances to earn charter money and money for projects.
3. conducting a bookdrive for the battered women's shelter for the children to have books.
4. filling goodie "stockings" for the kids in our special needs class.
5. making decorations for the Senior Citizens Center Thanksgiving Dinner.
6. developing bags for the young children at the shelter with books, special soap, combs and brushes, stuffed animal for them to have as their own.

During the ceremony, Christine Robison, a co-founder of the Club was presented with a "Distinguished Service Plaque, for her outstanding efforts in helping to initiate the development of the Club and guiding it through a very successful first year. Christine is retiring from teaching and joining her husband at their new home in West Virginia. The Woodbridge Kiwanis Club, thanks Christine for all her efforts in developing the new Club and wishes her the best in her retirement.

The Woodbridge Kiwanis Club congratulates the Woodbridge Middle School on a very successful year and hopes that future years will be just as successful and rewarding!

At its last meeting, on the afternoon of June 4, 2008, the Hylton Senior High School Key Club was awarded its Charter from Kiwanis International. The Hylton Key Club is sponsored by the Woodbridge (VA) Kiwanis Club. Thanks to the efforts of the Club's two Faculty advisors, Sarah Smits and LeAnn Strang, and the Club Officers, the Hylton Key Club has had a remarkable year of supporting their school and community. Their accomplishments during the year included the following: implementation of a weekly "Happy Thoughts" table, participating in the Homecoming Bonfire and in the ARC Halloween Dance, supporting ACTS (Action in the Community Through Service), Operation Turkey, visiting the Ruxton Retirement Home, conducting bake sales, purchasing and distributing of food to the Winter Drop- in Shelter, conducting a Book Drive for the Juvenile Detention Home, supporting the Sandwich Day for the Winter Drop-in Shelter,
conducting a Share the Love Food drive for ACTS, supporting Invisible Children Campaign and the Hylton HS Alternative Prom.

The ceremony ended differently than most ceremonies, as a "tornado watch" was issued for the community and we were told to go to a room that did not have any windows. The group split and the banner stand ended up in the designated room and the new banner arrived some time later. When the Club was finally reassembled, the Faculty Advisors presented Certificates of Achievement to members of the Club.

The Woodbridge Kiwanis Club congratulates the Hylton Key Club on a very successful first year and hopes that future years will be just a successful and rewarding!

At the June 19 meeting of the Woodbridge Kiwanis Club, Lil Keys, a long time Faculty Advisor for the Woodbridge Senior High School Key Club, was awarded a Distinguished Service Plaque, for her outstanding service to the Key Club and to the community. The Woodbridge Club has been an outstanding organization, with many school and community activities, throughout the years; however, one of their most significant accomplishments occurred this year, when they awarded a $500 memorial scholarship in the name of Daniel Perez Cueva, who was killed in the VA Tech shootings. Daniel was a student at WSHS for a couple of years before moving to Hylton HS, where he graduated. The Key Club awarded the scholarship to Vicente Giron Mazariegos, an English Student of Other Languages (ESOL). Lil and her husband are retiring to a resort community in Tennessee. The Woodbridge Kiwanis Club thanks Lil for all her many accomplishments as the Faculty Advisor of the Key Club and wishes her the best in her retirement!