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RECENT/CURRENT PROJECTS
 (updated 3/5/2007)

Read Around The World

The Kiwanis Club of Bainbridge recently participated in The Read Around The World project. Some members of the Bainbridge Kiwanis Club went to the different elementary schools located around Bainbridge and read to the students.

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The six permanent Objects of Kiwanis International were approved by Kiwanis club delegates at the 1924 Convention in Denver, Colorado. Through the succeeding decades, they have remained unchanged.

• To give primacy to the human and spiritual rather than to the material values of life.
• To encourage the daily living of the Golden Rule in all human relationships.
• To promote the adoption and the application of higher social, business, and professional standards.
• To develop, by precept and example, a more intelligent, aggressive, and serviceable citizenship.
• To provide, through Kiwanis clubs, a practical means to form enduring friendships, to render altruistic service, and to build better communities.
• To cooperate in creating and maintaining that sound public opinion and high idealism which make possible the increase of righteousness, justice, patriotism, and goodwill.
   

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Professor shares award-winning story
By: Brennan Leathers
The Bainbridge Post-Searchlight

Bainbridge Kiwanis Club members were enthralled by a tale of the wild frontier days of 1800s South Dakota shared by club vice president Craig Burnside.

For Burnside, who is an assistant professor of biology at Bainbridge College, crafting an original piece of historical fiction was a novel experience and one that affected him profoundly. His story, “The End of an Era”, chronicles two events in the life of a Native American who is chief of a Sioux tribe in South Dakota. For his efforts, Burnside won the short fiction category in the 2007 Riverside Artsfest literary contest.

The idea which sparked the story came to Burnside as he pondered the “rich and romantic” history of South Dakota and its natural landscape. He began researching the Sioux Native Americans’ history and way of life. Like many other Native American tribes, the Sioux were driven out of their traditional homeland by force and forced to live in a reservation after a series of conflicts with the United States Army, Burnside said. He found a copy of the 1868 Fort Laramie treaty, which supposedly guaranteed the Sioux’s usage of their native land forever but was broken several years later.

“The End of an Era” begins with a normal, peaceful day in the life of young Yellow Cloud, who is destined to become the chief of his tribe. With rich detail, the story’s first chapter follows Yellow Cloud as he hunts and reflects on his people’s way of life. In the second chapter, the story jumps forward to a confrontation adult Yellow Cloud has as his tribe’s chief. An Army cavalry unit invades his village, located in South Dakota’s Red River Valley, and its leader demands him to surrender and move his tribe to a reservation. Yellow Cloud defiantly refuses and is killed, marking a proud but tragic end to the story.“The Sioux were wiped out in genocide,” Burnside said. “I wanted the reader to be left with the feeling of ‘that’s not right’.”

Burnside said the experience of writing the story was a positive one. He said he believed Artsfest encouraged kids and adults alike to be creative and “put a part of their hearts” into creating something new, an experience he said was similar to what scientists go through in their research.

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