By Angie Rolheiser

Newly formed Kin Club in St. Brieux welcomed by Kin Canada

Jan 14, 2019 | 8:23 AM

After over a year of work, the town of St. Brieux now has a Kin Club.
 
On Friday, Jan. 12, the club was officially chartered into district 3 kinsmen and kinettes.
 
President of the St. Brieux Kin Club Chelsea Godart said she spent a couple of years with the Melfort Kinettes and decided she wanted to bring Kin to her own community.
 
“There is lots of excitement of big projects that we have in mind, we want to start small and get our feet on the ground and get our name established in the community and go from there,” Godart said. “I think it will bring some good things to the community.”
 
Godart and now Vice-President Angie Stevenson began work alongside the Melfort Kinsmen to bring kin to the town in October of 2017.
 
Member of the Melfort Kinsmen Ryan Heavin said the club began with two ambitious members and grew nicely from there.
 
“They reached out to friends in the community, in order to become a club you need 15 members, well it took them no time at all and they had 21 people on a list,” Haevin said. “There was a need, people want to come out and be involved and they want to socialize and have fun doing it and kin is a great avenue for that.”
 
The club held a successful toilet drop and car bingo last year. A portion of the funds raised through those two projects, went to the St. Brieux care home and also contributed a bursary to a high school student, along with adding to operating costs for the club.
 
The Kinsmen and Kinette groups in the region are always looking for new members who want to give back to their communities.
 
“You get out of kin what you put into it, the more you can put into it, the more you will get out of it,” Heavin said.

Heavin added that the nice thing about beign part of a Kin Club is that you can commit as much or as little time as you are able to.
 
The St. Brieux club holds their meetings every third Wednesday of the month at the Lions Den in the community.
 
Along with being welcomed into Kin Canada and being chartered into district 3 by the Melfort Kinsmen, the Kin Club of St. Brieux also heard remarks from Zone B Deputy Governor and Tisdale Kin member, Shelby Wright, and District 3 Governor and Rosetown Kinsmen Jordan Kammer.
 
The Club’s executive committee was also installed at the ceremony.
 

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