August  2007 - National Convention

May 21, 2007 - Little Britches Parade and Rodeo

The Kinsmen Club had a real busy day - we took part in the parade and handed out CF Candy bags, we also manned the barricades and in the afternoon we served beef on a bun at the Rodeo Grounds.
The candy bags were sponsored by:

High Country Chevrolet - Don Green,  High River
High River Construction - Terry Baker, High River

May 13, 2007 - 3rd Mother's Day Breakfast at the South Fork

For the third time the club organized a mother's day family breakfast at the South Fork.

March 3, 2007 - 6th Annual Dinner & Dance for Cystic Fibrosis

Kinsmen and skunks help fight CF
Funds also raised for Special Olympics

By Bruce Campbell in the High River Times
Monday March 05, 2007

The 2007 High River Kinsmen Cystic Fibrosis Dinner and Dance on March 3 may have raised an estimated $20,000, but the event ended up getting skunked.
More than 100 Skelly Skunks were sold to the approximately 300 people attending the sixth annual fund-raiser.
According to the evening’s guest speaker, Caroline Warren, the skunk is the idea of 11-year-old Erica Van Dorp, who is afflicted with CF -- and also happens to be Warren’s daughter.
Warren had initially planned to sell Teddy bears to raise funds, but her daughter said she should switch to a skunk because “CF stinks.”
“My daughter knows that CF won’t cure itself,” Warren said. “We have made 3,000 of these skunks and we hope to raise about $50,000.”
It was fitting that Erica’s skunks were being sold at a dance aimed at fighting CF-- she has become a first-rate dancer despite having cystic fibrosis.

“When Erica dances, it is the only time that she forgets she has CF,” Warren said. “We can be driving to dance class and she will be crying after a tough round of physiotherapy -- and that will all go away when Erica dances.”
Ironically, Erica was unable to attend the High River dance, because she was performing for a benefit for cancer research.
The High River Kinsmen dinner and dance has raised more than $60,000 in its six-year history for cystic fibrosis research.
“Kinsmen across Canada have raised more than $34 million,” Warren said. “ I can’t imagine where we would be today without that kind of commitment, from people like you and across the country.”
Foothills Special Olympics will also receive 25 per cent of the proceeds from the Kinsmen dinner.
Foothills Special Olympics co-ordinator Debbie Herman thanked the High River service club for its support over the years -- not only financially, but also through the annual Kinsmen-Special Olympics slowpitch game.
The Special Olympians were in a good mood -- they had just won the bronze medal in floor hockey at the Alberta Winter Special Olympics in Calgary.
High River Kinsmen Brian Wheeler and Ken Braat, the 2007 High River CF dance chairman, were honoured for their commitment to Kinsmen during the evening.
The Skelly Skunk is named after Bill Skelly, who kicked off the Kinsmen’s fight against CF in the mid-1960s.

February 19, 2007 - Family Day

The Kinsmen Club handed out brochures containing information about cystic fibrosis during the Family Day festivities at the Recplex.