{"version":"1.0","provider_name":"The News Journal","provider_url":"https:\/\/qa.thenewsjournal.net","title":"Williamsburg hosts Ky.-Tenn. Kiwanis Governor\u2019s Banquet &ndash; The News Journal","type":"rich","width":600,"height":338,"html":"<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"DmIPusrCfF\"><a href=\"https:\/\/qa.thenewsjournal.net\/williamsburg-hosts-ky-tenn-kiwanis-governors-banquet\/\">Williamsburg hosts Ky.-Tenn. Kiwanis Governor\u2019s Banquet<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/qa.thenewsjournal.net\/williamsburg-hosts-ky-tenn-kiwanis-governors-banquet\/embed\/#?secret=DmIPusrCfF\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" title=\"&#8220;Williamsburg hosts Ky.-Tenn. 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All clubs need to be thinking about what they are going to do to make their clubs more exciting and more inviting, especially to younger people, said Dale Hawkins, 2017-2018 Kiwanis Governor of the Kentucky-Tennessee Division Six. \u201cWe have to go and recruit people and we have to recruit people that don\u2019t look like us all the time. We fall in a recruiting comfort zone. So we want to recruit people at times, who look more like we do. We have more in common with them that makes sense,\u201d Hawkins said. \u201cWe have to look at a younger generation and we have to make our clubs fun towards them \u2026 We need to be bringing in a younger generation. Not only do we need to recruit them and bring them in, but we need to sit down, hush and listen to them.\u201d The Williamsburg Kiwanis Club hosted the Kentucky-Tennessee Governor\u2019s Banquet on Nov. 2 at the Williamsburg Tourism and Convention Center. A total of 33 people attended the banquet from Kiwanis clubs across the region, including Corbin, London and Rockcastle County Kiwanis Clubs. Hawkins, whose district includes over 4,000 Kiwanians, said that he has challenged every club president he has spoken with this year to do something different. \u201cI don\u2019t know what it is. I don\u2019t care what it is. Do something different. Change it up,\u201d Hawkins said. Over the past year, Kiwanis International has lost a total of 12,000 members even after factoring in new members. \u201cHow do you stay in business losing numbers? How do you grow an organization when people are falling by the wayside? We have to build. We have to recruit, but I think a key thing a lot of us get our eyes off of is we need to do retention programs,\u201d Hawkins noted. \u201cWe have to make changes. We make the changes that aren\u2019t easy. We make the changes that must be made.\u201d The biggest recruiting tool that the clubs have at their reach is the Internet, which needs to be utilized. \u201cIt only takes a few minutes to sit down and shoot out a text saying, \u2018How are you doing? Is there someone in your family that we can pray for?\u2019 We have to become a family,\u201d Hawkins said. He added that everyone, who attends a meeting, should be asked to join the club. \u201cEvery person in this room should have a 60 to 90 second commercial in your pocket to give at any time,\u201d Hawkins said about pitching new members to join. The musical group, \u201cHis Praise,\u201d provided the entertainment for the dinner."}