There is the warm sympathy and the barbed tongue for a kick-off.

Billy Smart's Circus for a kick-off and very beautiful it was, too.

The euro is falling apart, for a kick-off.

The Unisys Corporation, the computer company, brought 220 sales people to the Bonaventure for a kick-off meeting.

Clean Out Your Closet Week is planned for the last week in January, and the Motown Cafe has pledged the club for a kick-off event.

Funds raised will be used for a variety of things, from a rotating art program to a sensory garden for the blind, and for a kick-off campaign for the home's new addition, which is being planned for next year.