Garland HS Key Club Newsletter By: Alex Pettigrew
November 2016
T-O District Region 8
TABLE OF CONTENTS
pg 1 Table of Contents pg 2 What is Key Club? pg 3 What is Kiwanis? pg 4 Article pg 5 Upcoming Events pg 6 Recap pg 7 Eliminate pg 8-9 Key Club Officers pg 10 District Officers pg 11 Thanks For Reading!
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What is Key Club?
Key Club is an international student-led organization which provides its members with opportunities to provide service, build character and develop leadership.
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What Is
Kiwanis?
Kiwanis International is an international, coeducational service club founded in 1915 in Detroit, Michigan. It is headquartered in the United States in Indianapolis, Indiana and is found in more than 80 nations and geographic areas. Joseph G. Prance and Allen S. Browne founded the organization. Membership in Kiwanis and its family of clubs is more than 600,000 members strong. Each year, Kiwanis clubs raise more than $100 million and report more than 18.5 million volunteer hours to strengthen communities and serve the children within them. Kiwanis clubs, located in 80 nations, help their communities in countless ways. Each community’s needs are different—so each Kiwanis club is different. By working together, members achieve what one person cannot accomplish alone. When you give a child the chance to learn, experience, dream, grow, succeed and thrive, great things happen. Service is at the heart of every Kiwanis club, no matter where in the world it’s located. Members stage nearly 150,000 service projects and raise nearly $100 million every year for communities, families and projects. Kiwanis clubs focus on changing the world by serving children, one child and one community at a time. To do this, many clubs also sponsor a Kiwanis family club—KKids for primary school children; Builders Clubs for adolescents; Key Clubs for teens in high school; CKI clubs for university students and Action Clubs for adults living with disabilities—to reach more people and have a greater service impact on their communities.
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Compensation in Volunteer Events
By: Gabrielle Alovera
It’s the start of December and Christmas music is already playing on the radio. I don’t begrudge people for liking the holiday, but when people go straight from Halloween to Christmas, I get a little bit irritated. To me, it feels like people completely disregard Thanksgiving. It seems like they go straight for events that give them something tangible – candy from Halloween and presents for Christmas – and forget about all the other ones. That may be because most of the people around me are teenagers; I get it. But each event has its own importance. And, whether or not we know it, each event gifts us with something. These gifts may be tangible, like those from Christmas, or they may be more abstract, like those from Thanksgiving. Many Key Clubbers prefer to volunteer at races so they would either obtain a souvenir for their efforts or be around their friends for the duration of the event. Their motives are not a problem. However the result of their actions is a problem. The problem ultimately lies in the fact that they do not volunteer as easily in events that do not have a form of compensation. Volunteer events such as helping tutor elementary or middle school students, visiting senior care centers, or creating small items such as cards are often overlooked. Students don't seem to find those events “fun” and since they don't receive anything, few attend them. Despite not having a “tangible” compensation, those events are highly important and having enough members to help is necessary. They help the community and make people happy. By tutoring children that need help, the overall performance of that school or district improves. Visiting the elderly in a senior care center or making handmade items to donate makes people happy and improves the emotions of everyone around. The funds earned from races may be donated to a non-profit organization, but those organizations are remote parties. In order to directly help one’s own community, one should volunteer in their area. Of course, one should also pay attention to global matters and needs. But they shouldn't forget their roots and they should try to give something back to the community that raised them.
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Upcoming Events
Christmas At The Square December 1st 4:30pm-9:30pm Downtown Garland Square
Canstruction December 2nd 2:30pm-7:00pm Garland High School
Movie Night December 9th 5pm-7pm Garland High School - Library 5
RECAP
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By: Patrick Vu We were assigned to the VIP area, so some of us stood by the enterance and made sure that only the people with the VIP bracelets came in. We also helped the racers with signing up to become a VIP.
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Thanks For Reading!
Garland High School Key Club
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