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Table of Contents Calendar
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LTG Recognition
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International Convention
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Beach Clean-Up
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AAR Recommendations
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Guidelines for club budgeting
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Spotlight on Service
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PTP
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Club Reporting
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Kiwanis Family House Trip
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Redwood Empire Food Bank Day/August DCM
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Special Olympics Day
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Macy’s Shop for A Cause
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RTC
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Contacts
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August 4th| Monthly Report Forms Due August 5th | Spotlight On Service August 13th | Archive Service Project Reports Due August 15th | Club Reports Due August 17th | DLT Meeting
August 22nd | DCM/Redwood Empire Food Bank August 29th | Special Olympics Softball August 29th | Macy’s Shop For A Cause
SAVE THE DATE: September 19th
Region Training Conference
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I hope you have been enjoying your summer and creating amazing memories. As school approaches, I know it will be a little harder balancing school and Key Club, but I BEElieve in you! This coming year there will be lots of learning moments to allow you to grow to become a better leader, but there will be lots of stress as well. However, I am cheering you on and I know the Division Leadership Team is, too. I cannot wait to get to know you more and I wish you a great servicefilled year! As always, if you get too overwhelmed with Key Club duties or you life in general, you can contact me anytime. Remember to just breathe and know that you are amazing, thank you for all you do.
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OFFICER OF THE MONTH GOES TO… Fatima Aguilar Fatima is from Piner High School, currently serving as Vice President. She puts a lot of effort into everything she does and always has a smile on her face whenever you see her. She is one of the reasons why Piner is so successful and will continue to be an outstanding club. It’s been an absolute pleasure to have Fatima as part of the Division Leadership Team as an Assistant. She always works hard and learns from her mistakes. If you ask anyone about Fatima, they have nothing but kind and caring words to say. Her love to serve continues to grow and her leadership skills continue to soar. I’m glad to call her my friend. Congratulations, beautiful, and I know you’ll continue to serve with a smile. “She always has a positive attitude towards all she does for our club.” –Mary Nguyen, Piner President
THE MEMBER OF THE MONTH GOES TO… Lillian Bearden Lillian goes to Cloverdale High School, and has been an outstanding member. She’s always telling funny jokes and stories; putting smiles on other’s faces during DCM’s and service projects. I had such a great time attending International Convention with her and witnessing her love for Key Club. She is a great leader and I know she’ll do more astonishing things throughout her Key Club journey. Congratulations buddy and thank you for making many of us laugh. “She put an astounding amount of effort into not only service activities, but also into fundraising to help pay the club expenses for attending this event” -Rose French, Cloverdale Secretary 5
THE KIWANIS ADVISOR OF THE MONTH GOES TO… TRICIA SHINDLEDECKER Ms. Shindledecker is the Kiwanis advisor for Montgomery and a member of the Oakmont Kiwanis Club. She accompanied Division 32 to International Convention and they had an incredible time. She attends all of the events and aids Montgomery in their duties. Not only does she support her home club, but she supports others as well. Additionly, she volunteers to let the Division Leadership Team use her office on a monthly basis to hold our meetings. I am very proud to say I have a beautiful , smart, supportive and inspiring advisor. Thank you Ms. Shindledecker for all you have done for Montgomery and Region 15. “Tricia has been the best Key Club Advisor, she’s so genuine and amazing!” –Alondra Lona, Montgomery Member
THE FACULTY ADVISOR OF THE MONTH GOES TO… LAURIE FONG Ms. Laurie Fong is the principal for Montgomery and although she isn’t the main Faculty Advisor, she has been so supportive of the home club this past year and especially this summer. She made a special effort to acknowledge the newly elected officers and to congratulate Monty’s success in becoming a Diamond Distinguished Club. She has also helped in getting administrative paperwork signed. Members feel incredibly supported by their school principal. She is very sweet, and I am thankful for her support to help our club be more successful” – Lisset Miranda, Montgomery Vice President
Ms. Shindledecker with some of her students
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THE CLUB OF THE MONTH GOES TO… CLOVERDALE Cloverdale always does a fantastic job on service projects, fundraising, and having members attend division events. This club has 490 service hours and has 2 wonderful leaders on the Division Leadership Team who do an excellent job. Maggie Duran, Summer Activities Coordinator, is mostly the reason why our Division has not completely died out during the summer. Jessie Marshall is the News Editor and she always makes our newsletters so informative and visually appealing, just like this one! Furthermore, Cloverdale always tries and helps other clubs when they need it. Other clubs in the Division I serve really listen to what they have to say and take it back to their club. In addition, their Advisor, Sue Cummins, is there to support them at all times and never disappoints. I am very honored to be serving Cloverdale and being able to learn new things from their club. “The members always answer the phone when I need them and they’re always supporting me” -Jessie Marshall, Club President
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Key Club pledged to raise another $3 million for the Eliminate project!
International Convention was so much fun! I learned so much from the workshops I attended and cannot wait to bring back information from them to my home club. Some of the workshops taught me many different things, like strategies to keeping a meeting energized and retaining members during the second semester. I think that we not only grew closer as a division, but as a district as well. Spending a week together allowed us to create new friendships. ICON was definitely an eye-opening experience and I am incredibly grateful that I was able to attend. - by Jessie Marshall
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Firstly, I’d like to thank Sue and Rick Cummins, along with Tricia Shindledecker for being the most amazing chaperones we could ever ask for!!! The trip to Indianapolis was incredibly awesome and it wouldn’t have been that great if we didn’t have you all! ICON this year was an experience I’ll never forget. The convention, itself, was inspiring and beautifully put together. One of my favorite parts was the different joint sessions, held with all branches of the Kiwanis family represented. I loved one group session where they went over the history of Kiwanis in a decade format; the presentation itself was done in fun and interactive….it was awesome!! While the convention was informative and well done, our side tour to Chicago was so incredible! The museums were huge and filled to the brim with enriching history and quirky artifacts. I loved every moment we spent in the Windy City, and conquered my fear of heights, (even though it was only momentary). In addition to all the fun times and great experiences, I also became a lot closer to three girls in our division—Daniela, Lisset and Harlin. You are AMAZNG! ICON was an absolute blast and I’m so glad I got to share it with some of the greatest people I know! - by Maggie Duran
ICON ATTENDEES: Lisset Miranda Danila Alvarez Harlin Advincula Maggie Duran Jessie Marshall Lillian Bearden
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By Javier Aguilar, Healdsburg Vice President The Beach Clean-Up was very fun. It was my first major division-wide service project. We walked around “Goat Rock” out in Bodega Bay and picked up all the trash that people hadn’t bothered to clean up themselves. We really didn't find much, as the state also cleans that beach but there were still some garbage. As I worked, I was reminded that people need to learn how to keep our beaches clean. I'm looking forward to more division-wide projects as it is a great way to make new friends.
CMN Work Session
DCM
The best part about the July CMN work session and DCM was the Kiwanis participation! We had almost an equal amount of Kiwanis members present, to match our Key Clubbers! We had fun making non-skid socks for hospitalized children, and learning how to make non-sew pillow cases for them. Our DCM was informative and packed with information about how to make our clubs better!
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Guidelines for Asking Your Kiwanis Club to Budget Funds for Your Key Club
Over-view of sponsoring Kiwanis financial obligations to a Key Club: Minimal: District Convention attendance for at least 4 members and a Kiwanis adult – $1000 Key Leader attendance for at least two members – $200 – $100 per member – (notice this does not cover the entire expense. With this plan, students are being asked to help fundraise some of the cost.)
Meals for Key Clubbers to attend Kiwanis meetings – $300 – (this may vary depending upon the costs of your meeting meals) Best: District Convention registration for at least 4 members and ALL expenses of the Kiwanis adult attendee – $1200 Key Leader attendance for two to four members and one Kiwanis adult – $800 – (Again, It is recommend that Kiwanis doesn’t pay the ENTIRE way of the students, but that they are asked to fundraise for some of their registration costs.)
Meals for Key Clubbers to attend Kiwanis meetings – $700 – $1000 (this may vary depending upon the costs of your meeting meals. This plan allows for more regular attendance of your Key Clubbers at your Kiwanis meetings. Do not forget to invite them to your Kiwanis Board meetings, too.)
Giving some funds for their discretionary use – For example: Ideally, they should send EVERY officer + other deserving members to DCON…. which is probably more than 4 students…. this is an extra cost. They need some club operating funds, to help them with general administrative expenses. Make sure that they create a BUDGET that their advisor(s) and Board approve. This should ensure that they are wise in how they utilize any discretionary funds given to them. Suggested minimum on discretionary funds would be $500. Support for the division to put on events like OTC, (Officers Training Conference) and RTC, (Region Training Conference), etc. – A check made out to the Division 32 Key Clubs/Cloverdale Key Club (as that club is the division “bank”)…. for a minimal amount, once a year would be really nice. Suggested amount, assuming ALL Kiwanis clubs that sponsor Key Clubs actually write a check, would be $150 per Kiwanis club. (Since at least half our sponsoring Kiwanis clubs have not responded to previous such requests, those clubs that do tend to respond, may, if budget permits, choose to provide a little more in their financial support.) 12
How to Create a Club Budget If you are going to approach your Kiwanis Club for financial support, using the guidelines from the previous page, then you need to be responsible enough to create a club budget. You should make sure the budget is approved by your club officers at a Board meeting. Then, you can show it to your Kiwanis Board, demonstrating that you will be serious about your use of the funds they give you.
Below is an example of how to do a budget, giving possible ways you might bring in, and spend money. Don’t forget that the total income and total disbursements MUST be the same! If possible, (but not required), it is suggested that you create your budget in Excel format.
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Spotlight on Service for August Have a book drive or school supply drive! Start a tutoring program
Get involved with the YMCA! Work with your Kiwanis or Builders Club! Support Pencils of Promise! The money goes to building a school, train a teacher, fund a scholarship, or help create health programs.
Help sponsor $1 a day for “Save the Children�! The child will not only get education, but food as well. 14
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Archive Reports Due every 13th of the month Needs to include one event that your club has done in the past month and some pictures of your club doing service. NO POSED SHOTS.
The paragraph needs to be at least three sentences. Anyone can write this article, of course, as long as the person was there. When sending the paragraph, please use Word document format, and also include the writer’s name, as well as the club. Please send to Jessie Marshall! Make sure to “cc” Harlin Advincula and Sue Cummins.
Jessie—jessiemarshal2448@gmail.com
Harlin—harlinmae@gmail.com
Sue—cummins@sonic.net
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A summary of what your club has done for the past month 4 pictures (can be posed) Member of the Month Officer of the Month Advisor/Adult of the Month (optional) Please send to Jessie Marshall! Make sure to “cc� Harlin Advincula and Sue Cummins.
Presidents or Vice Presidents should be writing these articles.
Due every 15th of the month
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Humboldt Homeschoolers – by Cody Sherman The Humboldt County Homeschool Key Club has been sponsoring our annual “Mexican Dinner Fundraiser“ for about 10 years now. The first thing we do is go to Humboldt County businesses and tell them about our fundraiser and ask them if they would like to advertise their business for $25.00, at the dinner; and we also see if they would like to buy tickets to the dinner and attend; (we have a dessert auction after dinner). We all try to sell tickets for the dinner, adults $7, children $3, seniors $5, family (4+) $20; and we all try to advertise through flyers at local businesses, word of mouth, Kiwanis meetings and our homeschool group newsletter. We make placemats with business card size advertisements of all of the businesses that participate. We shop for the food about a week before the dinner. A local church lets us use their facilities to host the event. We all meet together at the church about 1 p.m. to prepare; and the dinner starts at 5 p.m. We have a dessert auction, too. The community has been very supportive and they come to the dinner ready to back us in our fundraising efforts. Our highest bid at the desert auction this year was $90.00 for a cake! We choose a different recipient in the community each year to which we donate the money. This year we chose the Eureka Rescue Mission as our recipient. We raised approximately $2,500.00. It is really great to work together to be able to help others. We are very happy to be able to donate this money to the Eureka Rescue Mission, and to help make a positive difference in our community!
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Montgomery High School - by Lisset Miranda I’m going to talk primarily about my experiences at the Key Club International convention. ICON was a very fun but most importantly I was able to learn new things. This is my second International Convention. Last ICON I was very scared to attend any workshop alone, but this time I made sure to attend the ones I really wanted to learn something from. I do not know why I was scared before, because I know that every Key Clubber is very nice. I was very happy to meet and talk to people from Aruba, Michigan and Ohio. I was able to experience back stage scenes in counting ballots during the House of Delegates. I had to collect the ballots from the voting delegates and I was not allowed to even touch them. It was very serious and each volunteer had to have a box that could not be given to another person. It was very important that we didn’t talk about the votes. That was completely something new to me. Although we did have to wake up early in order to be on time, I was tired yet happy that I was there. Indianapolis and Chicago were both amazing places because it was my first time being in the East. The Chicago tour with the rest of CNH was amazing and very fun, I was able to get close to some of the people. Apart from being happy about the trip to ICON I was very happy that Grace Swarthout was chosen as Member of the Month. Grace is a very enthusiastic girl when it comes to Key Club. She is very responsible and works hard when we have service projects. She makes people feel welcome and I believe she really deserves to be Member of the Month because she is a great leader.
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Piner High School - by Mary Nguyen Piner has been using social media as a way to communicate with one another about what we need to take care of. We have been figuring what days we can meet up to talk about the budget as well as the Children’s Miracle Network project and the community service that is available through the division. It has been hard to find a day where we could all meet because everybody is busy this summer. We figured out what we want to do for the CMN project. We are planning to make small toys and decorations that the children so that they can decorate their hospital rooms. We just started figuring out ways to recruit new members for the incoming school year and with this I am making a PowerPoint on what Key Club is about and what we do as a club. We met on a Friday in July to talk about our plans and budget for the year. Piner’s Officer of the Month is Fatima Aguilar, because she has been a great help to the president. She helped arrange the meeting date for the club. She always has a positive attitude towards all that she does for the club. Since all of the club members in our club at the moment are officers, they have been finding and working on their own service work. The biggest service work that we have talked about for the summer was the Summer Day Camp for Children. We are still waiting on the emails from different schools to allow us to do a beautification clean-up project.
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Santa Rosa High School – by Sophie Haugen This past month has been fairly successful. We started budget discussions with the officers and will be attending a Kiwanis meeting in August to talk to the Santa Rosa Kiwanis Club about how our budgets will work together. In July, Sophie Haugen attended a Kiwanis meeting and talked to them about donating their time and supplies to the Kiwanis Family House for the trip on July 25th. They were extremely kind and welcoming. We also attended the CMN work session and DCM on the 19th of July. One of our members attended the beach clean-up and contributed one hour of service to our AAR score. This month has been fun and next month we are focusing on involving more of our members in division activities! We’re excited that school will be starting soon.
Cloverdale High School - by Jessie Marshall This past month Cloverdale has been continuing with a campus outdoor table painting project. Our Senior Center garden project has be put on hold until the city builds a fence around the area. Three of our members went to ICON and will be presenting about it to our local Kiwanis in August. Not only that, but Cloverdale will be starting to help the local Food Pantry, as well as raise money for PTP. School will start soon, so we are planning on how to get more members to join our club. We are also having our officer training with our advisor so that she can teach us more in-depth information about our jobs as officers. The Member of the Month is Audrey Fetzer. She has done a terrific work with the table painting project, and has gone to many of our events. The Officer of the Month is Lillian Bearden. She just bought all her scrapbook supplies and is now, as I write, creating our scrapbook. Our Advisor of the Month is Sue Cummins who is teaching our officers about their duties. 21
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Next Redwood Empire Food Bank Day and DCM!
Want to work at REFB? Be there by 9 a.m. Just want to do the DCM? Be there by 11 a.m.
3990 Brickway Blvd., Windsor 24
In Napa
More details being arranged!!
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August 29th Macy’s Shop for A Cause Day Supports the March of Dimes. We need members to be at the TWO stores in Santa Rosa from noon to 4 p.m.
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“Superheroes of Service”
SAVE THE DATE! September 19th Did you receive your Officer Training? Don’t worry! This is one more chance to be properly trained! There will be an officer training portion to the evening.
Region Training Conference Registration fee will be $12 for students , and this money also pays for their division t-shirt. Adults are $5 (unless they want to buy a t-shirt, then they cost $12.)
RTC WILL START AT 3:30 p.m. AND RUN UNTIL 8:00 p.m.
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