January 2019

CNH I K E Y C L U B Cloverdale Key Club | Issue 6 | January 2019 | rowanaddison & kaylagallego17@icloud. com

Soaring with Service

Inside:

District Convention Kiwanis Projects YOF Grant

Cloverdale High School | 509 N. Cloverdale Blvd., Cloverdale, CA, 95425

Table of Contents Messages Recognition DCMs Kiwanis Team-Up Member of the Year HUGS Project Eliminate Project DCON Division Conclave Shine Day MRP – Congrats Knights Dinner Grease Movie Night February Calendar Just for Fun Steelhead Festival Officer Elections Social Media & Contacts Thank You

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At the Redwood Empire Food Bank

It was so heart-warming to play and sing Christmas carols to the patients at the convalescent hospital. This was an addon activity on the day we decorated gingerbread cookies with them as part of our HUGS Project!

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Hello Everyone, As my term comes nearer to its end, I have to say that this year was one crazy year! There have been many challenges and many rewards! It is about that time of the year that we begin electing new officers for our 2019-20 Key Club term! It is important to everyone that next year we have some really good officers. Without strong leaders we will not be able to manage our club, because we do so much! Be sure to think about whether or not you want to be an officer for the next Key Club year. Applications are being distributed right now; and the last weeks of January are a time to reflect upon your Key Club goals for the future. Do you want to become a more active leader in the club? The new Key Club year will start at the April District Convention. This means that our newly elected officers will begin to take over by mid-April.

There is always a transition period when the current officers train the new officers, and duties are shared, usually for most of April and May. Whether or not you decide to be an officer candidate, be sure to come to our first meeting in February. This is the date when our elections will take place. Hope to see all of you there!

Hope to see a lot of you stepping forward to help operate the club for next year!

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By Paula Toledo Key Club is an organization that improves people’s lives; and for me, I’m noticing that fact more and more. Not only have we touched the lives of the patients at the Cloverdale HealthCare Center with our HUGS Project, (our newest service effort), but we have shown our members what they can accomplish through simple kindness. In 2018 we connected with our members in ways that helped us to become more of a Kiwanis/Key Club family. Now, as we head into 2019, with more goals to accomplish, remember that DCON is right around the corner! Hopefully, we will have a lot of members who will find it amazing. Please consider attending this year’s District Convention, “Service in Wonderland”. If you’ve been a hard-working member, you will definitely deserve the experience!

It’s something you will never forget! Sign-ups for DCON will be happening in the first two weeks of February. Make that commitment NOW!

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December DCM We were Division 32 Club of the Month!!

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Kiwanis Crab Feed

It was another successful Crab Feed!

We raised an astonishing $1,600 in tips! It was a fun night, with the Key Clubbers on their feet rushing back and forth between the kitchen and the tables all night. We served a lot of crab!

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Secret Santa Pal Gift Exchange

By Alex Visconti The Kiwanis and Key Club came together for the holidays and switched names, giving one another a random name for gift giving. The budget was $10 per gift, but often Key Clubbers and Kiwanis went well over this. Once we bought the gifts and wrapped them, we got together at a morning Kiwanis meeting, at Zini’s Diner, and opened what Kiwanis gave us; and we handed off our gifts to them. It was pretty exciting, getting things we had put on our lists, or even getting much more than we had asked for!

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Christmas Bake Sale

By Neidi Calvillo This year, the Kiwanis Christmas Bake Sale was a success!

Everyone had so much fun and we were all happy with the results. Each Key Clubber wanting to participate tried to bring at least one item for the auction. Our generous Kiwanis spent $615! On behalf of the Cloverdale Key Club, I can say we are all very grateful. The same day, the Secret Santa Pal gift exchange took place. This made everyone have even more fun! It was a very good way to finish off 2018 with our wonderful Cloverdale Kiwanis!

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Helping Our Kiwanis Caroling at the HealthCare Center

By Danielle Neustadt On Sunday, December 16th, a few of our Key Club members attended caroling with the Kiwanis at the Cloverdale HealthCare Center.

The Key Club members, along with the Kiwanis members, sang a number of Christmas carols to the residents there. It was a blast! There were snacks, and a lot of memorable music.

Gonzalo played the saxophone and we had a pianist accompany us. It was a great time to bond with the residents and get into the Christmas spirit!

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Working at the Food Pantry

We spent two Friday afternoons in December helping our Kiwanis operate the Cloverdale Food Pantry!

Honoring Kayla

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At the January Kiwanis meeting, the Kiwanis Presidents Michael Laird and Laurie Kneeland presented Kayla to the Kiwanis Club as an applicant for the Cali-Nev-Ha Member of the Year Award. Kayla put together a 52-page document which has been recognized as the Division 32 winner and is now being considered as a possible winner in our tri-state district.

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HUGS Project

Paula Toledo, Grant Writer Extraordinaire

“Cloverdale High School Key Club was selected to receive a US$300 Youth Opportunities Fund Grant for The HUGS Project, (Helping our members to Understand the importance of Geriatric Service). With nearly 140 applicants the YOF Committee had a difficult time selecting this year’s grant recipients. So, your club should be very proud of the application it presented.”

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~ Heather McAlister, Program Specialist | Key Club International

HUGS Project Every Wednesday (We either play Bingo or do a special project with the hospital patients)

On other Wednesdays our members played Bingo with the patients at the Cloverdale HealthCare Center. Each week, more and more members are participating and finding that it’s fun to be with these often neglected, but so appreciative people!

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By: Kayla Gallego By: Kayla Gallego For the UNICEF Eliminate Project, we went around town to collect the UNICEF donation boxes, (whichEliminate had beenProject, placedthree in about businesses a month earlier).

We had For the UNICEF Key 30 Club members recently went around atown lot of fun while doing this, because it wasboxes, a time(which to be together; andplaced it was also a chance to collect the UNICEF donation had been in about 30 tobusinesses do something for a good cause!

The UNICEF Eliminate program is a project to get rid of a month earlier). We had a lot of fun while doing this, because it was a time maternal and neonatal tetanus, Thissomething is a horrible, andUNICEF Kiwanis to be together; and it was also aworldwide. chance to do fordeadly a gooddisease; cause! The has vowedprogram to stop it!is Here we are, relaxing our visits the businesses.

Eliminate a project to get rid of after maternal andto neonatal tetanus, worldwide.

This is a horrible, deadly disease; and Kiwanis has vowed to stop it! Here we are, relaxing after our visits to the businesses.

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• Members should be making decisions right NOW as to whether-or-not they want to go • The deadline for paperwork and at least $250 of the money is February 11th …(Total cost - $430) • Deadline for the $430 is – March 15th; members can also donate out-of-pocket into Key Club Bucks to ensure all the funds are there • Money to take- Bring at least $60 for meals during travel times and food at Disneyland • Remember – Once signed and registered, you cannot back out without either finding a replacement of the same gender or paying the ENTIRE We costwent to Walmart and

bought clothes and toys forany questions, feel free If you have four Cloverdale children whoof this year’s officers to ask any will all now have a betterabout DCON. You can also go online at Christmas this year! www.cnhkeyclub.org for more info!

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A Division Conclave is a DCM where the clubs in the division vote for the next Lt. Governor.

We were supposed to hold our Division 32 Conclave on January 12th.

There were no candidates at that time.

We now have at least one candidate…so note This year’s voting will take place on Saturday, February 2nd.

We’ll be going to Santa Rosa for a meeting at Cardinal Newman High School, leaving CHS at 9:30 a.m. and returning about 12:30 p.m. Mark your calendars, as this is a VERY IMPORTANT date!

Key Club International by-laws do not allow public campaigning for a candidate. So, we can’t do that here…BUT the next LTG for Division 32 could be from Cloverdale! Let’s go to this DCM & support all the students willing to run for this position!

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This could be a bright beginning for one of our very own soaring eagles!

Shine Days

By Delia Vargas Each Shine Day includes a different activity; every one of them is as fun as the last! They usually have themes that go with what month we are in, so in October we made candy applies, and in December we did gingerbread cookies. The kids in the Special Day Class seem to really enjoy them. They step out of their comfort zones a little, and do activities that end up being fun! We all talk with one another and play games that aren’t even a part of the activity that we are doing. For example, with the candy apples, while we were waiting our turn, we had “sword fights” with the popsicle sticks we used to spear the apples. Or, we tried to juggle with the M&M’s we used. The games that we play always are fun and it feels good to see them happy. It is a good feeling to help the Special Day Class students. They don’t get to interact with others all that often. Many of them are stuck in a single classroom all day long. For December, our project was to decorate gingerbread cookies.

The term “Shine Day” means to shine a light into the lives of the disabled. Each time we sponsor an activity with the Special Day Class, we’re forming a new “Bright Beginning” in their lives!

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Name

CNH Recognition Level

Service Hours to Others

Service to K Family

Lilly Duran

Silver

113

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Paula Toledo

Bronze

85

40

Alyssa Arrington

Bronze

71

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Alexis Sanchez

Bronze

68

60

Kayla Gallego

Bronze

67

28

Neidi Calvillo

Bronze

58

53

Miguel Gonzalez

Bronze

56

134

37

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Rowan Addison

The seven members listed at the top are currently eligible for CaliforniaNevada-Hawaii recognition for their service records, (with the Member Recognition Program…MRP) • All members have until January 31st to finalize their service records for this Key Club year. (A few other members could be on this list by then!

Or some of these members could move up to a “higher” level) • Categories are: o o o o

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Not counted in CNH service records is any service done for others in the Kiwanis family. Including the data from the column on the right gives a very clear sense of the dedication of some of these members! o

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Bronze 50-99 hours Silver 100-149 hours Gold 150-199 hours Platinum 200 + hours

Members accumulating hours in this section are usually performing officer duties, (like working on the website, creating the scrapbook, putting together meeting agendas, attending Board meetings, doing work for the division, etc.

Attending the Knights of Columbus Dinner was a very rewarding time for us. It was nice to give back to the community in this way. It was hectic, and we never had a dull moment!

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Final preparations for the big night included committee meetings, visits to a Lions Club meeting and other Kiwanis Clubs to sell tickets, and lots of dancing practice!

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The evening was a huge success, from the food, to the dancers, to the costume contest, and finally the movie! We were actually helping our Kiwanis Club raise the money they had obligated themselves to give us for the Save the Rain cause. The profit was

$2450!

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THURS

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SAT 1

2 DCM & Conclave

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Club Meeting & Officer Elections

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Health Care Center

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Club Meeting DCON Paperwork due

17 Citrus Fair

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18 Kiwanis Board Mtg.

25 Club Member Recognition Event & Board Mtg.

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Club Meeting

Health Care Center

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Kiwanis Meeting

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21 Kiwanis Meeting

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9 Steelhead Festival

15 Citrus Fair

22 Shine Day

16 Citrus Fair Dinner

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Night with Builders Club

“The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one.�― Mark Twain

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When: Saturday, February 9th Where: Lake Sonoma Visitor’s Center Time: 9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.

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Come and paint children’s faces!

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Save the Rain committee meeting

When – Monday, February 4th Where – Lunchtime meeting • Candidates must turn in an application in advance, and give a short speech at the meeting • Candidates may indicate a position preference, but actually run to be on the officer team • All candidates who give a speech will be elected; some positions lend themselves well to being shared: Vice President, News Editor, Scrapbook Editor, and Webmaster • All elected officers are expected to attend District Convention for specialized training

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Club

Social Media

Cloverdale High School Key Club

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CHS Key Club

https://classroom.google.com/c/MT QzODMxMDA3NTZa

https://www.cloverdalekeyclub.com Cloverdale Key Club

Division CNH Division 2032 Key Club

https://www.keyclubregion15.weebly .com

District https://www.cnhkeyclub.org CyberKey

International https://www.keyclub.org

Co-Presidents Neidi Calvillo Gonzalo Perez

jatciric@outlook.com gonzalop826gmail.com

Grace Gloeckner grace.gloeckner@gmail.com Sophia Witt sophiawitt2@gmailcom

Treasurer Paula Toledo

p.toledo2120@gmail.com

News Editor Rowan Addison

rowanaddison@icloud.com

Scrapbook Editor Alexis Sanchez

Contacts

Co-Secretaries

reyna_lopez710@yahoo.com

Co-Webmasters Miguel Gonzalez miguel414170@gmail.com Alex Visconti viscontialex@gmail.com

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Thank you for reading our January 2019 newsletter

Soaring with Service “Bright Beginnings Buzz”