October 2018 Newsletter

CNH I K E Y C L U B kfkfk Cloverdale Key Club | Issue 4 | October 2018 | rowanaddison & kaylagallego17@icloud. com

Soaring with Service

Inside:

A Message from the President Fall Rally Update!

Key Club Week!

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

Table of Contents Messages Recognition Save the Rain RTC Kiwanis Activities Game Night/Orientation Levels of Key Club HUGS Project PTP New EAs Fall Rally Vineyard Races November Calendar Key Club Week UNICEF/Eliminate March of Dimes Social Media & Contacts Thank You

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Pages 4-5 Pages 6-9 Pages 10-11 Page 12 Pages 13-14 Page 15 Pages 16-17 Pages 18-19 Page 20 Page 21 Page 22 Page 23 Page 24 Pages 25-27 Page 28 Page 29 Pages 30-31 Page 32

At the Redwood Empire Food Bank

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• We did a project with our Kiwanis Family – the Color Blast • We did a project with another Key Club – Leis making with Windsor at our own Starbucks on a Saturday morning • We did a CNH “BEE Clean” project by cleaning up the River Park Walk after our Color Blast • We did a PTP project by raising funds in front of Ray’s • We challenged another Key Club, (Windsor) to see which club could raise the most money for PTP in September – we did!

• We made and submitted a video on “What does service mean to me?”

We applied for CNH recognition with this project!

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By Neidi Calvillo Hello Key Clubbers! I am so excited for this year because It will be filled with fun and memorable activities. I am very happy about the number of Key Clubbers we have coming to our meetings! Fall Rally at Six Flags, Vallejo, is just around the corner; and we need to ramp-up our fundraising for PTP!!! I have many other fundraisers in mind, and ideas for many fun activities for everyone. One of my goals was to be close as a club; therefore, Gonzalo and I worked hard to put together the Game Night and Member Orientation held this weekend. Keep coming to our meetings, and you’ll learn all about what’s coming up, including International Key Club Week!

I hope to get to know every single one of you better!! Our entire Board is looking forward to working with everyone!

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L-O-V-E…We LOVE our Soaring Pres!

The Kiwanis Family

By Sebastian Ley Key Club is part of the Kiwanis FAMILY which includes the Kiwanis Club and the Builders Club, here in Cloverdale. We all work together to get service done. You may already be familiar with the Builders Club at Washington School. We are so proud of what they accomplish! It’s nice, too, that we can always count on their help for some of the big projects, like Save the Rain. Of course, there is also the Kiwanis Club, which is our sponsor club. They are always helping us with projects. They give us ideas, share their passion for service and really treat us like we’re their own kids! As you get more and more involved with the Kiwanis, you really will start to feel like they are FAMILY!

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Member of the Month Mem

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Our Member of the Month for August was Hannah Sharp who completed 7.5 participatory hours in just two short weeks.

She was really involved in our plans for the Color Blast, attending committee meetings, and helping to pass out invitation cards at a football game. She also attended a Kiwanis meeting in her first weeks as a member!.

Officer of the Month

Our Officer of the Month in August was Neidi Calvillo who has been doing an outstanding job as Co-President. She had 31.5 participatory hours in that month.

She was particularly important in planning and conducting more than one activity that were Kiwanis family events. She brought in a special gift for each student who showed up for our first meeting. She was also very involved in contacting new members.

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By Lilly Duran

Getting Sponsorships from Businesses

Save The Rain is a group that gives people in Tanzania clean water for life, by building a gutter system on the largest building in the village to catch clean rainwater, and then funneling the water through pipes to a large storage tank.

Without this, many of the children in the village would have to walk at least six hours each day to get water that is often dirty. They often get sick, and sometimes die from the bacteria in the water.

Making Colored Powder

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Advertising at the Football Game

By Lilly Duran

Anahi, the Color Blast Chair

…To help these people, we put on a Color Blast to raise money for the Save The Rain organization. For the Color Blast, we had people walk or run while we threw colored cornstarch on them. For those who wanted them, we provided them with white t-shirts and the option of having their picture taken. Thank you to all who have assisted with this project. We had a “blast” putting this event together!

Rubbing the color on to get it to stick!

All ages, some runners, some not…but all had a good time!

Throwing the Powder

Beautiful day!

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Region Training Conference

By Miguel Gonzalez | Division Communications Chair Hello there, Key Clubbers! RTC happened in late September! At the Region Training Conference, we met members from all across the division, (mostly schools in Sonoma County), while we went to informative training sessions. These sessions covered various topics which educated us, not only about Key Club, but also about leadership in general.

We also learned about service needs and the Kiwanis Family. It was a great day, and many who were there appreciated the opportunity to make PTP Dolls and Leis for Veterans.

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A highlight of the day was being able to do some hands-on service, making leis for veterans, while we attended sessions!

What’s in the Box?

A Kiwanis Family Project

Our Board members went to a September Kiwanis meeting and held an auction. Each member brought a “surprise” gift that was put into a bag or box. The gifts were then auctioned off, with each Key Clubber providing a single clue as to the surprise inside! Our super-generous Kiwanis Club bid $405.50 on mystery items!

By Kayla Gallego At the Oktoberfest, there was simply happiness; everyone was very kind and welcoming towards each other. My experience in working alongside everyone was very fun! I met so many amazing and kind people there, and even fooled around with some of the kids around my age. Being a food server was also a fun experience, since I was able to see so many people enjoying themselves!

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A Kiwanis Family Project

By Kayla Gallego At the Oktoberfest, there was simply happiness; everyone was very kind and welcoming towards each other. My experience in working alongside everyone was very fun! I met so many amazing and kind people there, and even fooled around with some of the kids around my age. Being a food server was also a fun experience, since I was able to see so many people enjoying themselves!

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Member Orientation Orientation Member

It was a well-planned event, held at our advisor, Stephen’s home. We had presentations given

by Sophia, Alexis, Miguel, Neidi, Alyssa and Lilly. We even played a Kiwanis Connections Kahoot!

After we held the Member Orientation, we had fun playing pool, challenging each other in board games singing to ukulele music and making tutus for Fall Rally

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Club Projects include: helping at local events like the Car Show & the Oktoberfest; the Save the Rain project; the HUGS project at the convalescent hospital; Shine Days with the Special Day Class, child care for the Jefferson PTA, etc.

Division Projects include: attending Division Council Meetings where service is done; helping to re-build Sonoma County, (like Habitats for Humanity); attending events like the Awake-A-Thon, etc.

Region Projects include: going to the Region Training Conference. We only have 2 divisions in our region. The other division is north of us, and on the coastline, and includes Fortuna, McKinleyville, etc.

District Projects include: raising money for the Pediatric Trauma Program (PTP); helping at the Kiwanis Family House; “Bee Clean” (Keeping the environment clean); attending Fall Rally, attending the District Convention, etc.

International Projects include: March of Dimes, Children’s Miracle Network, UNICEF, the Eliminate Project, the Thirst Project, and project that benefits children, (“Focus on Children”), etc.

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The H.U.G.S. Project Helping our Members to Understand the Importance of Geriatric Service

By Paula Toledo The HUGS program that we have started is a wonderful hands-on project that we get to do with our Cloverdale HealthCare Center (convalescent hospital). Many of our former members have participated in our monthly Shine Days at our high school. The HUGS project is similar to our Shine Days, in that we will have a regular and frequent activity with the people we are helping. For starters, we will be transporting members to the convalescent hospital once a week to play Bingo with the patients. It will be every Wednesday afternoon from 2:30 to 3:30 p.m. One Wednesday a month we will be creating our own project to do with them.

Each activity involves a special theme. For example, during December we will be sharing Christmas music with our own musical instruments. Some of the other special projects are craft ones, like making bird houses with them, or painting decorative tiles. We hope this project is a great way to get our members involved within the community, maybe even get a sense of a career path choice. Also, it’s a wonderful way to accumulate regular service hours. And, we know we will be appreciated by the HealthCare facility residents, (who are sometimes lonely and neglected.

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We’ve already started the weekly visits to play Bingo with the patients!

HUGS Project Monthly Plans

Month

Activity

November 7th (2-4 p.m.)

Decorate tiles with alcohol inks to make coasters/wall decorations Play and sing Christmas music w/gifts Make aromatherapy neck pillows from socks Record “from the heart” stories and create personalized storybooks Make weighted pads

December 5th (2-4 p.m.)

January 9th (2-4 p.m.)

February 6th (2-4 p.m.)

March 6th (2-4 p.m.)

April 3rd (2-4 p.m.)

May 1st (2-4 p.m.)

Make yarn Easter Eggs Make bird feeders

November 7th Project at the HealthCare Center 2:15 – 4:00 p.m.

Decorating ceramic coasters

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Accidental death is the leading cause of death (40%) among children under the age of 15 As much as 90% of these injuries can be easily prevented Common reasons for injuries severe include biking accidents, car booster seats, domestic dangers, playground injuries and drowning accidents

We have focused our PTP fundraising efforts on setting up tables in front of Ray’s and asking for donations; and on the Awake-A-Thon, held on Friday, October 5th. Money is slowly coming in, and we hope to have $700-$800 by the time we take our donation to Fall Rally.

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Danielle Neustadt: She has joined our club, and our Board, for the first time this year. Danielle is a junior. We are thrilled that she is taking a leadership role in the club. She has been involved in all our major service activities so far this year, and she is a strong voice on our Board.

Sebastian Ley: He has been in Key Club for two years and is now a sophomore. This is his second time to be on the Board, both times he has served as an Executive Assistant. He is an active member who is willing to do a lot of service. He has been especially helpful this year with our Save the Rain project, raising a lot of money for children in Africa to get access to clean water.

Kayla Gallego: She is a sophomore at CHS and this is her first year in Key Club.

She has a strong participant in most of our projects, helping with the Save the Rain-Bow Color Blast, going to the Region Training Conference and so much more! She has also agreed to partner in the production of the club newsletters!

Alyssa Arrington: She was the President of the middle school Builders Club last year, and has been extremely active in Key Club, joining in June and even doing some activities over the summer! She was also the Member of the Month for September! She is a freshman in her first year as a club member.

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Fall Rally is a fun time when all Northern California & Nevada divisions get together to celebrate all their efforts for PTP (Pediatric Trauma Program)! Once we arrive at Six Flags for the event, we will meet with our division, and practice cheers together. After we all go to an outdoor stage area, we’ll hold a rally! During the rally, we do cheers, have fun spirit competitions, and use the money we brought to the rally to “bid” on the CNH Key Club leaders. We’ll be bidding on our own Emily Lau! After an hour of this, our group goes to eat lunch in a special picnic area set aside for Key Club; and then we’re allowed to enjoy the rest of the day with our friends!

Fun Facts: Key Club has so many students that two rallies are needed to fit everyone in!

There will be 3,000 to 4,000 Key Clubbers there! o Once it gets dark, everyone gets to enjoy the spooky Fright Fest! o

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You MUST do a minimum of one 2-hour session in front of Ray’s to help raise the money we’re taking there for the PTP cause.

You MUST have already paid your dues - $10 You MUST have your Key Club paperwork turned in You MUST have a division t-shirt (cost $13 if you don’t already have one) The cost to all members is $40 – although the actual cost is more like $60 o The $40 is due by October 16 – (can be turned in to the office in an envelope) o The Kiwanis and Key Club is covering the $20 not paid by members!

We are meeting at 6:30 a.m. at CHS; we will return home around 10:30 p.m.

Bring a minimum of $20-$30 with you to spend on food later in the day

WHEN? / WHERE? Sunday, October 21st from 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at Asti Winery

Serving food and more!

Need a ride? Contact 591-3235

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Kiwanis Meeting

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Show Your K Day

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Kudos to the the Key Players Day

Health Care Center – Tiles Project & Dinner for UNICEF

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Club Meeting

HealthCare Center – Bingo

Kiwanis Mtg – Thank You Program & Kindness Day

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KConnection Bowling

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Key Leader Kiwanis Board Mtg.

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HealthCare Center

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Key Club Week • Monday- “Show Your K in Every Way” Day o Wear spirit attire o Take pictures during lunch • Tuesday- “Kudos to the Key Players” Day o Write thank you cards to advisors o Appreciate our CHS staff by giving them donuts at Break o Put up signs “Thank you for BEEing you” • Wednesday- “Dare to Care” Day o Sponsor a Diverse-A-Dish Dinner o All Board members are asked to bring a dish and all members are encouraged to bring one ▪ Set up at 5 p.m. Start at 6:30.

▪ Hold a donation drawing as part of the evening ▪ All proceeds will go to UNICEF • Thursday- “Random Acts of Kindness” Day o Be the program at the Kiwanis meeting with thank you gifts o Decorate clothespins with happy sayings to pin people at school • Friday- “Connect the Ks” Day o Go to the Epicenter with Kiwanis, Builders Club and possibly other Key Clubs in the division ▪ Meet at CHS 6:30 p.m.

▪ Bowling for an hour starting at 7:30 p.m.

▪ Attendees should bring $10 for bowling (that includes shoe rental) ▪ From 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. everyone is free to do what they please until departure (9:30 p.m.)

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Cloverdale Key Club Diverse-A-Dish Dinner

Wednesday, November 7, 2018

Buffet starts at 6:30 p.m.

CHS East Gym Enjoy a culturally diverse choice of: • Mexican, Italian, & Asian foods Pre-sale prices: Adults- $10 Children- $5 Families of 4 or more: $7 Adult & $3 Child Prices at the door: Adults- $13 Children- $7 Families of 4 or more: $9 Adult & $5 Child

Purchase pre-sale tickets from Key Clubbers or at the Mail Center, Etc. Or phone 591-3235 to place an order for the tickets to be held at the door.

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When doing a phone order, be ready to identify a last name and the number of each type of ticket needed

Key Clubbers, Kiwanis and Builders Clubbers are all invited to a FUN NIGHT at the EPICENTER on Coffey Lane in Santa Rosa.

▪ Friday, November 9th ▪ Meet at CHS at 6:30 p.m.

▪ Travel to EPICENTER and bowl during the first hour for $10 ▪ Choose another activity for one more hour.

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For the Kiwanis, there is a nice lounge and dining area

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Save the Rain committee meeting

Key Club has been fundraising for the Eliminate Project. This project was started by Kiwanis International to get rid of maternal and neonatal tetanus, (MNT), world-wide. MNT is a deadly disease which has taken the lives of many babies and mothers over the years. They die from Tetanus, contracted when birthing under unsanitary conditions. Raising money will help people from other countries to have their babies live, instead of die. For every dollar donated, the Kiwanis family is getting closer to the 110-million-dollar goal, set in 2011. Some of our members were at the 2015 convention where Key Club International pledged to raise 3 million dollars more for the cause. All Key Clubs around the world are working to reach this goal.

On Halloween night, our members will go door-to-door to ask for donations to UNICEF. Every dollar that is collected will make a difference for children. â–Ş $1.80 is all that is needed to purchase THREE tetanus shots â–Ş Those shots, given to women of child-bearing age, help them and their children to avoid getting tetanus, even when birthing occurs in unsanitary conditions

o Members can get 1-2 hours of service that night o o o o

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by taking the boxes door-to-door It can be done at member convenience The money should be turned in before school on Thursday $10 in Key Club Bucks, per hour, can be earned Participants names will also be put into a drawing for a gift card to use at the movie theater

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The March of Dimes was created in order to help with the health of mothers and babies to prevent any birth defects and premature births in the United States. The March of Dimes assists doctors and hospitals to educate families about conditions that can lead to prematurity. Money is also spent on medicines and care for those born prematurely. By donating money to this cause, you can save a mother’s or baby’s life, and create a brighter future for American families. You might even make the difference for a neighbor, here in Cloverdale!

Just for Fun

We’re sponsoring a Bake Sale WHEN? ▪ November 12th (no school that day) ▪ 2-6 p.m.

▪ For this event, we need baked goods and workers

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Social Media

Club

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Cloverdale High School Key Club

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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