Division 2 April 2017

OFFICIAL DIVISION 2 NEWSLETTER

American Indian Key Clubbers waiting for runners to come by to take their medals in the Kaiser SF 5K & Half Marathon.

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April 2017 // Volume 5 // Issue 11 Division 2 | Region 9 | Cali-Nev-Ha District | Key Club International

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DCON!

Upcoming Events April DCM: Easter Deggcorating Where: Studio One Art Center Time: 12PM-2PM April DWS: Dunsmuir Egg Hunt Where: Dunsmuir Real Estate Time: 8:30AM-3PM 6

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April’s

Service Spotlight

Kiwanis Foundation Focus: The CNH Service Projects Committee created the Spotlight on Service in order to help educate members about Key Club International and California-Nevada-Hawaii’s service initiatives to encourage active participation. This month’s highlight values the significance of Kiwanis Foundation because they are the backbone to our club activities. Without their guidance and help, outdoor and overnight activities will be much more harder to manage.

Any questions or concerns, you are welcomed to email: cnhkc.sp@gmail.com.

Event ideas!

When it comes to the foundations of Kiwanis, we can’t ignore our dear Pediatric Trauma Program. You can work together by sewing Trauma Dolls to donate to hospitals. Doctors can then use them to explain how surgical procedures work.

Prepare a presentation and show it off to your Kiwanis family! Kiwanis Takeover is the perfect opportunity to meet your Kiwanis family and to let them know what you and your club has been doing.

An annual event that you do not want to miss out onKiwanis One Day! A day solely dedicated in working together with your Kiwanis family to unite in a day of service together. If possible, you can host a little celebration party to bond more with your Kiwanis!

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As of February 18th:

Alameda………………………………….715 Albany............................................1002 American Indian………………………..573 Arroyo…………………………………….814 Berkeley………………………………….432 Castro Valley……………………….1178 El Cerrito…………………………………410

Encinal………………………..……..879 Leadership Public……………………….132 Oakland…………………………..……..338 Oakland Technical…………………..…440 Piedmont……………………………….…463 San Leandro……………………………..811 San Lorenzo……………………………..553 Skyline…………………………….………627

715

Alameda

1002

Albany

573

American Indian Arroyo Berkeley Castro El Cerrito Encinal Leadership Oakland

814 432

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Oakland Piedmont

463 811

San Leandro San Lorenzo Skyline

553 627

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Member of the Month J[yson Tr[m

hasn't been very active until this term. His dedication towards his home club and his new attendance in many of the division events shows his commitment to Key Club.

Advisor of the Month

Recognition

D_nis_ H[ughin has helped her clubs with planning for DCON. She also contacted the new officer elects to establish good relations before the term started.

Officer of the Month K[r_n L[ has shown to uphold her duties as club Treasurer consistently from the beginning of the term to nearly the end. Despite, all the tasks that are ahead of her like DCON and elections she is still very motivated to make sure the term ends well.

Castro Valley with the most service hours.

11 1.5 San Lorenzo raised the most funds.$190 Arroyo is our the club of the month.

Anna Nguyen

Alameda

-My favorite aspect if Key Club is being able to meet new people from my school and different school.

-My favorite Key Club memory is FRN 2016.

-I'm going to miss all my senior officers and members.

Hishara Arachchilage -My favorite aspect of Key Club is helping the community and meeting more people like me who also thrive to help the community.

-My favorite memory was really recently where we were at the DCM and it was my first. It was cool seeing what the Division had accomplished! Then, we went on this scavenger hunt and because we worked together we won the scavenger hunt!

Albany

Kevin Ye -My favorite aspect of Key Club is that you get

American Indian

to earn volunteer hours and the events you go to are by choice.

-My favorite memor y of Key Club is Oaktoberfest. It was a fun event and I got a little souvenir.

-One thing I am going to miss is all of the fun events I have been at and all the people I have helped.

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Josephine Ngai -My favorite aspect of Key Club is having the opportunity to provide service for the community and to be able to gain new experiences.

-My favorite Key Club memory is the Bay Breeze Marathon event. I felt really inspired when I got to see all the runners trying their best during the race.

-Something I will miss from this term will be all the fun memories I've gained from the events I have attended.

Arroyo

Desirae Mallani

Castro Valley

-My favorite aspect of Key Club is the fact that I get to meet so many new people. I struggle with meeting new people, but Key Club has given me the opportunity to help strengthen my social skills.

-My favorite memory from Key Club was volunteering at Rise Against Hunger. I felt really proud of myself for helping to package meals for the hunger worldwide, and not only that, I had fun working with the other volunteers.

The volunteers made the experience even more fun, and I am so thankful that we have become friends.

Max Palmer

-My favorite aspect of Key Club is the atmosphere.

The people, events, and cheers are great and I feel enthusiastic about being in the club.

-My favorite Key Club memory is going to the Chili Cook Off. I really enjoyed helping out the Kiwanis.

-Although I'm a relatively new member, I will miss the officers from this term. I wish I would've joined earlier to get to know them better.

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Encinal

Felicia Zhang

Oakland Technical

-My favorite aspect of key club is having fun doing services with fellow key clubbers. I can make new friends and enjoy spending time with them. Also being able to serve the community and making others happy makes me enjoy doing services more.

-I will miss the old board because they were always very supportive and looked out for all the underclassmen who struggled to fit into the club in the beginning.

Lea Celine -My favorite aspect is that we are making our community better with our own power and can meet amazing people as we are doing that.

-My favorite memory of Key Club was baking pies for Uhuru because I got to meet so many different people, I felt that I was constantly doing something, and Uhuru's mission is very inspirational.

Piedmont

Celinda Tu

San Leandro

-Everyone is very welcoming in Key Club and I feel very included as a member.

-My favorite memory in Key Club is that when I was new, I had a lot of people welcoming me as a member.

-I will miss being at event with my friends.

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John Calara

-My favorite aspect of Key Club is being able to be surrounded by other people willing to make time for others and putting in effort to make someone else'a lives much better.

-My favorite memory from Key Club was when I went to the Stop Hunger event because of the overall atmosphere and seeing other Key Clubs there.

San Lorenzo

Eric Ly -My favorite aspect of Key Club is meeting

Skyline

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new people.

-My favorite Key Club memory was the SF Fest when I bonded with Monica and strangers.

-I will miss working with my team within the club.

An Huynh

Kyleen Vo

Brendan Co

Karen La

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Anna Zheng

Stephany Su

Tiffany Wong

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Billy Phannavong

Trevor Huffaker

Helen Li

Theresa Tran

Khoi Nguyen

This month Alameda Key Club had our usual meetings and decided to have a bracelet selling fundraiser. We wanted to share t PTP awareness by selling friendship bracelets to fundraise for PTP. We continued doing service with an event at the Oakland Asian Cultural Center, where members and officers helped out with running and facilitating the festival. We then had an event at Crab Cove and at the Oakland Museum of Arts. Helping out of these events were a lot of fun but we decided to continue the fun by meeting with our fellow kiwis at the DCM. One more event that we had was helping at the Food Bank. This month was simple yet fun and we look forward to continuing our work and finding new people to take over as we started to discuss club elections.

Club Reports

This past month has been a great one for Albany Key Club. From Valentine's Day boba sales to park clean ups, members have kept up a great attitude toward volunteering and serving the community throughout the month and even the whole year!

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For this month, our club had three opportunities to build service hours. First, we had a club event at the Kaiser SF 5K and Half Marathon. Then, we had members attend both of the DWS's: the Studio Clean Up and the Oakland Zoo Creek Clean Up.

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In the month of February, Arroyo had a total of 5 events. We had volunteers model for the Association of Chinese Culture Alliance Fashion Show. Arroyo volunteered at Bay Breeze Half Marathon. We helped out at the Rise Against Hunger Grand Reopening, which was a 2 day event. At the Alta Mira Scholarship Tea, our volunteers helped serve tea and lunch. Lastly, we served at the Rotary Club Crab Feed.

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This past month we had 4 service events. We had the Prisoner's Literature Project, the shoreline cleanup at the marina, the Spiral Gardens project, and the DWS Studio One clean-up.

We started off February with a very successful Second Semester Club Day and received over 50 new sign ups! We quickly followed that with the start of election and voting of the new term. Our main events for February was working with Rise Against Hunger and helping them set up and package meals.

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The end of January we had a great turn out at the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration. Before the parade we decorated El Cerrito High school theater and made posters for people to hold while marching. At the parade, some were parade monitors and some were ushers. We also had our second fundraiser at the Quickly near our school. Lastly, three officers and two members attended the ice skating social. We met lots of new people from D26S and had lots of fun. In March, we'll be doing some garden work in Richmond and help out at the Berkeley Emergency Prep Fair.

This month, our club accomplished quite a bit of stuff. We had club elections in which many wonderful members participated and ran for positions. As always we attended our monthly Alameda food bank event and MDA (Muscular Dystrophy Association) event. In addition, we planned a sister club event in which we made dog toys for dogs at the Animal Shelter. At meetings, we planned for our social before spring break and goals for next term!

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Submit your articles and submissions to Kathy Yan of d02.cnhkc.dne@gmail.com to make sure your club gets recognized for all the hard work you have accomplished

In February, we participated in a park event called Stay Blessed, Stay Warm that geared toward a free fun day for the youth in the neighborhood. We helped set up equipment, served food, and carried artwork. We're thankful for being a part of that event.

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From athletics to festivals to the arts, Oakland Tech Key Club volunteers spent their February supporting a variety of engaging events around the Bay Area. On February 5th, volunteers provided water for runners at the Kaiser Permanente Run. On the 11th and 12th, volunteers helped out with the booths at the Chinese New Year Street Fair in San Francisco. On the 26th, volunteers made their way over to San Francisco again to usher and distribute programs at the SF Chamber Orchestra Concert. Finally, Oakland Tech Key Club hosted a "takeover" of the Berkeley Kiwanis meeting on the 28th, in which they brought baked groups and spoke about club activity.

During January, Piedmont Key Club did two events and one of them is a joint event with Arroyo. Piedmont Key Club volunteers helped out at the Kiwanis Club of San Leandro's crab feed and Friend with Sausal Creek's Plantng Day in Beaconsfield Canyon.

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This February has been a productive month for San Leandro. We participated in our school's annual Season of Service by presenting our Thirsty For Change project. Additionally, we have elected the new board for the next term!

This past month our club had a mason jar fundraiser. We also chose our new upcoming board members, and had an event at the Rise Against Hunger. We also attended the DCM.

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This past month we finished our elections, leading to training our officers. For this month we volunteered at the SF Chinatown Street Fest where we worked at the children booth. We helped the set up and monitor the games for the children.

Meetyour Executive Assistant, What is your favorite Key Club Memory?

My favorite memory of Key Club is the its a wonderful night event in downtown San Leandro since it made me realize I really enjoyed helping the community.

Ruby Chin

How did you join Key Club?

I joined Key Club since I saw how outgoing and spirited the club looked during club rush and I wanted to be just as outgoing as them.

What is one unique fact about yourself that people wouldn't know unless they're told.

I am the only one in my family that has hazel eyes, One unique fact that people don't know about me is that I've read the Harry Potter series 5 times already.

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Articles

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Thirsty for Change

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Vanessa Wu, San Leandro

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Crab Cove Beach Clean Up

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Alea Eugenio, Alameda

Icy Fun

Angela Zhou, Piedmont

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Rise Against Hunger

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Anna Zheng, Castro Valley

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Stay Blessed, Stay Warm

Jason Le, Oakland

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Kaiser SF 5K & Half Marathon

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Michelle Lin, American Indian

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Chocolate & Champagne Gala

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Sarah Hartono, Albany

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Chinese New Year Street Fair

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Joseph Harmon, Oakland Technical

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DNE’s Closing Message Hello Kiwis!

I’m sorry for the super rushed and incomplete newsletter this month… APRIL FOOLS! Just a little laziness happened in the action of trying to transition into the new term with the freshly elected officers.

I can finally and officially congratulate all the new upcoming officers. I’m sure you all will be doing amazing things seeing the burning fighting spirit inside your community soul. I wish the best of luck in your upcoming term!

Can you believe that we finally had our final DCM of the term… I certainly can’t. I remember as if it was my first DCM as a news editor and talking about the SOSP and asking newsletter questions. I definitely am no basketball player, but it was super entertaining to watch. The photo booth was really cute too! I assure you the next DCM is going to be EGGsellent.

Thank you so very much for reading this month’s newsletter. I can’t really put this into words, but it’s been a while since I started releasing volume 5 of Kiwi Chronicles and it has certainly been a journey. I learned so many new things and met so many new people. I do not regret one bit applying for news editor or staying up in the morning completing this newsletter. Now that my time is nearly over… I look forward in seeing you attend DCON! Let’s celebrate the year’s worth of blood, sweat, and tears together. Once again, thank you all for reading volume 5 of Kiwi Chronicles and remember I will forever be at your service. Tweet tweet.

Signing Out, Kathy Yan Division News Editor 2016-2017

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Hello, it’s Division 2!

Meiling Zhang Division 2 Lieutenant Governor d02.cnhkc.ltg@gmail.com (510) 909-4393 Kathy Yan Division News Editor d02.cnhkc.dne@gmail.com (510) 875-8365 Nikki Benitez Executive Assistant d02.cnhkc.ea1@gmail.com (510) 935-2423

www.d2kiwis.org/

Division 2 [Key Club]

@division2kiwis

Angela Wong Executive Assistant d02.cnhkc.ea2@gmail.com (510) 417-8099

@division2kiwis

Ruby Chin Executive Assistant d02.cnhkc.ea3@gmail.com (510) 918-8209

@division2kiwis

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Thank you for reading!

Please contact Kathy Yan or Meiling Zhang if there are any questions, comments, or concerns.

See you in the next issue.

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