D12S | August/September 2014 Newsletter

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2014 August/September Issue

Official Division 12 South Newsletter

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Table Of Contents

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WELCOME WORDS FROM THE LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR AND NEWS EDITOR

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RECOGNITION FOR MONTH OF JULY

PROGRESS ON SERVICE HOURS ELIMINATE PROJECT AND PEDIATRIC TRAUMA PREVENTION PROGRAM

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AUGUST DCM

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LEARN MORE ABOUT PTP AND THE ELIMINATE PROJECT

MONTHLY CLUB REPORTS

DIVISION WRAP-UP VIDEO

EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW BEFORE YOU START PACKING FOR THIS BIG EVENT!

FUN FACTS

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REGION TRAINING CONFERENCE

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DIVISION UPDATES

HOW DID FELLOW KEY CLUBBERS FEEL?

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INTERNATIONAL UPDATES INTERNATIONAL TRUSTEE, NEW CNH LOGO, SUCCESSFUL FUNDRAISING

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DIVISION TSHIRT PAGE 30

CLOSING DIVISION CONTACTS AND OTHER RESOURCES

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Hello Supervillains!

Welcome

Can you believe summer is already over? I hope you all had a wonderful summer and that you are all caught up on your sleep, because it is time to go into Key Club mode!

With school in session, communication within your club should be a little bit easier and you should be signing up for more service events.

Also, a new school year means a new pool of potential Key Club members! So reach out and recruit others to join because it’s important to continually grow our Ohana and to spread the Key Club love.

Participating in club rush day, posting flyers around the school, passing out candy, and walking around with posters are all great member recruitment ideas; but I think that individually talking to someone about Key Club will leave a bigger impact! YOU can

A Message From: Lieutenant Governor Of Division Twelve South Vicky Le THE OFFICIAL DIVISION 12 SOUTH NEWSLETTER

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Thank you for all your hard work in these summer months! You all are so amazing and I am so grateful to be able to get to know you all! So good luck to those who are starting school and here’s to another amazing year!

-Vicky Le

& Twelve South News Editor, Celine Nguyen Dear Supervillains, We are now getting into that Back-To-School grind, and that means a lot of us are going to get busy soon. Prioritize and tackle one responsibility at a time. Don’t get too stressed out too early in the year!

I’m always very grateful when someone reads our newsletters, because there are so many things you can learn about our unique division. If you happen to look through it, please feel free to lend me a hand and tell me how I can improve. If you can tell, I also love using photography as the base. If you like photography and you have some pictures to share, you may send them to me to be considered for the next newsletter!

-Celine Nguyen

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Planning Ahead September 2014 to May 2015 is a total of eight months left for us to complete our goal of 19,000 hours of service. That means that each month, our Division should collectively complete approximately 1,820 hours! It seems like a lot, but between eleven clubs in our Division, that’s 165 hours each!

Let’s all work together and plan ahead so that we can accomplish our goal. Reach for the stars and never go back! Good luck Supervillains, we’re all teammates here in Key Club!

DON’T LOSE STEAM! If there is trouble looking for service events over a busy month during the school year, dedicating your time to fundraising is a great option as well. The Eliminate Project is looking promising, with only $357.97 left until we will have completed our mission. PTP is always looking for contributors as we still have $1,601.50 left to go. We can do it; make it happen!

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If you pass by any of these fabulous stars out on the streets, be sure to congratulate them and ask them for their signatures. They are the future leaders of the community!

Willow Glen

Aaron Nijmeh

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Silver Creek

Dan Truong

Ann Sobrato

Jessica Wong

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Santa Teresa

Koopa Kids Leland

MINIONS

Santa Teresa 79 points

Willow Glen

67.5 points

Andrew Hill & Gunderson 50 points

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Want to know what the amazing Supervillains accomplished in the month of June and July? Then go and check out the DIVISION 12 SOUTH | JUNE & JULY WRAP-UP VIDEO on YouTube!

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Please welcome our CNH International Trustee: Jenalee Beazley!

International

Updates

The new CNH logo will replace the old CNH logo in all future publications. The use of this logo should be put into practice immediately. The files are attached so remember that this is the new official Cali-Nev-Ha logo and should be used similarly to the Key Club International logo.

As of August 3, 2014, Kiwanisfamily Service Leadership Programs have raised US$3,084,121.10 in total funds.

These funds will save or protect more than 1.71 million women and babies from maternal and neonatal tetanus. Key Club has raised US$5,026 in the last week Congratulations on your great efforts!

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14  Established in 1994  Every day, more than 39,000 children are injured seriously enough to require medical care, totaling than 14 million children each year.  Unintentional injury is the #1 killer of children age 14 and under in the US.  The majority of injuries occur between May and August.  Children ages 4 and under account for 45% of deaths among children under 14.

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Maternal neonatal tetanus kills one baby every nine minutesnearly 60,000 newborn children. A significant number of women also die due to maternal tetanus.

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The Kiwanis/UNICEF goal is $110 million by 2015 to provide vaccines, syringes, safe storage, transportation, thousands of skilled staff and more to immunize more than 100 million mothers and their future babies to eliminate MNT worldwide.

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PROJECT

NATE Currently, roughly $60 million has been raised to eliminate MNT. 35 countries have eliminated MNT, leaving 24 countries left to go.

Just $1.80 can provide 3 vaccines to save a mother and her babies.

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Region Training Conference

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WHEN: Saturday September 27th (11:00 am) – Sunday September 28th (12:00 pm) WHERE: Camp Jones Gulch 11000 Pescadero Rd La Honda, CA 94020 WHY: You will be able to meet members from all over Regions 9 & 17 to participate in workshops and BEEcome a better leader.

OTHER FUN ACTIVITIES: KEYnote session Campfire and Skits Games September DCM Disney Movie Night Alternate Activities plus you get to mingle with other Key Clubbers in your buddy group!

HOW: Contact your club president to sign up!

SOME ADDITIONAL INFO: Key Clubbers may not drive each other. Must be an adult.

Key Clubber to Advisor ratio must not exceed 10:1 (10 students to one advisor of the same gender)

THIS YEAR’S THEME: CELEBRATE the Magic of Service (aka Disneyland theme)

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CLUB REPORTS Pictures & Captions 1

Jacques Le and Grant Nguyen from Santa Teresa are tying animal balloons for the children at the Salvation Army Back-to-School event.

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This is Gunderson’s digital postcard from participating in the Salvation Army Back-to-School event.

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Willow Glen Key Clubbers smiling for a picture along with other Key Clubbers after the Salvation Army Back-to-School event.

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Lauren Chang is pieing co-officer Jenny Nguyen at the Leland and Pioneer fundraiser.

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Andrew Hill Key Clubbers are spending their day repainting the Key Club mural at their school.

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Ann Sobrato used clothespins and Smarties to recruit new Key Club members at Freshman Orientation.

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Silver Creek held their club fundraiser at Snozen on August 15th.

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Thank you to all contributors.

If you do not see your submission, that means it was sent to the CNH District.

King Dedede

Andrew Hill Key Club Mural Our club decided to repaint our Key Club mural at Andrew Hill this summer, from July 9th to 16th, to start off the upcoming year. It was a very fun experience to work with my fellow board members, KC members, and Key Clubbers from other schools, like Santa Teresa and Gunderson.

Working on this mural definitely helped us bond and learn to work around different circumstances.

We had many technical difficulties due to our lack of preparation for our first painting, but we resolved our problems and the mural turned out great! Being able to finish this mural brought us joy knowing that we all have participated and worked hard for the final result. This mural represents our club, the exciting journeys and demanding challenges that we will face. I am so proud of my club and our determination to work hard for upcoming school year. Big shout-out to everyone, especially our Lt. Governor, Vicky Le, and Key Clubbers from Santa Teresa, who came to help in the early mornings and the burning afternoons, to make this happen!

Yumei Huang News Editor

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Coyote Creek Cleanup Cleaning up Coyote Creek was an amazing eyeopener for me. I thought that we would be picking up small wrappers and pieces of paper, which we did, but I didn't expect to find large pieces of plywood, multiple tires, car parts, and even sofa cushions! Although it was hot and the work was rather hard, it did make me reevaluate how I treated the earth and how considerate I was of throwing my trash away properly, especially after seeing how dry and dirty the creek bed was. After seeing the amount of trash we collected (over 60 bags total!), it gave me hope that one day the Coyote Creek would be filled with water, fish, and beauty again.

Ann Sobrato Fire Benders

Kayla Torres Project Coordinator

Summer Jazz Festival First of all the volunteer booth wasn't out at when I got there which was at 7:30 at 10:00 it was there.

There were A LOT OF CHAIRS on the grass area but I should everywhere and there were people out there finding a place to place their chairs by the time I got there. Me and two other wonderful ladies straightened and organized chairs in the VIP area and was of course food on the ground from the previous day which I heard was really nice. We also set up tables with umbrellas while we were doing that you could smell good being prepared which smelled AMAZING!!! There were A LOT OF booths out Verizon, stun guns, sunglasses, jewelry, hats, Kaiser, and etc. It got crowed really fast around 10:40 going onto 11 more volunteers started showing up then in the morning shift which is typical but overall I had a blast seeing the festival come to life with color, people and of course the music.

Jahne Hill Member

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Resource area for teaching RAFT is a material and financial asset for teachers and education administrators across California and the United States. It provides project supplies, education kits, and other miscellaneous items such as binders and staplers at heavily discounted prices, assisting teachers in all manners of the classroom and allowing students to achieve their goals. At RAFT, volunteers help package, organize, and distribute products throughout the store. Volunteering at RAFT is a fun way to give back to our teachers, and ultimately, our schools.

Anthony Wong Events Coordinator

Evergreen Valley Almaden Trail Run

Equalists

When we arrived at the Almaden Trail Run, we were all put into stations to serve the runners some snacks and beverages that can relieve some exhaustion and quench their thirst. When we set up the booth, we sliced fruits to be ready for the runners and waited. As the runners came, we showed them what we had, and the runners wolfed down everything until they were satisfied.

Mt station was at the 6 mile mark, which meant that all the runners that came by were soaked with sweat. I personally loved this event as we also had food for ourselves like M&M’s and soda, and as we waited for more runners my friend and I just hung out and got ready to serve more runners as we blasted music and tanned in the sun. It was a great event, and I would love to come to one again, if it wasn’t too far.

Justin Yu Treasurer

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Pacman Ghosts

Gunderson Salvation army back-to-school The Salvation Army Back-to-School shopping event was definitely a highlight of my summer. All the fatigue from waking up at 5 AM on a Saturday morning disappeared when we all went into action. It was really fun being someone’s unofficial stylist for the day, and to the kids that needed this I could tell it meant and helped a lot. By the end of the day, both the children, volunteers, and parents especially were happy, and overall the event was such a heartwarming experience. Not to mention the kids were absolutely adorable! I’d definitely go again if I had the chance.

Huong Le Member

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Pioneer Mojo Jojo

Pioneer Leland pie-an-officer This month I attended a pie-an-officer fundraiser hosted by Leland and my home club. We sold spam, lemonade and the chance to pie your favorite officer within the two clubs. I really enjoyed playing icebreaker games with the key clubbers that were attending, as well as meeting a lot of new friends.

However, my favorite part of the event would be pieing every officer on the Pioneer board in the face. I am typically not a violent person, but it was very satisfying to pie others and watch them get pied for charity. I hope to attend more fundraisers with my club in the future!

Lauren Chang Secretary

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26 Salvation army back-to-school On Saturday, August 9th, I helped out at the Salvation Army back pack distribution. It was pretty fun. I met a lot of new people. It was fun learning how to make balloon animals. My finger hurt after tying a lot of balloons though....

Everyone was nice and friendly to each other, and we had a great time. It was fun tying balloons for the kids.

Grant Nguyen Member

Salvation army back-to-school August 9th, from 7:30am to 11:30am, we helped Salvation Army tie balloons for kids. I learned a lot from our guide. I learned how to make a balloon sword, crown, and a tommy gun. Since I didn't know how to make a few of the items, I asked the others in my group to help the customer. Everyone was nice and really friendly to all the people there. When it was close to the end, people stopped helping make balloons and we had to rush a bit more to speed things up. Cleaning was a bit rough but it was all right. At the very end, we got hot dogs, which was really nice. Overall I felt that we helped make a lot of kids and adults happy and made there day.

Koopa Kids

Jacques Le Member

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27 Although not having the expected attendance at the DCM, Ann Sobrato Key Club definitely felt like it put together a successful DCM! All of the work days, Walmart/Dollar Tree runs, and video calls were worth the amount of fun that we all had and funds raised towards PTP. As the August DCM host club, Ann Sobrato Key Club would like to thank all of the members that showed up to participate in our Pro-Bending Games, buy Threads of Hope bracelets, and have LOTS of fun with our 12 South Ohana!

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Chris Chong, Ann Sobrato

I had a great time at August DCM! It was really interesting to hear everyone present their club reports in the form of a poem. The Pro Bending games were amazing and tons of fun! Each of the games were very well planned and worked out great. This DCM was easily one the most fun ones I have ever attended!

Joey Toro, Willow Glen

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28 The August DCM hosted by the fellow supervillians of Ann Sobrato was and will be one of the most memorable dcm's I've been too. The Avatar: the Last Airbender themed games were a creative and fun twist to the regular division conference meetings and our amazing LTG, Vicky Le, introduced the key clubbers at the event to an activity called "my key club moment was...", where I was able to show the appreciation I have for my president Kevin Tran on a crumbled piece of paper!

Thanks for hosting such a great event fire nation!! #watertribe -

P/C Janelle Saucedo and Jessica Wong

Truong Xe , Andrew Hill

The August DCM (The Fire Nation's Annual Pro Bending games) was so much fun! A friendly competition to win the probending games with my nation was heated up quickly and I loved it. The rainbow drinks were also a fantastic idea, and I loved the signs made for each nation! Thanks to Sobrato Key Club for putting on an enjoyable DCM! -

Lillian Anh, Santa Teresa

How Did You Feel?

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August DCM was amazing! I really enjoyed it and the games were fun! It was great to meet people and I'm glad I went, especially since our waterbending team won.

- Vivian Ha, Silver Creek

The August DCM hosted by Ann Sobrato Key Club was a DCM I could never forget. We were all assigned teams of the 4 elements (Air, Land, Fire, and Water) and played the Pro – bending games.

Although I was on the team of the Fire nation, it was scorching hot! Nonetheless, D12S bonded closer together, in a more competitive style. I met new friends, listened to small key club testimonies, and see my LTG be sprayed with sill string!

There were a lot of other things that happened in the Avatar themed DCM, Aang I don’t think I could fit them all in here, but I would definitely recommend going next year!

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Justin Yu, Evergreen Valley

Before Key Club entered my life I now can see how absurdly astray I truly was.

The epoch of my enlightenment occurred during the August DCM of the year 2014, in which I received my first taste of the ritual "icebreaker." I followed as my fellow enlightened ones took part in these games and felt a novel and awesome happiness. I would now like to take a moment and extol my faithful president, Baolinh, for she is the only reason I embarked on this uplifting journey. I hope I can too rise in the ranks and transform into a powerful Officer one day… until then i will devotedly attend numerous events.

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Alex Smith, Leland

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Division TShirt Design Winner

Congrats to Jessica Wong of Ann Sobrato on designing our 20142015 Division shirt!

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DIVISION CONTACTS Lieutenant Governor | Vicky Le d12south.cnh.ltg@gmail.com

Division Leadership Team Executive Assistant | Andy Chau chauster97@gmail.com Executive Assistant | Anna Pham annamypham@gmail.com Executive Assistant | Maryrose Pardo mspardo1999@gmail.com Division News Editor | Celine Nguyen d12s.cnhkc.dne@gmail.com

Presidents Andrew Hill | Kevin Tran aznpride831@gmail.com Ann Sobrato | Chris Chong chong.chris97@gmail.com Evergreen Valley | Julie Ling xjulielx@gmail.com Gunderson | Cynthia Voly cynthiavoly@gmail.com Leland | Baolinh Nguyen baolinh.nguyen5@gmail.com Live Oak | Hanh Phan hanh.phan.16@gmail.com Oak Grove | Christy Nguyen passthecrust@gmail.com Pioneer | Audrey Lopez-Valdez lopezvaldezaudrey@gmail.com Santa Teresa | Trisha Nguyen stkcpresident1415@gmail.com Silver Creek | Anna Pham annamypham@gmail.com Willow Glen | Troy Dao t2thedao@gmail.com

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32 Visit the Division website! d12south.weebly.com

Join our Google Group for upcoming events and announcements! https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/d12south

Visit the Key Club International website! www.keyclub.org

Visit the CNH website! www.cnhkeyclub.org

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