Seamonkey Sequel | October 2012 | Vol. 1 | Issue 4

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The Official Newsletter of Division 28 West

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BONANZA | CENTENNIAL | CIMARRON – MEMORIAL | DESERT OASIS | DURANGO | ED. W. CLARK FAITH LUTHERAN | NORTHWEST CTA | PAHRUMP VALLEY | PALO VERDE | SIERRA VISTA | SPRING VALLEY SOUTHWEST CTA | THE MEADOWS | WEST CTA | WESTERN 3636 WOODVIEW TRACE INDIANAPOLIS, IN 46268 USA 317- 875- 8755 • US AND CANADA: 800-KIWANIS

Inside this issue‌ One: In this issue//Contact us Two: A word from our ltg Three: Division Leadership Team Four: Important dates

Five: Division news//upcoming events Six: RTC Information Seven: Club articles Ten: Recognition

Contact us

Lieutenant Governor Johansen Pico d28w.cnhkc.ltg@ gmail.com

Ms. Alyson Palmer Executive Assistant Geewoo Kim Division Secretary Emily Pham Technology Editor Elizabeth Quan Division Specialist Pauline Nguyen

Region Advisor

apalmer@interact.ccsd.net

d28west.ea@gmail.com

d28west.dsec@gmail.com

d28w.tech@gmail.com

d28w.spec@gmail.com

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A Word from Our

hello seamonkeys! !

LTG

We are a month into the school year already and so far it has been a blast! I hope everyone started off the year on the right foot and are ready to keep on pushing throughout the year. As we venture off into the ocean, remember to make sure to keep on riding the waves, and if you happen to fall off your surfboard when riding: be sure to get back up and keep on riding! Months will go by, waves will come and go, and the ride will only get tougher. Always remember to prioritize your time wisely, keep yourself motivated, keep things balanced, and most importantly make sure you save time for yourself. At the September DCM, I presented information on Innovative Service Projects. A diverse selection of service projects will keep your Key Club interested in performing service for the community.

Find creative, interesting, and exciting new ways to spice up a service project, or even better yet, organize an entirely new project for your club to give a try. Through these new and innovative service projects, we can help our district reach its goal of 46,000 members, 800,000 service hours, and $154,000 raised for Pediatric Trauma Program (PTP); which altogether gives us one million reasons to serve. I wish you all luck for October, and good luck to whoever is taking their SAT/ACT this month. Catch you on the next wave!

In service,

Johansen Pico Division 28 West Lt. Governor

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Division Leadership Team from the editor

Can you feel it? Can you feel that seamonkey spirit? I certainly can! RTC is just around the corner and I can’t wait to see our entire region cheer our hearts out and learn about more Key Club. Although we are all so excited about the new school year itself, be sure to make some time to volunteer! Now that we have all of our new and bright Key Clubbers with us this year, we have to promote service events even more and continue helping our community. Again as always, do not forget to submit articles and visuals to my email, and I will be hoping to expect more as our administrative year goes on. See you all next month!

Swimming in service,

Elizabeth Quan

Geewoo Kim Executive Assistant

Pauline Nguyen Division Specialist

Emily Pham Division Secretary

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important dues, dues, dues!

Dates

Early Bird: November 1st Regular Dues: December 1st

fees, fees, fees!

Fall Rally South fees of $125 per member is due to Ms. Palmer on October 13th

submissions

Submit ARTICLES/VISUALS due to Division Tech Editor (Elizabeth Quan) by October 15th, 6:00pm.

Submit MRFs to Johansen and Division Secretary (Emily Pham) by the 30th at 6:00pm Submit Newsletters to Division Tech Editor (Elizabeth Quan) by the 15th at 6:00pm Submit MoM Nominations to the Division by the 30th at 6:00pm Hello Seamonkeys, This is Johansen Pico, your Lt. Governor. Dues season has officially started, and it is my goal for Division 28 West to be 100% dues paid by December 1st. This is only possible with your help and cooperation. Faculty Advisors should have been mailed a letter from Key Club International with instructions on how to register for the new, updated Membership Update Center (MUC). Please be sure to confirm with your Faculty Advisor that he/she has received this. Next, you want to make sure you update your members on the MUC, either adding new members or deleting old ones. Lastly, generate an invoice to send to Key Club International by November 1st for Early Bird dues, or December 1st for On-Time dues. Please be sure to pay your dues as soon as possible, not only to reach the goal of having a 100% dues paid division by December 1st, but also to make sure your club isn’t delinquent. If you have any comments, questions, or concerns regarding the dues process, please feel free to contact me at d28w.cnhkc.ltg@gmail.com. Thank you!

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Division and upcoming events

news

What: October DCM! Where: Ed W. Clark 4291 W Pennwood Ave., Las Vegas, NV 89102 When: October 17th

REgion Training Conference

When: October 13th Page Five

RTC 2012: Dress Code

Who’s excited for Region Training Conference?! Now that RTC fees are out of the way, I would like to list the dress code for the event for your convenience. Just a reminder – all advisors must follow the same dress code:

• Pants - Must be ankle length, or longer and worn at the waist - No frays, rips, holes, or tears. No tape may be used to cover these.

- No sweatpants, leggings, or jeggings.

• Club Shirts -Must reach waist level - No alterations (i.e. rips or tears) and it may not be off-the-shoulder.

- If club shirts are not available, it is okay to wear the previous year's Key Club shirts, or any other school-branded attire.

• All undergarments must be concealed.

• Shoes are advised to be closed-toed.

- Bedroom slippers are prohibited.

• No hats or bandanas allowed.

-Strips of cloth are allowed to be used as headbands/etc.

• Tutus are fine.

• No chains, spikes, or fake weapons allowed.

- Shields are fine.

• Hair spray and other paint colors may be used, but anything must be applied outside of the campus.

• No masks.

• Gloves are allowed.

• Capes are allowed.

• No costumes.

As well as the dress code, I would like to mention that no clubs are permitted to participate in vending on the campus during any time of the event. Clubs are not able to sell club shirts, spirit gear, World's Finest Chocolate, or any other misc. items. Items will be confiscated (and will not be returned) and severe consequences will arise if there is a repeat offense. Thank you for your cooperation and understanding of the above. I truly appreciate all of your cooperation as we approach one of the busiest times of the year. If you have any comments, questions, or concerns regarding anything in this email, please feel free to contact me. Thank you again!

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ARTICLES club articles S

Red rock 5K run

September 8th, 2012 was Cimarron- Memorial’s first Key Club event since the school year started. We took the opportunity to volunteer at the Red Rock 5K, handing out free freebies to those that participated in the run. This 5k run was in memorial of 26 year old high school cross country legendary, Travis Boulton. In honor to Travis, many people wore shirts with him on it. We saw a diverse of age groups running in this event such as children who were 6 years old to people in their 50’s. All the money that they raised went towards the Travis’ Love Foundation which was a supporting foundation of things that Travis loved such as Cross Country. It was great seeing many runners and volunteers from different organizations and other key clubs. Hopefully next year we are able to volunteer at this event again!

Kylee DelaCruz Cimarron-Memorial

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First meeting "The first Key Club meeting was nothing less than extraordinary. Yes there were a few hiccups, but nonetheless it was still the old Key Club we all know and love. At the first meeting of the year, it was jam-packed with new faces and old faces, all with the same goal: to have fun while serving their community. Probably the best part to all the first meetings of Key Club is when we cheer and you just look around to see the new Key Clubbers’ faces of shock because most of them are weirded out by a large group of people spinning and grunting for they’ve never seen it before. As a junior this year, I’m excited for our all-junior board and the fun events that they have in store for all of us. By the end of the year, I hope that we all get to know each other and at the same time help to improve our community with our friends while having fun."

Louie Gonzales

Member, Ed W. Clark

Cimarron-Memorial Key Club held its first meeting August 27th, 2012. There were about 59 students that came to our first meeting. We held our meeting in a classroom, and it was so crowded that some people had to stand, and some people were in the hallway because we didn’t have enough room. Most people looked very interested in what we had to say. We handed out membership packets to everyone during our meeting, and by the end, more than half of the people turned in their packets and were asking when the next meeting was. Overall, I thought our first meeting was outstanding!

I hope that throughout this year, we will become an even more successful Key Club!

Amy Anunciacion Secretary, Cimarron-Memorial Northwest freshmen orientation

School was just around the corner, but before school started, there was freshman orientation!

The reason I was going was because we were trying to promote Key Club! Seeing all the kids mixed facial expressions about our club because they weren't sure what Key Club was. They asked the obvious question, "Do you guys make keys?" But our board would tell them what we're all about. My favorite part throughout the day was actually showing s group of freshmen our "How do you feel?" cheer. Some were a bit overwhelmed but some loved our enthusiasm which put a smile on my face! Being a senior now reminds me of my freshman orientation. I remember seeing Key Club, and I've known about if for awhile because my brother was in it, so I already knew I was going to join. I remember them as a bunch of hyper, outgoing kids, and I knew I wanted to be like them.

Maribeth Maucesa

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Senior representative, Northwest CTA

School Trash Clean-up "Bottle caps, cigarette butts, plastic red film, and other odd ends and bits. These were a few things I found littered around the school. And I'm sure the other members found some other, more interesting rubbish to collect. Yes, folks, we were cleaning up the outside of the school where many students commute, hang out, and of course, litter. Despite the fact we are young adults, we may not be aware of how much junk piles up. At the same time, we can't stand around and watch our precious school turn into a wasteland. What can we do to clean up? We can't rely on the wind; in fact I think the wind may be responsible for some of this. The only option is human strength.

I'm not talking about a single janitor cleaning the boundaries of the school; one man can't clean the school on their own. I'm talking about the will of many generous and hard working teens who were willing to get their hands dirty. On September 1, 2012, many students, all part of Clark High School's Key Club, banded together to help properly dispose of the litter strewn around the school. Everyone split into separate teams and were given surgical gloves and trash bags at their disposal. We were then instructed to scout out the entire exterior of the school and throw away any piece of trash we can find. Doesn't that sound like prison community service? Absolutely not! In fact we were in for a surprise at the end. The team that collected the most trash wins a prize. This is easier said than done because we were basically racing each other to certain areas and checking blind spots. And while we were wondering what said prize was, we were in for more surprises as we were cleaning up. If you remember from earlier, we found cigarettes in the front of the school. There was also these red pieces of film that I assume were from the construction that's going on. There were also bottle caps, wrappers, screws, nuts and bolts, and even glass shards from bottles. Good thing I was wearing my dad's gardening gloves. In the end, the winning team was announced. They were able to fill up not one, but TWO bags of trash. Their prize was ice cream; either American manufactured or Asian manufactured. But obviously the important thing is that we, more or less, made the outside of the school cleaner. In any case, we said goodbye with a cheer and went home. But I wonder if the school will stay clean.

So here's a question: If you attended: Did you enjoy cleaning up around the school? Did you find any pieces of trash did you find that left you with the question, "What is this doing here?" If you didn't: Would you have shown up?"

Pete Hernandez

Member, Ed W. Clark Page nine

RECOGNITION Club of the month‌

Western

Member of the Month

Diether Rex Carreon Month ‌ From Spring valley...

Diether is a freshman who is already deeply involved in Key Club with his enthusiasm and great participation in the club. After attending his first meeting, he quickly paid his dues for RTC and membership. He also voluntarily helped to promote the club during our school's Club Rush and recruited many members who is still active today. Diether has also attended every Recycling event that is held every week after school to pick up teacher's recycling boxes. He also offers to pick up the rest of the recycling boxes around campus if we are short on members. Diether has also signed up to join our two upcoming events at the Hemophilia Walk at Town Square and Greek Food Festival. My officers and I chose Diether because his efforts are going beyond than the other members and is easily shown with his participation and spirit.

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Thanks for Reading!

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