D35E | September 2021

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Ellie Times

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TABLE OF CONTENTS Ever Herd of That?

Our members are STOMPIN’ through with the inside information. Look for popouts like these throughout the newsletter and spot members’ answers.

This month’s question is: HOW DID YOU OR YOUR CLUB PREPARE FOR CLUB RUSH?

letter from the editor

july recognition/goals

DLT let’s talk

The Ellie Comic

cyberkey/connect

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calendar/events

letter from the LTG

articles and visuals

SERVEtember

contacts

word search

Editor’s Note:

“Our club is preparing for club rush both mentally and physically, where we brainstorm to come up with interesting ideas such as giving away donuts for people who sign up and such to make more people discover key club.”

- JENNY ZHANG, BONITA

There is a word search on the last pages of this newsletter, so read until the end!

ENTIRE MONTH - DLT dares 9/5 - Roller Rink Fundraiser 9/18 - Service Event 9/18 - Member Recognition Committee Apps due 9/19 - Pre Fall Rally 9/25 - September DCM 9/26 - Rose Bowl Half Marathon

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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

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Hey Ellies!

I hope you have had a good few weeks of school! It is almost club rush, so we should get ready to welcome new members into the family :) As we transition events back to in person, I hope we can all stay safe and healthy while attending service. Make sure to get lots of sleep, eat well, and drink lots of water even at school, and I wish everyone the best of luck in the new school year! Looking forward to seeing everyone’s faces (with masks of course)!!!

AMBER ZHAO D35E NEWSLETTER EDITOR

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LETTER FROM THE LTG

What’s Poppin Ellie’s?!?!

I hope your first days of school were amazing!! Hopefully you got to see a lot of your old friends and met new ones in your classes as well! Make sure to stay safe and keep on serving your community!! During this time we will be transitioning back into in person events so make sure to attend and bring your friends!! I hope this first month of school goes smoothly for you Ellies and I’ll see you at our events!!

MARCUS FANG D35E LIEUTENANT GOVENOR

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EVENT COORDINATOR : the artist behind the Ellie comics

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division goals 1743.3 hours 21.9% SERVICE

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JULY RECOGNITION

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WOAAOOOW congratulations, and keep up the good work!

MEMBER: ANDREW ZHANG OFFICER: NATALIE SAELAO CLUB: CHARTER OAK KIWANIAN: TINA CAREY

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Thank you to everyone who submitted their articles and visuals, and a special shoutout to NORTHVIEW

AND BONITA for submitting early!

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LETTERS OF LOVE Emely NORTHVIEW By: Gonzalez, Northview UPDATES

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“I am preparing myself for club rush by sharing the kind of environment we have in Key Club with all my friends. The objective of helping others through service in a fun way and by sharing the benefits we share in Key Club such making great friends, creating memories and being helpful is a great tool for Club Rush” - KATELYN RONEY, BONITA

For the past month of July, we hosted our first service event of the month on the 12th which was a game called Shave the Day. The game is much like the game Subway Surfers, but the points are then turned into real points to help fund childhood cancer research. Many loved it and it was a great success! We also hosted a General Meeting to

simply go over this coming month and to refresh on what we have planned.

We hosted the meeting on July 14th and discussed division events and the club overall as well. We are beginning to prepare for club rush and we are introducing a member recruitment committee in order to grow our Ellie family!

ON THE 19TH OF JULY, WE HAD A VERY EXCITING EVENT WHICH WAS OUR LETTERS OF LOVE EVENT WITH NOGALES KEY CLUB! IT WAS GREAT TO HAVE THEM FOR OUR INTERCLUB SERVICE EVENT.

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NOGALES AND NORTHVIEW On July 19th, Nogales Key Club in collaboration with Northview Key Club led the Letters of Love service event for Door of Hope. The Door of Hope organization is a non-profit with a mission to empower families experiencing

homelessness. Members and Officers met on Zoom to write letters to lift residents of the organization up and let them know that they can get through their struggles.

The service event gave members an opportunity to

“We prepared by having officer and cabinet meetings where we planned out ideas for club rush. We are also planning to meet in person and work together in creating spirit gear, cutting out pieces of paper with information on them to pass out to prospective key clubbers, and much more!”

- SHARON WANG, WALNUT

By: Thomas Aguilar, Nogales familiarize themselves with a commendable non-profit and participate in its great cause. It is important that we Key Clubbers strive to motivate members of the community and the Letters of Love service event was successful in doing so.

LUCIA LOPEZ, CREATIVE CHAIR, STATES, “I LOVED PARTICIPATING IN THE LETTERS OF LOVE EVENT. I HAD SO MUCH FUN MAKING THE LETTERS AND I HOPE THAT THOSE WHO RECEIVE THEM ENJOY THEM AS MUCH AS I DID”.

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“I’d tell students to consider joining key club as it promotes building community while serving the community in various forms.”

- LESLIE RUIZ, NOGALES “Since our club rush starts on the first week of September, my officers and I arranged for all of us to meet up soon to begin preparing what would be our table by working on the trifolds! We also plan to make flyers as well to be able to flex our past merchandise and how cool joining Key Club is. So far that’s our plan but I’m sure we will have more ideas soon! ” - THOMAS LE, COVINA “One way in which we will be preparing for club rush is by greeting every individual with our great spirit! We will be raising the energy with our chants, spirit sticks, shirts, and of course our trifold presentation!

All of this we hope will convince them as to why they should join key club :) ” - ELYSSE TRINH, COVINA

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“What we’re planning on doing is what we;ve done in the past, decorating our table to the max and having a club display board up.”

- REY REYNALDO, NOGALES

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PIEOLOGY FUNDRAISER In the past month, Walnut Key Club organized a fundraiser at Pieology pizzeria in order to help raise funds for our club/ ptp. The fundraiser took place towards the end of july, on the 22nd. In order to help prepare and make sure there were a lot of participants, our team publicized the fundraiser starting the 8th of July.

Each day, we would ask a certain number of people in the cabinet to post on their social media platforms about the fundraiser urging more people to go. By doing so, we were able to let a lot of people be informed about the fundraiser. Furthermore, we added an incentive to this fundraiser that will motivate more people to

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ROADSIDE CLEAN UP

By: Isabella Lee, Diamond Bar

On July 25th 2021, members of Diamond Bar Key Club and I took the initiative to clean up the roadside of Heritage Park. This event was called “DBKC Roadside Cleanup” where we worked together to clear away litter around Diamond Bar High School. At the event, trash bags and disposable gloves were distributed among us members and we were split into groups where we spread out to find trash in our designated areas. Whether it was used cigar buds or leftover deflated balloons, each member tirelessly

worked to clean up whatever trash they could find. Not only was this event used to improve the cleanliness and environment around Diamond Bar High School, but it also allowed the members to see just how much trash litters the roadside they drive by every day. Through this event, we hoped to open the eyes of our members and to discourage the act of littering. After all, had we not collected the trash we found that day, who knows how long they would continue to exist, damaging the environment day by day.

KEY CLUB MEMBER HANNAH JEONG SAYS, “I LIKED IT. I LIKED HOW I COULD TALK WITH PEOPLE AND SOCIALIZE AND I ALSO GOT A NICE WALK THROUGH THIS EVENT!”

“In order to prepare for the club, key club has held more meetings and publicized more on social media about the events and what is to come for the club.”

- CARINA YOUNG, WALNUT

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“I’m not on the board so I didn’t contribute much to club rush but I did watch my club gather as many photos/videos as they could from different members.”

- DANIEL ZUNIGA, IPOLY “After creating a script explaining what key club is and gathering photos of our members at events, our editor was able to make a great club rush video.”

- JESSICA PASARIBU, IPOLY

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This past month our club tried something a little different with the way we went about introducing one of the two service event projects we would be doing.

It was announced as part of our last general meeting in which we opened up a limited 24 hour poll (via the club discord) that allowed our members to hold the power to select one of our previous club service

projects that they would most want to see make a comeback for the month. In this little way, we felt that it revisited the notion that our club is not just a club but a community of people that all love to help. Additionally it was another opportunity for us to be able to promote our discord in a more engaging way. Unsurprisingly though, at the closing of the poll the much loved service

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“To be honest, I didn’t experience club rush in person as I joined key cabinet my junior year. However, I do remember that the club was always super spirited with their spirit gear and cheers as one of the biggest attractions at club fair.”

- KAITLIN CHHENG, WALNUT

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By: Bea Guarin, Covina

project of “Free Rice” made s comeback to Covina High at the request of the majority of the club.

AS FOR HER REASONING BEHIND CHOOSING TO PICK FREE RICE, COVINA KEY CLUB MEMBER EMMA LI HAD THIS TO SAY : “FREE RICE IS A VERY ENTERTAINING WAY FOR ME TO BE ABLE TO HELP END WORLD HUNGER WHILE GETTING SERVICE HOURS IN AT THE SAME TIME!

I REALLY ENJOY BEING ABLE TO CHOOSE FROM ALL THE DIFFERENT CATEGORIES THAT LETS ME LEARN NEW VOCABULARY, PRACTICE MATH, ETC. WHICH MAKES ME FEEL SMARTER!” From such positive remarks like that from not only Emma but from other key clubbers as well, Covina Ellies once again stepped up to have another successful month full of service!

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ORGAMI BOOKMARKS By: Roslyn Nava, ipoly

During July, Ipoly Keyclub event she expressed, “I held a five day long service thought it was really fun event. This event took place because I’m crafty so I like from July 19th to July 25 and folding and decorating involved creating origami them!” These bookmarks will bookmarks. It was easy to be donated to the ‘School participate in and was quite on Wheels Massachusetts’ fun. We believe that our organization. This organization members truly enjoyed this helps students who struggle event because it was limitless. with homelessness. The The only rules were that the bookmarks created help bookmarks must be created encourage students to within the time frame in order improve their literacy through for your service to count reading. The organization towards service hours. Our was so enthusiastic about our members had a enjoyable contribution that they even time creating bookmarks of asked our club to send photos their favorite animals or even and videos of our members favorite cartoons. When we creating these bookmarks. asked our Event Outreach I believe it is fair to say that Coordinator, Jessica Pasaribu, this almost week-long service about her thoughts on the event was a success!

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OUR MEMBERS SHARED IN THE JOY OF SERVICE, AND THIS IS WHAT SOME OF OUR KEY CLUBBERS HAD TO SAY ABOUT THE FIRST IN PERSON EVENT:

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By: Katelyn Roney, Bonita

an alternative project, our members were also able to explore creativity in creating placemats for the elderly.

The in-person opportunity was refreshing to our members and a great start of the month as we prepared for our first in person division event. We are looking forward to having more events soon, explore better opportunities and continue our involvement in our community.

“THE EVENT MADE ME FEEL THAT I WAS PART OF SOMETHING THAT WAS FOR THE GREATER GOOD, AND I ALSO ENJOYED THE ICE BREAKER” – ETHAN BUI “IT WAS NICE TO SEE EVERYONE IN PERSON, AND I HAD A LOT OF FUN BONDING WITH MEMBERS WHILE DOING SERVICE FOR OUR COMMUNITY” – JOELLE HUANG “AS A KEY CLUB MEMBER, I THINK IS IMPERATIVE WE CONTINUE TO CONNECT WITH EACH OTHER AS WE BROADEN OUR OPPORTUNITIES FOR SERVICE IN OUR COMMUNITY” – KATELYN RONEY.

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UBBLEFEST By: Marcus Fang, LTG

members from Diamond Bar ey Club attended the annual ted at the Discovery Cube in fortunately due to Covid-19 and the year before, the Bubblefest d last year. However, this year Cube reopened their annual d graciously offered Diamond Bar

and Walnut Key Club if they would volunteer!

Members from both clubs helped run different stations at the Bubblefest where they assisted children in learning various scientific topics while having fun with bubbles! Our members were able to teach the children about various things like surface tension and cohesion while partaking in fun activities with the kids as well!

“THE BUBBLEFEST WAS AN AMAZING EXPERIENCE AND IT WAS VERY FUN TO PLAY WITH BUBBLES WITH THE KIDS! IT FELT LIKE I WAS A 5 YEAR OLD AGAIN!” - MARCUS FANG, LTG

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“I WAS VERY EXCITED TO ATTEND AN IN PERSON EVENT AFTER SO MANY MONTHS OF VIRTUAL SERVICE. THE ATMOSPHERE IS VERY DIFFERENT WHEN YOU ARE ON ZOOM VERSUS ACTUALLY SERVING THE COMMUNITY AND SEEING PEOPLE’S FACES! I THOUGHT IT WAS SUPER SUCCESSFUL, AND MEMBERS GOT TO SOCIALIZE AND MEET PEOPLE FROM D35E AS WELL AS D35W.” -AMBER ZHAO, DNE

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Members of D35E and D35W attended an in person volunteering event for the La Verne Grand Prix Bike Race on July 24. This was the first volunteer event of the term for division 35 east, so many new members were especially excited to attend something that was not virtual.

At the event, members were given

many different tasks such as setting up for the race by placing barriers or guiding parking and bikers during the race. Not only were members able to watch the bike race but help out as well. It was nice seeing members come out, and it marked the start of in person events as our division transitions away from virtual events.

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DLT

A chit chat section where you get some tips, advice, fun facts, and many more from your DLT.

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Time management is a problem for many Key Clubbers especially because we are all students on top of volunteering.

I find it super helpful to plan out my entire week every Sunday or Saturday! I list out what meetings I have or when something is due so I am always on track to do well!”

- Marcus Fang, D35E LTG

My advice to help juggle between key club and school is to manage your time wisely. By finishing up school work ahead of time, I am able to have more time to incorporate key club activities, meetings, and to complete my duties. This way, I can both finish up my work for both school and key club.

- Christine Wang, D35E HSTC

THIS MONTH’S TOPIC: BALANCING KEY CLUB AND SCHOOL

One thing I love about Key Club, compared to other clubs is the way you can fit it into your schedule. Most of our events are during the weekend, so you won’t be missing any sleep during the weekdays. It’s also a way for you to stop worrying about school, homework, and just do some volunteering or hangout and socialize.

- Alex Chen, D35E EA

I spent the first year of key club online so there were certain things that I didn’t account for such as the time to get to events. Even though in the first weeks of school i was constantly stressed, knowing that i had people to talk to from key club helped.

- Chloe Hartanto, D35E Secretary

SERVETEMBER in the month of (you guessed it) September

An ongoing, month-long initiative that promotes and encourages service and the recognition of members in the District.

BUCKET LIST:

- Attend or host a service event with another branch of the Kiwanis Family - Host a service project/event with another school in the division - Host a service project with 20% of the club’s members in attendance - Host a “Promoting a Healthier Lifestyle“ service or educational event - Raise $1 for PTP for every member in your club - Submit to the Spotlight on Service Program for September - Ask a member, officer, or advisor what “service” means to them

SUBMISSION

Make sure to take photos and have descriptions ready in order to complete the SERVEtember 2021 google form

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THE FALL FESTIVAL

artist: Joshua Santirasegari

THE ELLIE COMIC

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THE END! IF YOU HAVE SUGGESTIONS, IDEAS, QUESTIONS, OR CONCERNS, PLEASE CONTACT US!

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“We plan on making flyers and are currently preparing our officers to recruit members at the upcoming club rush.

We use incentives such as fundraisers and key club merch/goodies to recruit and interest new members.”

- THEODORE CHEN, DIAMOND BAR

CONTACTS LEADERSHIP TEAM

PRESIDENTS

LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR: MARCUS FANG d35e.ltg@cnhkeyclub.org EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT: ALEX CHEN d35e.ea.cnhkc@gmail.com EXECUTIVE ASSISTANT: DANIELLA LAHER d35e.ea.cnhkc@gmail.com SECRETARY: CHLOE HARTANTO d35e.dsec.cnhkc@gmail.com NEWSLETTER EDITOR: AMBER ZHAO d35e.dne.cnhkc@gmail.com FUNDRAISING TASK: LISETTE DIAZ d35e.cnhkc.ftc@gmail.com FUNDRASING TASK: PHILLIP TANG d35e.cnhkc.ftc@gmail.com EVENT COORDINATOR: JOSHUA SANTHIRASEGARI cnh.d35e.ec@gmail.com MEMBER RECOGNITION: REBEKAH TSAI d35e.cnhkc.mrc@gmail.com SPIRIT TASK: CHRISTINE WANG d35e.cnhkc.hstc@gmail.com SPIRIT TASK: MEGAN DO d35e.cnhkc.hstc@gmail.com MEDIA EDITOR: BRIAN HSU d35e.cnhkc.me@gmail.com

BONITA: JOELLE HUANG bhskcpres@gmail.com CHARTER OAK: ALBA CRUZ alba.r.cruz05@gmail.com COVINA: THOMAS LE lethomas998@gmail.com DIAMOND BAR: THEODORE CHEN Tkchen227@gmail.com IPOLY: ISSA SUAYBAGUIO issasuay@gmail.com JOHN A. ROWLAND: CLAYTON NG sonicten1721@gmail.com LA PUENTE: ANGELA HERNANDEZ angiehdezah6@gmail.com NOGALES: REY ANTHONY REYNALDO reyrey.reynaldo@yahoo.com NORTHVIEW: DAYANA PAMPLONA pamplona.dayana@gmail.com SOUTH HILLS: MATTHEW ZHONG redleezhong@gmail.com WALNUT: JENSINE YU jensine.yu03@gmail.com WORKMAN: CHELSEA SALDIVAR chelseakeyclub@gmail.com

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“I will prepare for club rush week by researching what I am interested in and finding clubs that support my interests.”

- TANYA DING, DIAMOND BAR

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