Division 1 South Volume 2 | Issue 3 | June 2015 Newsletter
Important Contact Information
Vanessa Casta単eda Lieutenant Governor of Division 1 South ltg1S@tokeyclub.com Rachel Iselin District Governor governor@tokeyclub.com
Crystal Loh District Secretary secretary@tokeyclub.com
Donna Newsham Regional Advisor reg7adv@gmail.com Emily Zhao District Treasurer treasurer@tokeyclub.com 1
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More Blank Calendars: PDF Calendar, 2015 PDF Calendar, Word Calendar, Excel Calendar.
**DCM’s are Divisional Council Meetings. DCM’s are Divisional meetings for Kiwanis Clubs. The Kiwanis members love to see Key Clubbers at these meetings! They’re a great way to find out what’s going on with the K-Family .
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More Blank Calendars: PDF Calendar, 2015 PDF Calendar, Word Calendar, Excel Calendar.
You can always send me any events your club is having that you would like to invite the division to and I will add them to the calendar in my future newsletters!
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In this issue • Summer Calendar.................... pgs. 2-3 • A Letter from your Lt.G...........pg. 5 • Alex’s Lemonade Stand........... pg. 6 • Swim Social ............................. pg. 7 • Literacy Challenge....................pg. 8 • Ice Cream Social...................... pg. 9 • Barnes & Noble Storytime...... pg. 10 • What is March of Dimes?.........pg. 11 • Beach Clean Up....................... pg. 12-13 • August PCM.............................pg. 14 • DCON 2016.............................pg. 15 • ICON 2015.............................. pg. 16-17 • Service, Socials, and Spending Money ..................................... pg. 18-19 • Goal Update.............................pg. 20 • Miracle Treat Day..................... pg. 21 • Contact Information................pg. 22 4
Greetings Key Clubbers, I hope you have enjoyed your summer thus far, as I have enjoyed mine. Use this time off from school wisely. Summer is a great time to bond as officers and make an action plan for the year. A strong board of officers is essential to a strong Key Club. I have high hopes for all of you this year; I hope to have more us in the Top 25 at District Convention than ever before! Each club is our division has so much potential, just keep up the hard work and dedication. Being in the Top 25 clubs at District Convention is such an honor because it lets everyone know that your club not only excelled in performing numerous hours of service but that your board of officers worked together to lead and motive your club to do great things for your home, schools, and communities. It is my hope and prayer that you remember this- when you get tired or overwhelmed by all that will come with the school year- what you do matters. Whether it be service, planning, creating, no matter what you do, it matters. It matters to your members, it matters to your school, it matters to the people you serve, and it certainly matters to me. If there ever comes a time when you just don’t know what to do, remember that you can come to me. That’s what I’m here for. I cannot wait to see what great things you all do this school year!
Yours in service,
Vanessa Lynn 5
Lemonade Saves Lives
Burleson sells lemonade to fund childhood cancer research On June 22, the Burleson High School Key Club sold lemonade outside a local grocery store. Through many glasses of lemonade and numerous donations, they were able to raise over $100 to donate to Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation. Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foun-
dation has evolved- from a front-yard lemonade stand started by a 4 year-old cancer patient, Alexandra Scott, wanting to find a cure for all children with cancer- to a national fundraising movement dedicated to raising money to find a cure in honor of such a sweet girl.
Photos submitted by Nithure Rema
Our divisional mascot, Oscar, even made an appearance at the event!
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Enjoying the Summer Sun Paschal Key Clubbers gather together for a swim social To kick off a summer of service, our club chose to organize a social on Lake Worth during the week after school let out. Due to high water levels, recreational activities on the lake were closed, and we were unable to take the boat or jet skis out on the water. Despite our disappointment, our club can always find ways to have fun. We found so much to do at the lake house, like swimming in the pool, playing sand volleyball, ping pong, and air hockey. It was great to talk to everyone and hang out as a club, with a couple of new people joining us to see what Key Club is all about. An abundance of junk food was eaten, and it Photos and article submitted by Page began to truly feel like summer. We can’t Trotter wait to have more service projects and socials during the rest of the summer, and might even return to the lake for an end-ofsummer bash.
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Bookmarks Boost Literacy Everman helps boost literacy by making bookmarks On June 4, after a club meeting, the Everman High School Key Club gathered together to create bookmarks. Now these weren’t just any bookmarks; for each bookmark that these Key Clubbers made, the Bezos Family Foundation donated $1.00 to Save the Children’s Literacy Boost
program in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. The money raised by the challenge will be used to stock Save the Children’s international book banks in Peru, Mali, and Nepal.
Photos submitted by Mr. Castañeda
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Toppings &Thanks
Paschal serves ice cream to thank teachers for their hard work On the last day of school, Paschal Key Clubbers hosted an ice cream social to show their teachers how grateful they were to be taught by them and to thank them for trying hard to improve each student. Each member that came brought assigned materials; after school, the Key Clubbers set up a table for the teachers to choose which ice cream and
toppings they wanted. Vice President, Diana Lee said “It was really nice serving ice cream to our teachers because I could see how happy they were.” Lee has been to two ice cream socials for teachers throughout her high school career and thought “it was a nice way to end the school year.”
Photos submitted by Page Trotter
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Saturday Storytime
North Crowley helps out with Barnes & Noble Storytime The North Crowley Key Club has an on-going service project with Barnes & Noble. A few Saturdays a month they volunteer to have a story time with whatever children come to the store that day. Afterwards, they do crafts with the children. This is a simple project that only requires a few Key Clubbers each week, and it allows you to interact directly with children in the community! Many other Barnes & Noble stores in the metroplex are looking for volunteers for events like this...just fyi...
Photos submitted by Daisy Doan
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Photos submitted by Daisy Doan & Rebecca Morrison
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Di st ric t Co nv en tio n 20 16 I know you are all going to do great things this year in your respective clubs. District Convention is a great time to be recognized for all of your hard work, through awards that will be given out, as well as through ads that appear in the convention booklet! Many clubs get ads for their club, their seniors, or their officers that year. Ads start at $25 and go up from there depending on size. Ads are how we pay for the convention, and the amount we sell as Lieutenant Governors determines the budget for the convention. So the more you all buy the better DCON will be in 2016! Email me ltg1S@tokeyclub.com about buying an ad or for more info! 15
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Ways to Service Hours, Social Time, and
Service Hours
1. Make cards or write letters to kids in hospitals, troops and veterans, or senior citizens in nursing homes 2. Bake and deliver cookies for your local fire house or police station 3. Host a Sole Hope PartyCut up old pairs of blue jeans to be made into shoes for children in Africa who are getting jiggers from having bare feet. Go to solehopeparty.org for more info. 18
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1. Have a Pizza Party with a tw large kitchen and buy supplies t find a few adults who are willing bers into teams and have each te pizza; have your judges
2. Have a night of Crazy Bowling have a game of bowling with y each round should have a differe before you bowl or stand o
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wist - find a member who has a to make homemade pizza. Then g to be judges. Divide your memeam create the best homemade s vote on the best one.
g - Go out to a bowling alley and your club, the only catch is that ent twist e.g. spin around 5 times on one leg while you bowl.
Spending Money
1. Penny Wars - Have two different buckets or jars set up at your club meetings: one for boys and one for girls. Have members put loose change in (silver is positive and pennies are negative). (i.e. you would want to put silver in your respective bucket and pennies in the other). A friendly competition that also raises money 2. Wash-a-thon - a twist on a normal car wash. Have each member get pledges e.g. “I will give you 25 cents for every car you wash.� Then do a free community car wash and see how many cars you can wash. 19
Goal Update • Divisional t-shirts are in the process of being ordered - you will receive them at the August PCM • I will be at the DCM Thursday- I hope to see you too • Still working on planning club visits to Granbury and Crowley • Phone calls have happened or are scheduled with all but 1 President - if you’re not a President but you would like to talk with me about your club let me know and we can schedule a call- these phone calls are for me to figure out how I can best serve each club • I will be setting up a meeting with the Burleson Centennial Principal in August in hopes of getting their club chartered • I would like to see all of you at the August PCM - remember PCMs are NOT exclusively for officers - members are encouraged to attend as well • I’m working on creating a divisional website - it will be completed before the start of the school year
• I will be out of town for the majority of July, however if you need me I will be available via email or phone except July 20-24 as I will not have internet or phone access. • You guys are doing great with newsletters and reports although I still have 2 clubs not submitting either 20
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Important Contact Information Vanessa Casta単eda Lt.G of Division 1 South ltg1S@tokeyclub.com
Rachel Iselin District Governor
reg7adv@gmail.com
Crystal Loh District Secretary
governor@tokeyclub.com
secretary@tokeyclub.com
Emily Zhao District Treasurer
Matthew Riley District Editor
treasurer@tokeyclub.com
editor@tokeyclub.com
Megan Reynosa Convention Liaison
Brendon Nguyen Tech Producer
CL@tokeyclub.com
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Donna Newsham Regional Advisor & Lt.G of Kiwanis Division 1
btnguyen.kc@gmail.com
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