Gator Bites MAY 2013 // VOLUME 1 ISSUE 2 CNH KEY CLUB | REGION 5 | D28S
The Official Green Valley Key Club Newsletter
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President’s Letter Old business Relay For Life
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New business Did you know? Editor’s Note Contact Information
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4 Letter from the Presidentw Hello Green Valley Key Club! I hope your AP testing season went smooth and dandy. May the curve forever be in your favor! Aside from the crazy AP testing season, I am proud to announce that our club successfully pulled through and continued to make a difference by investing time and effort into community service this past month. Dear GVKC members, you never fail to amaze me with every step you take. Graduation is near, but this does not mean that you seniors have to say goodbye! Stay connected by joining the Key Club International Alumni and continue the legacy. For more information, click here. Summer is just around the corner! (Who else is counting down the days?) Because Key Club is an all-year-round club, the GVKC board has some cool summer service events prepared for our club. I hope you're as excited as I am, because this summer is going to be AMAZING with all you Key Clubbers! :) Please remember to check out our website at gvkeyclub.com regularly as it gets updated. Stay tuned over the summer and don't miss out on these ecstatic summer activities! Also, don't forget to subscribe to our email and/or text message updates, both of which are available on our website. With that, I wish you all another fabulous month filled with the joy of service. Serving in love, Ji Eun Bae
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Teacher appreciation & Chili cook off advertisement poster making
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ARTICLESdea Chelsea Santos: “I had fun making posters for the advertisement and teacher appreciation poster because it brought me closer to my fellow key clubbers, we had a great bonding time making them! I also loved helping out on this event because our advisor, Mr.Patai, is also a great English teacher and he helped us a lot this year. We couldn’t thank him enough. Making him a poster felt great also because he hung it up in his classroom to show how much he liked it and it made us feel great after the work we all have put in making the posters”. Colin Hoang: “We made posters that encouraged people at Green Valley to join the chili cook off and advertise the spam musubis we made for that same event. I had fun because most of our members participated which was great!”.
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8 Old Business Contr Chili Cook Off
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ARTICLESWFP Megan Leavitt: “Chili cook off was a great experience because we got to bond with our whole Kiwanis family. I felt like we got closer with Key Clubbers from our division and ate some amazing chili while doing it. I would definitely do this again if I weren’t graduating this year. Overall, this even was great for a Saturday afternoon”. Chelsea Santos: “The chili cook off was fun because we sold a lot of Colin’s yummy spam musubis and it was a great way to bond with my fellow key clubbers from around our state. We had lot’s of fun selling them and we did not have any conflicts at all! The customers that we sold the spam musubis to, were very satisfied and meeting up with the non key clubbers that went because of our great advertisement also had lots of fun”.
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10 Old Business Contr Making plastic mats for the homeless
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Zarina Aure: “Making plastic mats for the homeless was fun because it helped me get closer with my fellow key club members while we all help the community. It also made me realize how much help we could give the community without really buying anything except just collecting plastic mats (yay recycle). I would love to have more events like this not just because it helps the community, but also brings all the key clubbers closer to each other.” Nia Fernandez: “On May 5th, I ran from my last class to our meeting room to make plastic mats because I actually enjoy this service. We set up an assembly kind of line where people folded the plastic bags, others cut a specific bag color into strips, and a few tied the strips into knots. Ms. Santee and other Green Valley Kiwanis members were there to teach a few of our members to crochet the knots we made. Everyone looked like they had fun and the best part was everyone who attended contributed on the production of the plastic mats being made for homeless teens of Nevada“.
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Relay For Life !
Relay for life 2013 @ Liberty highschool
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Vincent Nguyen: “During Relay for Life, I had the exceptional opportunity to listen to various eye-tearing survivors who simultaneously gave me hope to do great things in my life. The survivor stories were highly inspirational and I felt glad I attended this event to help facilitate their fundraiser. In addition, I had a lot of fun getting closer to my fellow Key Clubbers through a potluck and various volleyball games. For one night I had fun while helping people with cancer. What more could I ask for? Over all the event was a great experience” Ji Eun Bae: “In the name of The BAE-st Team Ever, the team members and I had a blast at the annual South Youth Relay For Life. Not only did we bond as a team by playing volleyball, enjoying a potluck, having unprecedented conversations, and just being at the event altogether, but we also proudly raised $320 as a team in a short amount of time of approximately a month. Next year, we hope to have more available chaperons, more team members, and more funds raised for this cause. Relay For Life, as always, was a great way for our club to bond and celebrate the end of AP exams”. Zarina Aure: “Relay for life was one of the best experiences in my first year of key club. It definitely brought me so much closer to my fellow key clubbers, we had that special bond that every club should have! I cant wait for next year’s Relay For Life. Hopefully there will be more of us !”
14 New BusinesstT May Division Council Meeting What? Come represent our club at D28S’s monthly DCM and discover the latest division news, meet new friends, and enjoy a feast prepared by the hosting club! When? -Tuesday, May 21st (5pm-6pm) Where? Cafeteria at Liberty High school (3700 Liberty Heights Ave Henderson, NV 89052
ONGOING BUSINESS: Collecting Plastic Bags & Pop tabs What? In order to make our plastic mats and the pop tabs for McDonald’s House charities support. Where? Room 205 GV High school
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See you there!
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DID YOU KNOWk Here are some things you might not know about Key Club!
>There are 33 districts in Key Club international! >The king of rock, Elvis Presley, was a Key Clubber in his high school years! >The meaning of the key club colors are: White-Purity, Blue-Unwavering Character, and Gold-Service >Key Club exists in 30 different countries! >The K-E-Y in KEY club stands for Kiwanis Educates Youth or Kiwanis Encourages Youth
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GV Key Clubbers playing volleyball at Relay For Life, FUN!
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19 Hi guys! I hope you like my may newsletter. Thank you for all your pictures and articles, it helps a lot if you guys are wondering. You guys are amazing! Relay for life was perfect wasn’t it? I had lots of fun playing volleyball with you all (look at our volleyball picture on the left aw) and having talks and eating the yummy food you all contributed. I’m glad we had this event because it really brought us all closer and got to know each other better. Hopefully next year will be as fun as this one or better! I hope you guys did great on the AP testing too, and I will miss all of the key clubbers that are graduating this year. Don’t forget to keep intouch! Please continue to send more articles and visuals to me (especially because of how much hours you guys would get, take advantage of it!). Thank you for reading my newsletter!
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ContactsAK Ji Eun Bae, 11, President (702) 715-4493 president@gvkeyclub.com Vincent Nguyen, 11, Vice President (910) 299-7434 vicepresident@gvkeyclub.com Colin Hoang, 10, Secretary (702) 635-0648 secretary@gvkeyclub.com Tyler Dancel, 9, Treasurer (702) 556-1140 treasurer@gvkeyclub.com Zarina Aure, 9, Bulletin Editor (702) 806-2274 bulletineditor@gvkeyclub.com Isaiah Ricoy, 11, Seargant-at-Arms (702) 445-4618 sergeantatarms@gvkeyclub.com Mr. Adam Patai, Faculty Advisor (702) 689-2244 apatai@ccsd.interact.net Mr. George Hedges, Kiwanis Advisor (702) 417-5477 grhssh@cox.net
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Thank You For Reading!
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