Manatee Monthly: January Edition

JANUARY

JET DIVISION KIWIN’S

TABLE OF CONTENTS Goals Update Events Recap Featured ARFs Blanks of the Month Upcoming Events/ Announcements Contact Info

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13,315.5 of 17,000 hours

PEDIATRIC TRAUMA PROGRAM

$4,000

SERVICE HOURS

17,000

DIVISION

$3262.51 of $4,000

$1,504.97 of $2,500

OTHER CHARITIES

$500

THIRST PROJECT

$2,500

NAL GOALS

$1,419.50 of $500 3

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JANUARY DCM Thank you to everyone who came out to celebrate Live2Learn month with us!

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LA QUINTA GRETCHEN LAM S-U-P-E-R SUPER STAR IS WHAT YOU ARE! Despite the rainy weather, LQ KIWIN’S had no trouble helping out at the annual Surf City Marathon!

Members woke up at the crack of dawn before heading over to Huntington Beach, ready to volunteer at such an iconic event. However, call-time could have gone more smoothly - a few members had gotten lost along the way. Though communication was constant, it was relatively difficult to provide members with the correct directions. Board members called each individual volunteer to ensure they had the right address. In the end, all members safely made it to the correct station and still had plenty of time to prepare for the main race! Upon grouping LQ KIWIN’S together, the event coordinators came by and supplied volunteers with a variety of items to pass out to the runners! These goodies included: electrolyte gel, drinks, snacks, and more! As the day progressed and the clouds came by, the races gradually came to a start. First off was the 5k!

KIWINNERS cheered their hearts out for the runners while enthusiastically waving their goodies around! Afterwards, Huntington Beach’s streets continued to be filled with so much glee and cheer as the half-marathon began! KIWINNERS cheered especially hard for a few LQ teachers who were running in the half-marathon! Finally, the marathon started. 26 grueling miles was not enough to stop the brave runners, and the gloomy weather was certainly not enough to stop the spirited members! Once the races all came to an end, members were in charge of helping clean up! Volunteers put away tables and swept the streets clear of trash! By the time KIWINNERS were done with their shifts, Huntington Beach was cleaner than ever! With the event coordinators’ goodbye, the event officially ended, and KIWINNERS headed back home. People were decked out in awesome volunteer shirts and had large amounts of goodies to bring home! Overall, Surf City Marathon fostered many opportunities to directly help the community. LQ KIWIN’S will certainly return next time!

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surf city dog week

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MARINA LEAH KURIHARA At the end of January, Marina KIWIN’S held their first Dog Week which was a week of service events dedicated to shelter dogs that were held at our high school. After school on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, we had our members come to our faculty advisor’s room to help us make toys and blankets for WAGS, a company that helps dogs and dog owners in need.

Tuesday was a day of making rope-ball toys for the dogs. Around two, after everyone has gotten out of school, and members of the KIWIN’S ohana met in our faculty advisor’s room to start the challenge of making rope balls. This proved to be much more difficult than previously thought as everyone in the room had different youtube videos streaming hoping one would show them the proper way of assembling just one. Some were able to finish quickly and some struggled a little bit. Everyone was trying their best to help each other in the process, so by the end of the hour, everyone had finished assembling at least one toy for the dogs. After laughter and a little bit of perseverance, all the ropes were tied and then sent off to the dogs. The next day we again met in the room of our advisor, hoping the next task would be much easier than the last (which it was). On Wednesday, the members of Marina KIWIN’S set out to make chew toys for dogs out of old t-shirts. And members could earn hours for not only going to the event but for bringing shirts as well!. Members cut, braided and tied the shirts again and again and helped us manage to make over 200 toys! It was truly amazing to see all the hard work the members to achieve this goal. The next and last day of dog week we made blankets for WAGS. On this day, from 2:30 to 4:00, we made blankets by tying the edges of frayed pieces of material. Knot after knot were tied and with everyone’s help we managed to make 12 blankets for the dogs! To end dog week with a bang, our club planned on holding a dog walking social where our members to go to the park with us with their dogs and just hang out! Sadly, it was forecasted that it was going to rain that day, so we had to cancel it. Despite the rain, Dog Week was so much fun as we got to help dogs in need and grow closer with club member! Marina KIWIN’S will certainly hold a service event like this next year!

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Manatee of the Month:

Shawn

Shawn is extremely dedicate working attitude. He has also social overtime. Keep up the

Officer of the Month:

Jonah Vu

Jonah is always willing to con Not only is she on top of her o take on other responsibilities.

Club of the Month:

Marina

Marina has recently gained tons of fresh implemented new and innovative servic Marina!

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ed to coming to events and has a hard o grown to become more open and e great work, Shawn!

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ntribute innovative ideas to the club. own work, but she also steps up to . Great job, Jonah!

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UPCOMING

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Friday, March 8th | 4 - 6 pm | Plavan Park

Saturday, March 16th 2 - 4 pm | FV Rec Center

Saturday, March 23rd 1 - 3 pm | FV Rec Center

Friday, March 29th 4 - 6 pm | Plavan Park

$10 presale | $12 regular

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DCON 2019 April 5th-7th, 2019 | Woodland Hills Marriott DCON is a 3 day 2 night convention where Kiwinners from all over California meet to commemorate our service from the term. At DCON, you'll be able to bond with new friends, attend fun workshops, dance at the Governor's ball, and so much more!

Contact your respective presidents if you’re interested!

Still want to show your Manatee Pride?

T shirt link (regular sale) http://bit.ly/Jettshirtreg

Visor link (regular sale) http://bit.ly/cnhvisorsreg

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Contact Cynthia if you need help finding service events.

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CONTACT INFO Edison Kevin Neathery (425) 577-8184, Ehskiwinspres@gmail.com

Marina Lina Nguy (714) 804-8753 president.mhskiwins@gmail.com

Bulletin Editor Elise Coatney (714) 330-1987 elisecoatney@gmail.com

Fountain Valley Cecilia Nguyen (714) 604-9846 fvkiwinspresident@gmail.com

OCSA Brook La (714) 831-9968 Ocsakpresident1819@gmail.com

Spirit Captain Serena Chang (714) 866-8942 serena_h_chang@yahoo.com

Garden Grove Juliana Daravong (714) 614-3306 julianadaravong@gmail.com

Segerstrom Charlene Le (714)722-1972 sfhskiwinspresident@gmail.com

Spirit Captain Katrina Huynh (714) 767-2992 katrinahuynh02@gmail.com

La Quinta Benjamin Le (714) 406-6089 lqkiwinspresident@gmail.com

Executive Assistant Adriane Nguyen (714) 266-4370 nguyenadriane@gmail.com

Media Correspondent Shanna Bui (763) 273-3391 jetmediacorrespondants@gmail.com

Los Amigos Vivi Hoang (714) 722-9128 vivihoang88@gmail.com

Projects Chair Jason Tran (714) 725-5787 jetprojects101@gmail.com

Media Correspondent Sarah Nguyen (714) 873-9386 jetmediacorrespondants@gmail.com

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Jet Lt. G Cynthia Nguyen (714) 722-5521 kiwins.jetltg@gmail.com