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THE OFFICIAL

DIVISION 4 NORTH NEWSLETTER

TEAL NEWS

Volume 1 Issue 4

In This Issue -A Word From Our LTG -Past Events -Upcoming Events -Contact Us

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A Word Form Our LTG Hello Division 4 North Otters!

I hope all of your summer vacations have been splendid.

Can you all believe it?! In a few more weeks we will all be prepping for another school year. With school supplies shopping, studying for the SAT’s and adjusting your sleeping habits, August will surely be an exciting month! I’m glad that you are all continuing on diving into the sea of service! We have increased by 211 service hours this past month; keep up the OTTERly amazing work! Thank you to those of you who attended Region 3’s Beach Boomba.

It was very successful and I hope you all enjoyed your time bonding with the rest of our region, creating a million waves of memories and friendships.

As summer is coming close to an end, a new beginning of school is arriving. Do you know what that means? MEMBER RECRUITMENT! During this month, you should start to plan with your club for some effective tools in recruiting members. With the new school year coming, there will be fresh faces to welcome into our awesome division. Start recruiting those freshmen! Remember to BEE creative & BEE spirited! Let’s help our otter family grow!

Enjoy the rest of the summer and don’t forget to continue your participation at service projects, communities and school! It is extremely important for you to stay active!

Start thinking on ways to fundraise for PTP, volunteer at events, and help motivate your clubs to continue making a million waves of service. Thank you for reading this month’s wonderful newsletter made by your very own Division Tech/ News Editor, Jimmy Fung. Keep up that spirit and love for Key Club and Division 4 North!

Otterly serving with spirit & service, Helen Nguyen Division 4 North, Region 3 2012-2013 Lieutenant Governor Cali-Nev-Ha District

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Past Events Surf Rider’s Beach Cleanup On June 28th, our club attended a Surf Rider’s beach clean-up on 17th street. Despite the event taking place bright and early on a summer day, a surprising amount of members came out to help. Collectively hauling our purple latex gloves and ecofriendly trash bags, we strolled onto the shores of Huntington Beach to start the project. It soon turned into a friendly competition, diving after bottle caps and candy wrappers. Even though it wasn’t an enormous group of members that attended the event, we were able to collect at least eight pounds of trash all together. Truthfully, five of those pounds came from one member, but that just goes to show how spirited Key clubbers can be, even at 9 AM during summer. I personally enjoyed this event because of how well we worked together for a small group of members. Not wanting to be there for the whole four hours, we labored away; making sure the beach was spotless as fast as possible. US Open was probably a huge motivating factor, but it doesn’t matter because we got the job done.– La Quinta

Helping Out The School During the Month of July we Key Club at Rancho still helped out in the school’s guidance office to organize. Our job was to help clear the senior’s final transcripts and information in order so we can send it out. We all had shifts that were a hour long, where we either filed, put the correct information together, or cleaning out the office for our office lady. We helped her out so much her summer work was put off to ease and only made her worry about the upcoming freshman information. Also we helped out with the registration packet that was helped out by the Rancho’s personal ASB for them to needed hours for ASB camp. Although as a Club we did not go out to help people in the county, we decided that we should serve the school that has provided Key Club with everything we have asked for.– RanchoAlamitos.

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Past Events Beach Boomba Beach Boomba was a BLAST! We started of the day with a beach cleanup picking up as much trash as we could find, After that there was a yoga session in which everyone could stretch their body and prepare themselves for a day filled with fun. After we got lunch, we held our monthly DCM in which we cover important topics. Afterwards everyone got ready to watch the tug o war, and the watermelon eating contest. Then in the afternoon, everyone equipped themselves with water balloons as we play a huge game of capture the flag.

When the water war was over, we instantly hopped to our next event, which was the pieing of the LTGs. I gotta admit, it felt good to shove a pie into my LTG’s face. After the messy creamy pieing, we settled down and got ready for the Bonfire. Overall the day was really fun, all the money went to PTP so I know I went for a good cause and I cant wait till Beach Boomba next year.

Concerts In The Park Hi guys! So this month, my article topic will be about Concert in the Park at Fountain Valley Recreation Center! This isn’t going to be quite happy, but its something I would like to get off my chest before I explode from keeping it in..

Anywho! I really did not appreciate the attitude that was directed to me when I was confronted about a situation that I wasn’t aware of at the moment. I was the only one left, and they had taken all their anger on me, and it was way too much to handle, and I don’t believe I deserved it.

I didn’t like the dirty looks I was receiving from adults, and how no one asked for my perspective, instead they just assumed and left me standing there near tears. I stayed an hour after my shift shocked and overwhelmed. I understand things didn’t go as planned, but I believe it didn’t have to go that far. WHOO, weights lifted from my shoulders! I feel extremely good now! HOW DO YOU GUYS FEEL?!

-Jennifer Do La Quinta

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Upcoming Events Beach Clean-up and Division Bonfire Social When? Sat Aug 25, 2012, 8:00 AM - 12:00 PM What? A day at the beach with your lovely division to help keep the environment clean & fun day to socialize and get to know your fellow otters!

Price? donation of $5 per member Why? You get service hours for doing community service & you get to have fun at the social afterwards!!!

Where? Goldenwest Street & Huntington City Beach Huntington Beach, CA 92646

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Upcoming Events Division 4 North's first ever Olympics

Light the Night Walk

When: Saturday, September 15, 2012 Where: Miles Square Park What: A fun-filled day to battle against your fellow otters during olympic games and activities. You can earn ribbons and help donate money for PTP! *More information will soon be released!*

When: Saturday, September 29, 2012 Where: Angels Stadium Information: We will be walking to raise funds for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. All the proceeds will help support critical cancer programs for cancer patients and research. At night time, everyone carries a single illuminated balloon while walking around the course to honor those who are fighting against or who have lost to cancer.

OC Children’s Book Festival Who: All Region 3 Key Clubbers and KIWINs members What: Volunteer at the Kiwanis Carnival during the Book Festival When: Sunday Sept. 30th, 2012 Where: Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA

Region 3 Training Conference Who: All Region 3 Key Clubbers What: Experience a Training Conference like never before! More workshops and a Spirit Battle!

When: Saturday, Oct. 13, 2012 Where: Bolsa Grande High School

CHOC Walk in the Park Who: All R3 Key Clubbers What: Walk for CHOC Hospital. A Minimum donation of $50 must be raised to walk.

When: Oct. 14th, 2012 @ 6AM Where? Disneyland Anaheim, CA

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Other News Division Task Coordinators Do you want to be a part of the Division Leadership Team? Would you like to help the Lt. Governor? Would you like to help be apart of the CNH members to help spread awareness? Then apply for a Division Task coordinator! The following listed below will be the division task coordinator positions available: Pediatric Trauma Program The Eliminate Project Kiwanis Family Project Jump Start Key Leader March of Dimes Children's Miracle Network If you are interested in being a task coordinator, please apply here: https:// docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform? formkey=dEpkb2YyNFoyYnJTTlVEcXdlbXpQYkE6MQ Once you are a task coordinator, you will be placed either on a Key Club or Kiwanis sponsored group to receive updates on the relevant topics. The intent is for the task coordinators to become more aware--experts-- on these topics and to share the information within the division. These individuals could provide ongoing education during DCMs and training conferences, help with workshops and newsletters, and provide division wide recognition for those contributing new ideas to donations.

These positions are open to all members to get you more involved and help better contribute to the Division. We have a tremendous source of volunteers within the division, so let's get them more involved! This is a great opportunity to get the "sleepers" more involved and perhaps find the passion to take your Key Club experience to a new level, so please sign up. The due date will be Saturday, Sept 1st at 8 PM. Thank you!

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Other News Member Recruitment Committee Would you like to help the Lt. Governor and Division Leadership team? Do you have what it takes to help our Division expand? Do you BEElieve you can get more member to be apart of our Otter Ohana? Do you have the spirit and passion which will motivate possible members to join Key Club?

Well sign up to be apart of the Member Recruitment Committee! Let's create a million waves of ideas on how to increase in membership!

Sign-up here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform? formkey=dG5POGhTV0ZhUWhFSzM2SzFzMTRDTmc6MQ

Fall Rally Committee WE GOT SPIRIT, YES WE DO! WE GOT SPIRIT, HOW ABOUT YOU?! Do you have the spirit gear, the creativity, and the determination to BEE apart of our Fall Rally Committee? Well sign-up and we'll see if YOU have what it takes! Help us dominate during Fall Rally South by creating cheers, helping with the spirit attire, helping to organize our spirit rallies, and much more! Sign-up cause YOLOYou Obviously Love Otters!

Sign up here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ viewform?

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Other News 2012-2014 District Project: Project Jumpstart This year starts off an amazing new project for the California-Nevada-Hawaii District: Project Jump Start. This 2-year project is geared towards providing children from ages 0-5 a jump start during the most crucial years of an infant’s life. Project Jump Start is a great way to give back to your communities and give infants the jump start they need to succeed, one baby step at a time.

The potential of Division 4 North is more than enough to make an impact on our communities through Project Jump Start. Project Jump Start allows children to have a successful childhood, and to one day grow to be competent, caring leaders like each and every one of us are today. By providing this support to young children, we are giving them the opportunity to grow and become strong-willed individuals.

Not only does this project affect our communities, but it goes as far as to provide a benefit to children internationally. By focusing on children’s education, health, safety, and wellbeing – we will be giving children all around the world equal opportunities to have a fresh and vibrant beginning, a jump start. Now here’s the fun part: how to get involved. Simply, by finding a project, or even better, making your own. Working with local organizations is a great way to get involved in the District Project. Even Key Club International’s service partners: UNICEF, Children’s Miracle Network, and March of Dimes support our objectives in Project Jump Start. The amounts of service projects are endless, so what are you waiting for?

I’m looking forward to hearing about your club participating in Project Jump Start.

By submitting articles, visuals, and a description of your project to Jimmy Fung atd4n.keyclub.jfung@gmail.com , you have a chance to be spotlighted on the CNH Cyberkey for the whole district to see your involvement in the District Project. Together, Division 4 North can make an impact: one baby step at a time.

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Contact Us Helen Nguyen -d04n.cnhkc.ltg@gmail.com Rachael Yi -Rachael0296@hotmail.com Henry Quach -Unstandardly@gmail.com Jimmy Fung -d4n.keyclub.jfung@gmail.com Donald Truong -Ducky_10000@yahoo.com