Key Connection | October Newsletter 2019 | Volume 3 | Issue 7

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President's Letter

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Fall Rally Information

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Calendar

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Featured Article

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Reminders

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VOLUME 3 | ISSUE 7

2DIVISION 39S | REGION 7

MANSFIELD LAKE RIDGE HS

OCTOBER 2019

TABLE OF contents 4

Key Club Pledge

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T Shirt Design

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Calendar

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Service Partners

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Featured Article 1

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YOF Grant Information

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Featured Article

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Allies In Youth Banquet

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UNICEF Flyer

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Contact Information

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Veterans Day Poster Making!

ll Carnival: Janet Brockett Fa Game!

Pumpkin Memory

Janett Broc

kett Fall Ca rnival: Ring Toss!

RECAP VETERANS DAY POSTER MAKING Members gathered to help create a poster for our troops in preparation for the Veterans Day Breakfast on Friday, November 8th. Members designed and brought the poster to life. It reads, "To The Heroes Among Us... Thank You For Your Service." Members also cut out stars with names of the attendees that will be hung on the walls to greet our troops.

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Key Club Pledge I pledge, on my honor, to uphold the objects of Key Club International; to build my home, school and community; to serve my nation and God; and to combat all forces which tend to undermine these institutions!

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VOLUNTEERING OPPORTUNITIES RECURRING EVENTS SUNDAYS: Allies in Youth Development 2 PM - 4 PM and 9 AM - 11 AM at 1315 Hwy 1187, STE 107, Mansfield Help sort necessities into boxes to send to orphans in Eastern Europe. *Excluding the 1st Sunday of every month*

WEDNESDAYS: Kiwanis' Feed The Kids 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM at 150 S 6th Ave, Mansfield, TX Help pack food and other necessities to be given to children who live in economically disadvantaged households. No sign-up required.

SECOND THURSDAY OF THE MONTH: Nursing Home Bingo 7 PM - 8Â PM at 1402 E Broad St, Mansfield, TX Assist the nursing home residents play bingo. GO to the front door and tell them you are there for bingo. No sign-up required.

ONE TIME EVENTS FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8TH: Veteran's Day Breakfast 6:45 AM - 7:25 AM in the Lake Ridge Library Help serve breakfast food and drinks to the Veterans at our school, as well as other teachers and staff members.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9TH: Star Center Fundraiser 12:45 PM - 2:45 PM at 1715 E Broad Street, Mansfield, TX Come support our club as we raise funds for the Children's Miracle Network. There will be skating and concessions.

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THE THIRST PROJECT The Thirst Project actively works with Key Club to bring awareness to the water crisis and promote alternative solutions to the ongoing issue.

CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK Children's Miracle Network treats 62 kids every minute — that's more than 10 million kids a year. Their mission is to generate funds and awareness programs for their 170 member hospitals.

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UNICEF UNICEF works to help children all around the world and is mandated by the United Nations General Assembly to advocate for the protection of their rights.

MARCH OF DIMES March of Dimes works to improve the health of mothers and babies by preventing birth defects, premature birth and infant mortality.

PROJECT HAPPINESS Together with Key Club, Project Happiness aims to combat the issue of bullying in and out of the classroom. Through raising awareness and promoting positivity, they continue to minimize its impact.

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Thankful for Growth HUMANS OF TEXAS OKLAHOMA

BY MARJORIE LIM My legs swayed back and forth as I sat in front of the Mansfield Historical Museum, doing my best to fight off frequent shivers. It was a bitingly cold October day, and I’d just managed to convince my dad to drop me off immediately after work, following a stilted conversation in the car about unfulfilled responsibilities. Now that I’d arrived, I wasn’t sure that I still wanted to participate, but since I had just extended my best efforts towards getting there, I ignored my doubts and gathered enough courage to walk through the door.

I joined Key Club in 2016 on a whim, egged on by my fellow freshmen friends who insisted that it was a perfect club to put on college applications. Not really one to consider the future, distant as it seemed, I still signed up, hoping for a chance to be more involved at school, where I felt increasingly isolated by the pressures of achieving academic success and a growing dislike of the inherent competitiveness of my classmates. I yearned for an opportunity to feel the cohesiveness that I’d told about, the fun-filled high school experience that came alongside extracurriculars.

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Photo by Angel Parras

The first club-sponsored event that I ended up going to was the Ghost Tours at the Mansfield Historical Museum, an opportunity for the museum to make revenue based on the surprisingly large trove of ghost stories within the Mansfield area.

Those who’d volunteered were relegated to being either tour guides or storytellers on the actual tour itself. For storytellers, there were scripts to be practiced and expressiveness to be captured, but I planned on being a tour guide so that I could get away with light conversation and escape the undivided attention that storytellers would receive.

Unfortunately (or fortunately, in retrospect), the universe had other plans for me.

Lost in my own musings, I tuned out the person who was doling out roles, until she tapped me on the shoulder and asked what I wanted to do. I came to the painful realization that the only position left for me was a storytelling role behind one of the Main Street buildings. With an apologetic grin directed towards the lady with a clipboard, I shuffled reluctantly towards my storytelling partner, a cheerful girl who introduced herself as Megan.

Although she seemed fairly nice, my nervousness heightened when I realized that she was a senior, and not just any senior: our Club President. As the reluctant victim of the standard freshmen belittling, I braced myself for the next two hours, which I imagined would be awkward at best.

It was silly of me to have worried, because the moment we started working together, I was immediately at ease. Throughout the lengthy periods of inactivity between tours, our conversations held some of the most genuine depth I’d live through that school year. We bonded over our similarities in dysfunctional sibling dynamics, blatantly indecisive decisionmaking, and struggles to keep a somewhat positive vibe going in the midst of our own problems. During our first break, we noticed a taco food truck within walking distance, and when

she realized it would be my first time trying street tacos, we ran as fast as we could to get our food so we could finish just in time for the second tour to walk by. We laughed at the cuteness of little kid costumes (with a particularly adorable Darth Vader belonging to my former seventh-grade English teacher) and exchanged encouraging glances when our storytelling lines fell victim to slip-ups.

As awesome as spending time with her was, the actual highlight of the experience was witnessing people enjoy themselves on the tours, whether it was the genuine delight from kids who were initially just dragged along or the adults who widened their eyes in disbelief at ghost stories. Being part of an event that not only spurred growth in myself but also brought others a much needed escape from the world meant so much to me.

From that event on, I grew to appreciate the inherent unity that Key Club inspires. Through an encounter with someone I never thought I could relate to, I realized that there was potential for camaraderie with any individual, and allowed myself to be more open to what the world had to offer. As a current senior, I look back on memories of service with fondness, and a little regret that it’ll draw to an end soon.

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OFFICER CONTACT INFORMATION PRESIDENT

VICE PRESIDENT

Christeen Nguyen Alan Phan lrhskcpresident@gmail.com lrhskcvicepresident@gmail.com

SECRETARY

EDITOR

Michelle Nguyen lrhskcsecretary@gmail.com

Gilliana Tawaran lrhskceditor@gmail.com

TREASURER

SENIOR REP

Kwame Morrison lrhskctreasurer@gmail.com

Abigail Nguyen lrhskcseniorrep@gmail.com

JUNIOR REP

SOPHOMORE REP

Ethan Vu lrhskcjuniorrep@gmail.com

Ethan Clark lrhskcsophrep@gmail.com

FRESHMAN REP Neva Khan lrhskcfreshmanrep@gmail.com

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MORE CONTACT INFORMATION DISTRICT GOVERNOR

DISTRICT SECRETARY

Ashna Patel Kareena Patel governor@tokeyclub.com secretary@tokeyclub.com

DISTRICT EDITOR

DISTRICT TREASURER

Katherine Chao treasurer@tokeyclub.com

Vivian Thai editor@tokeyclub.com

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DIVISION 39S LTG

FACULTY ADVISOR

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Gretchen S. Wamer docgretchen@gmail.com

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