Fall MinnDak Quack

MINNDAK QUACK!

T E R C E S P TO Fall Edition l Vol 1 Issue 2

CONTENT

MESSAGES 1 REPLAY IT NEWS 3 NEW WEBSITE 5 NEW DIVISION 6 LTG 6 NEW INTERNATIONAL TRUSTEE 7 QUACK NEWS 9 CLUB SPOTLIGHT 11 KEY CLUB PLEDGE 12 WHAT’S QUACK’N 13 CHARITIES 15 UPCOMING EVENTS 17 CONTACTS 18

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BULLETIN EDITOR NOTE Hey MinnDak! It’s your Bulletin Editor here, Gao-je Vang. I hope you all got the chance to look at our Summer MinnDak Quack and are ready to read the Fall MinnDak Quack! Read about recaps and upcoming events. Even check out some new information like our new Division 6 LTG, International Trustee and website!

Two major things that happened that’s mentioned in the newsletter is Fall Rally and Key Club Week! Read more about the events in this MinnDak Quack! Like the Fall MinnDak Quack, I’ve included the Quack News section and What’s Quack’n? section. Both are new, but are helpful information everyone can read about! Then if you’re looking for any of your LTG’s email it’ll be listed in the last few pages.

Remember that your club can be featured in the MinnDak Quack! Email me an article about your club’s service! Write a short article and attach pictures. Or send in your club newsletter!

Make sure to follow us on our social media for any updates because DCON is coming up! LTGs will be sending more information out about DCON in their monthly newsletters to club presidents, so look out for that! I hope everyone enjoys reading the Fall MinnDak Quack! See everyone in the next MinnDak Quack!

Your Bulletin Editor, Gao-je Vang minndakbe@gmail.com

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GOV NOTE TRUSTEE NOTE Hey MinnDak,

Greetings MinnDak!

I hope you are all having a great school year. All of you have made my term amazing so far, thank you.

My name is Hannah Nivar and it is a complete honor to be serving as your International Trustee for the remainder of the 2017-2018 service year.

I am a current junior at the Marine Academy of Technology and Environmental Science located in a small town in South Jersey. Outside of Key Club, I serve as Student Government Secretary, meaning I find ways to get my school involved with Key Club's Service Projects as often as possible! In addition to a few other activities (Relay for Life, Spanish Club, Yearbook Committee, Literary Magazine, School Store and Dance Team), my favorite would have to be Project Terrapin.

Please remember that I am here to serve as a resource to you and will always be more than willing to answer any questions or concerns you may have or even just get to know you! One of my favorite things about Key Club are the opportunities to meet people and make new friends. Feel free to contact me at hnivar.kci@gmail.com!

The committee application is closed and we have a few new members. You can check these individuals out on the MinnDak website. Thanks to all who applied.

DCON is right around the corner. Please join us in Wilmar in April. If you have any questions reach out to your Lieutenant Governor. I can't wait to see what 2018 holds for us. Keep up the great service. See you in April!

Yours in Friendship and Service, Kacie Iverson minndakgoc@gmail.com

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REPLAY IT NEWS KEY CLUB WEEK Key Club Week is the best week ever! It’s a whole week dedicated to Key Club. This week is held the first full week of November every year. Each day of the week has a theme. Be creative and celebrate Key Club!

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Monday is Show Your K In Every Way! Wear your Key Club gear and tell people about it!

Tuesday is Kudos To The Key Players.

Thank your advisors and teachers for being part of your Key Club career.

Wednesday is Dare to Care.

Volunteer and do some service, show that your care.

Thursday is Random Acts of Kindness.

Give someone a high-five, greet someone, do something nice that you wouldn’t normally do.

Friday is Connect the K’s.

Collaborate with your Kiwanis Club, Builders Club or any other branch in the K Family!

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2017 In October the MinnDak District Board hosted the 2017 Fall Rally in Loretto, MN. This event is an annual district event where all Key Club in the MinnDak District are invited to get training, meet each other and do service projects too!

The first night of arrival there’s an opening session where there’s an introduction, dinner and officer training.

The next day is an active day. Everyone is split into groups and work together as a team to accomplish difficult team building tasks. Then moving on to high ropes course where groups went ziplining, hiking, and climbing up poles.

All activities were safe and everyone were supported by their group members!

Everyday Key Clubbers shared meals together and got to know each other better; they even met the whole district board! There was even caucusing to learn procedures that will be done at DCON. The whole Fall Rally weekend was filled with teamwork, service and learning! Check out our Fall Rally video on our YouTube channel!

Join us next year our 2018 Fall Rally!

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NEW WEBSITE Attention MinnDak! It’s your District Bulletin Editor, and I have some great news! We have a new district website! Yes, a new website! Our old website was a cool website, however I wanted an easier navigation and more news to appear with pictures to see!

The home page is features three categories which are Events, News and Resources. Events are usually our district events, like DCON and ICON. News is any new articles you should read and can be articles of the month. Resources is a page of all resources you can use if you’re a club officer or looking for forms Then below the three categories are the articles of the month. My apologies for not always updating it, but it’ll usually be articles that are recent and interesting. The last thing on the home page is our social media pictures. Click on the Social Media title and it’ll bring you to a page of our social media accounts. Make sure to follow us for more updates!

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If you click the sidebar on top you can find he rest of the categories like Events, News Articles, Our District and so on. Select any page and choose what you want to see. Even read about the whole district board by going to “Our District” then “District Board”. Even look at our new international Trustee!

The new website is meant to be helpful and informative!

Hopefully you all can navigate through it and find what you’re looking for! If you have any suggestions or questions feel free to email me any time! Our website is www.MinnDakKeyClub.org.

Your BE, Gao-je Vang

NEW DIVISION 6 LTG! Hey guys! My name is Serena and I’m the division 6 lieutenant governor! I am a freshman in high school. Aside from Key Club I am also a member of our schools Student Council and participate in cross country, the Musical, Speech, track and field, choir, and orchestra. I enjoy meeting and talking to new people. Also being as involved in my community as I can.

My goals as the Lieutenant Governor is to get the clubs more involved with was is happening at the international level. This way all clubs can work together to help our common goal, helping and caring for our community.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact me at minndakdivision6@gmail.com. I look forward to meeting everyone.

Your Division 6 LTG, Serena Mobley

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NEW TRUSTEE It is with great pleasure that I am able to introduce myself as your newly appointed International

confident.

I soon found myself as the

Trustee and will have the honor to

Lieutenant Governor of my home

be serving you throughout the

division and it was a true blessing

remainder of the 2017-2018 service

as I was able to develop my skills

year! My name is Hannah Nivar

as a communicator and leader

and I am from a small town in

according to the Key Club core

South Jersey. When I joined Key

values, while making friends I know

Club, I had previously heard a lot

will last a lifetime. The following

about the great service projects

year, I had the privilege of being

and hard-working students that

appointed as the Lieutenant

originated from this club, and was

Governor of a nearby division. This

enthusiastic for what the service

served as yet another blessing and

year had in store for me. No matter

experience that I have been able

how prepared I thought I was to

to grow from and aid my district’s

join, I could have never made

development. Now, I look forward

myself ready for the change Key

to working alongside each of the

Club would make in my life. Key

members within our sister-districts,

Club has become my creative

Ohio and Missouri-Arkansas, and

outlet through which I can be

cannot wait to get started!

myself and let my passion towards

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available if you are willing and

My role as International

helping those in need be

Trustee is primarily to keep

expressed. It has made me realize

infrequent contact with District

all of the opportunities that are

Board members and administrators

in order to effectively serve as a

service year. If you would ever like

liaison for information Key Club

to know more about what goes on

International would like disbursed

within any of the International

to all clubs within our organization.

committees, please feel free to ask!

The same goes for the other way

Some of my goals for the service

around. My position on the board is

year, besides ensuring that you are

to represent what our Sister-Districts

all well informed, are to make

have to say concerning the

certain you have all resources

happenings on the International

necessary to build your

level of Key Club. Additionally, I am

communities to the best of your

here to assist your needs to the

ability and strengthen

best of my abilities. If there is ever a

communications among our

resource you would be interested

sister-districts. I believe that when

in having, whether it requires me to

working together, shared ideas and

find it among the plethora of

past experiences can help to guide

materials Key Club provides or

our districts in the right direction to

creating it, just let me know! I will

ensure continual progress within our

always be open to suggestions

clubs and enthusiasm for helping

and hear to answer concerns

those in need.

about any issues your clubs may

Please remember that I am

be experiencing. I will be visiting

here to serve as a resource to you

your District twice within the service

and will always be open to

year and hope to see many of you

questions, comments, or concerns

at District Convention!

you may have. Feel free to even

On the International Board, I

reach out and introduce yourself,

am a part of the Committee on

since I would truly love to get to

Service and Membership

know each of you!

Experience, which has me beyond excited for what’s in store

Yours in Caring and Service,

throughout the remainder of the Hannah Nivar

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QUACK NEWS! BACK TO SCHOOL SERVICE PROJECTS

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School has begun and that means Key Club is in session! It can be hard to get a club started again in school when coming back from the summer. It’s a great time to try new service projects and set some goals!

An idea for a service project could be making “welcome back to school” cards for teachers. Teachers work hard for us so it’s nice to give something back to them.

Another service project is to hold a clothing drive. Fall is

coming and it’ll be cold. Collect warm sweaters and pants.

People always need hats, scarves and socks to wear!

Even clean up the school yard. Football games can get messy so it’s a perfect time to clean up bleachers and recycle appropriate items.

It’s even better to set goals as a club to reach.

Choose how many times your club cleans up after football games or how much clothing you donate to a shelter. Work together to achieve your goals!

K- FAMILY The K- Family there are six different branches. There’s Key Club, Kiwanis, Circle K, Aktion Club, Builders Club and K-Kids. Each branch is focused on a different group of people. Key Club is for teenagersin high school. Kiwanis is for older adults that help fund service projects and is also a very committed organization. Circle K is for college students and is constantly growing every year. Aktion Club is a service club for adults with disabilities. Builders Club is an organization for young kids in middle school. K-kids is for elementary schools students to begin their development on service and leadership.

MONTHLY REPORT FORMS A duty of a secretary is to fill out a monthly report form. It’s important to fill one out every month because it helps the district keep track of what your club is doing and keep us up to date! It also informs us that your club is active every month!

It’s a form of questions you answer. It consist of questions about club meetings, attendance and service projects.

If you have any questions always feel free to ask for help from members, advisors, LTG or district secretary. Even check out video on how to fill one out that was filmed by our secretary, Lily!

TRICK-OR-TRE ATING FOR UNICEF Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF is something Key Clubbers do every year. Clubs purchase UNICEF boxes and can collect money.

Students can trick-or-treat at school or on Halloween night to collect money. Make it even more fun by dressing up in costumes and really get into the spirit. Besides going around and collecting money, you can leave it at hospitals or somewhere for people to put in their change they don’t want. It’s an easy way to help an organization! Join in on the fun next year!

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CLUB SPOTLIGHT Webster High School Key Club Week The Webster Key Club is in a

place the whole Key Club week,

small town in South Dakota, where

Kudos is a piece of paper that

there is a 150 HS students in the

you hand out to someone when

school. The Key Club has 27 key

you think they did a good thing. On

club members and counting. Key

Thursday we served lunch to the

Club

week

from

students of the Webster School and

November 6th through November

wore a Key Club attire. On Tuesday

10th. We had an escape room that

we had a combined meeting with

took place longer than the Key Club

the Builders Club where we made

week,

juice box turkeys for the local nursing

during

took

place

homeroom

(20

minutes) in school, we fundraised $96 for UNICEF. To get out of the escape room they needed to gather three words to win, at the end of the fundraising the winner is decided by who got out and what was the fastest time to solve the escape

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room. We also had Kudos that took

home residents.

“

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 combat all forces that tend to undermine these institutions.

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Key Club Pledge

QUACK’N? WHAT’S

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Fridley High School Throughout the whole month of October, Key Clubbers collected socks to donate to a local homeless shelter called Sharing & Caring Hands. This event was based off a past event called the Homeless Sleep Out, where they sleep on the football field to spread awareness for homelessness.

This year they’ve decided to change it slightly, to be called Socktober. In the past the event costed $12 to participate but this year it exchanged for the same amount of money in socks! The

Socktober movement because homeless shelters in need of socks, but it is the least donated item. Kid President creator, Brad Montague, was the one behind this movement and inspired the Fridley Key Club. Overall we collected over 800 pairs of socks altogether. Thank you to everyone who participated!

Henry Sibley High School Our first meeting in October was a service meeting with many different activities. One was going around the school cleaning teacher’s whiteboards as a teacher appreciation project.

The club also made bookmarks for the library and decorated them in bright colors. Our second service meeting we made pancakes bright and early for the teachers and faculty. With a huge bag of pancakes and two griddles, pancakes were produced in matter of. seconds.

During this, members also made flyers for the Trick-or-Treat for canned goods event. It was a successful month for member participation in our meeting and community service.

Columbia Heights High School The Plate to Garden program was created by the MN Composting Council to complete the loop of growing food, eating food, and turning food scraps back into a natural fertilizer to grow food again.

Anoka County residents are able to drop off their organic waste at the Columbia Heights Recycling Center free of cost. The drive to compost has spread throughout the city with over 290 households registered and more signing up each month.

Columbia Heights is an organized refuse city and pays for trash by the ton. By recycling organics, the city is reducing trash tonnage. Last year over 20 tons of organics were delivered to the recycling center. This saved the refuse fun over $1,500 in tipping fees. “ The City pays for trash disposal by the ton so one of our main goals is to control cost by recycling organics instead of throwing it with the trash,” Jesse Davies from the Public Work Department said. When the organics are dropped off at the Recycling Center they are then brought to the SMSC (Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community) Organics Recycling Facility. Members of the Columbia Heights Key Club as well as “organic recycling” residents took a tour of the

facility to see firsthand how organic materials are converted into a soil like material.

In conjunction with the Columbia Heights organics program, the Columbia Heights Key Club conducts a “Plate to Garden Compost” fundraiser April through June. Over 40 additional households signed up of the City’s organics drop-off program during the event this year. The SMSC donated compost and the city hauled it to the recycling center for Key Club. This year, the Key Club distributed almost 350 bags of compost raised over $900. The event officially ended on June 10, but there are still leftover bags of compost that the Kiwanis Club will sell on behalf of the Key Club. These funds will be used for services projects and sponsoring students attending leadership conferences at the State and National levels.

The finished compost is used as an alternative to chemical fertilizers on lawns, gardens and potted plants which benefits lakes and rivers by reducing phosphorus runoff. By recycling organics with the city, trash tonnage is reduced. Residents can protect the environment and support Key Club by purchasing the finished compost.

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CHARITIES Governor's Project The Governor’s Project this year is the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. The organization was created in 1987 and has the mission educate and empower people affected by suicide. They bring hope to people and help save lives.

The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) creates a smart culture for mental health with their core strategies: funding scientific research, educating the public about mental health, advocating for public policies and being supporters for survivors.

Donations collected go to research and to help people. There are multiple ways to help the organization and get involved.

Preferred Charities Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals (CMN) is a nonprofit organization that raises money to benefit hospitalized children while increasing awareness for its member hospitals. All CMN Hospital donations directly benefit hospitals, helping to purchase up-to-date equipment, train staff, conduct life-saving research.

March of Dimes has the mission to improve the health of babies by preventing birth defects, premature babies, and infant mortality. After the discovery of the polo vaccine, March of Dimes focused on efforts to improve the health of babies and has been successful with the help and enthusiasm of many grassroots volunteers.

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SERVICE PARTNER The Thirst Project’s goal is to build a socially -concious generation of people who end the global water crisis. They educate students and build real water projects all over the world. Waterborne diseases kill more children every single day than AIDS, malaria nad all world violence around the world.

VISION PARTNER Nickelodeon inspires kids to take action and make a difference in the world. The Big Hand and Worldwide Day of Play helps kids and adults to plan events and activities.

UNICEF is an organization of the United Nations and dedicated exclusively to children, work with other United Nations bodies, governments and nongovernmental organizations to assit children in need through community-based services in primary health care, basic education, and safe water and sanitation in over 150 developing countries.

The Eliminate project is to eliminate maternal and neonatal around the world. Every year the deadly disease takes about 49,000 babies and a significant amount of women. We can help with $1.80 at a time- the amount to save a child’s ife.

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CO-SPONSOR Rustic Pathways is the leader in providing superior international community service, education and adventure programs for students around the world.

UPCOMING EVENTS DCON : April 13- 15 ICON : July 4- 8

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CONTACT INFO GOVERNOR

SECRETARY

KACIE IVERSON MinnDakGov@gmail.com

LILY DICKSON MinnDakSec@gmail.com

EXEC

BOARD TREASURER

BELLA DUNBAR MinnDakTreas@gmail.com

BULLETIN EDITOR

GAO-JE VANG MinnDakBE@gmail.com

TRUSTEE

HANNAH NIVAR HannahNivar.kci@gmail.com

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TAM NGUYEN

KAYDI ANDERSON

MinnDakDivision1@gmail.com

MinnDakDivision2@gmail.com

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LIEUTENANT SUAD MUMIN MinnDakDivision3a@gmail.com

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PEYTON WICKLUND MinnDakDivision3b@gmail.com

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ALLISON ENGEL MinnDakDivision4@gmail.com

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RACHEL ZHANG

SERENA MOBLEY

MinnDakDivision5@gmail.com

MinnDakDivision6@gmail.com

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GOVERNORS DANIEL AJAGBUSI MinnDakDivision7a@gmail.com

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RANJANI HARIHARAN MinnDakDivision7b@gmail.com

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ALICE GENG MinnDakDivision7c@gmail.com

www.MinnDakKeyClub.org www.KeyClub.org