Paschal Key Club Volume 4 | Issue 5 August Fun Fact: Until 8BC, the Romans called this month “Sextilis”
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August 2015 Newsletter Division 1S | Texas-Oklahoma District
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What's Inside: Upcoming Events!
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Children’s Miracle Project
A Note from Your President and Editor
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Binding Bibles for the Blind
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Ending Summer the “Rice” Way
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Tangled Chaos
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Milking Life for Babies
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Meet the Board!
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Upcoming Events!
George C. Clark Book Shelving (4-5pm) Recycling Club (3:40pm) BB - Braille Bibles (4-5pm) Agape - Agape Feeding the Homeless (5:30pm) Kiwanis Divisional Council Meeting: Dinner (6pm), Meeting (7pm) Cowtown Classic Bike Ride (7:45am) Fall Trinity Trash Bash (8-11am) After Party (11am)
Agendas will be emailed weekly during summer!
3 A Note from Your 3 VP and Editor Hey Key Club, It has been a great start to the school year, with lots of service projects on the horizon. I want to thank everyone who has helped make this a summer dedicated to the community- I can't wait to see what we can do! To our new members: I encourage all of you to try out a variety of events on the agenda and see what you like. You may just find that Key Club is your home for making friends and making a difference! Yours in service, Page Trotter
Can y’all believe that the summer has gone by so fast??? School is not in full swing, and so is Key Club! As our schedules get busier, let’s not forget the importance of Key Club and serving our communities. Even with the added work load, I have full confidence in each and every one of our club’s members, and all your diligence and giving attitude. Thank you to everyone’s hard work during the summer, and here’s to even greater good to come! As always, a HUGH thank you to everyone who helped make this newsletter: all those who took pictures and wrote articles. Yours Truly, Sue Youn Oh
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The Mission: We increase funds and awareness for local children's hospitals. The Vision: Together we save kids' lives
What is Children's Miracle Network? Children's Miracle Network raises funds for 170 children's hospitals across North America, which use the money where it's needed the most whether that's for research, medical equipment, or medical procedures. All donations stay in the community it is given in, ensuring that every dollar is helping local kids. Since 1983, the organization has raise more than $5 billion, most of it $1 at a time.
Information taken from http://give.childrensmiraclenetworkhospitals.org/
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Tangled Chaos by Cole Harper
On Wednesday, August 5, I attended a Key Club social where we watched Tangled in Sundance Square. Page Trotter, Katie Balderston, Diana Lee, Moni Gunderson, and Chloe Underwood were also there. Upon arrival, we observed a sea of children in Sundance Square. They were so full of excitement and screamed extremely loudly at pretty much anything. I went into Starbucks to escape their noise, but the whole Starbucks building shook from the intensity of their screams. A man from Radio Disney was the MC for events leading up to the movie, and it was 10/10 cheesy. Originally, I did not sit in a chair, as it blocked others' views. However after my foot fell asleep for the tenth time, I brought a chair over and decided to sit down anyway. Page had driven me to the event, so unfortunately, I was stranded in the ocean of screaming little children until the end of the movie. I texted my friend Nick to come pick me up, but he didn't get the message until it was too late. It was overall an awkward and strange experience, since we were the only teenagers there. However, I believe it is always good to try new things, and I certainly do not regret going.
6 Binding Bibles for the Blind by Sujata Dalal
Every Wednesday after school, Paschal High School Key Clubbers meet at Saint Paul Lutheran's Church to make Braille Bibles. Last week, I had the opportunity to join in the service, and had a great time making Bibles and hanging out with other Key Clubbers. It was a very fun and extremely rewarding experience. Everyone has a job to do, and we all work together to create the books. It's a small service project that has a large impact; the Bible we make are sent all over the world. I first started going to Braille my sophomore year, and have been going whenever I could since then. It's a ton of fun seeing the same people who come every single Wednesday after school. Making Braille Bibles every week takes a lot of dedication and makes me extremely proud that our Key Clubbers have been doing this particular service project for years. Braille is an important project that really encompasses what Key Club is all about, serving the community and helping those in need.
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Milking for BankingLife at the Food Bank Babies by Thomas byMarisa Inho Kim
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“Volunteers are the heart and soul of Tarrant Area Food Bank. Without volunteers, it would not be possible to respond to hundreds of hungry North Texans every day.” – Tarrant Area Food Bank website Paschal Key Club answered the call on June 22nd and helped sort out the charity items given to the Tarrant Area Food Bank. One of the Food Bank polices states that every item must be checked by a person before distribution, so every volunteer, including the regulars and other service groups, took up plastic gloves and went to work. The Food Bank was extremely precise and meticulous, with sections for inedible products (such as shampoo and deodorant), drinks containing There’s no laughing overfoods, spilledand milk at the Mothers Bank (MMB). It’s a certain ingredients, canned many more, suchMilk as snacks and very serious thing do there.were MMBatprovides milk into to various condiments. Our the Keyworkers Club volunteers first likedonated fish wading people; sometimes the were kids whose don’t produce milk atfor all,years and uncharted waters,it’s butfor there regularmothers volunteers who had worked other times babies mothers ablewe to were makeable milkto just to help us.it’s As for we premature began to get usedwhose to it, others didaren’t too, and yet. quickly and effectively sort items. While working at the food bank, I learned thatThe some products are stilla edible long after to their expiration me milk goes through lengthy process make sure it’sdate. safe It formade the babies wonder expiration date was created with food banks in mind inmedical order totest; who need ifit.the First, the donators have to go through some noninvasive mealsand to the one session, volunteers askedand to check a provide simple blood drughungry. test is In common. Once the women were are tested the the zucchinis stored in the warehouse. These zucchinis were not "fresh from the results come back as healthy, MMB sends sealable cups and boxes to put the milk ones which had in.store" Once zucchinis, the milk isbut shipped to MMB, it been goes stored throughfor a weeks. lengthy Surprisingly, pasteurizing most process of the vegetables were fine with the exception of a few moldy ones that I in which the milk is hand-sorted and put into fridges to keep it fresh. Many cannot bear to describe detail. Thisand typeeven of sorting could only use be done by children’s hospitals aroundinFort Worth, beyond the city, the milk, volunteers, not machines, and the process, were able to provide proving that many are in need ofthrough this service that the we MMB provides. more food and satisfy the hunger of those who have fewer blessing than us.
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8 by Katie Balderston
The UCC Mobile Food Pantry is a wonderful organization that gives free food to the people who need it. I personally was able to volunteer myself at the site of the Wesley Center on June 27th and give out free food and help clean up. The people who come bring carts and/or tons of bags to carry all the fresh fruits and vegetables they got. Many people came as soon as it opened (at 8:00 a.m.) and usually the food distribution lasted until noon. Scores of people waited in line to come inside and obtain various food items such as cranberry juice, cabbage, corn, potatoes, etc.... Not many words can describe the great feeling you get from volunteering at the UCC Mobile Food Pantry. All the people are so polite and usually say thank you after they are given their food. However, because so many people to the food pantry, food runs out quickly. Only after the first hour, we were already out of zucchini, broccoli, cauliflower, and ham. Everybody gets in line super early in order to get all the food they can before it runs out. My favorite part of the UCC food pantry is probably how it's all a volunteer-organized event. It's an incredible organization not only because it distributes free food to the community, but also because of its volunteers who freely offer their time.
The milk donations come from women who sometimes have an abundance, or overflow, of milk. The MMB constantly needs new donations because new babies are born all the time whose mothers just can’t produce milk. Our job as Key Club members was to sort invitations, put them in letters, and seal the letters - all to get the word out that MMB was looking for donors and sponsors. It was a really fun experience getting to see the process that the milk goes through every day, and to see what and who the milk is needed for. The Mothers Milk Bank is doing a great job of helping out those in need, and it was amazing to be a part of that. I hope our club gets to help this wonderful organization again because of its importance and impact it has on lives in both our community and others around us.
Photos Photos taken taken by by Page DianaTrotter Lee
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Ending Summer the “Rice” Way by Moni Gunderson
On Thursday, August 16, three other Paschal Key Clubbers and I worked at the Tarrant Area Food Bank in Fort Worth. When we first arrived, we gathered in the main room to meet all the other volunteers and for an information session about the food back. An employee told us more about the food bank, what they do, and who they help. The Tarrant food bank serves 12 neighboring counties and receives fresh, frozen, and nonperishable food donated by the food industry and the community. We also got the opportunity to learn about the different programs the food back sponsors. Next, we got our assignment and headed into the quality control center of the food bank where we would be working for the remaining three hours. Since we would be directly handling unpackaged rice, we were required to wear gloves and hairnets, which we were a little reluctant to wear at first. After receiving instructions, we split off into smaller groups and began to work. Page Trotter, president of Key Club at Paschal, and I worked together alongside a regular volunteer who was very familiar with the food bank procedures, so he helped us throughout our time there. Although rice may not sound like the most exciting thing to package, it was really fun scooping the rice into bags, then weighing them to see if we needed to add more or remove some. By the end of our time there, we really advanced in our rice weight estimating skills. We learned that the rice we were packaging that afternoon could be on someone’s table in less than 48 hours, which everyone thought was neat; our volunteer work would help someone really soon. I really enjoy working at the Tarrant Area Food Bank for many reasons. First, you never know exactly what kind of work you will doing until you get there, so being assigned a task is always an exciting surprise. Last time I went, I worked with assembling boxes of various packaged foods for families, whereas this time I only worked with rice. In addition, you have the chance to meet a lot of cool people also volunteering from around the community, and get to know them while working together. It is always really interesting to hear about their experiences at the food bank. I always appreciate my time volunteering at the food bank and encourage anyone who is interested to go this service project the next time it is on the agenda! You will not regret it.
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Photos taken by Sue Youn Oh, Abigail Jones, and Katie Balderston
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Meet the Board! Page Trotter, President
paschalkeyclubpresident@gmail.com 817-946-8718
Reid Yanney, Secretary
paschalkeyclubsecretary@gmail.com 682-597-9197
Sue Youn Oh, Editor
Diana Lee, Vice President
paschalkeyclubvp@gmail.com
817-694-5124
Sujata Dalal, Treasurer
paschalkeyclubtreasurer@gmail.com 817-313-0445 Members-at-Large Parliamentarian: Carter Dickson (817-781-5909) Historian: Jillian Daugherty Social Chair: Chloe Underwood Advertising Chair: Moni Gunderson Attendance Manager: Andrea Rios Lieutenant Governor: Vanessa Castaneda <ltg1S@tokeyclub.com> Region 7 Advisor: Ms. Newsham <reg7adv@gmail.com>
paschalkeyeditor@gmail.com
District Officers: Rachel Iselin (Governor), Crystal Loh (Secretary), Emily Zhao (Treasurer), Matthew Riley (Editor), Meghan Reynosa (Convention Liaison; CL for email position) <Position@tokeyclub.com>