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Fun Fact: The Anglo-Saxons called October Winterfylleth, meaning the "fullness" of winter
Key Clubbers join to make reading fun for everyone!
October 2015 Newsletter
Division 1S | Texas-Oklahoma District
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What's Inside: Upcoming Events!
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Eliminate Project
A Note from Your President and Editor
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DCON 2016
Leaping, Reading Frogs
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Meet the Board!
Social Sister
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Upcoming Events!
Agape - Agape Feeding the Homeless (5:30pm) George C. Clark Book Shelving (4-5pm)
Recycling Club (3:40pm)
BB - Braille Bibles (4-5pm)
Ronald McDonald House (6:30pm)
Jurassic World Movie Night Social (7pm)
Division 1S Social (11am-11pm)
Turkey Trot Packet Pick-Up (9am-3pm)
Agendas Parade of Lights (4-8pm)
Cutting Edge Social (8pm)
will be emailed weekly during summer!
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A Note from Your 3President and Editor Hey Key Club! This October has been full of service, and great socials, for our club! From the McLean Mad Hatter, to the Botanic Garden, to Lily B. Spirit Night and Reading Frogs and more, we have truly served our community well, and in a variety of ways. As the weather gets colder and the holidays get closer, there will be plenty of opportunities to ensure we are helpful around Fort Worth. This changing of the seasons will affect the homeless people in our area, and so I encourage every member to come to Agape and help serve a meal in the next month. In addition, I know you all are finding out about service projects from other resources, so if you think they would be good for Key Club, share them with a member of the board and we will put it on the agenda. I congratulate everyone for your participation and determination this past month! Keep the Key Club motto in mind: “Caring, our way of life.� Yours in service, Page Trotter
Hello, Key Clubbers! October has gone by in a flurry, and things will only move more quickly from here on. Y'all have done an amazing job with continuing to serve your community and school, while managing school, work, sports, extracurricular activities, and whatever else everyone is involved in. I'm proud to say that we have had 200+ total man hours for the month of October; may I challenge our club to reach 250 for this coming month? There will be no shortage of volunteer needs in upcoming months, with Thanksgiving and Christmas approaching so quickly. A huge thank-you to you all; Key Club would fall apart without your dedication. Also, thank you to everyone who sent pictures and articles for our newsletter this month. Y'all are wonderful people. Yours truly, Sue Youn Oh
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What is maternal/neonatal tetanus (MNT)? MNT is a deadly disease that kill one baby every eleven minutes, when tetanus spores found in soil come into contact with open cuts during birth. How long did it take you to eat lunch? 20 minutes? 30 minutes? BOOM. 2-3 babies died of MNT, just while you were eating your meal. They suffered repeated, painful convulsions while being super sensitive to light and touch. There was hardly any hope of survival, and the mother could also have died from tetanus.
What will it take to eliminate MNT? Thankfully, MNT is highly preventable, despite its fatality. Just three doses of 60-cent immunization protects mothers, who then pass on the immunity to their babies. MNT is still prevalent in 23 countries with little or no access to health care, and more than 100 million mothers and their future babies must immunized. This will require vaccines, syringes, thousands of skilled staff, safe transportation and storage, and much more. It will take about US$110 million and deep rooted dedication to eliminate MNT. Eliminate information taken from http://sites.kiwanis.org/Kiwanis/en/theELIMINATEproject/MNT.aspx
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Leaping, Reading Frogs by Page Trotter
The TCU Reading Frogs Festival was an impactful event, for both elementary school kids and Key Clubbers. For the festival, Key Clubbers were matched with elementary school kids to read with. The volunteer coordinator coached us on what to do. We were told that letting them read, and also guiding them when they needed help, was important. The coordinator also emphasized that we should encourage reading throughout life, as it is so vital to being successful. When Diana and I were paired with a little 8 year old girl named Vanessa, we were determined to help her improve her reading skills. We started by sitting down with Pocahontas books and going through the story together. We alternated reading aloud as we went over the words and pictures. As Vanessa read, Diana and I would help her when she stumbled on a sentence. She began to gain confidence as we continued, and was less afraid to seek our assistance by the time we finished Pocahontas.
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The next book we tackled was a Pirates of the Caribbean story. Since Vanessa had seen some of the movies, she was excited to learn about it from a book. This time, Diana read a few sentences, and I read a few, and then we let Vanessa take over for a while. The flow of her reading seemed to have already improved since we began, and it was impressive to see her master difficult words by sounding them out the way we had taught her. Her comments on the storyline told us that she was able to simultaneously focus on both the words and the plot. We decided to save the best for last and gave Vanessa the challenge of reading a chapter book. It was called Twin Surprise, and was about the size of a Junie B. Jones book. I was concerned that Vanessa wouldn’t be able to handle the sudden shift in the reading level, but she was excited to read her very first chapter book. Though she still asked us questions, she was much more proficient than we had expected. The festival came to an end before we could finish it, but we told her to continue reading when she got home. This event proved to me that a child can learn a great amount in a short amount of time. With continuous practice, Vanessa was able to become a stronger reader in just a few hours. I think the kids were more motivated to succeed because they wanted to learn from "cool" high schoolers, and it was thrilling to see them discover a love for reading.
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Banking at the Food Bank by Inho Kim
“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 certain ingredients, canned foods, and many more, such as snacks and condiments. Our Key Club volunteers were at first like fish wading into uncharted waters, but there were regular volunteers who had worked for years to help us. As we began to get used to it, others did too, and we were able to quickly and effectively sort items. While working at the food bank, I learned that some products are still edible long after their expiration date. It made me wonder if the expiration date was created with food banks in mind in order to provide meals to the hungry. In one session, volunteers were asked to check the zucchinis stored in the warehouse. These zucchinis were not "fresh from the store" zucchinis, but involved ones which hadnow, been stored for post weeks. Surprisingly, Get and picturesmost from of the vegetables were fine with the exception of a few moldy ones that I the last DCON or Fall with cannot bear to describe in detail. This type of sorting could Rally only be done by volunteers, not machines, and through the process, we were able to provide #todcon2016! more food and satisfy the hunger of those who have fewer blessing than us.
April 21-24, 2016
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Social Sister by Moni Gunderson
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Paschal Key Club held a social on Thursday Oct. 1 at Raising Cane’s to support their sister club, Charity Water. Charity Water raises money throughout the year to build wells in developing nations for those who don’t have access to clean and safe drinking water. Its first fundraiser of the year was at Cane’s, earning 15% of the proceeds from Paschal-related purchases for that evening. It takes $6,000 to build a well, and Charity Water finally accumulated that amount over a course of four years. So this year, the club is starting from scratch at a total of $0. The previous officers sent the money for the well at the end of school last year, and the club has just received word that the well will be built in Nepal, after the terrible earthquake in April earlier this year. Charity Water will continue to have fundraisers throughout the year, and Key Club will also continue supporting our sister club. The social at Raising Cane's was evidence that interclub relations within Paschal builds the strength of all clubs involved.
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Meet the Board! Page Trotter, President
Diana Lee, Vice President
paschalkeyclubpresident@gmail.com 817-946-8718
Reid Yanney, Secretary
paschalkeyclubsecretary@gmail.com 682-597-9197
Sue Youn Oh, Editor
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), Lily Nguyen (Secretary), Emily Zhao (Treasurer), Matthew Riley (Editor), Megan Reynosa (Convention Liason, CL) <Position@tokeyclub.com>