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Randall Key Region 1 | Division 7/33
Volume 5 | Issue 4 | November 2020
Table of Contents Editor’s Note 2 Riddle of the Month 3 Photos 4 Community Involvement 5 Service With A Smile (Under Our Masks!) 6 Photos 7 Upcoming Events 8 November Calendar 9 District Officers 10 RHS Officers 11 Partnerships 12
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Editor's Note Howdy Key Club! I hope you all had an amazing month! With December coming up, make sure you wear your mask and continue to keep up the great work! Happy Thanksgiving!!
RHS Editor, Katherine Fox
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Riddle of the Month
Where does a father keep all his jokes and puns?
In his DADabase!
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Photos By: Emily Klein
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Community Involvement By: Katherine Fox
At Randall High School, students are a part of so many amazing and different school clubs, classes, and events. Each grade level contributes to many activities around the school each month, and even weekly. In Amarillo the community is fairly tight knit, so there is always an opportunity open to help someone in need. The clubs, classes, and organizations at Randall High School are open to these opportunities, and step up every single time when the need arises. During the holidays especially, the Key Club at Randall High School is very busy. They take up the offer to collect cans for food drives, make and hand out food at shelters, create a safe spot for those struggling during the holidays, and even hang out and play with the smaller children who attend events with their parents. Randall High School’s Principal, Steven Singleton, has taken notice of the hard work and dedication achieved by the Key Club, and asked President Emily Klein to participate in a peanut butter drive for the area’s Snak Pak 4 Kids in early October. Klein reached out to other clubs at Randall High School and asked for their help to collect jars of peanut butter to send out to kids in our community. She received help from Randall’s FFA (Future Farmers of America), NHS (National Honors Society), and the marching band. Each of these organizations were happy to help and stepped up to the plate, bringing a car load of jars full of peanut butter. Members of Key Club and National Honors Society had the opportunity to earn hours for this service project, which was a helpful incentive, as areas in Amarillo to serve are closed due to COVID-19. However, students at Randall High School were able to come together to provide many jars of peanut butter to the Snak Pak 4 Kids organization, and put some smiles on the faces of those children in need. They have reported that they are so thankful for the donation of jars, and are excited for the future of the Randall High School Key Club!
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Service With A Smile (Under Our Masks!) By:Katherine Fox Since the pandemic of COVID-19 has hit the world hard, people everywhere have tried to brighten the days of others through social media, social distanced meetings, and gifts, sanitized of course. There is no limit to the creativity of thousands of communities around the world. One thing people look forward to every single year is the holiday season. What good would a year be without Halloween, Thanksgiving, or Christmas? In the Panhandle of Texas, businesses have done their best to create online ordering systems to attract customers who are uncomfortable with going inside stores, and restaurants have closed lobbies and drive throughs, and even pick up and delivery services for less cost than before. All this to say, the Panhandle has continued this effort into the holiday season, offering safe ways to celebrate the most wonderful time of the year. During Halloween, safe measures were carried out by the city and those passing out candy from their homes. For Thanksgiving, every service project was done with masks and no food was handed out directly to another person. Tests for the virus were taken before and after getting together with others, and families unable to come together in person were met with each other's smiling faces on Zoom or FaceTime calls. Now it’s Christmas time in the Texas Panhandle, and Amarillo is prepared to host safe events to bring everyone’s spirit up. Randall High School’s Key Club has already been able to include the community in raising spirits by working with the Botanical Garden in Amarillo for their annual Christmas light display. Students working helped remind visitors to keep their masks on, some passed out sanitizers, and some walked around with groups of others to ensure social distancing and to answer any questions that may be asked of them. This light display is one of Amarillo’s beloved traditions, and the Key Club, who helps out every year, was excited to learn it would continue in 2020, due to the circumstances of the year. This event is still continuing through December, so Randall Key Club, go get your hours at the Botanical Gardens!!
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Photos By: Alex Collins, Julia Frank, & Kaylee Loya
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Upcoming Events Week of November 2nd: Key Club Week November 2nd and 3rd: Snak Pak 4:30-5:30 November 11th: Flag Pickup
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November Calendar
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District Officers Governor: Kareena Patel, governor@tokeyclub.com Secretary: Vivian Thai, secretary@tokeyclub.com Treasurer: Raj Patel, treasurer@tokeyclub.com Editor: Katelyn Tran, editor@tokeyclub.com Convention Liason: Kaitlyn Roehr, cl@tokeyclub.com Technology Producer: Alina Dam, techproducter@tokeyclub.com International Trustee: Salma Eldeeb, salma.eldeeb@keyclub.org 10
RHS Officers President: Emily Klein, (806) 290-7474 Vice President: Alex Collins, (806) 340-1875 Membership Secretary: Maci Kyle, (806) 236-3963 Recording Secretary: Kaeleigh Miller, (910) 358-4661 Parliamentarian: Zane Perry, (806) 231-6881 Editor: Katherine Fox, (817) 739-3106 Historian: Niki Borron, (806) 673-1651
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Partnerships
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