Key club newsletter

Key Club History Key Club has a long and rich history of helping the community, the nation and internationally also. The first Key Club met at Sacramento High School in California in 1925. Since then over 30 nations have a Key Club at a global level.

Key Club has approximately 250,000 members in approximately 5,000 clubs. Key Club got its name in 1925, California State Commissioner of Schools Albert C. Olney and vocational education teacher Frank C. Vincent worked to establish the first Key Club at Sacramento High School in California. This club was comprised of the key boys in the school, willing to serve the school in any way possible and to create better school spirit. Thus, the club was dubbed Key Club.

District Convention This past year's theme for DCON was Shining Bright with Service.

This was my first convention for Key Club and it was a super fun experience. I met many past LTG and many Key Clubbers from different states; I also meet the past and present Rocky Mountain District Board (see last page for District Board Members). Throughout the days at the convention there were many different and fun events. There was a dance, different interesting workshops, caucusing, a fundraiser for Thirst Project (see " current projects") and an awards ceremony to recognize outstanding Key clubs in our District. I strongly encourage all of the clubs to go next year because it is a truly amazing experience. You also get to vote for next years Board!

International Convention ICON in the convention held every year where all of the Key Clubs from around the world come to share everything related to leadership and being an amazing Key Club! This year it will be held in San Antonio, Texas and will be held July 3rd to the 9th. I unfortunately will not be able to attend this amazing event.

If any of you are looking for more information, or are interested for future years, please contact me or go on the Key Club website: http://www.keyclub.org/events/convention.aspx. Yes, there is a cost, but you can spread the word to your Kiwanis Clubs to help you out and there is always an opportunity to fundraise!

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Key Club Projects In the past few years Key Club International has partnered up with three distinct organizations each with their own unique purpose to help and change the world. These three organizations are Project Eliminate, Women's Bean Project and Children of Peace.

Project Eliminate: Key Club International has teamed up with UNICEF, a foundation based in the United Nations, to stop the spread of maternal and neonatal tetanus a disease that kills about 49,000 babies and women each year. Since 2010, they have had a goal of raising $110 million and this year, they have finally reached it. Although the goal has been reached, we have to fulfill our promises and pledges. If you want to learn more about this organization and how you can fundraise follow this linkhttp://sites.kiwanis.org/Kiwanis/en/theELIMINATEproject/home.aspx Women's Bean Project: Women’s Bean Project is a nationally-recognized social enterprise that offers a transitional job in gourmet food manufacturing and handmade jewelry assembly designed to provide women immediate income, arrange support services to overcome barriers to employment, and teach the job readiness skills needed to get and keep a job. Program Participants come to this transitional employment program from backgrounds of chronic unemployment and poverty, and the program helps them develop the work and interpersonal skills needed to function independently in the workplace and community. After nine months, they transition into career entry-level jobs – often for the first time in their lives. Women’s Bean Project strives to break the cycle of chronic unemployment and poverty by helping women learn to work by working. If you want to learn more about this organization and how you can fundraise follow this linkhttps://www.womensbeanproject.com/ Children of Peace: Children of Peace International (COPI) is a humanitarian organization dedicated to helping the people of Vietnam develop the capability to help themselves. Through the financial and material support of orphanages, hospitals, and clinics, as well as two medical missions each year, COPI offers hope, and help, to those in need. It has been the Rocky Mountain District Project since 2002. In that time, we have built 2 schools in Vietnam, and added another story to one of them. The current goal of the Rocky Mountain District is to finish fundraising our $25,000 commitment to the organization in the next year. If you want to learn more about this organization and how you can fundraise follow this link- http://www.childrenofpeace.org/

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You Aren't Done Seniors ConGRADulations! You have successfully completed high school! For those of you who are going to college, you have the opportunity to stay in Kiwanis. Contact your college/university and ask them if they have a Circle K. If they do, you are in luck because you can further your skills as a leader at a higher level. If you don’t, make one! Go to the board and see what you can do to install a Circle K and if you can’t, you can still further yourself as a leader and make time for community service. http://www.circlek.org/Join.aspx

What You Can Do Over The Summer?

Just because it is summer break does not mean that you cannot continue your service. Gather up your Key Club or even a group a friends and volunteer at a food bank or homeless shelter. Some really good organizations you can volunteer at are the Ronald McDonald house and the Denver Rescue Mission. Or just find an organization that interests you and volunteer there and maybe get your family to join in! The more the merrier!! If you can not get out the house, create a page for the Thirst Project. The Thirst Project builds wells for people in third world countries, so they can have clean water. Just $25 gives one person clean water for the rest of their lives! If you plan on doing any projects over the summer and need someone to go with or you have a new idea, please contact with me and let me know! https://www.denverrescuemission.org/ http://www.rmhc.org/ https://www.thirstproject.org/

Contact Me! Email:ltg9@rmdkeyclub.org Phone: 720-499-5698 Facebook: Rocky Mountain District Key Club Division 9 Instagram:Ltg9rmdkeyclub

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District Board Governor: Krysta Couzi Bulletin Editor: Ciana Burroughs

Rocky Mountain District Division 9 Monthly Newsletter April/ May

About Me‌ Hello Division 9!! My name is Jennifer Torres; I would like to introduce myself as your new Key Club Lieutenant Governor of Division 9 for this upcoming 20172018 year. I attend Jefferson Academy Secondary School and I will be a sophomore in the upcoming year. I am very involved in my school and am an honor roll student, an athlete and part of many different activities and have held an officer position before. Being a part of all of these activities has shown me that at our age we have the power to change the world and make it a better place. A couple of the organizations that I have been involved with this year was Project Jared Box, Eliminate, Thirst Project and the Migrant Workers Food drive in which we raised over 150 articles of food for local migrant workers. As your LTG I will do anything in my power to help you clubs succeed and in the process expand our division. With your ideas and my ideas we can truly make a difference not just in our community but at an international level. I have created a Instagram Account for our division and I am currently working on a Snapchat account also at the bottom I will include that and my contact info below. Remember to spread the word about Key Club so more people may get involved!!

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