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VOLUME XI | ISSUE VI | SEPTEMBER 2018 | TEXAS-OKLAHOMA REGION 9 DIVISION 8
TABLE OF CONTENTS Thoughts from the Division: Service Aspiration… 3 Article: “Pancake Marathon” … 4 LTG Update … 6 Contact Information … 7 District Project … 8 Governor’s Project … 9 Regional Training Conference … 10 Youth Opportunities Fund … 11 Article: “Friendship Through Service” … 12 Major Emphasis Projects… 13 Get Connected … 14 Upcoming Events … 15
GIVEN THE NECESSARY RESOURCES, WHAT PERSONAL SERVICE INITIATIVE WOULD YOU PURSUE?
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My service project would be building properly functioning schools in undeveloped countries! Education is super important to me, and it breaks my heart that not all have access to it - Chloe Cagle, Durant Editor
If I had the necessary resources, I would create more schools in developing countries where students did not have to worry about any restrictions they may currently have. Instead, education would be an opportunity every child can have. - Bella Plaza, Guyer Vice President
With the necessary resources, I would work to make sure that everyone in the world had adequate access to health care. The first step to this plan is making sure that people who are most susceptible to surface wounds, namely children and adults who are homeless, have access to basic first aid supplies. These vital resources can prevent further complications such as infection. I want to spread my initiative globally. - Sarah Spivey, Guyer Member and Division 8 Lt. Governor
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THE SEPTEMBER 2018 NEWSLETTER
Key Club Division Eight
Pancake Marathon A fundraising event turned community support event, all with butter, flour, syrup, and heat.
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Pancake Marathon by Sarah Spivey
When someone says Kiwanis Fundraiser, what comes to mind? The smell of warm syrup, melting butter, and starchy batter awakens the senses. Pancakes! When Texas-Oklahoma Division Eight met for a council meeting one warm June afternoon to discuss ways to fundraise, we decided to plan a special event that we called the Pancake Marathon. Here, we would make pancakes for donations to raise money for our clubs to attend District Convention, an effort to combat the clubs’ issues of lack of funds. The location would be no other than the historic Denton Courthouse-On-the Square, a beautiful building we could see just outside of the window of our meeting place Beth Marie’s Ice Cream Shop while we chowed on some delicious dairy confectury. To use this building, we had to embark on a journey. The first step? Getting permission to use the building for ten hours one cool October Saturday. To do this, Natalie Parks, Grace Ware, Judge Joe Holland, and I ventured to the Denton County Commissioner’s Court where we presented our event to the Denton County Judge and Commissioners, and they voted on the item to give us permission to use the facility. We studied their faces as we spoke. Would
we be granted our request? Then, the vote was taken. YES! Our Pancake Marathon was approved.! While there, we were also fortunate to meet the women who leads our county, Mary Horn. She is such an inspirational leader as she was one of the first women leaders in the Denton County Court; being able to speak with her gave us additional inspiration to hold an amazing fundraiser and continue to serve our community.
The next step in our adventure was planning the logistics of the event. We got griddles, syrup, and inspiration from the Denton Breakfast Kiwanis Club. I went to the store get the pancake batter. We coordinated borrowing tables and chef volunteering from Key Club and Circle K members; our event was ready to go! When the big day arrived, a dozen high school students and my willing father hightailed it to the courthouse before the sun had even
risen, and we set up. For the next ten hours, we made pancakes, collected donations, and walked through the square to spread our message. As we were mingling on the Square, I recognized some homeless people who I had previously met while volunteering. Our service team was so excited to give them and their friends fresh, warm pancakes! The smiles on their faces when they took their first bite warmed our hearts. The event was a success! We raised $120 dollars and fed a dozen homeless people. I was so proud of all of the volunteers who dedicated their time, talents, and heartsto the Pancake Marathon. Without the assistance of Denton County, Judge Holland, the Denton Breakfast Kiwanis clubs, and the members from the K-Family clubs that they sponsor, the event would not have run so smoothly. I’m excited to hold another one next year! Our inaugural Pancake Marathon was an event for the books.
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LTG UPDATE Sarah Spivey Division 8,
Region 9 Division 8 Lieutenant Governor ltg8@tokeyclub.com
Happy October! September wss a wonderful month of service in our division. Many of our clubs have engaged in memorializing the victims of 9/11, hosting a school blood drive, and even attending the Distrit Fall Rally, meeting and serving with other members from Texas and Oklahoma. With the spooky season which is upon us, please remember that the Early Bird (EB) Dues Deadline is soon approaching. To be distinguished as an EB club, please have your dues submitted to International by November 1st. Please contact me or District Treasurer Addie Flores (treasurer@tokeyclub.com) for help and more information. If you do not make this deadline, Regular Dues must be submitted by December 1st. My goal is for all of the Division 8 Key Clubs to be distinguished as Early Birds! October is also the month of Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF! Key Club partners with this organization as a Major Emphasis Project to help children who need more than candy. Order the boxes for your spooky, festive adventure at store.kiwanis.org. The Regional Training Conference will be held on October 13th from 10:00am - 2:00pm. Hosted by Region 7 and 9 Lt. Governors, here you will receive officer training, learn more about Key Club, and socialize with other members from our area. Please RSVP to ltg8@tokeyclub.org by Wednesday, October 10th. Each of you are doing great things, serving your community and instilling leadership in one another. Continue the great work! As always, contact me if you need anything. Warm Regards,
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CONTACT INFORMATION Connor Rubrecht
Mati Rigsby
Region 9 Advisor
Gainesville High President
region9@tokeyclub.com
mrigsby.2019@gainesvilleisd.com
Kyra Burke District Editor editor@tokeyclub.com
Kenyon Black
Emmie Erwin
District Administrator
Guyer High President
administrator@tokeyclub.com
562263@g.dentonisd.org
Nadia Rodriguez Convention Liaison cl@tokeyclub.com
Addi Duerksen
David Alvarez
District Governor
Liberty Christian President
governor@tokeyclub.com
alvarezdavid2000@yahoo.com
Caden Young Denton High President
Bunsri Patel
caden.young@outlook.com
Emily Boyd
District Secretary
Ryan High President
secretary@tokeyclub.com
912151@g.dentonisd.org
Josie Daniels Durant High President
Addie Flores
danielsjosie03@gmail.com
Sarah Spivey
District Treasurer
Division 8 Lieutenant Governor
treasurer@tokeyclub.com
ltg8@tokeyclub.com
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DISTRICT
PROJECT
Each year at our Summer Board meeting, the District Board votes on a District Project that all of the clubs can focus on throughout the year. This year, the Board voted on a project named “Keep T-O Beautiful.” Through this project, we want you to focus on keeping your environment green, safe, and beautiful and to promote environmental conservation and awareness.
Service Ideas School Clean Up Bicycle Rally Birdhouse Construction Plan a Tree
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Pick up trash around your school’s campus to restore its full beauty Promote the energy-saving benefits of bicycle transportation by making flyers to display around your school and community Construct simple birdhouses for use by birds around you school’s campus Identify a place in your community that needs for foliage and cultivate new life
GOVERNOR‘S
PROJECT
Every year, the Governor who is elected at District Convention choses a project that he or she wants the District to work on while serving the community. This year, our Governor Addi Duerksen selected for the District to focus on Alzheimer’s Disease. Through this project, she wants you help people in your community who are suffering from this disease that affects the brain and its memory capacity.
Service Ideas Raise Awareness Letter Writing
Visit
Encourage students at your school to learn more about Alzheimer's Disease by hosting a purple spirit day Write some cards to be sent to community members who suffer from the disease. Tell them a funny joke, the best part of school, or your favorite Key Club memory to help to entertain them. If allowed, visit community members with Alzheimer’s Disease. Bring fun, easy games to play, some of those letters to keep the spirit alive after you leave, and a light heart to keep them happy.
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Friendship Through Service Submitted on September 29, 2018 and written by Olivia Wilson I joined Key Club as a sophomore in high school and after one year, I regret not joining sooner. My first glimpse of the friendships I would make that year came from our Ice Cream Social at the beginning of the year. It was a small group, but that just helped me get closer to those around me! At that first meeting I knew about 5 people and I was close to maybe three of them. By the end of the meeting I had become friends with everyone in the room! As the year went on more members came in which meant more people to befriend. We were halfway through the school year and I couldn’t take two steps in the hallway without seeing and waving at a
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new friend! With the start of the second semester came more and more opportunities to make friends. I was able to go to our RTC that year, despite not being an officer at the time, and that is where I became friends with the others in my forums and also became closer to my officers. Coming closer to the end of the year is when I met the most people and made the most friends. That’s right, I’m talking about the T-O Key Club District Convention! At the convention I met hundreds of other key clubbers, entered (and won!) a contest, and managed to make a ton of friends that I still talk to now. Without Key Club, I wouldn’t have met one of my (now) good
friends. At this point in my story we have reached the start of the new school year. A couple weeks before school started I began talking to the incoming freshman about Key Club. I talked to both those that I was already friends with and those that were looking to make new friends. The one thing that I always told them was that if it weren’t for Key Club I wouldn’t be friends with half the people I am today. And lo and behold when freshman orientation rolled around, just about every freshman that I had made friends with stopped by our booth to talk and get more information! The school year hadn’t even started, and those freshman had already made one friend in Key Club. This is how Key Club helps us build friendships! Through service we grow closer together and learn how to become closer to those around us.
MAJOR EMPHASIS PROJECTS March of Dimes
Children’s Miracle Network Kiwanis family members participate with Children’s Miracle Network by sponsoring fundraising
events
The ELIMINATE Project
Key Club works with March of Dimes to ensure that mothers
eliminate maternal and neonatal
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conducting service projects at their local children’s hospitals. The Network has been treating children and supplying hospitals with supplies since 1983. Their main fundraiser is $1 Miracle Balloon Icons, sold at many restaurants and community events. Each day, CMN treats over ten million kids in need each year. Key Clubs, hold a jeans day, karaoke contest, or other fundraising to support Children’s Miracle Network! Learn more. Visit childrens miraclenetworkhospitals.org
Kiwanis family members partner with March of Dimes by raising thousands of dollars annually to give every baby a healthy start.
are healthy and their babies are strong. March
of
Dimes
Kiwanis UNICEF
partnered with in an effort to
tetanus, focusing on the developing world where mothers and their newborns are more susceptible to the disease.
provides
educational information for mothers and their families about childbirth, prenatal care, and other health concerns. They work with community based organizations to provide resources that will best impact the health of the community. Learn more at marchofdimes.org
UNICEF, or the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund, works to provide a safe, inclusive environment for children and their families around the globe. In the Kiwanis Family, Key Clubs are the leading fundraisers in the Kiwanis Student Leadership Programs. Learn more about UNICEF at unicef.org
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GET CONNECTED
@todistrictkeyclub
@TOKeyClub
Texas-Oklahoma Key Club District
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UPCOMING DATES October 5th, 2018
September reports and newsletters due.
Regional Training Conference
October 13th, 2018
October 15th, 2018
The Youth Opportunities Fund Application is due by 10:59pm.
Kiwanis One Day. Interact with your K-Family through service!
October 28th, 2018
November 1st, 2018
Early Bird Dues Deadline
Regular Dues Deadline
December 1st, 2018
April 25th-28th, 2019
70th Annual District Convention. 15
PROUDLY SERVING
Aubrey High Denton High Durant High Gainesville High Guyer High Krum High Liberty Christian Ryan High Sherman High Van Alstyne High