WHS Key Club August Newsletter

WEATHERFORD HIGH SCHOOL VOLUME

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AUGUST 2019 NEWSLETTER

TABLE OF CONTENTS 01 Editor's challenge 02 Upcoming events 03 Important announcements 04 Officer Information 05 District officer information 06 Articles 07 Articles Continued 08 Service Partners 09 Governors, District, and Divisional Projects 10 Major Emphasis Projects 11 Month in Review

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Upcoming Events

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New Member Meeting In the Library 4:30 pm

Fall Fundraiser At Pine Acre's Church 4-9:30 pm

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Food and Resource At the Center 4-7 pm

Custer County Food Drive!

Important Anouncements t! r i h s t a d n a s e u d r o f y a p to Don't forget

We also have two board positions o pen Treasure and Me mber-Rep

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Officer Information

President/ : Hannah Strickler wfordkcpresd17@gmail.com 580-816-0243

Secretary/ Vice President: Ginna Galindo wfordkcsecd17@gmail.com 580-235-6537

Editor: Katie Cornelsen wfordkceditord17@gmail.com 580-330-0207

Historian: Lakin Green wfordkchistd17@gmail.com 580-890-7322 Webmaster: Brett Bozarth wfordkcwebd17@gmail.com 972-971-7139

Faculty Advisor: Mrs. Roehr stephroehr@gmail.com 214-587-2937

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Ltg: Kaitlyn Roehr kaitdroehr@gmail.com 405-465-2480

Regional Advisor: Rafael Santos rafsantos68@gmail.com 580-512-5941

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Article My Key Club Life I started out with saying I would join Key

My position going into my junior year

Club my freshman year. I did not end up

was Webmaster. I was running the

joining until my sophomore year. I then

website, the instagram, the Twitter,

joined the club because my mom forced

and sometimes Facebook for our club.

me to join. She wanted me to be around

During the year our Historian stepped

a different group of kids in school. My

down into the Member Rep position

neighbor was in Key Club when we were

and we did not have a Historian. The

freshman. My mom wanted me to join

guy that ran for Historian did not seem

because they thought it would be good

to really want that position, so I

for me. I did not want to join Key Club

traded him positions. I became

because I thought it would be a lot of

Historian and he became Webmaster.

weird kids and I did not know what all

Webmaster was more his position than

was entailed to joining the club. I joined

Historian. During DCON the scrapbook

and I realized that it was a club built

I made got first place!

around service. I got very involved with everything that the club was doing.Â

The position I ran for my senior year was Secretary. We did not have a

During my sophomore year, my first year,

Treasurer or an Editor for this year. We

the Historian was removed. I signed up

came up with a solution to our

to be apart of the board without

problem. We had every position run

realizing how much work went into it.

unopposed during our elections

There were three of us that signed up. I

except Vice President, so we asked

did not get the position, so since I did

the girl that did not win if she would

not get it I was scared to sign up to run

take Secretary and Treasure positions.

for a position later on. Later on, I got so

Since she took both I moved to Editor.

many hours that I was invited to go to DCON. While I was there I decided to become the Webmaster. I went to the forums for it and we did not have a webmaster that year. I signed up and got it since I was the only one. It took a lot of work to be apart of the board, but I had the summer to get everything in line.

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Article What to Expect for WHS Key Club 2019

Hi! My name is Hannah Strickler and I am

This month we’ve already done lots of

the Key Club President at Weatherford High

exciting things! On the 8th, our school

School. I am a junior this year and this will

had our enrollment and our officers

be my third year in Key Club! I’m super

set up a table to attract new

excited for this year and the many events

members! Our theme for the year is

we have planned! My president’s project for

“Just Keep Serving,” and our table was

the year is “Klimbing the K’s.” With this

decorated to show it! We had a trifold

project, I hope to better connect our K-

displaying the theme and many

family, K-Kids, Builder’s Club, and Kiwanis.

beach-themed items up for a raffle!

To do this, I have reached out to our local

We had new members fill out

Kiwanis and will reach out to our Builder’s

information slips with their name,

club to hopefully plan a social or service

grade, email, and favorite breakfast

project at some point this year. I also am

item at the booth, and we had around

working with our Division 17 LTG, Kaitlyn

40 new slips! We put these slips in a

Roehr, to help start our first ever K-Kids in

box and drew names slips at our first

Weatherford! This year’s Governor’s project

meeting on the 22nd and 6 lucky

is “Culture for Caring,” and our club will be

members won candles, bath bombs,

participating in this by having a social at a

planners, or our big theme basket!

later time where we enjoy foods from all

Since then, we’ve volunteered at our

different cultures and map out where our

local Food and Resource Center and

families are from! We will also be looking

had a breakfast meeting, and both

into helping with Special Olympics! This

were great turnouts! This next month,

year’s divisional project is “Karing for Kids,”

we will be having a new member

and our club will be helping with this by

meeting for new members to learn all

making tie blankets to take to OU Children’s

about the joys of Key Club, helping at

hospital, and hopefully helping at a local

the Food and Resource Center,

women’s shelter! Finally, our District Project

helping with a canned food drive, and

is “Key Readers,” and our club will be

having lots of meetings! My final word

participating in this by promoting Early Bird

of advice is to “JUST KEEP SERVING”!!

Reader, which is a before-school program at our local elementary school. How it works is, each high school student is paired up with a first grader and they will have a designated day that they read to this student for 30 minutes before school! In conclusion, we’ve got lots of exciting work to look forward to this year!

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Service Partners Eliminate is wo rking to eradicate neo n a ta l te ta n u

es m i D f o h c r a M e Th e lp h o t s k w or of h t l a e h e h t e v o r im p b a b ie s The Children's Miracle Network raise s a w a re ne ss a n d fu n d s for children's h ospitals

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s ' r o n r e v o G Project or f e r u lt u C is t c je o This years pr n e ca n o y r e v e r e h t e g o T Caring! o r o ne f g in r a c r o f e r u lt cre a te a cu r o l, o o h c s , d n ie r f s tu d ent, e im t a t a y it n u m m co

District Project

Divisional Project

T h is  y e a rs p ro je ct is K a rin g fo r K id s!

T o g ether w e c a n a l l ca r e fo r a k id in n e ed.

h is t t c e j o r p t c i r t T h e d is d n a , s r e d a e R y y e a r is K e re o m g n i n r a e l w e w ill b e so o n!

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Major Emphasis Project

The Thirs t Project aims to end the g lobal wat er crisis through f undraisin g and increase awarene ss

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Month in Review We had a gr eat month.

We had our f irst meeting of th is year and we are r eady to get this year started.

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