2013-2014 CNH D15 May Newsletter

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Hello Division 15 Giraffes! I am Amy He, and I am so excited and blessed to be your Lieutenant Gover-nor for the 2013-2014 year! I have been a dedicated Key Clubber for 3 years in Chino Hills High School Key Club. In these past three years, the numerous experi-ences, leaders, and members have made my Key Club experience truly enjoyable and memorable. I hope that I am able to spread this joy and love for Key Club with this opportunity Below are my goals as your Lieutenant Governor for Division 15! Yes, there are much to accomplish, but I believe that if we work together, we will reach above and BEEyond our goals. As we are still getting to know each other , I hope that any giraffe can come up to come me after Division Council Meetings, during division events, or socials to greet and say hello. I truly want to know each of you, to not only be able to work well with each other, but also create a caring ohana that char-acterizes Key Club. I am extremely confident that with the amount of leadership throughout the division, love for service among members, and spirit for “I FEEL GOOD!”, we will have one of the best years we ever had. I look forward to working all of you, and through our success and failures, achievements and mistakes, let us have another amazing year, Division 15! Yours in Service, Amy He

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Greetings lovely giraffes! My name is Ingrid Channa and I’ll be serving as your division tech editor for the 2013-2014 term. I’m extremely excited to serve this division and make the club more connected through these newsletters and other means in the future. Although I joined Key Club my freshman year, I was not entirely active until my junior year. Thus, it is never too late to start getting involved in Key Club! I hope you all enjoy this first newsletter. In it you will find many division updates and club articles and visuals. So do not forget to send in those visuals! They are what makes the newsletter what it is now, as you can see. I also want to start questions of the month, and so I will be e-mailing surveys each month for members to fill up so we can learn a bit more about each other and be closer as a division. Not only that, but I plan to revamp and renew the division website over the summer so every-one can stay up to date with all of the latest divi-sion announcements, even if they do not have facebooks. Anyways, feel free to ask me questions anytime, I will be happy to serve all of you and I look for-ward to seeing you all much more this year! Yours in service, Ingrid Channa

Contact me anytime!

E-mail:

[email protected]

Cell:

(909) 732—8205

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What is Key Club? Mission: Key Club is an international, student-led organi-zation providing its members with opportunities to per-form service, build character, and develop leadership. Vision: We are caring and competent servant leaders transforming communities world-wide. Motto/Core Values: “CARING—our way of life.” Caring Character Building Inclusiveness Leadership

The History of Key Club Key Club was established in 1925 in Sacramento High School by Albert C. Olney and Frank C. Vincent. They went to their local Kiwanis club to help charter a similar club at their high school. The club was made up of the KEY boys in the school, serving the school however they could and creating more school spirit. Thus the club was named “Key Club.”

Key Club Structure Members make up a club. A board is elected based off the Club Bylaws at the beginning of each year. A cluster of anywhere from 1-16 clubs makes a divi-sion. A Lieutenant Governor (Lt.G) is elected to serve the division as a liaison between the clubs and district. A cluster of 1-8 divisions makes up a region. A cluster of regions makes up a district.

Internationally, there are: 260,000+ Members 5,000+ Clubs 33 Districts 30+ Countries Our Key Club is in: Division 15 Region 13 Cali-Nev-Ha District

Did you know? Key Club was originally an all-boy’s club, and girls were first admitted in 1977! However, before the merge, there was a sister club for girls, called Kiwins, before then partici-pating in similar activities.

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Hello Giraffes! My name is Jaihee Choi, and I am a sophomore at Chino Hills High School! Just a little about myself: my favorite color is red, I enjoy sleeping, and hot chocolate makes me extremely hyper! Also, I like to run, smell new books, look at cows, and put BBQ sauce on EVERYTHING I eat. But most of all I like be amongst my fellow Giraffes and let others know how I feel, which is "GOOD!" The first Key Club event I attended was Relay for Life the summer before my Freshman year, and since then I have fallen more and more in love with service! The warm smiles, lost voices from screaming so loud, and life-changing memories that comes with Key Club is why this organization has changed my life forever. I hope to continue to meet new Key Clubbers and make new memories that I will cherish for the rest of my life. Thank you, D15, for being my ohana, and I'm exciting to see how we will all grow together in this next year!

Hi! I’m Dat Nguyen, Division 15’s secretary. When I first joined Key Club, I was just a shy freshman, not knowing what to expect. As time elapsed, I steadily learned more about Key Club, wanting to become a larger part of this wonderful organiza-tion. From a shy freshman I’ve become an extremely spirited giraffe, willing to shout until I lose my voice. As a highly spirited giraffe, I’ve gone to the odd extent of donning a yellow toga and a giraffe mask. I’m also still really awkward, which makes everything so much more fun! Despite this, I get along really well with other people. I'm teaching myself Japanese, but lazy teachers are bad teachers. I also taught myself how to play an ocarina. I'm planning on rejoining water polo, also hoping to catch up on my reputation as one of the fastest (but only for short distances, blarg.) I'm an completely random person, bringing many smiles on faces through cheesy jokes and bad puns, earning many "Dat you are the weirdest person I've ever met"'s.

Congratulations...your MAIN Task Coordinators!!

Main Service Coordinator: Kouleen Morales Main North Spirit Coordinators: Andrew Salcedo & Janet Ho Main Fundraising Coordinator: Sarah Jeon Main South Spirit Coordinators: Evei Loren Dayao & Shana Wang Main Host Club Coordinators: Timmy Jeng & Nanxi Liu

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Hello world! My name is Simon Lee and I'm the oldest of four boys and come from a second generation Korean-American family. I play both varsity water polo and soccer for my school while coaching AYSO recreational soccer for my region. I love spending time with my friends, playing sports, and being in-volved with my community. I am also a Congressional Intern who loves being interactive with political and community is-sues. I have a strong passion for helping the youth on their re-spective journeys, hoping to major in Sociology.

Hello fellow giraffes! My name is Ingrid Channa and I’m a junior (soon incoming sen-ior) at Alta Loma High School! I’m Chinese, but I speak Thai, which is still really con-fusing to explain to everyone. I’m usually a pretty shy person, except Key Club is helping me break out of my shell a bit. So if I don’t come up to you or talk, feel free to say hi, I honestly don’t bite at all! My life basically consists of school, food, friends, sleep, tennis, piano, and Key Club! I’m also a huge technology geek, hence why I ran for this position. I love all things artsy such as sculpting, drawing, graphic design, and writing. One day I hope to become a pediatrician and a writer, and eventually save up enough money to serve people for free in Thailand. That’s me in a nutshell. I joined Key Club my freshman year, but I only really got involved in it last year, where I learned to fall in love with the organization little by little. I’m a huge advo-cate for that warm, fuzzy feeling of serving the community! Key Club has done so much for me, and I hope to do the same for Key Club!

Congratulations...your MAIN Task Coordinators!!

Main Service Coordinator: Kouleen Morales Main North Spirit Coordinators: Andrew Salcedo & Janet Ho Main Fundraising Coordinator: Sarah Jeon Main South Spirit Coordinators: Evei Loren Dayao & Shana Wang Main Host Club Coordinators: Timmy Jeng & Nanxi Liu

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April DCM

It was a pleasant day in the park, and a perfect day for the DCM. On April 27th, Division 15 had its first DCM for the 2013-2014 term led by the new lieutenant governor, Amy He. This DCM was hosted by Upland High School, a hosting system which is new to the division this year. It was a fun day filled with ice breakers, water, and games. Not only that, but many DCON memories were shared as well. Dead-lines for officers to know were discussed, and the LTG also an-nounced scheduling club visitations as well. Task coordinator appli-cations were said to be released soon as well, and the new Division board was announced: Jaihee Choi and Simon Lee as executive as-sistants, Dat Nguyen as Division Secretary, and Ingrid Channa as Di-vision Tech Editor. Overall, it was a fun day and filled with division bonding, perfect to start off the new term.

May DCM

Although it was a hot day, that did not prevent Key Clubbers in par-ticipating in their Mayventure! —a day filled with Key Club. Before the DCM, Key Clubbers from around the division volunteered for Cruisin’ for Kids Car Show. Though some had to stay to clean up, oth-ers went to the DCM hosted by Rancho, where Amy announced tank tops for the ELIMINATE project, a division social in place of the division banquet, and and more challenges for the month! Soon af-ter, everyone went to celebrate a days worth of hard work at Menchies, raising money for Rancho Cucamonga’s Key Club.

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Each month, clubs may participate in a Challenge of the Month. Clubs who are able to complete a certain number of challenges may win these prizes!

1 Month: 2 division wristbands OR 1 pair of thundersticks 2 Month: 2 division wristbands AND 2 pairs of thundersticks 3 months: 1 free SHIRT, 2 wristbands, and 2 pair of thundersticks All 7 months up to Fall Rally: 1 free CREWNECK, 1 free SHIRT, 2 division wristbands, and 2 pairs of thundersticks

APRIL CHALLENGE OF THE MONTH

The Challenge of the Month for April was KIWANIS INTERACTION to honor this month’s Kiwanis-One day. Thank you for all the submis-sions and hope ALL OF YOU will continue your communication and connections with Kiwanis, Key Club’s biggest supporters.

MAY CHALLENGE OF THE MONTH

The Challenge of the Month for May is OFFICER TRAINING and LEADERSHIP. Have a majority attend the upcoming officer training and encourage members to be task coordinators, and rewards will be given before Fall Rally!

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When: June 15th 10am-3pm (Food will be provided!) Where: Rancho Cucamonga District Office

This is highly important for all the officers and members who are interested to become officers to attend.

We will be with Division 36 West the Huskies! If haven’t noticed yet, officers of Key Club differs

from positions from other clubs, such as treasur-ers need to fill out reports and secretaries need to fill out MRFs, but that’s what makes us so great!

Though some clubs may have received training from past boards, this will definitely offer some more insight because there are different work-shops not just for officer training, but also fund-raising, service, and knowledge of key club.

Members, not only officers, are also encouraged

to come! See you all there!

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"Early Saturday morning, May 4, while loading his truck with supplies for the Ontario Salva-tion Army Walk, Lt. Governor Jim Zitterkopf reportedly felt chest pains and then suffered a massive heart attack and died. All of us are stunned and saddened by the sudden loss of our fellow Kiwanian and Division leader. He had just completed 7 months of his term as our Lt. Governor, and was so looking forward to the rest of his term... Our hearts and thoughts go out to his family at this time of tragic and emotional loss... In the meantime, we grieve the loss of a self-less Kiwanian, who died doing service for his Club and Division. He will be sorely missed by everyone."

Rancho Cucamonga Relay for Life is coming up on JUNE 1ST, and we will be participating as a division! Ken Morse, a dedicated Kiwanian, has been going to team meetings and organizing this event, but now it's time for us Key Clubbers to step in. He will be hosting a team called “Save the TA-TAs” which is, that’s right, a team against Breast Cancer! So all Key Clubbers near the Rancho Cuca-monga area were invited to attend this. It will be at Cucamonga Guasti Park on June 1st, hope to see every-one there!

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Soups On! By: Ingrid Channa

On May 4th, Alta Loma High School’s Key Club attended the Soups On! Event at Grace Lu-theran’s Church. Although it was a Friday night, that did not stop a huge number of members from at-tending this fun, delicious event. With the perfect weather, many new people to meet, and more, it was a perfect way to unwind after the stressful week. Alta Loma’s Key Club volunteered with Upland’s Key Club to make this event a huge success. Many peo-ple came, and the night was filled with cheering, club bonding, and service.

Members did a various amount of tasks throughout the event. Because many of the new Alta Loma prospective members attended, there were almost too many volunteers! Members helped serve soups, hand out raffle tickets, walk around and help those eating, and clean up the area. Some members event lost their voices from all the promotion and cheering for this event. A large number of members attended this event—from children to seniors, and so everyone was satisfied by the huge array available. Volunteers event got a hand in tasting some of the amaz-ing soup there. Soups On! Is a fundraising event for the church’s expansion of their preschool, and peo-ple from all across the city make home made soup for people to try and vote for their favor-ite soup. The winning soup gets the golden ladle and other recognition. Some surpris-ing people turned in soup, including the mayor! In conclusion, the event was a huge success and made a considerable amount of money, and allowed volunteers to enjoy themselves as well.

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Wickman Mother/Son Carnival By: Jaie Peshawaria On May 10th, from 5-8:30pm, members and officers alike from Chino Hills High School attended Wickman Elementary School to volunteer at their annual Mother and Son carnival. From game booths to dancing with the kids, it was a night filled with fun for everyone. Our Key Club was given the task of handling the game booths. The kids would come up to booths, and for free, would play the games. If they won the game, they would receive tickets that would later be put into a raffle. With hundreds of kids excited of the prospect of winning prizes, our booths were busy from start to end. Laughter and smiles went around the whole night as kids as well as parents enjoyed themselves. Some of our members were even asked to a dance

-off against the ele-mentary students, which was a blast, al-though we didn’t always win. This was an excellent op-portunity for us to spread our Key Club message to the students and parents. Wickman was so impressed with our efforts that night that they asked us if we were willing to commit to a long term relationship. The Wickman Mother and Son Carnival was a great event for our key club as we were able to connect to the communities youth, help create an unforgettable night, and secure our club’s future volunteer interactions with Wickman.

Chino Hills High Key Club members, Max Yang

and Derrick Chen handling a game booth at

the Wickman Mother and Son carnival.

Chino Hills High Key Club members

watch and cheer on an elementary stu-

dent at the Wickman Mother and Son

carnival.

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Cruisin’ for Kids Car Show By: Nanxi Liu In the 4th Annual Kiwani’s Car Show, giraffes from all around Division 15 gathered to serve this division and Kiwanis-sponsered event. Volunteers arrived bright and early at 7 AM, first putting caution tape around the desig-

nated space, wrapping yellow caution tape around trees. After-wards, key clubbers stuffed goodie bags for the car contestants. The bags were special, blue Kiwanis tote bags, filled with M & M, pens, and notepads. For breakfast, volunteers received complimentary donuts and waters. Before we knew it, cars of all sorts of colors, sizes, and special qualities came teeming in. One car even shot fire out of its sides! During the day, we walked around the rows of cars, trying to sell three different types of raffle tickets. All profit made would be donated to PTP, where only $1.80 saves a life. One raffle ticket gave buyers the opportunity to win a kindle fire, bikes, and a $50 target gift card, while another gave prizes like furni-

ture and other cool gifts. The third raffle ticket allowed the winner to get half of the total money in the raffle, while half would go towards the Kiwanis foundation. Furthermore, there were also vendors who sold choco-late-dipped bananas, ice cream, and strawberries, mini donuts, hot dogs, hamburgers, and scented candles to curb our lunchtime hunger and fill our nostrils with pleasant scents. In addition, we passed out the goodie bags and an-swered questions from incoming participants and guests. In a few hours time, it was already time to clean up. Key clubbers put away tables, folded tablecloth, and helped the adults with whatever was necessary. New friendships were developed, lives were saved, and service was given to those in need. As a bonus, we all meandered over to the Division 15 Disctrict Council Meeting at Day Creek Park afterwards! The Kiwanis Club of Rancho Cucamonga supports youth programs in Rancho Cucamonga, including scholar-ships, Shoes that Fit, Ronald McDonald House, Key Clubs at Etiwanda High School, Rancho Cucamonga High School, Los Osos High School, Upl and Christian Academy (located in Rancho Cuca-monga) and the Aktion Club.

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Salvation Army 5k Walk / Run By: Steven Eap Despite the heavy weather, Ontario High School participated in a 5k Walk/ Run for the Salvation Army. The Salvation Army 5k Walk/Run was a huge success, but sadly not as many people as expected attended. The man who made this event could not come, he died earlier before the event started from a heart attack. His name was Jim Zitterkopf, previous LTG for the Kiwanis organization. We gave a moment of silence for him.,

and all that he did for this organiza-tion, dying for service After that the walk began, many of us were al-ready exhausted beforehand, but we still pushed through for the good cause.

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Eliminating MNT By: Rebecca Lee The Eliminate Project is a joint project with Kiwanis and UNICEF to eliminate maternal and neonatal tetanus (MNT) from the world. A signifi-cant number of innocent children and women have been dying as a cause of this disease. In order to eliminate MNT, approximately 129 million mothers and their future babies must be immunized. It will take $110 million, vaccines, syringes, safe stor-age, transportation, thousands of skilled staff and more. And so, the Key Clubbers at Ruben S. Ayala High School have been painting posters to raise awareness and holding coin drives to raise money. AWARENESS The weekend before Eliminate Week began, the 2013- 2014 Ayala Key Club officer board gathered to paint a total of 12 posters to put around school. In addition to large posters, smaller flyers we also printed and placed into every classroom on campus and round the school as well. An Eliminate table was also set up at the center of the campus during lunch throughout the entire week. We were able to raise awareness of MNT to the students who visited our table.

FUNDRAISING This year was the first time our club raised awareness and funds for MNT. We set a goal to raise $100, and we were successful. Though we still have students and teachers do-nating, as of our last count, we had raised over $130. We are happy to hear positive feedback from fellow peers and supportive teachers. Next year we hope to raise more money and awareness to eliminate MNT from this world!

Preparing for ELIMINATE week by painting

posters

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Citrus Elementary Luau for Life By: Kayla Yamada

As I looked around, there were people running, prac-

ticing jumping jacks, and doing sit-ups. However, it was not a military boot camp. It was the Luau for Life at Citrus Ele-mentary in Upland, California. The event was on Friday, May 10th from 5-7 at night, but Key Club was there from 4 to 7:30 to help with setting-up and cleaning up. Citrus Elementary put on this event to promote active and healthy living for kids.

There were several stations with various activi-ties related to the event. Key Clubbers were assigned to each station and helped teach the children how to do the actions for that station. I helped at a station with Janet Ho

where we did sit-ups and leg lifts with kids. Other stations included stretches, jumping jacks, hacky sacks and basketball. It was overall a great experience for Key Clubbers in interact-ing with the children and fun for the kids who went home with new knowledge to keep themselves active and healthy. Upland thanks Citrus Elementary for the event and Alta Loma Key Club for also helping us in order to have enough volunteers. It was a memorable event for the Key Clubbers and the families.

Key Clubbers cleaning up after a

fun day at the Citrus Elementary

Luau for Life

Key Clubbers setting up

an exercising station at the Citrus

Elementary Luau for Life.

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Every nine minutes, a baby dies from neonatal maternal tetanus. Neonatal maternal tetanus is a virus that spreads from unsanitary supplies used while giving birth. The spores spread from the supplies to the mother’s body, and soon the baby can be affected as well. This leads to only a slow and painful death for the baby, as the baby experiences convulsions, sensitivity to the touch and light, and more. The mother cannot even hold her baby without hurting it. However, Kiwanis and UNICEF has joined together to eliminate this deadly disease by 2015. With $1.80, you can buy a vaccine that will save a mother and her child

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Division 15 will be offering this Key Club Tank. All proceeds will be dedicated to the Eliminate Pro-ject. Pre-sale will be $9 and will end by June Division Council Meeting on June 8th. Please communicate with respective club presi-dents for orders. Tanks will arrive by the beginning of July. Sizes are unisex. Small, Medium, Large, and X-Large are available.

Many clubs have participated

Eliminate Week in May! Thank you

for all you have done to eliminate

maternal neonatal tetanus. Let us

join hands and ELIMINATE MNT

from the Earth by 2015.

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SWAG Points Rules

Early Bird MRF - 20 points

On Time MRF - 10 points

DCM attendance - 3 points (per person)

Division Service Project / Event - 3 points (per

person)

*District Project / Service Partner Project - 15

points

*PTP Project Fundraising - 20 points

Kiwanis Meeting attendance - 5 points

*Article Submission - 5 points (per extra article)

*Visual Submission - 1 point (per extra visual)

Summer Projects- 5 points (per event)

Task Coordinators - 5 points

*Spirit item designs / cheers - 10 points

Ice Breaker / Activities - will vary

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I love Key Club because it's an organization

made up of passionate volunteers that want to

give back to the community and I think having a

club with that kind of positive spirit on campus is

just amazing! Plus, Key Club allows you to make

new friends and really foster the idea of working

together as a community for a good cause.

Name: Annika Kim from Los Osos High SChool

Current grade: 9th Class of 2016

Our unity is like an Ohana. Key Club is so welcoming,

spirited and united. No matter how far apart we are

from each other geographically, or how divided we

are through schools, divisions, regions and districts, we

automatically have a connection that drives us to

work together. We are more spirited than any school's

cheerleaders. We have goals we want to achieve for

the sake of things that reach beyond our communi-

ties. We make keys to open to doors to service

The friendships that get

build over mutual interest in

helping.

Definitely the people. I have

been incredibly inspired by so

many people in Key Club,

helping me get motivated

and to do better in school

I love Key Club because

IT MAKES ME FEEL SO

GOOD

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Amy He - Lieutenant Governor

[email protected]

(909) 569 - 5919

Jaihee Choi - Executive Assistant

[email protected]

(909) 973 - 3028

Simon Lee - Executive Assistant

[email protected]

(909) 278 - 3007

Dat Nguyen - Division Secretary

[email protected]

(909) 465-3233

Ingrid Channa - Division Editor

[email protected]

(909) 732 - 8205

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