Division 7 South Key Club October Newsletter

Division 7 South | Region 16 | Cali-Nev-Ha District | Key Club International

The Monster mash The Official Newsletter of Division 7 South Key Club Volume: 4 Issue: 5- October 2013

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Happy October, Monsters!

My heart filled with joy seeing you all at Fall Rally! Although we did not win the spirit stick this year, seeing how all of you kept cheering in the heat of the sun, despite being hungry, tired, and thirsty, reminded me of why I love this division so much! Many Lt. Governors and Dis-trict Board members came up to me say-ing that we’re a very spirited division. A spirit stick doesn’t measure how much pride we all have in being ORANGE MONSTERS, and I could not be more proud of each and every one of you who showcased your pride for our division. I love you all so much, and I know we’re going to BEAST at DCON! Moving onto new business… Have you gotten your Halloween cos-tumes ready? Have you been Trick-or-Treating… For UNICEF? It’s that time of the year again! FALL!

Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas – I can hardly contain my excitement! The holiday season is only made better with some Monster bonding. <3 I really hope to see you all soon, especially at our Leatherby’s fundraiser on the 29th! Love, Lt. Governor Emily

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In service and friendship,

Emily Mu

Division 7 South Lt. Governor

Region 16 | Cali-Nev-Ha

District

Cell: (916) 752-3717

This is Halloween,

this is Halloween!

Welcome to the month of

October monsters! The

weather may be getting a

little colder, but things in

Division 7 South Key Club

are heating up! Check out

this month’s issue for new

events, fundraisers, and

more!

Official Newsletter of Division 7 South Key Club | October 2013 1

Hello Division 7 South!

So I just wanted to say thank you all who have support Division 7 South's Tapioca and area Fundraiser! The out-come was even better than I imagined. By far the most money raised at Tapioca and Tea from a fundraiser, so great job and thank you all you have participated in this event! I had a great time at Fall Rally North! It was amazing seeing some old and new faces. I will never get tired of cheering even if I lose my voice. I just wanted to say great job Monsters for being as loud as you can be. I'm very proud of the en-thusiasm and energy. I know it was blaz-ing hot, but we pushed through. We

came in strong and ended strong. You Monsters have made a difference to me, and I'm proud to serve all of you! For future events, Division 7 South will be having a Leatherby's fundraiser on October 29th, from 5-11 PM. 20% of your purchase will go to the Pediatric Trauma Program so spread the word and enjoy some delicious ice cream! --


Jennifer Dalanan 2013-2014 Executive Assistant Division 7 South, Region 16, Cali-Nev-Ha District Key Club International

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Hello Seven South! As you all know, we just had Fall Rally! I hope you all had a great time. Even though we didn't win the spirit stick this year, I'm very proud of our division, we showed spirit and integ-rity in the face of loss. We still have next year! You all cheered your hardest and that makes me feel very blessed to be a part of this awesome division.

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In service and friendship, Nick Nguyen 2013-2014 Executive Assistant Division 7 South, Region 16, Cali-Nev-Ha District Key Club International

Hello again my beautiful

fellow monsters! Another month has passed us by! It’s been WAY too long since we last saw each other! This month, I’ve been busy making flyers for Division Fundraisers, Pho-toshop-ing to my heart’s content, and doing it big up here in the Elk Greezy. IT’S OFFICIAL! Our brand-spanking NEW Division Website will be released on Friday, October 25th! The final redesigning is al-most complete, and I cannot wait to share it all with you. Look out for more information on our Division 7 South Facebook Group! To help run this new website, up-date it, and make it as BEEautiful as you all are, we are creating a new Task Coordinator position, the Webmaster and Publicity Task Co-ordinator! This is a great chance to serve on the Division Leadership

Team, make the website as snazzy as can be, and really show your digital chops to our entire division! Appli-cations will be released soon, so watch out for that! I am planning on creating a Fall Rally 2013 Recap Video to show the great time our division had at FRN this year! If you have any pho-tos/videos/selfies/derping/posing/etc. you’d like me to put in the video, send them to me! If you’d like info on how, just talk to me and I’d be glad to help you! Though the weather is getting cold, our division is only heating up! I’ll see you all soon! In service and friendship, Nick Stringfellow 2013-2014 Newsletter Editor Division 7 South | Region 16 | Cali-Nev-Ha District Key Club International


Hello everyone!

I hope y'all have had a falltastic time serving your community and having fun at events like Wafflecakes, DCM + Cheer Training and Fall Rally North. Unfortunately I did not attend Fall Rally North because I had plans with a family friend but I had to cancel every-thing because I got sick (and I still am, but I am getting better). Anyways, as your KFF Task Coordina-tor, I am expecting to attend the next Elk Grove Kiwanis DCM on October 23. I invite you all to come and keep me company while learning more about our Kiwanis; contact me if inter-ested!

Oh and shout out to my Monstrous Mustangs~

NEIGH, NEIGH, NEIGH! --


Patton Nguyen 2013-2014 Kiwanis Family Foun-dation Task Coordinator Division 7 South | Region 16 | Cali-Nev-Ha District Key Club International

Whatsup buttercups? HEY GUYS IT’S JENNIFER HERE! It’s October, and that means Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF! I hope that all of you are collecting donations :)

-- In service and friendship, Jennifer Tham 2013-2014 Service Projects Task Coordinator Division 7 South, Region 16, Cali-Nev-Ha District

Official Newsletter of Division 7 South Key Club | July 2013

Hello everyone! Fall Rally North is over and thanks to everyone that attended. Although we didn't win the spirit stick this year, we are still the MONSTROUS DIVISION 7 SOUTH. I had a great time during and after the rally. I met new people, and bonded with my fellow monsters. I hope everyone had as much fun as I did. Hope to see you guys at the next DCM!

-- In service and friendship,

Kristi Doan 2013-2014 Fall Rally Spirit Coor-dinator Division 7 South | Region 16 | Cali-Nev-Ha District Key Club International


SPOtLIGHt: TRICK OR TREAT FOR UNICEF

Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF has em-powered generations to make lasting change in their global community by collecting donations on Halloween for UNICEF. Key Club has been Trick-or-Treating for UNICEF since 1994, and over the years has raised more than US$6 million for iodine deficiency programs worldwide, HIV

and AIDS programs in Kenya and Swaziland, programs for teens in Uruguay, and since 2011 The Elimi-nate Project, which supports the elimination of maternal and neonatal tetanus globally.

What is the Key Club & UNICEF PARTNERSHIP?

One Halloween night, the Reverend

Clyde Allison and his wife Mary

Emma experienced mixed emotions

as they handed out candy to a parade

of trick-or-treaters. “It’s too bad we

can’t turn this into something good,”

said Mary Emma. “We can,” replied

Clyde.

Soon Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF was born, and it grew into one of America's most successful youth ini-tiatives. The campaign has changed over the years, but its reasons for

being remain constant: make Hallow-een meaningful by helping children discover their ability to help others. For generations, kids have toted UNICEF's collection boxes door to door on Halloween calling out "Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF!" They have raised more than $170 million since 1950 to help children around the world -- funds that have enabled UNICEF to save and improve chil-dren's lives by providing health care, improved nutrition, clean water, edu-cation and more.

What is trick or treat for unicef?


Learn more about unicef!

http://www.trickortreatforunicef.org/

http://www.unicefusa.org/

November DCM

Featured Division Events:

D7S Leatherby’s Fundraiser + November DCM!

When: Tuesday, October 29th 5 pm - 11 pm Where: Elk Grove Leatherby’s 8238 Laguna Blvd Elk Grove, CA 95758 What: Hello Monsters! Division 7 South Key Club is having another fundraiser coming up at the end of October! This time, it’ll be at Leatherby’s Family Creamery on Laguna Blvd! Come in at any time between 5 pm and 11 pm and munch on some delicious sandwiches, soups, appetizers, and polish it off with

some wonderful ice cream! The food here is AMAZING, and it’s a great way to end off a cool Octo-ber day! With a flyer at the register, Divi-sion 7 South Key Club will receive 20% of the profits for the event!

All donations given to us will be donated to the Pediatric Trauma Program! Have some food, save some children! Sounds like a nice trade-off, if I say so myself! We hope to see all of you wonder-ful Monsters there!

D7S Leatherby’s Fundraiser!

Upcoming DCMs and Special Events!

The Division 7 South Leadership Team has been working on creating a NEW fundraiser that has never been seen before! It is still in its early plan-ning stages, but look out for that when the event information is final-ized!

The November Division Council Meet-

ing is still in planning stages! We’ll

release more information regarding this

DCM in the next issue.

D7S Special

Social Fundraiser?!


Upcoming Club Events

Hey Monsters! Every year in early November, Florin Key Club holds an Awake-a-thon, an all night event filled with games, food, and activities for not only just us monsters, but for Key Clubbers from all over Region 16! Once again, Florin Key Club’s Awake-a-thon is upon us again! The event is still in its final planning stages, but expect some cool performances, excit-ing games, cutting-edge sports tournaments, and times you’ll never forget!

All proceeds will be donated to One Brick at a Time, which is currently focusing on homeless teenagers in the Sacramento area, and the Kiwanis Family House! Make sure you come out! More details will be released soon!

Fundraisers

TBA: Florin’s AAT TBA: FrKC Grassroots More information will be released soon as the month progresses!

Other Events

There are currently none scheduled at this point. However, there will be

many events coming up that you will not want o

zmiss!

Any events you

want to adver-

tise here? Let us

know and we’d

be happy to

spread the

word!

Many of our clubs fundraised extensively for our preferred charities and our clubs! Let’s take a look at how and where some of our clubs fundraised monstrous amounts!

Carwashes (We had over 12 just in our division!) Restaurants (TapEx, Leatherby’s, you name it! Our monsters

fed their appetites for charity and food at the same time!) Socials and Events (WBDE, Franklin’s Ice Cream Social,

Beastly Barbeque, and more! There’s nothing like having fun while making an impact around the world!)

And now that the weather’s getting colder, more events are com-ing up! I hope you all keep attending these fundraisers!


Featured Submitted Articles!

RTC, Regional Training Conference, was one of the most fun event I’ve went to this month. At first, I thought it would be a hassle. Waking up early in the morning to go to a conference at some middle school, I thought it would it would be a waste of time. A mere training conference I thought, it wouldn’t be fun. But as I step down from the car, entering the perimeters of the school campus, I gradu-ally opened my eyes to this event. Maybe it was the glitter embed into the tutus of the other divisions, maybe it was the silver foil wrapped around the key blade that laid on a member’s shoulder, but whatever it may be, my eyes were gradually opening to RTC. As a quick, natural instinct, I did what every high school student naturally does. I went to my clique first and foremost. Enter-ing the circle, I greeted my peers with nods, and hugs, and the usual inside jokes. Old friends were greeted as well, but what of the new friends? I realized at this training confer-ence, I am not a typical high school student; I am the vice president of Laguna Creek high school of division 7 south. I said to myself, I MUST represent. As I scan throughout the

field of Region 16 key club members, I greeted and introduced myself to new friends. And as a vice president, I searched for my fellow members of my club and made sure they were tended to and felling comfortable. But to my surprise, they were doing fine. Not just fine, incredible. In their comfort zone, they created new friends with smiles on their faces, result-ing a smile upon my face as well. One newly joined member decided to go around asking the customary and familiar question, “HOW DO YOU FEEL?”. It put me to great ease knowing that our newly recruited members were adapting to the key club environment, embracing it with much enthusiasm. 5:04 p.m., September 28th, the end of Regional Training Conference. Leaving the school, I created more friends and my perspec-tives on Key Club and the service within were further strengthened.

Feathers. Ribbon. Paper. Glitter, more glitter, drowning in glitter!! GLITTER EVERY-WHERE. One fine early morning, I attended Fairytale Town's ScholarShare Children's Book Festival. At the event, Franklin Key Clubbers helped with costumes, arts and crafts, the garden, and clean up. I myself, helped out with arts and crafts by showing children how to make book-marks out of the materials on the table. What amused these little kids the most was the as-sortment of shiny particles sitting in bottles at the very right of the table. Needless say, I don't think I've gotten all the glitter out of my cloth-ing yet. Helping out with these kids was still a blast and it was great seeing all the unique designs each person made.

Besides arts and crafts, Key Clubbers dressed up in Fairtytown's Humpty Dumpty costume to take pictures with the kids. Others worked in the gardens by helping children plant vege-table seeds to grow. When the event drew to a close, the volunteers helped out with clean up by putting away tables, cleaning up garbage, and folding chairs. I think the best part of Fairytale Town is see-ing all the happy, young faces of the children. I had a good time seeing parents and children have fun making these little projects. Interact-ing with kids may be hectic but it's a great experience. Despite getting glitter in my eye, this event was definitely worth volunteering for.


On October 11, I attended Cheer Training/DCM with my fellow key clubbers. The DCM began as all of the clubs from our Division shared their updates about their past and fu-ture events they had planned. We were all given a handout with all of our Division’s cheers on it, and we separated into different groups and teams. Each team had a leader/spirit coordinator who would teach us the cheers. The cheers were really fun to learn,

especially because the energy and spirit of all of the leaders really got us pumped up. Some of the movements were fun and silly, which made it that much more enjoyable to learn! After going through all of the cheers and move-ments, we walked around and began spirit battling other teams. This was the exciting part, where we challenged each other to see who was louder and had more Key Club spirit!

Cheer Training was a lot of fun not only be-cause of the crazy and entertaining cheers, but also because of the new people I got to meet. I saw old friends, familiar faces, and new faces as well. Key Club has given me so many opportu-nities to meet new people and make new friends! Cheer Training has definitely helped prepare me for Fall Rally North as well. I now know my cheers and am ready to cheer my heart out during the rally!

I arrive at Giedt Hall in UC Davis, California. I can smell the fresh cow patties from the agri-culture section of their school. People stare at me as I walk by in my orange cowboy hat. Soon, UC Davis's Circle K begins opening session. They perform a short skit starring Mike and Sully as they party at Monster's Uni-versity. Circle K finishes off with some UC Davis cheers and send us to our first session. ACT, SAT, SATII, AP, CHASEE. This alpha-bet soup was served during the first workshop when Kat Lehmann taught us the secrets to passing these tests. In workshop number 2, Leonne Chung (AKA the leader of the Squir-

tle Squad) teaches us the correct ways to apply for jobs and internships. She gave us tips such as: most interviews start off casual, so be your-self. In workshop number 3, I got tip on writ-ing my personal statement. Fong Tran, head of the UC Davis Multi-Cultural program, shares a heart-warming story of his journey to college. (He definitely started from the bottom, now he's here.) And on that journey, Key Club set his foundation. Key to College has made my path to college a billion times clearer. Big shout out to UC Davis's Circle K for doing an awesome job!

There are some who believe in love at first sight, and there are some who believe love is accumulated over time. As a guy who’s en-chanted by the idea of love (but can’t seem to find any…), things like this make me wonder: does love at first sight really exist? Key Club gave me that answer: yes, it does. My Key Club moment is one of a kind, the circumstances cosmic at best, and the memory unforgettable. The day was October 29th, 2011, the day of Fall Rally North 2011. My family, of all the days possible, decided to head down to Six Flags that day for some quality time with the rest of my family. At this critical time, I was actually contemplating on whether or not I would join Key Club, knowing only

the service aspect of this fantastic organization and not much else. I knew beforehand that Fall Rally was that day, and I was hoping I would see some of my friends there. But, as I walked onto the park that day, I felt a different presence, and an atmosphere I never expected; the whole park was flooded with spirit, cheers, unity, excitement, fun, and more adjectives I can’t even describe. Overall, it was perfect. Simply perfect. It was that day, those moments that are in-grained in my mind forever, that I decided to go all in and dive into Key Club, and have never looked back.

October 19th, 2013, that day returned to us once more: Fall Rally North 2013 fell upon me with unlimited excitement and spirit that stretched infinitely. Walking into Six Flags that day, jumping into the Spirit Rally and giving it all I had, walking around the park with many old and new friends, and having the time of my life: this was the day that I had dreamt for since 2 years ago. That whole day, the memories of that first moment, my moment, flooded into my mind. My one and only Fall Rally as a Key Club member passed by in a flash, and I left the park with a beaming smile, a wrecked voice, and feeling of love that could not be put into words. Looking back at it now, after reliving my Key Club moment on the other side of it all, I real-ized that I did find my love at first sight. And it’s a love I never want to give up.


Contact Us!

Emily Mu

Lt. Governor

[email protected]

Laguna Creek

Nick Nguyen

Executive Assistant

[email protected]

Sheldon

Nick Stringfellow

Newsletter Editor

nick.stringfellow.d7south@

gmail.com

Franklin

Jennifer Dalanan

Executive Assistant

[email protected]

Sheldon

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Important Websites

Division Website

**COMING SOON!**

CNH Cyberkey

http://www.cnhkeyclub.org

International Website

http://www.keyclub.org

Jennifer Tham

Service Projects Task Coordina-

tor

[email protected]

Franklin

Patton Nguyen

Kiwanis Family Foundation Task

Coordinator

[email protected]

Monterey Trail

Kristi Doan

FRN Spirit Coordinator

[email protected]

Sheldon

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