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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: 4- September 2013 Fall Rally Issue
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Division 7 South September Newsletter!

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Page 1: Division 7 South September 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: 4- September 2013

Fall Rally Issue

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I hope you’ve all been doing well! I miss you all so much that I can’t wait to see you all again… at the REGION 16 TRAINING CON-FERENCE! What’s RTC? A region wide Key Club event where you can learn more about Key Club, service, and leadership and participate in a DANCE, REGION WIDE SER-VICE PROJECT, and our Divi-sion Council Meeting! Look at our event page or ask the team for more info. This is a REGION event, meaning members from all over Lodi, Stockton, Sacramento, Tracy, Roseville, Rocklin, Folsom, and Elk Grove will be in atten-dance. You seriously do NOT want to miss out. :) Good luck to any of you who have midterms and final exams coming up! You’ll all do incredibly well. <3

PS: Have you purchased your divi-sion shirt and ticket for Fall Rally yet? Because 7 South is going to be FIERCE at Six Flags! More infor-mation on Fall Rally is included in this issue! Are you all ready? BOOM BOOM DOMINATION AYE! ITS MONSTER NATION!

In service and friendship,

Emily Mu Division 7 South Lt. Governor Region 16 | Cali-Nev-Ha Dis-trict Cell: (916) 752-3717

The month of September has been a busy month. With lots of dead-lines coming fast, so watch out, they come quicker than expected! The Division Leadership team has been hard at work planning events and doing our duties to the best of our abilities. We have been work-ing towards RTC.

I am excited! I hope to see all of you there! In service and friendship, Nick Nguyen 2013-2014 Executive Assistant Division 7 South, Region 16, Cali-Nev-Ha District Key Club International

Here we are in August, Di-

vision 7 South Key Club!

We have lots to talk about

this month, including intro-

ducing our new Task Coor-

dinators, an infographic on

the Pediatric Trauma Pro-

gram, and some snazzy ar-

ticles! I hope you enjoy this

issue!

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With school in full swing and the cool fall weather creeping in, things are only heating up for Division 7 South! This time of the year is, by far, one of the most eventful in the fall, with multiple club events, RTC, fundraisers, and, finally Fall Rally North! Thanks again to everyone who is submitting articles and visuals to be put in the newsletter! I was very proud to see all the pictures from your Club Rushes, showing off your monstrous spirit in the biggest ways possible! Besides working on the newsletter, I have been busy working with the rest of the Division Leadership Team in planning RTC, fundrais-ers, and making incremental pro-gress on the website! We are facing another delay with school becoming a little overbearing at the moment, but WE WILL GET THIS DONE!

If you are interested in Website De-sign/HTML Coding and/or Adobe Dreamweaver, come join us in working on the website! Send me an email if you’d like to contribute! The more people we have, the bet-ter representation we can get of ALL of you fantastic Key Clubbers in making the website the best it can be. Keep up the good work everyone! I’ll see you at RTC, different fund-raisers, and FALL RALLY! In service and friendship, Nick Stringfellow 2013-2014 Newsletter Editor Division 7 South | Region 16 | Cali-Nev-Ha District Key Club International

For the past month, I have organized a fundraiser for our Region 16 and everyone else, in order to raise funds for the Pediatric Trauma Program.

I'm very excited for our Region Training Conference, as it will re-unite our divisions together. I look forward educating the region and myself with all the workshops that we have prepared. The cheers, excite-ment and enthusiasm is what I look forward to when we all come to-gether.

It has been a long summer, and I can't for this new school year which will be packed with more Monsters! Fall Rally is just around the corner and I believe Division 7 South will take over once again!

In service and friendship,

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

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As your KFF Task Coordinator, I most recently attended the Septem-ber Kiwanis Division Council Meet-ing with Emily Mu and learned a lot more about our wonderful Kiwanis!

They are amazing people who do so much for our communities and schools; they hit me in the feels when they talked about their Ki-wanis moment. Their service and organization is on point and I hope we can be as great as them.

I will be talking to our new Kiwanis Lt. Governor Joe Jaquez soon on how we as a division can contribute

to the Kiwanis and work together with them this school year.

I am very excited and I hope you are too! Stay tuned! In service and friendship,

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

HEY GUYS IT’S JENNIFER HERE! Look forward to some super totally awesome events okay? I love all of you! Make it a great day :)

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

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It is a great privilege for me to be serving Division 7 South as a Divi-sion Spirit Coordinator for the 2nd year! I'm Über excited, and I can't wait for everyone to see what I have in stored for Fall Rally North. Let's make some great memories and radiate our spirit!! Here's to a great year.

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

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September DCM

Featured Division Events:

D7S Tapioca & Tea Fundraiser & Sept+Oct DCMs!

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Hello Everyone! Division 7 South will be having our Tapioca and Tea Fundraiser right after Region 16 Training Conference! Fliers will be distributed at RTC and will be posted on our Facebook event page. 20% of your purchase will go to the Pediatric Trauma Pro-gram and we would love love loveeeee if you came out and sup-port this cause. The location is very close to RTC, that you can just simply walk over there after the event is over. This event would be perfect if you screamed your lungs out cheering at RTC, to quench your thirst of a

long day! You can bond with new people within the Region after meeting them and relax! Remem-ber to bring your friends and fam-ily! We will have plenty of fliers! Not attending RTC? No worries! You can still print a flier off of

the Facebook page, or just show up and grab a flyer there! Every purchase makes a difference and saves lives,! Can't wait to see you all there!

D7S Tapioca and Tea Fundraiser

Upcoming DCMs and Special Events!

When: Sat, September 28th

Where: Harriet Eddy Middle School (Location of RTC)

Time: During RTC

What: Come join us during RTC for the September Division Council Meeting! Get up to date with our Di-vision Leadership Team, and show the other divisions of Region 16 that D7S knows what’s up!

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When: Fri, October 11th

Place and Time: TBA (Check Face-

book/with your club officers when this

information is released!)

What: Not only will you be in tune with

the Division for October, but you’ll also

get to practice cheers for FRN! Join us

for a fun experience that will make Fall

Rally so much better for you!

October DCM and

FRN Cheer Training

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FALL RALLY NORTH 2013 When: Saturday, October 19th 2013

Where: Six Flags Discovery Kingdom

Cost: $40-$50 (Varies by Club)

What is Fall Rally, exactly? Fall Rally is an annual event for the Cali-Nev

-Ha District that is split into two geographic regions: North and South.

Fall Rally is one of the biggest fundraisers in our entire District: all the donations raised by our clubs and divisions from all over the Dis-trict directly benefit the Pediatric Trauma Program, or PTP for short.

Fall Rally North specifically gathers Key Clubbers from all over Northern California and parts of Nevada, which is a HUGE op-portunity to meet other Key Clubbers!

The cost you pay covers your ticket to the park, wristbands, entrance to the ENOR-MOUS spirit rally in the morning, and drinks throughout the day!

LTGs from all the divisions that attend FRN will be auctioned off using the money we have raised for PTP! If we win an auction, our division can hang with another LTG for a little while!

Between flexing your monstrous spirit and having fun at the park, what could be better?

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Upcoming Club Events

On Friday, Octo-ber 4th, Monterey Trail Key Club is holding it’s annual Wafflecakes fund-raiser! The event will take place at Monterey Trail High School (8661 Power Inn Road Elk Grove, CA 95624) from 5 pm to 7 pm in the MP Room! Price is $8 for presale tickets, while it costs $10 at the door. Have a great time with

fellow Key Clubbers over some of your favorite breakfast foods while benefiting MTKC for events such as Fall Rally and DCON! This is going to be a fun event, so make sure you go!

Fundraisers

9/22 COKC Carwash @ Running Zone 10/2 COKC Smash Burger & TapEx Fund-raiser

Other Events

10/12 UCD Circle K’s Key to College @ UCD

10/26 FrKC Grassroots

Soccer Tournament

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!)

How was all this possible? Because of all you BEEautiful mon-sters participating and making this a GOLDEN year for all of us!

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Featured Submitted Articles!

Hello there, my name is Diego Belloso – I’m the Club Secretary at Franklin High School’s Key Club. Let me tell you a little about this event, it all started when our Project head, Lauren Yee contacted the volunteer coordina-tor. The volunteer coordinator had re-sponded, more than delighted to have Frank-lin Key Club members to help out for such a festive night of fundraising, meals and a memorable night of celebration. All of the club members except a selected few had to arrive for their shift at 6:00 PM, including myself. It was 5:55 PM and I had passed by Strikes on my way to the ACC building. I en-tered only to notice quite a colossal crowd and fundraiser. (And I thought Key Club fundrais-ers were crowded!) Anyways, the room decora-tion and set up was aesthetically elegant, I checked up at the front desk awaiting my op-portunity to serve my community. There was a

lady politely calling me over to check in as a volunteer. She was very sweet but with the room so loud, I had to say “Pardon, I didn’t hear. . Could you repeat once more?” with the building evoking much talking from a variety of people. I was assigned dishes, but I and a few others were actually told to collect garbage and recycling. I was partnering up with an-other volunteer, I was moving and collect gar-bage in the most courteous manner. While he was collecting bottles, I had noticed many people calling me over to collect trash. In do-ing so, some were very open about their grati-tude towards my act of kindness, “Thanks so much!” an elderly women had said to me. I smiled and replied, “You’re very welcome, please enjoy the remainder of your meal.” It was the midst of such a heartwarming mo-ment, mutual happiness among two people. And the particularly unique aspect of it, we

were actually both giving back to our commu-nities, double the service! I was serving my community by performing my delegated tasks and duties, helping out during the ACC Nurs-ing Home Fundraiser, in any way possible. And this kind hearted elderly women, attend-ing an honorable event, fundraiser and bring-ing a joyous atmosphere through kind words, a heartwarming smile, and service towards her community. Moral to the story? During this service project, I had suddenly paused. . What does service mean to me? Service – simplicity, it’s the simple things we truly cherish in our day to day lives, service to others, etc.

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As soon as the bell rang for the last time on Friday the 13th, I bolted out of fourth period and ran (but mostly speed-walked) to-wards my house. After about fifteen minutes, I was back at school waiting for two of my friends to exit the same gates I had. Together, we em-barked on a quest together – not necessarily a LOTR-esque quest, but a quest nonetheless. After about another fifteen minutes of turning cor-ners, asking “Which way do we go now?”, and looking both ways before we crossed streets, we had finally arrived to our destination – John Erhardt Elementary School.

We walked through the school’s gate, asking directions on where to find the president of the PTO. Directed to the teacher’s lounge, we went and found familiar faces greeting us. “I haven’t seen you since May!”, “How is senior year treating you?”, and “We’re so glad you’re here to help.” were only a few of the things said to us as we entered the lounge. With smiles on our faces, we asked what had to be completed first and we set out to do it.

We were instructed to place the cases of water and soda outside, to prepare to put

them in the various coolers filled with ice. Called over to help carry the various hot-dog and hamburger buns, I gladly lifted the various sacks of baked dough over to where the grill station was.

Soon enough, the three of us were not the only volunteers. Two others came, then two more, then a trio of three… volunteers kept arriv-ing until we were a group of seventeen.

Seventeen volunteers at one of the first Key Club events of the school year – what an amazing feat!

We helped through the evening, until about 8:15 P.M. Some of us served food, wrapped burgers in aluminum foil, set-up laptops and printers, and some of us even helped direct parents and their children to the restrooms or the library.

To show gratitude for our help, the PTO offered us the extra hamburgers and as typical high school students – we dug right in. There is nothing more satisfying to hear than the words “Thank you so much for helping! We really appreciate it and we can’t wait to see you next year.” As a senior and this being my last

year as a Key Clubber, I will unfortunately not be able to volunteer next year. Although, I have faith that Laguna Creek Key Club members will continue to volunteer, exude their kindness, and use their skills to become the best servant leaders they can be. John Erhardt Elementary School’s Burgers and Books was an overall fantastic event to start-off the Key Club year!

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On September 7th, we had our first Kiwanis event of the month. The Kiwanis Family Day Work Party. Key Clubbers from different schools, Circle K clubs from different dis-tricts, and Kiwanians all came together to volunteer and to beautify The Kiwanis Family House. At first, a few of us got split up to go partake into different jobs so we could efficiently work together in getting the place spotless. As the volunteers split up, we quickly went into doing our jobs. My job with a few others was cleaning up and shampooing the carpets. Other members went onto washing the win-dows, cleaning up spider webs, arranging clothing for the closets, and organizing all of the supply closets. Some members went in also to go fix up the kitchen and to make sure the house facilities were functioning properly for the guests that reside in the Kiwanis Fam-

ily House. This was only just the work inside of the house. The Kiwanis Family House also needed help on landscaping as well. So after some of the Key Clubbers who were working inside, de-cided to switch with the Key Clubbers who had been working outside, and we set out to work again. Some of us pulled away the cut trimmings to a dumping tray. Also, we were directed to work with some other volunteers and we helped trim down rose bushes, and small bushes as well. As well, towards the end of the event, we got the chance to go plant some flowers near the sign, and around the building. It was amazing to see how many volunteers from different parts of Key Club, Circle K, and Kiwanis came together for just a day to contribute towards the Kiwanis Family House. It was a great day to volunteer, and I am so

glad that we got to volunteer and help out an amazing organization that loves helping peo-ple as much as all of the volunteers do.

We have just finished our Club Rush, and I guarantee you, I have heard that question more than anything. That, and the ever so comical “Do you make keys?” And each time I explained the basis and focus of Key Club to people who had never heard of it, I got the same answers back. “So it’s a community service club?” And each time I heard that answer, I was confused as what I wanted to reply. Rather, I knew what I wanted to say, but I didn’t know how to say it without sounding like I was preaching, or exaggerating. I wanted to tell them that Key Club has changed my life. I wanted to tell all those potential Key Clubbers that the leaders Key Club produces come from anywhere and anyone. I wanted to assure them that the competent and confident leaders that were advertising Key Club so passionately were

not always so eager to be leaders; I wanted to mention that they too, despite their confi-dence and utmost love for Key Club, were once scared Freshmen sitting towards the back during meetings. I wanted to express how much more is gained with Key Club; much more than a couple of community service hours. I could-n’t articulate how large of a sense of accom-plishment comes with each different service event, and each different “thank you” re-ceived. I couldn’t even begin to explain how inclu-siveness plays such a heavy roll for many. For many, Key Club brings a sense of belonging that isn’t found anywhere else. For me, it is what I look forward to every week, and of-ten, it is Key Club that brings me out of deep slumps, and gets me up, ready to help people that are far worse off than myself. I wanted to share this love with everyone

who asked me what Key Club was, and I want everyone to be exposed to something that create such passion. So I simply said to these kids, “Join and find out.” And to those ever so humorous people who ask if we make keys, I’d like to refer them to something I said last year during Club Rush, which inspired a line in Abraham Nguyen’s highly regarded Key Club Commercial. We make the keys to life. Key Club unlocks your greater potential.

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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

www.keyclub.org

A Kiwanis-family Member

3636 WOODVIEW TRACE INDIANAPOLIS, IN 46268 - 317/875/8755 - US AND CANADA: 1-800-KIWANIS

Important Websites

Division Website

**COMING SOON!**

CNH Cyberkey

http://www.cnhkeyclub.org

International Website

http://www.keyclub.org

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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