CALI-NEV-HA | REGION 1 | DIVISION 11
THE OFFICIAL
DOLPHIN DIGEST
august
VOLUME FOUR. ISSUE FOUR
IN THIS ISSUE...
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MESSAGES DIVISION GOALS
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UPCOMING EVENTS ARTICLES & VISUALS
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SPLASHY POINTS RECOGNTIONS
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a letter from the editor gies
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First, I want to address my mistake in the last volume, which was actually three, not two. So apoloconfusion. I can’t count that well, apparently.
It’s really encouraging to see all the officers try their hardest amidst this pandemic, especially the editors who have to deal with my constant nitpicking. But it makes my job and your job easier! Our division is growing at a steady pace and I can barely fathom how much we have achieved already. I hope to showcase this growth even a little bit with our newsletters. I know it’ll get rough in the upcoming months, but I believe we can pull through. And, fellow seniors, good luck on those apps! Don’t procrastinate on them too much! With that, I hope you’ll enjoy this August newsletter as we have a very strawberry dolphin-themed newsleten your day just a bit! I hope everyone stays safe,
summer begins to a close. Here ter which can hopefully sweetstays home, and wears masks!
Take care,
Angel Sta. Maria D11 Division News Editor 20-21
a letter from your ltg
What’s Splashin’ Dolphins!
The first Quarter of the 2020-2021 term officially ended on July 10th and as of then we accomplished $999.19 in funds raised for service and 2,374 hours served. Division 11 has been brought to a brand new light with Club Visitations, core calls, high DCM attendance, high membership interest, just to name a few of our accomplishments. I know quarantine has been an extremely peculiar time, but we hit the ground running and that means the world to me, you’ve shown your relentless passion to give back to our community in hard times. With that being said, I am wishing you and your families to be in good health, I mean it when I say we’re in this together as one. But first you need to remember to do your part! Please wear a mask, I cannot stress this enough, that one simple action can change the direction of the life we’re currently living for the better. It’s not worth it to face the repercussions and make others face the consequences of your mistake, please stay safe!
Sending love,
Kayla Benoza
D11 Lieutenant Governor 20-21
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division goals
2,374
SERVICE HOURS
OUT OF
450
$
4,000
DONATED TO PTP
OUT OF
$
2,500
AUGUST
Events in August are still to be decided! I’ll now put a calendar of upcoming events that will look something like this once we get more service projects coming!
- events 01 - OTC day 2 03 - SUHSD first day of school 05 - August DCM 10 - Articles&Visuals due 15 - your DNE’s birthday !! 31 - SDUSD first day of school
servicespotlight
Alexis Sulit, Morse’s treasurer, goes on a walk around her neighborhood. Morse’s editor, Tedrick Santos, brings his dog out for a walk. Morse’s secretary, Lahela Ramos, takes a stroll at Pepper Park with her little sister.
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CHARITY MILES For the month of June, the division chose to do a competition on the app Charity Miles as a service project. March of Dimes is a non-profit organization that works towards reducing infant deaths and preventing birth defects through education, advocacy, and research aimed at prenatal health, genetics, and birth defects. Our job was to stay active during this project and aim at tracking as many miles as we possibly can through the Charity Miles app. This could have been performed by walk-
Lahela Ramos, our secretary, along with our club’s treasurer, Alexis Sulit both also shared their feelings about the service project. Lahela reflected on her participa-
ing, biking, running, and even dancing!
tion as a great opportunity to get up and
During this competition with the other
at the same time. “I’m proud of my club
key clubs in division 11, Morse was able to have 36 members participate and collectively accomplish 1,467.10 miles winning Morse Key Club 1000 Splashy Points. Our top-mile earner, Alan Cruz, earned approximately 300 miles! Alan commented, “I am proud to know that my actions will help a wonderful cause, but I am even prouder of my club, along with all the other clubs, for being able to achieve thousands of miles as a team.”
be active while supporting a great cause for choosing to support and participate in serving those in need even if it was virtually.” Lahela says, closing her response with an appreciation for this event. Alexis replied by saying that overall, she “enjoyed the Charity Miles Competition because, despite the quarantine, we were able to participate in an event raising funds towards charity. It was something everyone could easily do at home that also kept us up, motivated, and active!”
Tedrick Santos, Editor, Morse Key Club
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CHARITY MILES Photo of dog on a walk.
Candid walk
photo around
while the
going on a neighborhood.
The division wide charity event, Charity Miles Competition, was fun and easy to participate in! It was a good way to help donate to all mothers and babies basical-
Photo of dog while on a walk with the shadow of an SDSCPA key club member, Jenna Ramiscal.
ly just by exercising. It was also very delightful to be getting out of the house and moving around while knowing that by doing so, I was helping to raise money for the March of Dimes non profit organization. While taking part in this event, we continue to acquire the funds that are necessary to contribute to research for the health of mothers and babies all across the country. This event helps its participants, the members of division 11 key club, be active in a not only fun, but helpful way.
Mahe’alani Ventura, Member, SDSCPA Key Club
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Candid photo of an SDSCPA key club member, Arvin Ticano, while skateboarding for the Charity Miles event.
THANK YOU ! I had decided to participate in the division wide competition on the charity miles. In total I had walked 46.63 miles. This has been extremely beneficial not only to my health but also to the environment. Not only had I been able to walk around my neighborhood which helped me become more active but I had also been able to reduce my carbon footprint by walking places instead of taking a car. I had done this on multiple occasions as I walked to the closest
for participating participat ing
Starbucks or while I walked my dog around the block. I wish I would have been able to do more than 46 miles but sadly I had much to do homework wise so I couldn’t go on my daily walk as I had to complete assignments. Even though the competition had ended I still plan on using the app to track my miles.
Amanda Pedroza, President, Hilltop Key Club
Jay leaving the house to go on a Charity Miles run on a hot summer day. For this month service events I chose to do the charity miles. I chose it because I felt like it was a very effective way to help out an organization in need. It is an app where you cardio and it’ll donate money to an organization. You can walk, run, jog, bike anything that keeps you moving and can even be inside your house. I did it for March of Dimes which is an organization where it’ll donate money to help the health of babies and mothers in need.
Jay Schmidt, Editor, Hilltop Key Club
Ivan Mendoza’s Charity Miles activity. I took part in the Charity miles service event, in which I was able to help donate money to a charity of my choice by simply walking or running. For every mile you walk or run $0.25 is donated to my charity: March of Dimes. After about two weeks of joining this project I was able to walk about 28.66 miles. With an average mile time of 17 minutes, this converts to a little bit over 8 hours of community service hours. This app not only made me get up and continue being active, but it pushed me to begin running again. Several times out of the week I had the motivation to run, and this was simply due to the fact that me doing so was benefiting others. I am so glad that apps like these are
Jay his run, but
returning from Charity Miles feeling tired accomplished.
Through the app charity miles I’ve run and walked miles. I’ve gone out to walk my dog outside for over a week. I‘ve also ran with or without my dog too. Moreover, I am improving my health within this service event. In addition, I’m also raising my team’s total amount of miles done. All in all, this service is completed by me being active.
Elizabeeth Ruiz, Member, Hilltop Key Club
making it easier for people to help out others.
Juliana Sanchez, Member, Hilltop Key Club
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servicespotlight
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FREE RICE For this service event I was asked to spend
Freerice was a fun and easy way to fund-
time on this app called free rice. Free Rice
raise while in quarantine! When donat-
is a mobile game that allows players to
ing to charities, we usually give money or
donate rice to families simply by playing
food, but because of COVID-19, things ar-
their multiple-choice quizzes. With vari-
en’t going the way we expected. The app
ous different categories to choose from,
helped our club easily donate to charities
I choose to learn about English and Ital-
without having us directly offer money. All
ian vocabulary, as well as facts about
you had to do was answer trivia questions
Covid-19. This is a very simple and easy
and it would donate ten grains of rice to
way to not only give back to other unfor-
the World Food Programme. I found the
tunate people, but it’s also a great plat-
app very addicting, so these grains quick-
form to help you learn. I used this game to
ly started to add up. If I ever found myself
improve my knowledge of English vocab-
bored answering the questions, I would
ulary. In addition, I learned Italian vocabu-
look through the numerous categories the
lary, as I have been wanting to for a while.
app offered. My top favorites were the
Juliana Sanchez, Member, Hilltop Key Club
English vocabulary, COVID-19, and multi-
For this service event I first downloaded
able to strengthen my skills and learn a
the free rice game. Then I joined a hilltop group after I made an account to help track the total amount of grains we raise. To get more grains I answered questions. For every eight questions you get 10 grains. The more questions you answer the more
plication sections. The questions were simple, but still got my brain thinking, so I was few facts. Overall, it was educational and helped me donate to organizations in need from the comfort of my own home.
Jenna Ramiscal, Treasurer, SDCPA Key Club
grains you can get. I answered English questions, ones about COVID-19, and math.
Victoria Ryan, Member, Hilltop Key Club
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EXCEPTIONAL CARE
for children
While partaking in the Exceptional Care for Children service event, I was able to be creative and brainstorm many ideas. It was really enjoyable to create many different forms of art, and even letters to share with young children. I’m glad that the SDSCPA Key Club dedicated some of their time to giving the youth something to look forward to and be excited about. The wide variety of projects that we were able to submit made it easier for everyone to find something to contribute to the children. As a creative and performing art school, I am sure that we are all having fun with this event because not only are we able to fabricate our own, unique art, we are also able to share it with an
Materials used in writing a kids song.
audience of our possible future artists.
Elena Gonzales, Editor, SDCPA Key Club
Inside of a reading for
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book used in a the ECC event.
MT. HELIX CLEANUP Key Club member Damian To is hard at work cutting down plants during our Mt. Helix service event.
For our service, we were asked to pull weeds and invasive plant species that were clogging up the trails at Mt. Helix. We spent a few hours trimming plants, pulling out weeds, and sorting the debris into trash bags. It was a hot afternoon, but all the Key clubbers we had participate were diligent in their work. I think that this service event proved that even in the
MDCHS Key Club Members work to pull weeds and other invasive plants, to clear a path for hikers on Mt. Helix.
midst of a pandemic, we can still come together to serve our community safely, and are able to uphold the Key Club morals. All in all, we had a successful return to in-person service events, and hope to continue work into the school year.
As restrictions have eased, and life is slowly but surely returning to normal, we were fortunate to have the opportunity to do an in-person service project. Our service coordinators connected with the director at Mt. Helix park, so we could do a cleanup project. Safety was of the utmost importance to us, so we made sure to keep our distance, and wore masks and gloves to stay safe. MDCHS members Itzel Esparza and Maria Reyes trim weeds and gather cut plants to be bagged and repurposed for other uses.
Lauren Bajo-Smith, Editor, Mater Dei Catholic Key Club
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SP LA SH Y WHAT CATEGORIES ARE THERE? ★ Submissions (includes bonus points) ★ Attendance (includes bonus points) ★ Promotion ★ Service ★ Recognition ★ Fundraising ★ Membership
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Y PO IN TS splashing with servi ce! EASTLAKE in the lead
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d11 recognitions (AUG) member of the month
Juliana Sanchez
officer of the month
Jay Schmidt
club of the month
Mar Vista Key Club kiwanis advisor of the month Franklin Petersen facultty advisor of the month Patricia Chen
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SDSCPA MEMBER OF THE MONTH
Audrey Samaniego C/O ‘22
“Our chosen July member of the month is Audrey Samaniego. In the past month she’s been very active in our club, participating in most of our events and making sure to reach out whenever she has a question. She was one of the few members who participated in our exceptional care for children event, raised the most amount of rice for our freerice event, and contributed a considerable amount to the charity miles event. Because of her consistent work and effort, we have chosen her as our member of the month.“
Dianne Natanauan & Arvilyn Ticano, Vice Presidents
EASTLAKE MEMBER OF THE MONTH
Colby Hughes C/O ‘22
“Colby Hughes is this month’s top member for his outstanding performance during the charity miles event. The charity miles event consisted of running, walking, or biking miles in order to raise funds for the march of dimes foundation. During this event, Colby biked an outstanding 74 miles to support the cause of March of Dimes. Not only that, his contributions helped Eastlake be in the top 3 for total miles in the entire division.”
Dante Villalobos, President
CRAWFORD MEMBER OF THE MONTH
Uyenthi Le C/O ‘22
“For the month of July, Uyenthi Le has been a very active member in our club. I could see all the hard work and effort she is putting into our club. She has been actively contributing to our Interclub event providing new input for our bracelets. She has also been participating in the Division Charity Miles event. Also, she has made an effort to try to attend the ICON sessions.”
Kristen Hwang, Vice President
*the club recognitions are from july
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MORSE MEMBER OF THE MONTH
Alan Cruz C/O ‘21
“For the month of June, my club’s member of the month is Alan Cruz. Alan is an upcoming senior who recently showed interest in Key Club last school year and he has been actively participating during meetings and service events as well as keeping communication between members and officers. For the Division Wide Service Project, the Charity Miles Competition, Alan has managed to gain 100+ miles for the Morse Team. With this, we have managed to climb up to number one on the leaderboard!”
Arriana Bascos, President
SWEETWATER MEMBER OF THE MONTH
Erien Ferrer
C/O ‘23
“I believe Erien deserves recognition for her involvement and commitment to key club. She is a new member but is already putting time into the club. In Free Rice she completed 10+ hours with a whole 226,600 grains of rice alone! She attends the meetings when scheduled and is active when new information is released. She asks questions when she needs help. I see a new member who wants to be here and I want to nurture her into a successful member. Therefore, Erien deserves recognition for her commitment to Key Club for recently joining!”
Raffi Flores, President
Congratulations! Thank you all for your dedication and hard work
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CONTACT US
Lt. GOVERNOR d11.cnhkc.ltg@gmail.com REGION ADVISOR cnh.region1advisor@gmail.com DNE d11.cnhkc.dne@gmail.com LINKTREE https://linktr.ee/d11dolphins
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THANK YOU FOR READING THE OFFICIAL
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