D34N | July 2013 Official Newsletter

OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER CNH | ISSUE 2

APE CHRONICLES

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mark the dates ... 3 editor's note ... 4 LTG greetings ... 5 club summaries ... 7 club news ... 9 division news ... 11 international board ... 14

Enjoy the last days of summer with July's NATURE edition!

ICON recap ... 15 member recognition ... 17 contact info ... 18

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Hey fellow Aqua Apes!

I hope all of you are enjoying your summer.

During your busy summer, try to make sure you serve your community so you can make a GOLDEN year for our division. We have already made HUGE steps towards working at our goals for the year by raising funds for PTP at OTC. As we are almost at the end of our summer, I hope you all take some time to enjoy the outside. Not only is nature a beautiful thing to look at, but it is also something that benefits all of us. We could all give back to the community by doing simple service projects such as a park restoration.

Later on in the month, I will be sending out some help with the article submissions with information on format and other guidelines.

Remember, that this newsletter is essentially made by all of you and couldn't happen without all of your submissions. If you have any questions, comments, or concerns about the newsletter, feel free to contact me at any time. Stay GOLDEN! -Kayla Larot

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LTG Aloha Aqua Apes! , serving I have been trying to make the most of mine I hope all of you are enjoying your summers! be starting up er Vacation. Next month, many schools will all of you, and enjoying a beautiful Summ ce is all year remember that service will never stop! Servi again, and your vacation will be ending, but communities, and Winter, or Spring, we continue to serve our round, and whether it’s Summer, Autumn, better the world around us! ce in the amazing division we serve to focus on servi I want every club and every member of this ber before DCON in h our goal of 50 hours of service per mem upcoming month! We should strive to reac h 1000 hours of the end of my term is for every club to reac April. I also would like state that my goal by to see every track to reaching this goal, and I would love service! Many clubs are already on the right or two hours a ng is by beginning small. Start by serving one club achieve this! A great way to start servi trying to get hing your goal of 50 hours is a lot easier than week, and slowly build up. Progressively reac for more ongoing projects to participate in! really big service projects all the time. Look to not es as well! Articles and visuals are submitted Don’t forget to reflect on all your experienc d loves reading and r, but for the district as well! The district boar only Kayla and I for the Division newslette and write amazing te in, so remember to take lots of pictures seeing all the amazing things we all participa re with a caption extremely long. Just a paragraph or a pictu articles. They do not need to be anything on the CNH t! You never know, you might see your story showing off some APEtastic service is grea Cyberkey! ys here for erns, or need someone to talk to, I am alwa Remember, if you have any questions, conc this lovely division Ape Ohana, and every single member in you all! We are all members of the big Aqua reflector, and on act information is available on the division we serve is here to support you. All my cont s, and making my all for your wonderful laughs, beautiful smile every DCM agenda I give out. Thank you On! GOLDEN experience. Keep Calm, and APE job serving as your Lieutenant Governor a Going Bananas with Service, Jeremy Jimenez Division 34 North Lieutenant Governor

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aragon

Although Aragon Key Club has struggled with recruiting members for an active club, our club has diligently planned the upcoming year. Two of our possible plans include finals survival “goody bag,” which includes snacks, supplies, and motivational messages for the student to make it through their exams, or flowers for Homecoming. The past club year started slow, but we’ve been making progress. Recently, our club attended a few Kiwanis meetings. It was heartwarming to see how the club cared for their individual members while signing cards for upcoming birthdays. To see how Key Club mirrors Kiwanis so well gave a sense of true responsibility and pride. We look forward to the next DCM.

george washington

Washington Key Club has made an effort this month to strengthen our officers to make sure this term is one of the most successful ones. We are encouraging more members to get involved and we have been working on our club spirit. In addition, we've made plans to ensure that our club becomes closer and better organized. We are planning ways to get even more involved with our community, especially around our school, such as cleaning up at our district neighborhood centers and garden steps. We are making it our goal to improve the ways our club has been in the past. We also want to team up with some of the nearby clubs! We hope to get to work more with all of you very soon!

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In the month of June, South San Francisco High School didn't have many events where we were able to serve as a club but our dedicated members were very dedicated in serving our community this month. For example, three of us volunteered at Tour de Cure Bike Race, where three of us worked at a water stop and greeted, talked, and motivated bikers against the roaring wind in the bright and early morning. Others volunteered at a local park to work with children while another worked at the SF Food Bank. One of our very own SC Apes participated in Global Glimpse where he spent 3 weeks in Nicaragua serving its community. In addition, we were able to send 5 members to Region 17 Officer Training Conference where we not only learned very useful knowledge to utilize in the following year but also met many wonderful individuals while having fun at the beach with our lovely Aqua Apes! Lastly, our board is currently planning the following year and finding more service events and projects for our members. South San Francisco has recently started the service project of Adopting A Park and is reaching for new heights!

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The Mills High Key Club is placing a great emphasis on utilizing the summer months to plan out our year ahead. In doing so, we have had scheduled board meetings each month to ensure that we stay organized and well communicated during the summer. The board members have decided to “map out our positions� in which each board member individually writes a short essay identifying and explaining their goals and responsibilities for their specific job on the board. This ensures that we are taking our positions seriously and that the work is being distributed accordingly. Our club has agreed that we need to increase the number of members in our club, have more scheduled events for our members to attend, and also to fundraise as much as possible so that we can donate more money and contribute to causes more. We have made these our three main goals going into the new school year. Currently, the Mills High Key Club is getting organized and prepared for an incredible year ahead.

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stern grove Stern Grove in San Francisco is known for having free concerts in the park throughout the summer, but the tradition would not be able to exist without the donations of kind-hearted concert-watchers!

Lowell Key Clubbers have been helping collect donations and cleaning up post-concert, all whilst listening to music from jazz to rap to even the San Francisco symphony!

New member Herman Cai said, "Our donation boxes have red balloons attached, and we get to give them to little kids after collecting. It's nice seeing them happy, and it's funny watching them let go of the balloons."

Lowell Key Clubbers dedicating their time at Stern Grove by helping collect donations and clean up the park after the concert.

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sf park restoration

On July 13, 2013, five Key Club members congregated at Heron's Head Park in

the Bayview/Hunter's Point District of San Francisco to help the San Francisco Parks and Recreation with their restoration project. Key Club members, however, were not the only ones there. Greenager interns and other volunteers from around the city also took the time out of their day to help out. Our first task was to head over to the marsh area and remove the sea lavender, an invasive specie that competes with the native lavender for resources. We were instructed to grab the plant's base and wiggle the roots free.

When we were done, multiple burlap bags were fill with green and purple. After we headed back to the EcoCenter, and it was time for a break in which we got rehydrated, ate some snacks, and played a game where we learned each others' names.

When the break was over, everyone put on their heavy duty gloves for our next job. It was to clear starthistle from and area in the park. Starthistle is covered with sharp thorns thus the heavy duty gloves. With the help and hard work from all the volunteers we cleared area in no time. We then had a tarp and wagon full of these thorny plants. When the service was complete, we all had a time to reflect on the morning with a statement, a few words, or a single word."Fun," "Teamwork," and "Refreshing," were just some of the words said. When the event was done, we racked up a total of 15 hours of service going toward our community.

-Jimmy Yu, Lowell

Lowell Key Clubbers working hard at restoring San Francisco's parks.

survivor booth at the Millbrae Relay for Life event.

The survivor booth is a place where cancer survivors can come to relax, have a snack, and share with us their journey with cancer. We will survivors and their caretakers to enjoy. As the hosts of the survivor booth, we will socialize with cancer survivors as well as give them a special place to relax, away from all of the commotion.

We are teaming up with a local business in Millbrae: Highest Heights Tutoring, and together we hope to raise $1000. These funds will be used to further cancer research in all different areas. In all, it will be a fantastic event.

-Rachel, Mills

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relay for life

On July 19, the Mills High Key club will host the

Sequoia High School Key Club was acknowledged for its time by the community of Fair Oaks. Sequoia High School Key Club participated in a Bike Rodeo raising money, giving free paintings and helmet paintings.

All this money and time was dedicated to the Fair Oaks community due to its recent accident of an apartment being caught on fire and burning down to the ground. Sequoia High School was one of many groups who helped bring the joy back the kids and raise money so that kids were able to receive new bikes, helmets and Bicycling safety lessons. We had over 18 Key Clubbers who participated in this event and over 5 Kiwanis. The Kiwanis participated in this event by giving out free hot dogs. Key Clubbers were rewarded by the joy of the kids, hotdogs and face painting themselves.

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On June 30, my little cousin and I went to a UNICEF Seminar in Hong Kong for "Believe in Zero, Make a video". It was about how UNICEF believes in the children's right to play. Believe in Zero is conceptualized as zero mortality, zero underdevelopment, zero abuse, and zero isolation.

In the beginning, we played games like Rock, Paper, Scissors and Where is UNICEF?, where we passed around a rubber wristband with a UNICEF logo and the staff has to guess where it is. After that, they began the presentation where they conveyed on how it is important to include playtime in a child's life to reduce stress and promote social health. They described on how it's vital that there is a balance of social health, education, physical health, and emotional/ psychological health, which is important to a child's development. The seminar was also about introducing the competition of making a video on Superheroes striving to secure children play, helping influence other people aid children's "Right to Play". Also, there were prizes provided by Sony to help encourage the contestants.

There were guest speakers from PLAYTIME to promote the event and to promote forgotten form of play we use to play when we were kids.

They made a video on all sorts of games like make believe, hand games, cardboard boxes, tag and balloon games.

Sequoia Key Clubbers enjoying their service for the Fair Oaks community. !

Although there are different goals between Hong Kong UNICEF and Key Club, both thrive to help those in need. Regardless of the location, the spirit to serve the community can be seen.

-Jessica Tsui, El Camino

nation to nation : UNICEF

Daphne Pineda, of SSF Key Club, digging ditches for pipes in Nicaragua for a program called Global Glimpse

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Hello Aqua Apes! If you did not attend the DCM in June, or just want a refresher on what happened, then here it is! Every month, we will have recaps of the DCM in case you couldn’t make it or don’t remember what we talked about.

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T-Shirt Design Contest – Check out the T-Shirt Design page for details on what to submit and how to submit it.

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Reflection – DCMs will now include a time to reflect on the last DCM, and every club have to speak! Make sure your club is ready with a member to speak with a little summary about what your club has been doing for the past month. This is a great way to get more members involved, so MEMBERS are preferred to speak.

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Fundraise – Summer is a great time to hold fundraisers and to plan for future ones! Fall Rally North is quickly approaching, and Division 34 North’s goal is to raise $1000 for Fall Rally North! Fundraisers in the beginning of the year should be to build club funds AND funds for Pediatric Trauma Program (PTP). PTP funds are the funds used to buy Lieutenant Governors and Executive Board members at Fall Rally North.

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Club of the Month – Mills Key Club

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Member of the Month – Kayla Larot

division news

Officer Training Conference was a very GOLDEN achievement for us Aqua Apes. OTC was filled with much knowledge about filling out ERFs, Public Speaking, YoF Grants, K-Family and more. What made OTC so golden wasn't the sun beaming down upon us and giving us sun burns but it was our team work, pride and spirit. Without our team work, not only would we have been able to create a BEEautiful sand sculpture together but also place 2nd in Sand Sculpting Contest, raising $103.50 for Pediatric Trauma Program! Many of us were expecting D34N to place last place or at lease no where near the Top 3. Placing 2nd place was truly a victory for us because it is one of our many milestones that shows us that we ARE growing as a division, and that we can only move forward and grow. With our spirit, we further embraced our pride as Aqua Apes and showed Region 17 who we are. I am very proud to be part of this wonderful Aqua Ape family. Stay golden APES! :) Mary Kim

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EXTRA UPDATES Hello Apes! The Guidelines for the T-Shirt Design Contest are: The design is to include a monkey/ape. (Aqua APES)

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NOW INTRODUCING THIS YEAR'S ...

INTERNATIONAL BOARD INTERNATIONAL PRESIDENT

RAEFORD PENNY INTERNATIONAL VP

RACHEL BENOIT INTERNATIONAL TRUSTEES ALBERTO BERRIZBEITIA ROSHNI CHANDWANI RENISHA DALEY AVERY HITCHCOCK KELSIE HOPPES MADISON KEMKER

CASEY O'NEILL MARIA PALAZZOLO MICHELLE PETERSEN ZACHARY WALDORF ERIC YOON

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On the other hand, ICON KCDC 2013 in Washington D.C. was truly remarkable! From meeting up bright and early to 4 hour Caucus session and eating ramen most of the week, I am happy to say that it's one of the absolute best things that I have ever experienced. I have certainly learned so much more about Key Club at an international level while also meeting many wonderful individuals from across the country and oceans. One of my favorite events was the Meet & Greet where you are able to meet people from different districts and trade pins! Since CNH is the largest district and is greatly admired, everyone is APE crazy about getting a CNH Pin! In addition, CNH is one of the most spirited districts so we were yelling and chanting, to the top of our lungs, CNH cheers to show our pride. We even had a spirit battle against the Capitol District, which was very interesting. It was definitely a lively event that will stay one of my favorites. In addition, I had the privilege to be a delegate alongside with our LTG, Jeremy, and other CNH BEEs to elect our 2013-2014 International Board. As none of our CNH Candidates did not make it, elections grew very intense yet most exciting! As all good things end, ICON came to a close; the good byes were said and hugs embraced but I thank the individuals I had the chance to meet and had made ICON truly one of the times of my life.

-Mary Kim Delemos, SSFHS

BEE TOUR/ICON RECAP

My, my, where do I even start? BEE Tour was a wonderful opportunity to not only see and learn about the many spectacular monuments, museums, and memorials in our nation's capital but also meet and bond with the marvelous BEEs who share the same passion and pride as me - to SERVE and to be a CNH BEE. I met many InfiniBEES, LegaBEES, club officers that were very friendly and shared many interesting, valuable experiences.

Despite the early meet ups, not very many food options, and weather we dealt with - CNH BEE Tour was absolutely terrific and golden as it could BEE!

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MEMBER RECOGNITION APE OF THE MONTH JESSICA TSUI San Mateo had a rough start but they are showing big improvements. By attending their first DCM of the year in June, and attending Region 17 Officer Training Conference for the first time in the history of their club, they are striving to become a better club overall. Officers are improving communication, and members are becoming more active. Congratulations San Mateo, and continue to serve your members and community well!

FEATURED CLUB LOWELL

She continued her Key Club work in a different country by attending a UNICEF seminar. She has shown dedication to not only her own community but one in a different country. She submitted an article reflecting her experience, and has gained excellent knowledge. Great job Jessica, and keep up the great work!

CLUB OF THE MONTH SAN MATEO

d34n.cnhkc.ltg.@gmail.com 650-784-8145

Rachel Wong Executive Assistant rachelmasakowong@aol.com 650-759-7384

Mary Kim Delemos Executive Assistant delemosmarykim@yahoo.com 650-278-0239

Kayla Larot Newsletter Editor d34n.cnhkc.dne@gmail.com

CONTACT INFORMATION

Jeremy Jimenez Lieutenant Governor

650-291-0220

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THANKS FOR READING!

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