March Mon-Key Volume 1 Issue 7 2024-2025

MON-Key

THE BUSINESS LEAD

Volume 1 Issue 7

Table of C ontents Table of Contents 02 Letter From the Editor 03 Last Minute DCON Reminders 04 ICON Reminders 05 Parli-Pro 06 Key Club Senior Night 07 Club Spotlights 09 Board Recap 16 Resources 30 Contacts 32

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LETTER FROM THE 24 -25

MT EDITOR

Hello Montana! Here is the final and seventh edition of the Mon-Key, your Key Club district informative publication. As DCON fast approaches, I hope that you and your club were able to navigate this service year smoothly with the help of Key Club resources, including this one. It has been a joy getting to work with the other board members and our District Administrators to put out something we are exceptionally proud of. And I can’t wait to celebrate it at DCON. In this issue you will find out more information on upcoming Key Club events, see some of your clubs spotlighted and much more.

Enjoy!

Yours in service,

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LAST MINUTE DCON REMINDERS Are you attending DCON?‌ Yes, I’ll be there

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Reminders Don’t FORGET your division’s caucus theme Division 1, 3, and 7: Arctic Division 5: Ocean Division 4, and 6: Savannah/Desert Division 8, and 9: Rainforest Definitely don’t forget your club’s award patch banner If you missed it in the last issue, at DCON, Delegates will be voting on changes to the Bylaw Amendments (more details in last issue) For the annual DCON service project, any club can bring old t-shirts 4

ICONREMINDERS Are you thinking about attending ICON?‌ Yes‌

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Reminders Be looking out for Montana ICON registration, which will most likely be shared with your advisor and on the official Montana Key Club socials Depending on arrangements the Montana District makes for ICON, the whole trip will cost around $1000, so start fundraising now If you are unsure, the convention is from July 2-6 in Orlando, FL And I bet you’re curious about the agenda, View it here: TENTATIVE ICON SCHEDULE 5

House of Delegates Rules & Procedures 1. ALL CANDIDATES FOR DISTRICT OFFICE WHO ARE EITHER OFFICIAL CANDIDATES WHO CAUCUSED, OR WHO HAVE ANNOUNCED THEIR CANDIDACY DURING THE INTRODUCTION OF CANDIDATES WILL BE ALLOWED TO ADDRESS THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES.

2. EACH CANDIDATE WILL HAVE 2 MINUTES TO ADDRESS THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES AND PRESENT THEIR PLATFORM. EACH CANDIDATE THEN WILL BE ALLOWED 1 MINUTE TO ANSWER QUESTIONS FROM THE DELEGATION.

3. DELEGATES ARE ALLOWED TO ASK CANDIDATES ONLY QUESTIONS RELATED TO THE CANDIDATE’S PLATFORM.

4. IF A CANDIDATE IS ALSO A DELEGATE, THAT CANDIDATE MUST LEAVE THE HOUSE WHILE A COMPETING CANDIDATE IS ADDRESSING THE HOUSE. THAT CANDIDATE WILL BE ALLOWED TO RE-ENTER THE HOUSE WHEN THE COMPETING CANDIDATE IS FINISHED.

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KEY CLUB SENIOR NIGHT HOSTED BY THE CIRCLE K INTERNATIONAL BOARD

EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW OTRAS LECTURAS INTERESANTES:

The webinar is on Wednesday, April 9 at 6 PM MONTAÑISMO EN LOS GRANDES ALPES - 3 MDT It’s a chance for Key Club seniors to reflect on their Key Club journey Connect with other senior Key Clubbers and CKI members Learn about CKI opportunities that await them Speakers include: CKI President Taylor DiCicco, and CKI Vice President Madison Burt

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Frenchtown, Missoula Sentinel, Missoula Hellgate, Missoula Big Sky, Loyola-Sacred Heart, Florence, & Stevensville

on March 1, Florence helped with the annual 'Mother Son Games' that the local FCPO put on.

Members helped set up games, played with kids, and made sure the whole thing went smoothly.

These members sported around six hours of community service each, and did such a great job that FCPO gave them personalized gift bags!

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Butte High, Butte Central, Anaconda, & Dillon

The Anaconda Key Club made a big impact by stocking up the Copperhead Closet with a generous donation from the Anaconda Kiwanis. The Copperhead Closet is an incredible resource that provides students with essentials like deodorant, body wash, snacks, hygiene products, clothes, and food. The Butte Central Key Club took on a creative project by painting the auditorium stage, helping to refresh an important space for the school community. Meanwhile, the Butte High Key Club helped film a commercial for the 2025 Color Run on St. Patrick’s Day in collaboration with Butte Cares.

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Billings Senior, Billings Skyview, Billings West, Columbus, Shepherd

Skyview made more sandwiches for the Salvation Army on February 24th, with around twenty members showing up.

They enjoyed talking about their previous projects and cracking some dad jokes.

Want your club to be spotlighted? Reach out to your LTG. Their contact info can be found on the contact page. (Make sure to include photos and details)

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Miles City, Glendive, Terry, Sidney On February 22, four members from the Sidney Key Club helped with the Ducks Unlimited event. They helped serve food, distribute raffle tickets, and ran the auction. They had five members go plus their advisors.

On February 3, six members from the Terry Key Club got together and made dog blankets and dog toys.They had tons of fun making cute toys that they are going to donate to they're Furry Friends.

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Bozeman, Gallatin, Belgrade, Lewistown, Harlowton

For Valentine's Day, the Harlowton Key Club decorated cookies, cards, and other crafts for their nursing home, and did face painting. The event was about 3 hours long, and about 15 Key Clubbers attended.

Want your club to be spotlighted? Reach out to your LTG. Their contact info can be found on the contact page. (Make sure to include photos and details)

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Havre, Malta, Glasgow, Shelby Havre Key Club help put on a Dr. Suess themed Literacy Carnival for children in the community on March 8. The carnival was centered around encouraging youth to enjoy literature. Some of the activities were face painting, arts & crafts, bowling, story time, photo booth and more.

Malta Key Club surprised their high school by decorating and putting paper hearts on all the high school students’ lockers before Valentines Day. All eleven members helped make the hearts and one put them on the lockers.

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Polson & Eureka

Recently, in Division 8, the Lincoln County Key club has been working hard to form teams for a June Relay for Life. It is to help raise funds for cancer research and to honor those who have survived and those we have lost.

The entirety of Division 8 is working hard to get members to DCON and we are so excited to see them all there!

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East Helena High, Helena High, Helena Capital, Great Falls High, & CMR High The Great Falls Key Club raised $1230.55 during Bellringing for the Salvation Army!

The Capital High Key Club worked to help out with the Helena Food Share.

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AIKA Melvin has been our best friend throughout the District Board experience.

This year, we have put various miscellaneous objects into his gaping mouth. He has been holding on to a stale piece of bubble gum (wrapped by the way) since November. We like to toss Melvin around to each other, hanging on to him as we volunteer, take him around event centers, and so much more. Ensuring that every Key Clubber understands what and who he is has been a challenging mission. He is the not-so-hidden but very misunderstood figure who symbolizes Montana Key Club: bravery, unity, commitment, and boldness. You should go check out our promotional video featuring the kidnapping of Melvin on our social media platforms!

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ORION During my term, I have focused on refining the Secretary Reports and assisting the other members of the board with the planning of events such as our Youth Conference and the District Convention. The bulk of my work on the Secretary Reports consisted of recording the submissions from clubs and reorganizing the ladder points document to be more intuitively read and filled out. In regards to planning events, I have prepared presentations to give and helped the governor to plan and review the materials used at the events.

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HAYLEE My favorite memory from my time on the board was doing the color run during our first board trainer and attacking each other with the chalk at the end of the run!

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RAYA My favorite board memory was when we played among us during the holiday hangout. i am really good at reading facial expressions so whenever we started a new round i would look at everyone’s zoom screen to sus out the impostors. Unfortunately i was too good at it, so we had to then play without our cameras on.

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LANE Throughout my time on the board, I have transformed the biggest Division of Montana Key Club into a productive communicating machine. From 1 club out of eight (my club) I have gotten 5 clubs consistently doing what they need to do, and on time. With my time on the Board I have learned how to work with people, get stuff done, and have fun while doing it.

I'm very happy that I spent time on the board, and hopefully my successor (or me again) can get Division one to finally get those last 3 elusive clubs.

Hopefully the clubs that I have enlightened will make more and more virtuous citizen leaders, and enjoy Key Club for a long time. :)

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IAN Looking back on my time on the board, one of my favorite memories was our first board meeting in the summer. It was such a great experience getting to know everyone, and I feel like we all became really close throughout the year. I also think I might have adopted Val’s Red Bull addiction along the way!

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ELORA Ian, Olivia, and I created a dance mom's skit during the Winter board. We recreated the pyramid meme, ranked different Key Club behaviors, and promoted DCON on one of the tears. We had a great laugh while creating a core Key Club memory.

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OLIVIA For dinner the whole board went to Olive Garden, where everyone ordered specific things to stay under the budget and we got so full on just salad and breadsticks. It was a good night and a fun memory with my amazing board members.

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CONNOR not from this year but from last year's board- during the Board Trainer, I was riding in the car of another board member, leaving the bowling alley in Great Falls after our group activity. The person driving the car forgot to put the car in reverse to back out of the parking lot, and accidentally drove their car over a parking divider and got it stuck! Everyone in the car had to work together to push it back onto the ground, and it was a really funny moment to end a fun day.

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CADENCE Throughout the year, I had the opportunity to travel across the state for board retreats. These weekends weren’t just about serious discussions and planning; they were also a chance to build friendships. After spending the days brainstorming ideas to support our districts and the state, we’d unwind with games, help with a color run, have photo sessions and let's not forget the yummy food. It has been incredible to connect on a deeper level with kids from all corners of Montana who shared the same drive to make a difference.

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HOUSTON My favorite story is a completely random one. Late one night after our summer board meeting we settled down and decided to play a game, after some debate we decided to have Copen teach us how to play poker. I have no idea how we settled on it but we did. We didn’t have chips and could find any at the Dollar Store or Walmart so we used different colored sugar packets. To any one who wants to know Conner won. It’s now a core memory for me.

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COPEN A lot of work gets done at the board meetings, but a lot of fun happens as well, along with some scares.

During Winter Board specifically, instead of sleeping, several of the board members opted to play One Night Ultimate Werewolf. We had been playing for a long time in the dark, and everyone had their guard down.

This became an issue during the middle of a later round when a loud crash emanated somewhere in the room nearby. The sudden change from silence to a loud noise combined with the dark to be the cause of several heart attacks. It, unbeknownst until later, turned out to simply be some things on the nearby table falling over. It ended up being an adrenaline inducing though fun memory.

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Reso New Member Handbook click here MT district bylaws click here Key Club international guidebook click here Club president guide click here Club VP guide click here 30

urces Club secretary guide click here Club treasurer guide click here Club adviser guide click here Secretary report form click here global leadership courses click here

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Contact the board

Montana Key Club

mtkeyclub406@gmail.com Governor Aika Lanes mtkeyclubgov@gmail.com Secretary Orion Walker mtkeyclubdistrictsecretary@gmail.com Webmaster Haylee Nay mtkeyclubtechmaster@gmail.com Bulletin Editor Raya Lucas mtkeyclubbulletineditor@gmail.com LTG 1 Lane Wicks mtkeyclubltg1@gmail.com LTG 3 Ian Bray mtkeyclubltg03@gmail.com LTG 4 Elora Swan mtkeyclubltg04@gmail.com LTG 5 Olivia Sverdrup mtkeyclubltg5@gmail.com LTG 6 Connor Whitmer mtkeyclubltg06@gmail.com LTG 7 Cadence Kallenberger mtkeyclubltg7@gmail.com LTG 8 Houston Hayes mtkeyclubltg8@gmail.com LTG 9 Copen Earley mtkeyclubltg9@gmail.com

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