November 2014 Newsletter

WALKING ON SUNSHINE Key Club International | CNH District | Region 3 | Division 30 South | Oxford Academy Key Club

November 2014

Volume 15, Issue 7

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Calendar

May Articles

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President’s Corner and Editor’s Letter

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Division and Int’ Updates

Key Club Week!

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Hope Food Distribution Date: November 1st and 15th Time: 7AM to 10AM Where: St. Irenaeus Parish School Info: Come help pack food for the less privileged at the biweekly Hope Food Distribution!

Interested in appearing on the newsletter? No fear!

John is here! If you would like to write an article please feel free and contact either Nicolas Do, Emily Huynh, or I! There are many ways you can appear on the newsletter just ask! :D

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President's Corner!

Hello Oxford Key Clubbers!

I hope you've all had a wonderful October serving the community through Trick or Treat for UNICEF or volunteering at festivals.

Key Club focuses on improving our community and helping others. Although you may not think much of what your doing besides getting hours, every time you show up to a service event, you are making an impact on someone else's life. The community truly flourishes because of your dedication and passion to serve. I am proud of each and every one of you who has served at least an hour throughout this month. Keep in mind that although getting hours is important, the purpose of everything we do is to benefit the community.

It's not too late to make an impact! If you still want to join our ohana, let us know!

Remember: "Without community service, we would not have a strong quality of life. It's important to the person who serves as well as the recipient. It's the way in which we ourselves grow and develop."

Shine bright!

Nicolas Do

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Hey Patriots!

I’m your bulletin editor and my job is to release newsletters everyone month and to keep the bulletin in the science building updated! I hope you guys had an amazing time volunteering in October and this newsletter will recap some of those major events such as Region Training Conference and our first general meeting!

Inspired to serve? Or appear in the newsletters? Please write articles about events and send them to me, Nic, or Emily! Our information is in the Call me Maybe? Remember it isn’t too late for anyone to join Key Club! Encourage your friends to join, it will an experience that you guys won’t forget and it will be best with friends!

Until next time Patriots ^o^ — John Hoang

Editor’s Letter!

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OC Food Bank On October 25, 2014, I went to my first OC Food Bank. I also chaired it too. It was a cool experience. Although everyone who volunteered excluding me were freshmen, it was still good because I got to know them more.

OC Food Bank is not the most exciting event, as it is very routine work. I, however, thought it was a great experience because I saw so many other volunteers (independent from Key Club) there. All ages and sizes and color (no racism intended) – the volunteers included everyone from a 5-yearold boy who tried to help his dad put the milk in the boxes to college students. I was especially impressed at the independent volunteers who came solely because they wanted to help out. It showed that they truly had compassion and the heart, and they reminded me that volunteering was supposed to be comprised of that only.

Everyone had their separate roles. Some packed certain food items into the boxes while others opened up packages to get the food items ready for the packers. The 5-year-old boy, although he did not help much, brought smiles to the people around him. Others taped the care boxes shut after all the food items were placed it it.

It was pretty boring to be doing one job over and over again for two hours, but it was a process that made me reflect on what volunteering actually was. Volunteering is when you, out of the compassion of your heart, decide to give time to help others in need. It is not done to receive anything in return, such as hours or payment. In the end, although our hands were callous from all the work, it was worth coming to this event to help make care packages to be sent out to the elderly who needed help.

Joy Jung | Publicist

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Haunted House Alright guys.

Let’s be real we all love to scare people but scaring people with them Key Clubbers is just Christmas Early.

A week before Halloween Key Clubbers help set up the Anaheim Haunted house created by the Carpenter Family and Friends, every year they build a haunted house right in the Muzeo in Anaheim, and bring screams and excitement to all in Anaheim.

Getting to work inside of the Haunted House was really neat because you’re usually the one being scared. We put on really actually scary costumes and played different roles that actually played an important part in helping people have Fun. Many Key Clubbers did man different things but the best spot to be in a haunted house is where they can’t see you. A couple Key Clubbers hid behind one of the curtains put on fake scary looking hands, waited for people to walk by, would scream, and touch their feet. The reactions were absolutely priceless. People were scream, run, I saw some kids crying (which was kind of sad), and many other crazy reactions.

It was a really fun event because every year many Key Clubbers just go through the maze itself they don’t really volunteer with the haunted house and getting this opportunity was really great.

Just be ware if you got touched with big scary hands in the haunted house you were most likely touched by some amazing key clubber so just feel special.

Jeniffer Aguilar | Historian

OC Out Of Darkness The Orange County Out of the Darkness Walk was sponsored by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention on the 26th of October. This event helped to raise awareness and funds for research to improve our understanding of suicide and on better ways on how we can prevent it. There were many volunteers that showed up to help. While many are from Oxford, there were also a lot of others from other divisions. On the first shift of this event, volunteers helped to set up tents and the whole path for the walk. Some of the tasks included putting up signs and assist venders in setting up their booths. As the sun started to come up, walkers began to arrive. It was amazing to see how many people there were at this walk to raise awareness for a single cause. While many attended because of lost family members or close friends, some attended just to show their support. When the actual walk started, volunteers got the chance to join the walkers in walking. It was incredible to see the amount of support and dedication that the walkers had. After the event ended, volunteers were provided with free food and even free massages!

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Region 3 Trainin RTC, or Regional Training Conference, was always an exciting time for me because it meant that I would be looking forward to training for the position I wanted to be in the following year. This year, RTC was the same day as the SAT on October 11, which made me dread RTC, to my dread.

Not only did I have to rush to RTC, but I had to miss our October DCM which made me really disappointed. At the first workshop I attended, the secretary workshop, most of it was the same thing that I was taught at OTC. I was really happy to be seeing my own board members attend this workshop though because I could see my potential secretary babies! (: At other RTC workshops I attended, it was interesting that I bonded not through Key Club but through the panic of the SAT. Although we are all Key Clubbers, we are first and foremost high schoolers, and we all go through the same hardships so it was great to get to know people easily through our fear of the organization that is CollegeBoard.

Even though I came into RTC fretting and obsessing over the SAT, at the end of the day, I (mostly) forgot about all the trauma and stress and looked forward to a great post-RTC bonding with my OAKC board at BC!

Emily Huynh | Secretary

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g Conference This month, Region 3 had their annual training conference at Bolsa Grande and I thought it was a great last one to attend as a Key Clubber. Regional Training Conference is designed to give new members a view of what Key Club is. There were over 30 workshops, but with only four sessions, it was hard to pick the right one.

The first workshop I attended was the Presidents workshop where I was able to get a review on my weekly, monthly, and all year duties as a leader of a club. The next workshop I attended had to do with effective communication, a common problem with running a club. This workshop was pretty fun and LTG Christina gave out candy, so I was a happy camper. The third workshop with LTG Jordan and Jason was the Treasurer’s workshop where I caught myself up on how to be a treasurer. I believe that a good president should be well trained on how to be a good VP, secretary, and treasurer, and before the workshop I knew almost nothing about being a treasurer.

Lastly, I attended the CNH Scholarship workshop which reminded me that I’m a senior and all of the work I’ve been doing through Key Club might just pay off in the form of money for college. Overall, I thought my experience was fitting for a last RTC.

Nicolas Do | President

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KEY CLUB WEEK November 3 - 7

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What Is Key Club Week? The first week of Kiwanis Family Month is devoted to Key Club International where Key Club members from around the world show case their dedication to leadership, character-building, caring, and inclusiveness.

Show Your K In Every Way—Show what Key Club is all about through wearing your club shirts or division t-shirts!

Wednesday

Kudos To Key Players—Say thanks to your Key Players in Key Club such as your faculty advisor or your Kiwanis Advisor! Show your appreciation for all their hard work to keep this club together!

Connect the K’s—Connect the K’s by meeting with your local Kiwanis Club to show your appreciate for them by working with them through a service project!

Bring a Friend to Key Club—Bring a Friend to Key Club to show them that Key Club is more than what they really think it is!

Your Way—Show how much you love Key Club by demonstrating what Key Club is all about through anything you want!

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Kudos to Key Players!

Show your K in Every Way!

Your Way

Bring a Friend to Key Club!

Friday Connect The K’s

Thursday

Tuesday Monday

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Division Updates October DCM Reminders November DCM | Season of Giving

SunShine Stats!

Congrats to us for getting 4th DCM will be on the 21st and place in the Sunshining Club for we will be meeting to make the month of October but I sandwiches which will be doknow we can do better! BEE nated to a rescue mission! more involved Key Clubbers!

Come bond through the act of ^_^ serving!

Fall Rally South!

With Fall Rally South on its way, it’s time to get PUMPED up with spirit and celebrate with our district at Six Flags! It will be taking place on November 15th!

Don’t miss out on this amazing opportunity.

Merchandise

Sun Plushies will be given with a donation of $4.

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Trick—or –Treat for UNICEF is one of our major fundraisers for Project Eliminate which plans on eliminating MNT from all over the world. However, this is only possible with your help. With $1.80 you can eliminate MNT from a mother and her future babies through a shot.

With your help, this fundraiser is so successful however this isn’t the only time you can fundraise for this organization! You can send in donations anytime you’d like through Project Eliminate or through Key Club!

Oxford Academy Key Club actually held a fundraiser fro Trick or Treat for UNICEF and it was all made possible through your help. However there are still mothers and their newborn children across the world that are in need of your help. Sacrificing your Starbucks for a day will save 3 Mothers and their newborns. It all adds up to you helping for a better cause.

If you aren’t sure how to fundraise, just look for your lose change. If everyone were to donate a penny in the United States, we’d eliminate MNT from at least 100,000 mothers and their children. That’s 200,000 lives and that was all made possible from us donating a penny each. This is all possible! Instead of going trick-or-treating, ask for people’s spare change.

With Key Club’s pledge to Project Eliminate ending soon, we need to provide for this organization as much as we can before next year!

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Call Us Maybe?

President

Vice President

Nicolas Do

Secretary

Reah Chiong

Emily Huynh

(714) 224-6463

(714) 270-3074

(714) 308-3181

nicolasdo97@gmail.com

reahchiong@gmail.com

emilyyxhuynh@gmail.com

Treasurer

Bulletin Editor

Tech Editor

Jenny Chung

John Hoang

Ryan Zeng

(714) 869-8354

(714) 299-1619

(714) 916-8128

jennychung98@gmail.com

johnhoang521@yahoo.com

ryanzeng7@gmail.com

Project Chairs Anh Tu Lu

Bryan Vo

(714) 837-0440

(714) 463-5494

Anhtu.lu@yahoo.com

bryanvo22@yahoo.com

Publicists Joy Jung (714) 618-3617

Michael Kim (714) 872-1024

joyjung101@yahoo.com superatom1024@yahoo.com

Historians Jeniffer Aguilar

Chanel Kim

Jennifer La

(714) 386-0489

(714) 822-8223

(714) 818-3873

jenny1568@hotmail.com

ckayxxrawr@gmail.com

jenniferla1998@gmail.com

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