September oakc newsletter 2017

CNH District I Region 3 I Division 30 South I OAKC I Issue XVII I Sept.

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Have fun AND contribute to the Pediatric Trauma Program! You can charge your account for this event, so there’s no need worry! Sign up today!

1 T.o.C. & Updates 3 Calendar 5 Hours Leaderboard

7 Editor’s Note 9 President’s Corner 11 August DCM 15 OA Bake Sale!

19 More Announcements!

20 Got Questions?

21 Follow Us!

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Hours Leaderboard Thank you to our bee-sy members! We can’t thank you enough for your work and hope you continue doing what you do! ; )

Sam 20 HR

Briana

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Anthony 10 HR

Milan 10 HR

To the Members who contributed to the 8000+ hours this Summer:

Tobi 9 HR

Note Editor’s Note

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By Jeremie Manuel I B. Editor

ello Sunshines,

Welcome to another wellrevamped newsletter! I remember just lying flat on my bed, thinking about the newsletter I’ve been creating for months and how it can better. The hours that I dedicate despite the newsletter’s simplicity is something I cannot exaggerate, and is something that I always think on how it can get just a bit better. One thing that was sticking in the back of my head for the longest time was the front cover. I was never satisfied by it, until this one. Although it took a bit of time to photoshop the filter and illustrate some of the key points of the photo, it was nonetheless worth it. As for the new title head, I have to give some credit to my best friends Leo and Calvin for advising me on what I should put and how I should do it.

They surprisingly gave me a good opinion, which was pretty nice to see.

Moving on, I want to talk about Key Club in general, and how this club has turned into a juggernaut on the Oxford campus. The turnout for the first meeting was huge, and exceed over 200 students. With numbers stacking that high, it’d be easy to say that this club is highly successful, and probably the most populous one on campus. However, what now? With numbers like that, what can we do to improve the club itself? What I say is that we improve the experience on the individual Key Clubber. I feel like we can enrich the lives of these people by procuring potlucks, more school drives, and donationcentered activities such as the one the school did for Hurricane Harvey. By becoming more incorporated we become more involved as a school, and that’ something one can only hope for.

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ello Sunshines!

With school starting several weeks ago, I hope you’ve all gotten back into the swing of things! (I still struggle with waking up everyday, but what can you do?) Whether you’re a freshman, sophomore, junior, or senior this year, you’ll face many challenges in and out of classroom, but know that you can use these experience to help yourself grow and learn.

First of all, I’d like to give a special shoutout to everyone who contributed to our School Supplies Drive; thanks to all your help, we were able to collect more than double of what we did last year. In fact, all of your hard work over the past summer helped us earn 2nd Shining Club of the month at August DCM! I am incredibly proud of and grateful to every single one of you and all

President’s Corner

By Samantha Yao I President

the hard work you’ve put in this summer, for helping us serve 8080+ total hours, raise over $200 at our bake sale to fundraise for PTP & DCON, and spread joy in our community.

Keep up the great work!

And finally, thank you to everyone who signed up at our booth during club rush! We were able to get over 280 signups this year, and I look forward to welcoming all of you to our key club ohana :) Other interesting things to look forward to forward to in the next couple months are Region Training Conference, in October, where you’ll meet Key Clubbers from across Orange County and have the opportunity to develop your skills as a leader, and Fall Rally South, where over 8000 Key Clubbers gather at Six Flags Magic Mountain to celebrate the term and fundraise money for the Pediatric Trauma program.

By Mai-Vy Truong I Historian

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his month, I did not get the chance to attend as many events as I normally do due to the start with school. However, the one event that I really enjoyed was August DCM that we had last weekend. Although there was no service project at this DCM, the bonding time and games we had made it just as much fun. This was the first DCM I went to that did not have a service event, so it was a new experience for me. The LTGs had planned a lot of games for us, and I thought all of them were really enjoyable. In one game, we had a frozen T-shirt and had to use only our hands to melt it. It was really weird to see every-

one rubbing their hands on a block of ice with a T-shirt inside, but it was a fun bonding experience for all of us. The next game was one where we used tarps and tried to keep water balloons in the air. The group who kept it in the air the most number of times won. We played about two more games after and that was the end of the DCM. I thought it was a great experience and I hope more people will come out to them and enjoy them as much as I did.

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By Vina Nguyen I Secretary

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his month, Division 30 South and Division 30 North held a joint DCM at SmithMurphy Park. Over a hundred members from both division together, attended.

At this DCM, we started off with some simple icebreakers such as Huggybear to get to know new people.

Then, we headed off to games according to the theme of the DCM “Battle of the Elements” which is based off of Avatar. Everyone was split into four different teams (elements), water, fire, earth, and air, and competed one another in many games. The games ranged from melting a block of ice to retrieve a shirt that was frozen in the 13 middle of the ice block to

swinging a pantyhose filled tennis ball to knock down water bottles. These games truly allowed me to get know others better and bond with friends from all over the division.

It was definitely a fun-filled afternoon. And even better, there was popcorn chicken and boba! I had an amazing time and would definitely attend the next DCM. On this note, the next DCM will be also a joint DCM but this time with Division 4 West. I can’t wait!

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By Amber Sun I Treasurer

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n August 5th, Oxford Academy Key Club held their first bake sale of the 2017-2018 term. Not only did the number of volunteers who showed up exceed my expectations, but the amount of spirit and effort of the volunteers did too. We sold more than a dozen different types of baked goods and earned more than $200.

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Volunteers showed up early to help set up our booth for the event. We laid out the baked goods on two separate tables and decorated the tables with posters that OAKC’s historians created. The volunteers then positioned themselves behind the table to sell to everyone who passed by. Although a lot of people simply passed by without giving our booth a second glance, the volunteers kept a positive attitude and a smile on their faces. Most of the

people who stopped by did end up buying a few baked goods to support our cause, and some even donated without purchasing anything.

A few hours into the event, we created an OAKC Bake Sale parody of the PETTY song. Milan Dinh and Anthony Hoang helped create the lyrics and choreographed the moves of everyone in the video, and we filmed a promotional video to post onto the Division page.

The bake sale was such a fun event that was definitely worth the six hours we spent under the hot sun. Make sure to look out for another bake sale sometime around October!

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By Samantha Yao I Pres.

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round 10am Saturday morning, Key Club officers and members set up shop outside Ralph’s in Cerritos.

Armed with a variety of baked goods and literatures about the Pediatric Trauma program, we set up our tables, spread out our bake goods, and hung up our signs.

Throughout the day, we advertised to customers, educating them about how pediatric trauma is the leading killer in children under age 14 and how the money we raised would be going towards new technology and training for doctors to have more treatment options. We took turns calling out to people and waving around our signs, joking around but knowing our hard work would pay off for a good cause. Throughout the afternoon, we were able to speak to a variety of different people: some families, some musicians, some teachers, some friends, some even Key Club alumni! Many of them were happy to donate, and we left with much less

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baked goods and much more money than we had come with.

It was a hot day, but the bake sale was nevertheless a success; over the course of six hours, we had raised over $200 for PTP.

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n Saturday, August 5th, OAKC hosted a Bake Sale fundraiser in front of the Cerritos Ralph’s on South Street. Personally, I was super excited for this because I’ve never participated in a bake sale, making this a new experience for me. Thanks to our treasurer, Amber Sun, we were able to reserve a spot in front of the Ralph’s grocery store and have enough volunteers and baked goods for our 6-hour fundraiser.

By Huda Saleh I VP

While volunteering, we all tried our best to attract attention to our booth. We walked around with some of our posters/signs, yelled “Bake Sale! Support the Pediatric Trauma Program! etc,” and even created a parody to the Petty Song (creds to Milan Dinh)! Despite the heat that really drained all of our energy toward the end of the day, I’m super glad we were able to execute this fundraiser.

It was a HUGE success so thank you to everyone who either helped us with the booth or helped make baked goods!

Side note: Don’t forget to sign up with us at club rush and pay your Key Club dues before the deadline. I’m anxious to see new and old faces at our Key Club events this year!

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ONCE AGAIN! Don’t forget to get to sign up! You can charge your account or just pay it up from to Mr. Alcala. It’ll be a blast!

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