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Hey Division 8! Happy New Year! Hope everyone is enjoying the first month of 2011, and may all of you have many blessings this year. Submit those missing paperwork. You won’t have much time left to make up for all the ones you have missed thus far. If you want to be eligible to win many of the awards and scholarships at the Leadership Training Conference, then your club must be in good standing meaning you have good
Upcoming Dates
Feb 12
Feb 16
In this issue!
Greetings from LTG ….………..1
Gov’s Greetings………………..2
Monthly Report Forms…………2
Kiwanis Pediatric Trauma
Center…….………………..…... 2
District Projects...……………….3
Booklet of Merits..……..………..4
Letter of Technology…………..4
Kiwanis Family Relations. ……..5
Club Spotlight………….…...…..5
Paperwork Status……….…...…6
Contact Info…………….……....6
K E Y C L U B
paperwork and your club has paid its dues! I will try my best to visit as many clubs before my term is ending. I will be frequently visiting clubs throughout the rest of my term, I promise! If you have not heard this already, but our lovely division is splitting after this year! Therefore, at this election, we will be electing TWO new Lieutenant Governors for Divisions 8 and 8A. Since this will be the last year when we are all united as one, I will incorporate as many more divisional events before the end of my term, so please look forward to those as well. For more updates, check out the Facebook group page and sign up for the New York District Website emails. Be sure to check out the New York District page frequently. And last but not least, start registering for Leadership Training Conference!
Yours in caring, friendship, and service, Christina An
Lt. Governor of Division 8 New York District Key Club
Upcoming Divisional Event
February 12 – Flushing Kiwanis Lunar New Year Parade February 16 – February Divisional Meeting @ Forest Hills Library, 5-7PM Midwinter Recess – February Divisional Ice Skating Event! RSVP for these events on Facebook!
Official Newsletter of New District Key Club Division 8 Volume 1 Issue 8
Greetings from your Lt. Governor By Lt. Governor Christina An
The Queens Beaver January 2011 Newsletter
know what reports your club is missing, ask your Lieutenant Governor or Secretary Grace at [email protected]. The Governor’s Project is taking a new approach on ways Key Clubbers can participate. The Advocacy and Governor’s Project committees are teaming up to find causes related to education to advocate for. For every letter relating to education your club writes, it counts for five hours. For every signature on a letter it is one hour. You do not have to write each advocacy letter. Many websites provide letters that you can sign. To report it, simply fill out the Monthly Report Form with the proper amount of hours. Information on the Leadership Training Conference is coming your way. Stay tuned!
Kiwanis Pediatric Trauma Center also provides an option of raising $150 to receive up to 5 KPTC pins that can be distributed to dedicated members of your key club. The Kiwanis Pediatric Trauma center committee has also created flyers to spread the word about the center. The committee has sent these flyers to your lieutenant governors, so make sure to hand those out to your members and fundraise for the Kiwanis Pediatric Trauma center. The New York district has raised $4,380 for the trauma center, and with the help of every key club, we can raise even more, so spread the word!
Happy 2011! This year has started off well for many clubs. I want to give the seniors a thumb up for surviving past the college application deadline. In addition, I wish everyone a lot of luck on their finals! As many of you have noticed, the New York District Key Club website was temporarily down. Now that it is available again so be sure to submit any missing Monthly Report Forms. If you do not
Hey everyone! The Kiwanis Pediatric Trauma Center sponsors a variety of events to raise funds to support pediatric treatments. In order to increase funds, the trauma center gives out one trauma kit to every $1000 raised to be donated to a local fire department or ambulance service. The kit provides all the equipment needed for on-scene emergency needs of children. The
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Governor’s Greeting By Governor Nadyli Nunez
Kiwanis Pediatric Trauma Center By Lt. Governor Yasmin Soliman
Monthly Report Forms By District Secretary Grace Na
Hello Everyone! I hope your vacation went well and the holidays were filled with warmth with the cold weather. Unfortunately, with the New Year here the NYDKC website had gone down. Thankfully our Webmaster Emily L. has been working on it. With the website down many of you won’t be able to submit your Monthly Report Form online. I have sent out the PDF version of the Monthly Report Form through the Secretary Google group. I have also sent it out to all Lieutenant Governors. I expect Monthly Report Forms to be still submitted even though the website is down. If you do not have the PDF version please email me at [email protected]. Please keep in mind when you are filling out your Monthly Report Form to be detailed as possible when describing events. Also please fill in all the information you can. For example when filling out how many hours accomplished at a fundraiser please fill in how much money was actually fundraised as well. I need to know all information to help me track where the district is in reaching our goals. If you need any help filling out your Monthly Report forms please email me!
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$14,112. That not all that much, only 8%, you can do this by April, in fact I’m sure of it! This month is Volunteer Blood Donor Month, so if your Key Club helps out, or sponsors a blood drive with a local organization of that sort it can be listed as a “local cause” and the money raised can be counted to the District Projects. The beauty of service is a great thing, especially when it helps a local cause, the Mighty New York District and participants as well as recipients all at the same time! Let’s do this; Key Clubbers get out there and fundraise for one of the ten District Projects!
It’s January, and we’re almost there! As a District we New York Key Clubbers have raised $160,888.26 out of $175,000. That is an incredible number; we’re at 92%! 2011 is here, and as we set new goals let’s make this goal a reality. Key Clubbers you’ve done a spectacular job since May, and in the next few months we need to increase our fundraising to raise another
projects ideas to do with local K-Kids, Builders Clubs, Circle Ks, Aktion Clubs and Kiwanis clubs! We invite you to visit our committee’s webpage at www.nydkc.org/kiwanis-family-relations and take a look through our resources. We also urge you to contact any member of the committee with any questions that you may have. While we’re on the subject of resources, we need your help! Our next resource is to put together a packet of service spotlights of projects that Key Clubbers have done with other branches of the Kiwanis Family. We ask that you send your article and pictures to [email protected], Editor Jensen & Webmaster Emily.
Happy New Year Key Clubbers! Have you done a service project with another Kiwanis family club yet? If not, this is the perfect time of year to do so! The Kiwanis Family Relations Committee is here to help you establish communications and give you
Kiwanis Family Relations By Lt. Governor Dylan Gross
District Projects By Lt. Governor Rhea Singh
New York District website. The Booklet of Merits has awards available for every
dues-paying club in the New York District. It includes 5 new awards and 1 new contest from last year, including the new Club T-Shirt Award and District LTC T-Shirt Contest. There are also four new Automatic Entry Awards – these require no submission, and you are automatically entered to receive the award if your club is in good standing.
Encourage your fellow Key Clubbers to apply for awards. Feel free to contact the DKC Committee Chairperson, Sharif Mahfouz ([email protected]) if you have any questions regarding awards.
At the end of every Key Club service year, the New York District proudly presents awards to all the clubs and individuals who have gone above and beyond the call of duty. All the information you need to apply for awards can be found in the New York District Booklet of Merits, located on the
Booklet of Merits By Lt. Governor Sharif Mahfouz
keep close contact with the host of your website, because he or she will probably be the only person able to restore information you weren’t even able to back-up! Most importantly, make sure the public knows about the website breakdown, if not, all it’s going to do is get you a flooded email inbox. Also, Webmasters, remember to not panic, because nothing on the internet really disappears forever! (Especially if money is involved!) I hope these tips help you all out a bit! Have a great end of the semester!
Hi New York District Key Clubbers! I hope you all had a great holiday break! Recently, we’ve had many website issues, and I want to dedicate this letter to show some tips for them. From experience, I would advise all Webmasters to back up the website files weekly instead of monthly. If the site breaks down, the back-up will be more updated and less work for you! Another advice,
Letter to Technology By District Webmaster Emily Lew
CLUB SPOTLIGHT!
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT KEY CLUB
On December 3rd, 2010, William Cullen Bryant Key Club presented its first Charity Flick in the Ethel Mermen Theater. We premiered the movie Grown Ups, to raise money for Kiwanis Pediatric Trauma Center. We had two guest speakers, Mr. Joe Corace the President of Kiwanis Pediatric Trauma Center, and Mrs. June Vice president of Division 8 Kiwanis Club, who spoke about the charity. We also showed a short video about the Trauma Center. So that the attendees could become cognizant of how the charity used the donations mainly to ensure the safety of children. The hilarious movie brought laughter in the air as the students enjoyed the movie as well as candies and empanadas. At the end of the flick, we raffled off four tickets to the Knicks game that Mr. Joe Aiello and Mrs. Rebecca Ovadia generously gave to us. On behalf of our Club, we want to thanks to Mrs. June for coming out to our event and bringing the raffle and saying a few words as well as Mr. Joe Corace and Mrs. Rebecca Ovadia for supporting our event. Fatima Khan and Nyan Lynn Oo were the winners who both received two tickets each to the Knicks game. The Charity Flick was a success as we managed to raise $287.00, for Kiwanis Pediatric Trauma Center.
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Charity Flick By Hina Khawaja
New York District Executive Board
Governor Nadyli Nuñez
Secretary Grace Na
Treasurer Safanah Siddiqui
Editor Jensen Cheong
Webmaster Emily Lew
Executive Assistant Jillian Harmon
Division #
Division 8
Lt. Governor Christina An
58-42 196th Place
Fresh Meadows, NY 11365
(347)-753-4122
Division Secretary Kelly Tsang
(646)-468-7933
Division Executive Assistant Antonio Xu Liu
(347)-546-6873
Kiwanis Committee Member Mrs. Rebecca Ovadia [email protected] (516)-698-2863
PAPERWORK STATUS
ERF Apr May June July Aug Sept Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar
August Martin
Aviation
X
X?
Bayside X X X X X X X X X X
Cardozo X X X X X X X X X
Christ the King
Forest Hills X X X X
Francis Lewis X X X X X X X X X X
Garden X X X X
Grover Cleveland X X X X X X
John Adams X X X X X X X X X?
Martin Luther
Martin Van Buren X
Newtown
Queens HS for
Science X X X X X X
Richmond Hill X X X X X X X? X?
Robert F. Kennedy
X
St. Francis Prep X
Townsend Harris X X X? X?
William C. Bryant X X X X X X X X X X?
x – Sent to both LTG and District Sec
x – Need to send it to District Sec
x? – Need to send it to LTG
CONTACT INFORMATION
Join the Facebook group – NYD Division 8 Key Club
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