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January Newsletter
Greetings from your Lt. Governor By Zachary Baum
The year is starting to come to a close, which means its time to reflect on the accomplishments to date, and plan out what we can be doing to end the service year on a really positive note. For the next three months, I hope all the clubs will sponsor advocacy projects, service projects for the governors project, interclub projects, fundraisers for our district projects and continue to remain active at the divisional level. Its also time to start looking at the many awards that the New York District gives out.
In this issue!
Greetings from your Lieutenant
Governor……………………………..1
Greetings from your
Governor……………………………..2
Kiwanis Pediatric Trauma
Center………………………………...2
Book of Merits……………...……..... 3
Kiwanis Family Relations…..….…..3
Secretary’s
Update……………..………………...4
Webmasters Update ……………...4
Governors Project …....................5
District Projects ………….....………5
Service Spotlight ……….………....6
Paperwork Status.…….................7
Upcoming Events ………………...8
K E Y C L U B
The Beaver’s Bulletin Lieutenant Governor Zachary Baum
Divisional Secreatary: Chrissy Borella
Official Newsletter of Key Club Division III
Volume 1 Issue 7
You would be surprised by how few applicants many of these awards receive, which should serve as an encouraging factor for you to apply. I really need all of the club officers to be engaged in the next few months. In the emails that I send out there will be a lot of content, and each and every bit of content is very important. We have a few more events before LTC. These events include the Lt. Governor Election, the Bowling Fundraiser, the Awards Ceramony. If there is anything that we have not done and that you would like to do, please tell me. I am open to making the next few months the best they can be.
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Greetings from your Governor!
Kiwanis Pediatric Trauma
Center By Yasmin Soliman
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 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 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!
Hey everyone! The Kiwanis Pediatric Trauma Center sponsors a variety of events to raise funds to support pediatric
By Governor Nadyli Nunez
Book of Merits By Sharif Mahfouz 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 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.
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 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.
Book of Merits and Kiwanis Family Relations
Kiwanis Family Relations By Dylan Gross
Secretary’s Update and Webmasters Update
Secretary’s Update
District Projects
By 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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Webmasters Updaate
District Projects
By Emily Lew 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, 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!
Governors Project and District Projects
K-Family
Governors Project
District Projects
By Nicole Murray As you’ve read in Governor Nadyli’s article, the Governor’s Project Committee and the Advocacy Committee are teaming up in an effort to help your club knock out two projects with one stone. One of the best parts is, the bare minimum of what you need to do is sign the bottom of a letter, make a copy of it and send it to the person it’s addressed to. It’s that simple! If you want some extra service hours put on, write your own letter. Take a group of Key Clubbers and come up with a cause of education that you would like to see changed, write a convincing letter about it, and make sure o get everyone to sign it and make copies for them. For further information on this new initiative, contact:
Governor Nadyli Nunez: [email protected] Governor’s Project CommitteeChair Lt. Governor Nicole Murray: [email protected] Advocacy Committee Chair Lt. Governor Katie Cieplicki: [email protected]
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 $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!
District Projects
District Projects
By Rhea Singh
CLUB SPOTLIGHT!
Recently Ward Melville High
School hosted a school-wide
dance for some charities in their community. The theme of the
dance was mascar-rave. The
dance took place in the cafeteria, and glow sticks illuminated the
dance floor. Key Club charged
only a modest $5 for admission.
This has become a tradition of Key Club starting last year. Ward
Melville Key Club has had 3
dances to date. All of which have been highly successful. A
freshman Key Clubber, Julie
Barton served as the chair of the event and made sure everything
went perfectly. Congratulations
to Julie and the Ward Melville
High School Key Club.
Ward Melville High School Huntington High School
Hunitngton Club Editor Holly Flores has been appointed to serve as Publicity Chair for the 63rd Annual Leadership Training Conference. Holly is responsible for ensuring that each and every Key Clubber in the mighty New York District is excited for the Leadership Training Conference. She will be working with other members of the committee to ensure the conferences success. In Febuary she will have the opportunity to tour the site of the Leadership Training Conference. Congratulations to Holly for this extrodinary accomplishmen. Keep up the good work Holly!
Club April May June July August September October November December Ward Melville Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Smithtown East Yes Yes Yes Yes
Half Hollow Hills East
Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Half Hollow Hills West
Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
Huntington Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes
CONTACT INFORMATION
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 #
Lieutenant Governor ________
PAPERWORK STATUS
Montly Report Forms are Due on the 7th of each month and Lieutenant Governor Evaluation Form’s are due on the 1st of each month.
Division 3 Contact
Information
Lieutenant Governor Zachary Baum
8 Riunite Road
East Setauket, NY 11733
(631)- 487-0881
Facebook Page
New York District Key Club Division 3
Kiwanis Committee Rep Mr. Farrell
631-288-0658
Fun Facts and the Key Club Around the World
Upcoming Events
Bowling Fundraiser for UNICEF! Awards Ceremony Date: January 16th Date: March 9th Time: Noon-2pm Time: 6-9pm Location: Port Jefferson Bowl Location: Ward Melville $15pp $15pp
Famous Past Key Club Members Actor Brad Pitt Singer Elvis Presley President Bill Clinton Radio Talk Show Host Howard Stern Actor Tom Cruise Senator Bill Nelson Senator Trent Lott Football Player Joe Namath Country Music Singer Alan Jackson
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