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June 2016 // Volume 5 // Issue 1

American Indian Key Clubbers handing medals to walkers in the East Bay MS Walk.

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June DCM: Lake Chabot BBQ Saturday, June 25 11AM-3PM More info at a later notice

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June

Upcoming Events

June DWS: Bay Area Book Festival Saturday/Sunday, June 4-5 8:30AM-11PM Please let William know if you want to stay later than 11am!6

Division 2 Officer Training Conference Sunday, June 19 1PM-4PM

June's

Health and SafetyFocus: The CNH Service Projects Committee created the Spotlight on Service in order to help educate members about Key Club International and California-Nevada-Hawaii’s service initiatives to encourage active participation. This month’s highlight values the importance of health and safety as it comes close to summer vacation. It is important to be safe and be wary of your health. Any questions or concerns, you are welcomed to email: cnh.sp@gmail.com.

Event Ideas

DIY Goodies- You can build mini health kits and donate them to those in need. You can also make friendship bracelets, plushies, etc. to sell in the future for funds, but don’t forget to educate our cause for these expenses!

Socialize- Go out and socialize with other members through physical activity to promote health and safety. You can also scavenger hunts or another amazing race!

Donation Funds- Reach out to local shops and cooperate with them to see if they are willing to place donations jars to fund for our preferred charities. You can also have a jar where you donate your personal loose change into! Together, we can make a change.

Food Sales- You can’t go wrong with selling food. Lemonade stands are wonderful to battle the summer heat and quench the sugary thirst. You can cooperate with food businesses like Boba shops or Habit to set up dates to fundraise for our charities.

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Encinal……………………………………75 Leadership Public………………………….0 Oakland……………………………………58 Oakland Technical……………………….58 Piedmont……………………………………48 San Leandro……………………………….67 San Lorenzo……………………………….59 Skyline…………………………………………47

As of May 17th: Alameda………………………………….51 Albany…………………………………….83 American Indian………………………..64 Arroyo…………………………………..109 Berkeley………………………………….59 Castro Valley…………………………..108 El Cerrito………………………………….17

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Cryst[l Hu[ng works very hard to find events and she even tries to establish rides to make sure everyone who wants to attend an event has a ride.

Arroyo with the most service events. Piedmont raised the most funds.

Arroyo is our the club of the month.

Vin]_nt Yu is a very dedicated member as he volunteered for an event from another club within the division. We recognized his growth as an individual as well.

@l Wright made sure everyone had rides for the March DCM! Without Al, majority of Alameda and Encinal Key Clubbers may not had the chance to attend the April DCM Banquet!

Member of the Month

Advisor of the Month

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Officer of the Month

Recognition

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Alameda

My favorite aspect of key club is being able to do community service events with friends and have fun together while helping the community.

My favorite memory is helping at the Salvation Army Thanksgiving/Christmas event, seeing all those smiles on needy people felt good!

What I look forwards in the summer is getting to interact with more key club members and participate in more inclusive volunteer service events.

Eric Zheng

Emily Ho

Brendan Co

The ability the club has to help people who are in need of volunteers. The volunteers help make peoples' lives a little easier.

The Arts and Green Festival was one of my favorite memories this year. We got free food and drinks!

I can't wait until I can stay up until morning and sleep until night.

My favorite aspect of Key Club is being able to get volunteer hours and meeting new people.

My favorite Key Club memory was at a Halloween festival. I remember setting up a haunted house, entertainment tables, and getting boba. However, the most fun was scaring little kids. Just kidding.

I'm looking forward to having fun this summer.

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D2 Member of the Month

Ella Xu

Kelly Tse

Aidan

My favorite aspect of key club is its ability to bring together so many people. I really feel motivated to help others more because everyone is helping along side me.

My favorite key club memory would have to have been beading at the Jenny Lin event because it was my first key club event, and I met some really nice people that made me feel less shy.

My favorite aspect of key club is knowing that there is a greater community out there helping the world and helping you help the world.

My favorite Key club memory is DCON and meeting so many enthusiastic key clubbers and Kiwanis. It really make me feel safe that there and so many people out there in the world that want to make the world and better place and it was really interesting to see all the logistics and how everything comes together.

Meeting new people and doing service with my friends *smiles*.

FRN because it was the first key club event i ever went to. it was really fun. I got to meet people who are my closest friends now.

I'm looking forward to volunteering with my friends and tennis season starting.

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D2 Member of the Month

Sunnie Wu

Lyndon Torio

Emily Chau

I like how easy it was to join and get use to Key Club.

My favorite memory is the Dunsmuir Easter event.

This summer I look forward to going to Universal Studios.

My favorite aspects of Key Club are the energy and positivity. The atmosphere feels nice when it circulates through the room.

My favorite Key Club memory is most likely like everyone else's which is FRN. Especially since it is my first year in Key Club, and our division won the spirit stick. It made me extremely glad I did the required hours to be at such a grand celebratory event.

My favorite aspect is how the community of Key Club show passion to do service work. They are very dedicated to the work they do and I also like how I get to meet new people while doing service.

My favorite Key Club memory is the end of the year banquet because I got to meet new people and see people I don't usually see. Also, seeing everyone's passion for service made the banquet even more memorable.

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D2 Member of the Month

Karen Young

Justin Qiu

Gordon GiangMy favorite aspect of Key Club is being able to do service with my friends.

My favorite Key Club memory is having fun and joking around with my officers.

I am looking forward to having no school.

The fact that I can do community service all around the Bay and have new, unique experiences along the way.

The July DWS, where we did community service as a club for the very first time. It felt great being in the place where I grew up (Chinatown) and giving back to its community.

No school and taking my driving test.

My favorite aspect about Key Club is being able to bond with other members at events.

My favorite Key Club memory is meeting other members that have the same passion as I do for service.

I am looking forward to future events in the summer.San Leandro

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D2 Member of the Month

Alameda-

Sharon He

Albany-

Jack Morton

American Indian-

Melody Zheng

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Crystal Huang

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Sabrina Ho

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Aya Konishi

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Stephany Su

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Kathlyn Le

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Camila Yiu

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Yuting Yu

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Ivan Kao

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Janne Ho

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Carol Huang

Officer of the Month

Leadership Public- Encinal-

Charlotte Chan

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April went by quickly for Albany Key Club. With a true transition into spring and the new officers blossoming into their positions, many members were eager to volunteer for events. Albany's activity this month includes helping at the local Eggster Egg Hunt, Berkeley Bay Festival, an Earth Day Cleanup, and a Golden Gate Audubon event! We also participated in a fun Kiwanis One Day at the Oakland Zoo.

Club Reports

Submit your articles and submissions to Kathy Yan of d02.cnhkc.dne@gmail.com to make sure your club gets recognized for all the hard work you have accomplished

In the month of April, our club started off the term with an exciting fundraiser at 8-Twelve. The fundraiser was a huge success, and the club will be donating $100 to PTP as well as $50 to the Eliminate Project. We volunteered at many walks, such as the East Bay MS Walk and the East Bay's March for Babies. The volunteers had such a blast cheering on the walkers as well as handing out snacks and water. Lastly, our club helped plant trees at a local park near Arroyo High.

As we're getting extremely close to AP Testing day, we've still managed to volunteer for the East Bay MS Walk, the Uhuru Health Fair, the Saint Vincent de Paul Kitchen, and the Montclair BBQ and clean up. Additionally, we've accomplished our first fundraising event (the Eliminate Week) for the new term. Can't wait for the May DCM and for more volunteering opportunities!

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This past month our new elected officers officially took over and started running and planning club meetings and events. We attended an Easter event called "Eggster" at UC Berkeley, where we face painted and helped with the egg hunt; on Earth Day we picked up 600 pieces of trash at our own marina; we sent books to prisoners after reading about their preferences in their letters; and we raised $115.50 at our Fourth Street Bake Sale.

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April started off very busy and exciting with the attendance of DCON and installment of the new office. We kickstarted the new term by volunteering at the annual Cherry Blossom Festival! Members later provided service at the Hayward Shoreline event by removing dangerous plants that inhabited the shorelines. Castro Valley concluded the month at Kraken Con.

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Since, most of the members and officers are busy with testing, meetings have been postponed. However, this month our club participated in the DCM as well as service events. We served at a book sorting event for our local library. We also cleaned up our garden plot and helped out at our monthly food bank.

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This month, we have been transitioning to our new officers. We haven't had many events besides DCON. We are trying to transitions into the new term and plan things for the next school year. But in May we plan to help out local elementary schools with their science fairs and band concerts.

This past month, our new board has started their term. Our first act in Key Club was food fair, a school wide event. We made a profit of $77 dollars from selling waffle fries and root-beer floats for our club funds. We also participated in the Morcom Rose Garden where we helped take out weeds and replant roses.

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Submit your articles and submissions to Kathy Yan of d02.cnhkc.dne@gmail.com to make sure your club gets recognized for all the hard work you have accomplished

This past April marked the beginning of our new officers' term, but former officers were still able to help out with our food sale on April 23rd, which generated $55 in profit, as well as our boba sale the following week. Our new officer board was also able to kick off their new term with the surrounding 3 divisions at the Key Club Banquet on the 29th.

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Submit your articles and submissions to Kathy Yan of d02.cnhkc.dne@gmail.com to make sure your club gets recognized for all the hard work you have accomplished

The new board settled in smoothly and took in their new responsibilities. We created pages for multiple events for members to attend, including the color run at John Muir Middle School on April 30th, 2016. We started preparing for the upcoming May DCM. We also started raising money for MNT and raised awareness around campus.

This past month out club helped sort medical supplies in Emeryville. We also had a waste audit at our school, where we helped sort trash. On April 23rd we attended the San Lorenzo Earth day clean up and we also attended the DCM and Banquet.

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With the new term, everyone is excited to see what the new board have in store. Our first service of the month was the San Francisco Cherry Blossom Festival. Our other two services were the East Bay MS Walk and March for Babies. We were able to have a fundraiser last month at our school's Tailgate event. Also, we joined our Kiwanis at Camp Arroyo painting benches.

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We have all once in our life binged watch animes for hours on end, right? From popular animes like Dragon Ball Z, Angel Beats and Naruto, they have occupied several hours of our lives! This past month, Castro Valley Key Club had the pleasure of attending Kraken Con, an anime convention located at the Oakland Convention Center. You may be asking, what exactly Key Club is doing in an anime convention. We represented Arts for Oakland Kids, a program that funds art programs throughout Oakland schools. Members approached convention attendees with the opportunity of winning a $100 Amazon gift card! Attendees had the decision of signing up for the Arts for Oakland Kids newsletter or donating towards the program. Besides seeing amazing cosplay, members had the opportunity to explore the convention after their shift. During the event, Patrice noticed the 4 core values of Key Club present during the event, but it was leadership that stood out the most for her. Patrice states, “Out of the 4 Core Values, I saw leadership the most. Rachel taught us what to do for the event, although it was scary at first it got easier. We then told the next group of volunteers what to do and so on. It was difficult to be a leader and have the confidence to talk to strangers at this event, I gained more leadership skills”. That is great to hear Patrice! Key club really works its magic everywhere!

Anna Zheng, Castro Valley

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Boba Drink Sales

Tina Lin , Skyline On April 20, 2016, Skyline High School decided to hold an event called Tailgate where clubs got to fundraise money. Following our tradition, Skyline Key Club decided to sell boba. A fellow kiwi’s parent offered to help pay and pick up the boba since we were unable to. The Tailgate even started right after school near the gym, so everyone was excited for what all the club were going to sale. Right when the bell rang, everyone rushed down the hill to where the event was being held. Tables were already set up waiting for the rush of people. We quickly placed two boxes of boba drinks onto the table reserved for Skyline Key Club. When people saw the boba drinks, everyone scurried over to buy a cup before it for Skyline Key Club. When people saw the boba drinks, everyone scurried over to buy a cup before it was all gone. As the line grew crowded, those helping were now assigned roles to make the process go faster. Two people were in charge of taking the orders and handle the customers boba drinks. The other two were in charge of handling the money and giving change. As the event drew closer to the end, we looked around to see we had successfully sold all of our boba drinks. With smiles on our faces, we counted the money. Including reimbursement, we raised a total of $170, excluding the $60 we decided $170, excluding the $60 we decided to donate to the Eliminate project.

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Sarah Hartono, Albany

The phrase “Earth Day” brings to mind many possibilities of ways to help out our world. Whether it be making new resolutions to be more eco-friendly by remembering to recycle that empty can of soda or cleaning a park with your friends, there’s a way for everyone to help out the Earth. For Albany, it’s a chance to volunteer at our local Albany bulb and make sure it’s clean of any harmful trash or litter. Members from Albany Key Club woke up early on a sunny Saturday morning, ready to devote their time to the cleanup. Upon arrival, they met up with other locals, along with their families who also wanted to help clean the bulb. Some families even brought their pets to help out! The beautiful day allowed volunteers to see the Golden Gate Bridge without the normal fog surrounding it. With the company of other people, picking up litter became enjoyable. When asked what he liked about the event most, Jack Morton, one of our volunteers, said, “I really felt like I was helping the earth and my overall community, not just a few people”. Rather than affecting only a smaller yet still important part of the community, volunteering at the bulb certainly did help out more people, especially those who visit the bulb often! Thank you Jack and other volunteers! Participants continued to pick up litter, making sure to be thorough, ensuring the job was done right. The bulb looked great by the time they finished! The event ended a bit after noon, around lunchtime. Unexpectedly, those sponsoring the cleanup gave free lunch to all of the participants! At the end of the day, it was a win for everyone. Happy Earth Day!

Albany Earth Clean Up Day

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Earth Day Project

Jason Le, Oakland

On April 30th, we had our very first event for the 2016-2017 term with our new board. Our club took part in beautifying a local garden. It was hosted by the Lake Merritt Rose Garden. Upon arrival, the staff told us a little history about the rose garden. They told us that the invasive species was the onion. We were also told about how the mother of the year award takes places in the Morcom Rose Garden. After the stories, we were taught how to use different gardening tools. Then we got straight to work. At 9:30 a.m., we got to work, our club members were split into separate groups. One group was assigned to get rid of the onion. The other group was in charge of replanting roses. The rose garden group was taught specific methods to replant a rose. They replanted over ten roses, beautifying the empty space. Meanwhile, the weeding group learned about how the onions got to the rose garden. We used different tools to get them out. Sunny Wu, currently our member of the month, helped replant a dying rose, saving its life from the onions. After taking out all the weeds we gave fertilizer to all the rose plants. We then covered the bed of roses with mulch. We used big shovels to get mulch and put it on the bed. It was really satisfying seeing all of our hard work. After working for a few hours, we were provided lunch which were muffins, cookies, and fruits. We were also given a book of coupons for our hard work. They then told us we were welcomed to visit the garden whenever we pleased and they told us that they would contact us when they needed more volunteers. We hope to come back and volunteer at the Morcom Rose Garden again.

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Linh Tran, Encinal

This month, our club members and officers spent our Saturday morning volunteering at the Alameda Food Bank. There were 7 members and officers from Encinal Key Club in attendance, along with many volunteers from Alameda Key Club. There are usually 150-300 clients every month! Many of our members arrived at 9, before it opens, to help the adult volunteers with whatever they needed; whether that is sweeping the floor or packing cookies. Volunteers sign in and are given name tags by the volunteer coordinator. He then proceeds to assign members specific jobs. Many of the volunteers work as shoppers. As shoppers, it is our job to talk with the clients and help them get their food. We love being shoppers because it gives us a chance to get to know the people in our community. A few of us worked in the back tearing up boxes and cardboard for recycling. We were in charge of making sure the plastic parts and cardboard are in the right area. Some volunteers assist the adults in sorting and distributing fruits, vegetables, and pastries to clients. One of our volunteers, Danny, helped carry packages of food from the storage to the front area. Members who are fluent in another language can work as translators for clients who have not yet filled their forms. Some members help clients carry their heavy bags out to their car. Even when it is over, we all stayed after to help the adult volunteers clean up and pack any food. We feel it is our duty because they treat us so well; they provide us with food and water, and make us feel like we are part of the community of helpers. The unpaid adult volunteers at the Alameda Food Bank inspires all of us to be more involved in our own community. Volunteering at the Food Bank gives us all an opportunity to assist people in providing them with their basic needs.

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Joseph Harmon, Oakland Tech

As part of Oakland Tech’s Multicultural Week celebration in April, the Tech Kiwis decided to organize a lunchtime food sale, both to support school programming and continue to increase club visibility across the school. The sale was timed just right at the transition between the previous leadership board’s term and the rising officers’ term, giving a wide range of Key Clubbers the opportunity to participate in an event together before the end of the school year. To reflect the multicultural aspect of the school event, Key Club chose to sell chow mein and fried rice. Considering the brief lunch period, Oakland Tech’s Key Club was able to make a fairly impressive amount of profit in a short amount of time, gathering enough interest from the hungry students passing by to generate $55 net profit. As the new term continues throughout this school year and the next, Oakland Tech’s Key Club looks forward to organizing more events like these: simple and efficient benefits capable of gathering a wide range of support from club members and the surrounding community, all working together to make our club stronger as we continue to grow.

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DNE’s Closing MessageHi Kiwis!

My name is Kathy Yan and I am incredibly excited to serve as your 2016-2017 Division News Editor. A little about me is that I am currently a junior at Encinal High and this is my third year as a Key Clubber. I’m just your typical asian girl with a very average height, so approach me anytime. I promise I don’t bite!

This past term has certainly been a blast with everyone taking F.L.I.G.H.T and I am now ready to take on this term with another bang. As all good things must come to an end, it is the start of a new beginning if things did not work out last term. To all graduating class, you will be missed and good luck on all of your endeavors. Please don’t forget us and come visit more events before you leave!

By far, I have to say this newsletter is the most difficult one yet. It was certainly hard for me to come up with different designs as the previous Division News Editor, Meiling Zhang, did such a wonderful job. But aside from that, don’t worry about the little things if they are not working out the way you want it to as there are definitely room for improvement! So, let’s work together and fill this year with memories and G.R.A.C.E through this newsletter and more to come.

Thank you so much for reading the very first newsletter and let me know what you guys think.

At Your Service, Kathy Yan

Division News Editor 2016-2017

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Hello, it’s Division 2!

Meiling Zhang Division 2 Lieutenant Governor d02.cnhkc.ltg@gmail.com (510) 909-4393

Kathy Yan Division News Editor d02.cnhkc.dne@gmail.com (510) 875-8365

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Thank you for reading! Please contact Kathy Yan or Meiling Zhang if there are any questions, comments, or concerns.

See you in the next issue.