Volume 1 Issue 6

>>Engelken Editorial<<

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Official Publication of Division 9 of the New Jersey District of Key Club International

A Message from Your Lieutenant Governor………………………………….…..1 Youth Opportunities Fund………………….2 YUDA Bands…………………………………..3 ELIMINATE Flyer……………………………….4 Students Change Hunger………………….5 Fall Rally……………………………………….7 CROP Hunger Walk…………………………9 District Dues…………………………………10 Regional Training Conferences…………11 August Board Meeting Recap…………..13 Things You Should Know………………….15 Fundraiser/Project Ideas………………….16 Divisional T-Shirt Order Form…………..…17 August DCM Recap……………………….18 Club/Officer of the Month……………….19 Contact Information………………………20

Table of Contents

Hello Division 9 Key Clubbers! ! I know many of you are reluctant to head back to school but hopefully you have a great start! Even if you’re not excited to go back to school, hopefully you’re excited for RTC’s, Students Change Hunger, and Fall Rally, I know I’m excited! This newsletter is packed with very important information about those events so make sure to read it all! Some new information: the District Programs Committee is now supporting CROP Walk because it goes with this year’s advocacy topic: Hunger in the United States. Also, the District Project Steering Committee came up with the idea of a district-wide volleyball tournament to support the ELIMINATE Project. Divisions are paired together to hold volleyball tournament and the winners will move onto the district volleyball tournament so keep on the look out for new information about that! Just a reminder: this year’s theme for Fall Rally is Get Animated with Service! The character that our division is for Fall Rally is revealed in this newsletter and I’m really excited about it! Also, make sure your school signs up for Students Change Hunger, it’s a great cause and an easy service project! More information about SCH is enclosed in this newsletter. The district has some very exciting news! We have installed a new Lieutenant Governor of Division 1—Angela Becker! She hails from Lower Cape May and was an attendee (and my roommate) at ICON. We’re all very excited to have her on the board and we can’t wait to see what she does for Division 1—good luck Angela! !

Lieutenant Governor of Division 9 Tara Engelken

A Message From Your Lieutenant Governor

Service is the foundation of Key Club International and Key Clubs have successfully been changing the world through service since its beginning. Every year clubs brainstorm ways they can change their homes, schools and communities. Clubs often come up with great ideas but their club lacks the funds to get it started. However, do not lose hope! The Youth Opportunities Fund is here for Key Clubs to utilize. This fund is created by the purchasing of G. Harold Martin Fellowships. The fund allows Key Clubs to serve the world by providing grants for service opportunities. In order to receive this grant, your club must find a problem in the community that you all want to fix. You have to organize how you will do it and how the funds will be used. Your club is then ready to fill out the application! Grants range from $100-$2000. For example, the North Crowley Key Club in Fort Worth Texas was able to have a very successful project with their $450 YOF grant. As they were searching ways to change the world through service they realized a problem in their local elementary schools. The lack of funds going towards art there left kids with few opportunities to be creative. What did they do? They started planning and received their grant. They used their grant to buy art supplies which they used at Barnes & Noble’s Saturday morning story times every week. They would lead the kids in craft that related to the story. With their art supplies, the club was also able to host a citywide arts and crafts art fair. Members also donated supplies to an urban elementary school with no art budget and sent craft donations to children living in Appalachia. The club continues to their weekly craft at Barnes & Noble. This club was very successful in changing the values of art in their community!

The application can be found at http://www.keyclub.org/Libraries/Test_Folder/YOF_Application_14.sflb.ashx and must be received by October 15th. The address where you should send the application to is:

Kiwanis International Attn: YOF Application/Nicole Harris 3636 Woodview Trace Indianapolis, IN 46268-3196, USA

You can also send the application by fax to 1-317-879-0204. If you would like to learn more about YOF please contact your lieutenant governor, email yof@kiwanis.org or visit keyclub.org.

Y O F

Key Club International endorses certain charities that they recommend clubs to fundraise and perform service projects for. However, while it is good to fundraise and serve the charities we endorse, it is also good to spread the love and help outside organizations. This year at international convention, many different charities were there explaining what they do to better the world. One particularly eye catching one was Yuda Bands. Yuda Bands works towards giving children from third world countries a chance for an education that they otherwise would not have had. And when you give a child an opportunity for education, you give them the possibility to change the world. What are Yuda Bands? Yuda Bands are beautiful handcrafted bracelets. Your club would sign up to sell the bracelets and then the money from the sales goes back to giving these children’s education.

How can your club have a Yuda Bands project? Once the project has been approved by your school, your club can fill out the application. When the application has been approved by Yuda Bands, your club would pick the students you would like to sponsor. Once this is done, you can begin the project! A typical Yuda Bands project is two weeks of advertising and two weeks of selling. Your club can assign students to sell them or you can sell them after school, during lunch, or whatever your school will allow. Be mindful they sell like hotcakes! Once the project is done, you will receive a certificate that you gave the children you sponsored an education. Overall, Yuda Bands works towards Kiwanis goal of bettering the lives of the children of the world in a different way. If you would like to learn more about Yuda Bands, please visit http://www.yudabands.org or contact your lieutenant governor.

YUDA Bands

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Send donations to: Ann Updegraff Spleth COO Kiwanis International Foundation 3636 Woodview Trace Indianapolis, In 46268

*Checks should be made out to: Kiwanis International Foundation In the memo section of the check, write Eliminate.

Let this be the BEST year of the campaign!

10 - Kiwanis joined with UNICEF to run the ELIMINATE project in 2010

9 - One baby dies every 9 minutes because of MNT

3 - A series of 3 vaccinations saves a mother and her future children

25 - 25 countries are still infected with MNT

15 - The final year of the Kiwanis-ELIMINATE Project campaign

The District Project Fundraising Goal is…

109,325.15

What is a District Project? Every service year, the NJ District Board decides upon one project for the entire district. This year, The ELIMINATE Project is our focus.

What is MNT? MNT stands for Maternal and Neonatal Teta-

nus. It is a fatal disease that mainly affects mothers and their babies, making the new-

borns hypersensitive to light and touch.

What is it? CROP Hunger W

alks are

interfaith hunger education and

fundraising events s

ponsored by Church

World Service and organized by CWS

local offices across t

he U.S.

Register online at cropwalk.org by finding a walk near you and signing up!

Donate online to either a walker, a team, or just in general. Pay any amount that you please! Or encourage you school to collect food donations

Walks in/near division 9:

-Red Bank~Oct.19 -Long Branch Ministerium~Oct.19 -Freehold~Oct.19 -Woodbridge~Oct.26 -Metuchen/Edison~Oct.26

From September 15 to November 21,The New Jersey District of Key ClubInternational will be working with theStudents Change Hunger Organization. Clubs in New Jersey are encouragedto participate in the Students ChangeHunger competition. Those clubs whoHunger competition. Those clubs whodonate the most amount of food will beawarded by their local food bank, andsome schools may even apply for theGovernor’s Cup. The deadline for theGovernor’s Cup is December 20, 2014.

STUDENTS CHANGE HUNGER RULES

1) Students must register for the competition to qualify for prizes

2) Food may be donated any time between Sept.15th-Nov.21st

3) The food must be delivered to the food bank

4) Schools must provide their own boxes/bins to store goods

5) When a donation is made to the food bank, the receipt needs to be filled out and submitted (receipt is found online)

6) Donations made prior to November 1st get a 10% weigh bonus

7) Bottled water and frozen turkey cannot be donated

8) Schools are responsible to making sure food isn’t expired

9) For every dollar that your school raises, the school receives a credit of 1 pound of food. Money donations are made online.

DONATIONS Most wanted items:

!Canned Fish

Canned Meat Boxed Meals

Pasta Pasta Sauce (no glass)

Rice Canned Soup Canned Gravy Mac&Cheese Peanut Butter

Jelly Canned Vegetables

Canned Fruit Granola Snacks

Cereal Shelf Stable non-refrigerated Juice

For more information on official rules, regulations,

and registration please visit studentschangehunger.org

FALL R

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Oh my Glob you don’t know what Adventure Time is?! Well then I definitely need to fill you in because Division 9 is the character Jake from Adventure Time for Fall Rally! Okay, technically Adventure Time is a show for kids, but in Key Club we never judge so I have no problem saying that I watch it all the time. It airs on Cartoon Network and is in my opinion, the best animated show ever. So of course when I found out that Jake was up for grabs for Fall Rally I took him! If you’re not a fan of Adventure Time, don’t fret, it’s only an hour of your life being represented by Jake — and we’re still Division 9 at Fall Rally anyways. So, who the heck is Jake? Well, Finn is the other main character of the show — he’s the only human in the show (LTG of Division 16 David Guirgis will be Finn). Jake is Finn’s dog companion and together they go on crazy adventures; rescuing people, searching for treasure, and fighting off evil villains. Jake is a magical dog, that can stretch and morph into all different figures whenever he wants and it helps their quests and is also hilarious. Jake and Finn live in the magical land of Ooo with their good friend Princess Bubblegum (who District Governor Sam Levisay will be at Fall Rally!) who is the princess of Candy Kingdom, where all the citizens are candy people. Sounds weird and crazy (and stupid to some of you people), I know. However, watching Adventure Time for me is a great way to feel like a kid again. It’s a funny, stress-free show that appeals to all ages. I suggest watching it sometime! Get ready to see me dressed like Jake from Adventure Time at Fall Rally!

Finn

Princess Bubblegum

Jake

New Jersey District Dues

International Dues ~ $7.00 New Jersey District Dues ~ $5.50

Each Club has the option of charging up to an additional $5.50

per club member

Early Bird Dues ~ November 1st

Regular Dues ~ December 1st

All club dues are to be paid online at keyclub.org Select “Dues & Reports”, select “access membership

update center”, fill in pertinent information in order to log club information and pay dues

Division 9 T-Shirt Order Form

Name:

Size:

School:

Phone Number:

Email:

___________________________

__________________________

___________________

___________________________

S__ M__ L__ XL__ XXL__ 3XL__

Price per Shirt: $9.00

Total you are paying: $

*Order forms are due by September 20th for those that would like a shirt before Fall Rally

Central RTC

September 13

Voorhees H. S.

Southern RTC

September 14

Egg Harbor Township H. S.

Northern RTCNorthern RTC

September 20

Parssipany Hills H. S.

Regional Training Conference

New Jersey Key Club

Will You Climb

Mount Service with us?

How: Key Clubbers will collect cans/boxes of non-perishable

food items at their schools and/or organize their own donations before RTCs and bring those

items to the conferences!

Fall RTC Dates/Locations: North: 9/20 @ Parsippany Hills H.S.

Why: The cans will not only be donated to a local food bank as

part of this year’s district advocacy focus, but they will

also used in a special activity at some point throughout the day!

Central: 9/13 @ Voorhees H.S. South: 9/14 @ Egg Harbor Township H.S.

All RTCs are from ~ 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

August Board Meeting

Just like the April Board Meeting, I’m excited to give you all the progress we made at our August District Board Meeting! It was held on August 16th at the Children’s Specialized Hospital in New Brunswick. It ran from 8am-4pm so that we could get everything accomplished in one day. We started off with board reports —each Lieutenant Governor gave a report about their division and then the executive board members reported their activities since the last board meeting. Then, Key Leader Ambassador James Abbaticchio gave a speech about this year’s Key Leader. Afterwards, we broke into standing and special committee meetings. The standing committees are: District Programs, Public Relations, International Programs, and District Project Steering. The special committees are: Fall Rally Registration, Fall Rally Programs, and Regional Training Conferences. We presented the reports from each committee. The District Project Steering Committee announced their latest idea of doing a district-wide volleyball tournament and the District Programs Committee announced their new support of CROP Walk. International Programs is working closely with James Abbaticchio on Key Leader and want all board members to attend. Then we took a tour of the hospital and got to see some of the patients. It was beautiful and all the donations that the hospital gets are definitely being put to great use. Next, the New Jersey District Circle-K Governor presented news and International Trustee Nicole Lema gave updates about her new position. We then moved onto new business. We discussed dues collection, the Jersey Key, the District Handbook, District Mailing, DCON, newsletter assignments, bi-weekly updates, officer training, and the Kiwanis Family Conference. Like always, I had an amazing time with my fellow district board members. I’m proud of all the work that we accomplished and I can’t wait to see them at the fall RTC’s!

Things You Should Know

OTC= Officer Training Conference, when an LTG trains their officers about their respective jobs.

DCM= Divisional Council Meeting—led by an LTG, when officers and an LTG meet to discuss divisional and district news and upcoming events.

RTC= Regional Training Conference. A district event led by the district board to train all Key Clubbers in the district—from general members to officers. Officers must attend to become distinguished officers.

DCON= District Convention, when Key Clubbers from the district gather to celebrate the end of the service year and the start of the new one. The new executive board is elected and the new LTG’s are installed.

Key Leader= A leadership conference held annually in each district in which any Key Clubber can attend. It is held over a weekend in the fall/winter. Key Clubbers participate in outside activities and bonding.

Fall Rally= The largest percentage gathering of Key Clubbers. One is held per district, in the New Jersey District it is held every fall at Six Flags Great Adventure. It is run by the district board and features key note speakers. The district board gets Key Clubbers pumped for the new service year by speaking about upcoming events, fundraisers, etc.

CMRF= Club Monthly Report Form, reports all activities completed by each club every month. Filled out by the club secretary.

District Executive Board= The officers of the district board. Consists of the District Governor, the District Secretary, the District Treasurer, and the District Editor. The District Webmaster is considered an appointed position.

Fundraiser/Project Ideas

During general meetings, pass around a jar asking for spare change. Set a goal to motivate people. It is only

$1.80 to save a mom and her babies from MNT, spare change goes a long

way.

Find an organization of your liking that collects clothes for the needy. Set up a box and list what clothes are needed. After a certain period of time

send the clothes in.

Participate in a CROP Hunger Walk near you! It is a great way to support

the NJ District’s advocacy topic: Hunger

in the United States.

Have a Stall Day! (Need permission from the principal) Have students

bring in change and their first period teachers have to count it by hand.

Class cannot start until all change has been counted. It’s a great motivation for students that class won’t start and

it’s really easy to make a good amount of money.

Special Occasion Picture Day~have a teacher dress up for a certain occasion and have

students pay a small fee to take pictures with them. It is such a fun project!

Speak to the nearest

Children’s Specialized

Hospital and ask if your Key

Clubbers can come and

volunteer. It is a great service project and

brightens children’s day.

Set a goal for an amount of money that you want your

Key Clubbers to raise for the ELIMINATE Project. If they reach that goal, you and your other officers have to dress up like a baby for a

day. It is a great motivator!

Board meetings and OTCs and DCMs, oh my! Once again the Division 9 Officers and I met to discuss this upcoming school year and all the events that it is going to be jam-packed with. We met at the Monmouth County Library Eastern Branch in Shrewsbury from 10am-12pm and I have to say that it was a major success. I know all the officers’ brains were hurting when we were done because we covered so much material and they are amazing listeners. Want to know if your club officers were there? Well officers from Middletown South, MAST, High Technology, and Red Bank Regional attended. I’ll just give a brief overview of what we covered since it was two hours worth of stuff. We reviewed the ELIMINATE Project, Students Change Hunger, fundraisers and projects for the upcoming year, the Youth Opportunities Fund, and Preferred Charities. In terms of events we covered Regional Training Conferences (which officers must attend to be distinguished, but general members can go too!), Fall Rally, CROP Walk, Key Leader, and our divisional volleyball tournament. We also discussed dues (the prices, deadlines, membership goals, etc.), divisional shirts (order form included in this newsletter, give it to one of your officers), our International Trustee Barry Seng and the international board, ICON and the amendments to KCI by-laws and policies, and Club Monthly Report Forms. If you have questions or concerns please ask any of your club officers or myself (my contact info is on the last page). For our district project for the ELIMINATE Project, divisions were paired together to host a joint volleyball tournament. Division 9 was paired with Division 10 (LTG Brooke Willemstyn) and it will be held sometime before December 14th. All club officers were asked to ask their principals for permission to possibly hold the tournament. Also, MAST President James Abbaticchio spoke about Key Leader since he was recently appointed New Jersey District’s Key Leader Ambassador. After all pending news was discussed, all officers that have not yet been trained were trained (yay!). All MAST and Red Bank Regional Officers have been trained! Congratulations to those clubs and good luck to all clubs this upcoming school year!

August Divisional Council Meeting Recap

Club and Officer of the Month

Division 9 is trying something new— club and officer of the month. Although every club in Division 9 is fantastic, I wanted to honor the club that goes above and beyond each month. A new club will be chosen each month based on CMRFs, enthusiasm, attendance, and service. For the month of August, High Technology Key Club was chosen as Club of the Month. Technically it’s for all months from April to now because I just started giving this award. High Technology always has their CMRFs in on time or early, and the officers are always answering all my forms of contact. The officers are very dedicated and have almost all been trained. During the summer, they have still participated in service projects/fundraisers to keep the members involved. They’ve attended the Division 9 Council Meetings as well. They are planning on attending RTC’s, Fall Rally, and Key Leader and I’m very excited to see them there! They are a very bright group of students (like all my officers) and I know that High Technology will prosper greatly this year! Congratulations High Technology!

The Officer of the Month for August was awarded to Red Bank Regional Secretary Kelsey Ballard. Even though she’s an underclassmen, she has the work ethic of an experienced officer. She works very hard on her club’s CMRFs and is always asking me to make sure things are done right (which I love). She’s extremely enthusiastic and is always in attendance. She makes sure to answer the emails that I send as well. When Red Bank Regional appointed a webmaster she emailed me right away announcing it and gave her email so that she could be included in the email group. Kelsey is extremely kind and approachable which are common characteristics of us Key Clubbers. I’m very excited to see where Kelsey will go in the future— right now it looks like President at Red Bank Regional and then LTG of Division 9? I sure hope so! I would love to see someone like her take over my position when I leave. Congratulations Kelsey!

Contact Information

Governor !

Samantha Levisay Cell: (908) 319-9990

njgovernorlevisay@gmail.com

Secretary !

Jacqueline Dragon Cell: (551) 795-6311

njdsecretarydragon@gmail.com

Treasurer !

Daniel McCormack Cell: (732) 757-8551

njtreasurermccormack@gmail.com

Editor !

Patrick Quinn Cell: (908) 635-9075

njeditorpatquinn@gmail.com

Lieutenant Governor of Division 9 !

Tara Engelken Cell: (908) 601-2367

tengelken.ltg.div9@gmail.com