ltg leeann's february newsletter
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February Newsletter
New York District Key Club Division 18
Hello Division Eighteen,
This is LeeAnn Owens, your Lieutenant Governor. There is only one month left in our 2014-15 service year! We all need to work hard to get all of our paperwork in by March 11th and continue fundraising and serving in our communities!
I really hope to see a lot of our clubs at our Leadership Training Conference! Registration is due by March 15th!
My Kiwanis Committee Representative, Mrs. Vail, can be reached at (518)783-6326 or [email protected]. She is a great resource for your advisors, as are your sponsoring Kiwanis Club Presidents. As always, please contact me if there’s ever anything that I can help you with or questions that I can answer!
-LeeAnn OwensTamarac High School ‘15 Division 18 Lt. GovernorPhone: (518)944-6128Email: [email protected]: 615 Farm to Market
Rd. Troy, NY 12180
I. Lt. Governor’s Greeting
II. Upcoming EventsIII. Division GroupsIV. Division Service
SpotlightsV. Divisional
Meeting RecapVI. #67LTC2015VII. The Thirst ProjectVIII.Executive Board
contact info.
II.Upcoming EventsMarch Divisional- Monday/Tuesday March 23rd or 24thThis will be our final divisional for the 2014-15 service year! We’ll be talking about LTC and distributing tickets for the Style for Strength Fashion Show! If any clubs would like to run a service project please let me know!
Leadership Training Conference 2015- March 27th-29thLTC is our New York District Convention. It will be Friday, March 27th- Sunday March 29th. This is the best way to learn from and connect with Key Clubbers from all parts of New York! It will be an unforgettable weekend! Start fundraising now so that you can send a lot of members!
Style for Strength Fashion Show- Saturday, April 21stThis year’s Division 18 large-scale service project will be a fashion show to raise money for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. It will be at the Desmond Hotel on Friday, April 24th from 7:00pm-9:00pm. This is an opportunity to support small businesses in our area. We are having a dessert reception and doing a raffle starting at 7:00 prior to the actual show. We hope to include all clubs in the division so I will be in touch to see how your clubs want to help!
III.Division GroupsApp: The Key Club app is available of the app store and Google Play. It is a great resource! There are new, interesting articles posted on it every week! There is also a tool to track your service projects!Facebook: Facebook is the most effective way to share ideas with other Key Clubbers! Key Clubbers who hold the same position as you are just a click away! We often forget that many of us face similar obstacles. You are one of each other’s greatest resources! Join the Division 18, NYDKC and KCI Facebook groups! There are also groups for individual offices! HOKC: Humans of Key Club is a social media campaign launched in 2014 to highlight the contributions and dedication of individuals in Key Club. They are on Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter, and Instagram. Check them out! You or someone from your club could be featured on HOKC if you send me an idea for an article! State of the District: State of the District emails are Governor Jacob’s way to reach the District as a whole. You can subscribe to them right on the NYDKC site!
IV.Service Spotlights
The Tamarac High School Key Club taped two students to the wall this past week to raise money for the Thirst Project! Wednesday during the girls’ varsity basketball game Governor Jake volunteered and Friday night at the middle school dance sophomore, Aaron Roddy volunteered. At each event students paid $1 per piece of tape. In total we raised $173.00 for the Thirst Project! This project was really easy to plan and to execute! I’d recommend it to anyone. Just make sure that your volunteers use the bathroom first!
Tape a High Schooler to the Wall!
IV.Service Spotlights
Maple Hill High School Key Club recently attended an event called "Jump Rope for Heart" run by the Castleton K-Kids. The event raises money for the American Heart Association, and encourages kids to get active for a few hours after school. At the event, Key Clubbers jumped rope, hula-hooped, and played basketball with the kids. It was great to hang out with them, and see how Key Clubbers can be role models for K-Kids. This was a great K-Family service project!
Jump Rope for Heart
V.Divisional RecapFebruary Divisional
Our February Divisional was held on Saturday, February 21st at Tamarac High School. We had a guest speaker, Evan Wesley, from the Thirst Project! We talked a lot about different fundraisers that you could do within your community to raise money for them. To build a well in Swaziland only costs $12,000! A club or a school could potentially raise enough to build their own well! Evan will be at LTC at the end of the month! We’re pie-ing district officers as a fundraiser for the Thirst Project at LTC so bring extra money!
VI. #67LTC2015Leadership Training Conference 2015
Register for our District Convention by March 15th to ensure your place! This will help your club grow stronger. Your officer elects will learn the skills that they need to make your club’s service year successful! Connect with members before, during and after LTC using the hashtag #67LTC2015! We’ll be doing three fundraisers at LTC. Penny Wars for Kiwanis Pediatric Lyme Disease, a Miracle Minute for Eliminate, and pie-ing district officers for the Thirst Project! Don’t miss out!
VII. Thirst Project T-ShirtsFront
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Almost 1 billion people on our planet don't have access to safe, clean drinking water and proper sanitization. That's one in every eight of us. 4,100 children die every day from diseases caused by contaminated water. That's huge. That's approximately one child every 21 seconds. Over 80% of all global diseases are water-borne and result from drinking contaminated water. These diseases kill more than 2.2 million people every year.
Water. Water is the problem. Water is the solution. It might not cost as much to build and maintain a freshwater well as you think. The average cost for us to build a freshwater well in most developing nations is just $7,800. That means an entire COMMUNITY of people's lives can be forever saved with just $7.8K.All we have to do is reach the water that already exists in aquifers usually only 100-300 feet underground. One well can provide up to 500 people with clean water indefinitely. One well can save lives.
I’m selling T-Shirts as a fundraiser for The Thirst Project. If you or your club would like to buy/sell any please let me know! I’m still working out the details but I need to see what the interest level is before I know how many to order! They should run $10-$12.
VIII. Contact info for the Executive Board
District GovernorJacob Spencer
District SecretaryHeather Farley
District TreasurerAnusha Syed [email protected]
District EditorSharo [email protected]
District WebmasterDanny Qiu
District Executive AssistantTheresa Lin
District Executive AssistantKiera Soloman
VIII. Contact info for the Executive Board
Thank you for reading!
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