september jet jargon: kiwin's newsletter

C a l - N e v - H a D i s t r i c t K I W I N ’ S

The Jet Jargon

Official JET Division Newsletter September Issue

elcome back to school, manatees!

How was your first month back at school?! Underclass-

men, I hope you’re making memories. Juniors, good luck for the

remainder of the year! It gets better! And seniors, battling off

that senioritis yet? However old you are, we have the rest of the

year together so thank you for making the start of it so exciting!

I can barely contain my enthusiasm after hearing about

your awesome Club Rush stories. You guys had so many crea-

tive ideas, and I was truly impressed to see all your photos and

how you got everyone involved. You make me a proud LTG, and

if this is how good of a start you guys have, I can’t wait to see

the numbers you bring to Fall Rally South in November :) but be

sure to keep up the hard work and welcome all those new mem-

bers so we can be the best division out there ;)

I’m editing this right now to add that I just got back from a

school day with LQ’s Club Rush… my voice makes me sound

like a man after yelling “pump it up” ten billion times. But it was

definitely worth it. It feels so good to be cheering again!! Now

that school has begun, we can finally get down to new business

such as first meetings, first events, first socials, and first

cheers!!! Get pumped up, manatees, the party’s just begun! With love,

Halena Ngo

Jet Lt. G. 2013-2014

Hello from Halena Ngo! TABLE OF CONTENTS

Spotlight on...………………pg.2 Jet T-Shirt………...….……..pg.3 Important Dates/News...…...pg.4 Club Rush………….....…….pg.5 Reminders&Events…………..pg.6 Jet Movie Night Recap………pg.7 What’s Up In Jet Division…pg.8/9 Manatee/Club Project of the Month..……………………pg.10 Monthly Hours………….…pg.11 Contact Info…….………….pg.12

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Spotlight on... Your International Trustee Avery Hitchcock!


Hey Jet Division! I would like to take the time to introduce myself! My name is Avery Hitchcock. I’m a senior at University High School in Greeley, Colo-rado. I’m a host at the Olive Garden, a proud Directioner, and student body president. But most importantly, I’m a Key Clubber and this year I have the pleasure of representing YOU, the California-Nevada-Hawaii KIWIN’S District, on the Key Club International Board as your Interna-tional Trustee! KIWIN’S is such an amazing part of Key Club International! It’s high spirited, fun, and filled with so many caring people! I am so lucky to be a part of the KIWIN’S Ohana for the coming year and believe that we have an amazing year ahead! Throughout the course of the year, I hope to help bridge the gap between the International, District, and Club levels of Key Club. I strive each and every day to be an available and involved trustee, and not only a trustee, but a friend. If you ever need someone to talk to about any-thing, whether it be college, high school, KIWIN’S, friends, family – you name it, I’m here for you. My main goal is to be your friend. In order to do this, I’m asking you, the members of KIWIN’S, to give me that opportunity. Find me on Facebook, follow me on Twitter, do something to help me connect with you! I’m here to serve you, to repre-sent you, to allow your voices to be heard on the International Board. However, in order for that to happen, I need to have the chance to hear what you want to say. Feel free to contact me at any time! My email is [email protected] and my phone number is (970)373-7881. Do not hesitate to text, call, facetime, or email me with any ques-tions, or if you just want someone to talk to! Thank you for taking the time to read this and I hope we have a wonderful year of service to-gether! Stay KIWINStastic!

Avery Hitchcock

Key Club International Trustee 2013-2014

Be sure to join

the Sister Dis-tricts Facebook

group!! Search us up:

Sister Districts: Souhwest,

KIWIN’S, and Missouri-

Arkansas!

mailto:[email protected]

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JET HAS A SHIRT!! Congratulations to the winner Monique Nguyen, and

thank you for the beautiful design!!!

Enjoy your free t-shirt, Monique!

JET KIWIN’S! Jet T-shirts are now on pre-sale. Talk to your presidents now to be on the pre-sale

list and get this awesome design for only $10!!!

Wear it to club events, divisional events, district events, school, sleep, dates, showers, EVERYWHERE!! :)

PRE-ORDER NOW FOR $10!!


Welcome, OCSA!

Hey KIWIN’S, know what it means to be paying dues? Every year, Kiwanis collects a $13 membership fee from every KIWIN’S member. You are NOT official until you pay your membership, as well as the according papers!! Officers, remember to enforce those dues, and general members, get those dues paid so you can get your hours!

Important Dates

If you start to see some new faces around this autumn, don’t be surprised! The rea-

son for them is well, because the new school year has started so there are new

members… BUT also because Jet is nearly finished with chartering a KIWIN’S club at Orange County School of the Arts!! So please give them a warm welcome and make them at home in our Jet KIWIN’S

family! :D (Pstt.. And they would be pretty awesome at the DCON talent show too, if

you know what I mean!)

October 15th – Youth Opportunities Fund applications are due.

October 31st – Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF! Proceeds help benefit

our international service project, Project: ELIMINATE!

November 1st – Early Bird Dues deadline

November 4th-8th – KIWIN’S Week

December 1st – Regular Dues deadline


Club Rush: PUMP THAT SPIRIT UP! I am so proud of all that you have done for the start of a new school year. Here are some spotlights from this year’s Jet powerhouses. Here’s to many more loud, wild, and fun-filled

Club Rushes!!

La Quinta ↑ ↓ Los Amigos

Edison ↑ ↓ Fountain Valley

↓ Segerstrom

↑ Marina

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KIWIN’S Training Conference/November DCM: November 16th @ OCC.

Make sure to mark the date on your calendars for this fun-filled conference which contains ice-breakers, enjoyable workshops, and more!

Jet Spirit Night: November 22nd @TBA. Freshen up on your KIWIN’S

cheers, Jet manatees! We’re going to pump that spirit up and crank out new cheers to make sure the Spirit Stick is OURS!

Fall Rally South: November 23rd @ Knott’s Berry Farm Independence

Hall. IT’S THE UNBELIEVABLE, INDESCRIBABLE PEP RALLY OF THE YEAR!! Save the date, KIWIN’S! Do it for #ptp!

All of the forms (ARFs& MRFs) are due BY OCTOBER 1ST. Don’t be late, or Halena won’t give you candy on Halloween :’(

Send your nominations for September Project & Manatee of

the Month to [email protected]! They are due OCTOBER 1ST! Do you have any ideas for divisional events? A service event that you would really like Jet division to

attend? A project that you think we should try to take on? Send your suggestions to Miribel Tran at [email protected]!

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Jet Movie Night Recap


HUGE THANKS to all the attendees at Jet’s Movie Night and DCM on August 18th! The Jet Divisional Team and I really appreciate that you came out to support our first (and

hopefully the first of many) divisional movie nights and also to support our clubs in buy-ing their food! The day would not have been possible without your generosity, and from

what I’ve seen, y’all are ready and pumped up for our theme this year. Remember to keep spreading the news and incorporating Toy Story into your activities this year!

AWESOME TURN-OUT!! THAT BLANKET OF ME CRYING IS CRYING TEARS OF JOY :’)

And if you missed out on the movie screening, selfies in onesies, chilling on blan-kets, and munching on delicious food, be sure to come to next year’s! Who knows

what the theme will be then? (Hopefully not The Conjuring!!)


Wassup in Jet Division! On Saturday, August

17th, Marina KIWIN'S

volunteered for Kiwanis's

Ribs, Pigs, Watermelon &

BBQ event. Starting our

shift at 11 AM, members

spread out to help set up

booths for the men and

women who would cook for eager and hungry customers. All of

the money raised went to the "poor, homeless, and low income

people by offering housing" for them to live in. Members also

handed out fliers, picked up trash in site restoration, and

checked in other volunteers during their time at the busy event.

Overall, Marina KIWIN'S and other clubs had a great time volun-

teering.

-Austin Nguyen, Marina KIWIN’S President

On August 26th, Edison KI-WIN’S decided to volunteer at the Huntington Beach Public Library. Members of the club helped out by shelv-ing books. There were a plethora of books that were on the carts, and the librari-ans were in desperate need of help that day. Together, we pre shelved countless amounts of books by orga-nizing and alphabetizing them according to the section they belong in. After we completed that task, we then rolled out the cart filled with books and placed them in their appropriate locations.

-Vanna Hoang, Edison KIWIN’S Vice President

La Quinta KIWIN’S, and a

couple of other KIWIN’S

clubs (Marina & Los Ami-

gos), volunteered at the 4th

Annual Taste of Westmin-

ster held at the Westmin-

ster Civic Center. Mem-

bers who attended the morning shift were in charge of setting-

up the canopies, tables, chairs, and restaurant signs! The sur-

plus amount of members quickened up the setting-up process.

At around noon, the second shift members arrived and were in

charge of manning the kids’ booth, refilling the trash bins, and

passing out food to festival goers! After the event concluded,

everyone packed up their booths and broke down the canopies,

chairs, and tables. La Quinta KIWIN’S members also enjoyed

the various amounts of food at the event, which was a huge

plus! It was a long day filled with food, laughter, manual labor,

and photos.

-Jessica Tran, La Quinta KIWIN’S Vice President

On the bright and sunny morning of August 24th, the

highly anticipated event, Summer Palooza had finally

arrived. This event was

a combination of a

general meeting and a

social! Many upcoming

freshmen who were

planning to join the

KIWIN'S Ohana went

as well. The first ice-

breaker was the name

game. This icebreaker allowed everyone to learn each

person's name quickly. Each member had to say their

name, what grade they were in, favorite color, and then

name everyone before them. Penny Wars was after.

Some of the money raised during Penny Wars was do-

nated between Live 2 Learn, PTP, and Project Elimi-

nate. the hunt. neared, the general meeting was called

to order. Members got to see what their club was up to

and were able to hear what their board was planning to

make this year great.

-Angela Nguyen, Fountain Valley KIWIN’S Publicist


Wassup in Jet Division! On the cold, Friday morning of

August 9, Marina KIWIN’S

members gathered at their

designated volunteer meeting

place before getting to work.

Volunteering at the wetlands

has become a staple for the

club, but this event is the first time the club has met at a different

part of the wetlands. Members were asked to shovel small

squares in the mud in order to rehabilitate the wetlands through

reintroducing endangered plant-life. The plants that were being

reintroduced would serve as homes for the equally endangered

Belding Savannah Swallow, indigenous to only the West Coast.

Although it was very early, members worked diligently, with as

few breaks as possible, in order to get as much planting done

before the tide rose.

–Austin Nguyen, Marina KIWIN’S President

To start off an incredi-

bly busy month, Seger-

strom started with its

first bake sale of the

year, on Saturday, Au-

gust 3rd, right outside

Albertsons in Fountain Valley. Members brought in

homemade baked goods for us to sell, such as cake-

pops and smore-cookies! Customers going out grocery

shopping at Albertsons stopped by our booth and pur-

chased many of our handmade desserts; several kind

people donated to us without even buying a single thing

after learning about who we are and what we do. Over-

all, it was a great success. Shoutout to Fountain Valley

KIWIN’S for helping out!

-Tony Do, Segerstrom KIWIN’S Vice President

Taste of Westminster is an event in which local restaurants sign up for the event to present their meals for the public. Admissionwas $25 for the pub-lic; volunteers had free admission to the event after their shift ended. Los Amigos KIWIN'S took the morning shift from 6AM to 12PM. At this event, Los Amigos KIWIN’S helped set up cano-pies with other volunteers. We also setup tables, decorations, and brought the right materials to the right canopies.

Overall, Taste of Westminster was a success because the vol-

unteers that signed up from our club enjoyed their time at the

event. Our volunteers learned how hard it was to prepare for a

big event like Taste of Westminster. This event was very fun,

and Los Amigos KIWIN’S will most likely do it again the follow-

ing year.

–David Tran, Los Amigos KIWIN’S Treasurer

This summer

wouldn’t be com-

plete without a

refreshing park

social! La Quinta

KIWIN’S paired up

with our buddy

club, Los Amigos

KIWIN’S on August 25th, 2013 at Mile Square Park for

an interclub park social. It was definitely filled with hot-

dogs, sweet cupcakes and pie, soda, water balloons,

pictures, and memories! Once everyone arrived, we

proceeded to play a couple of ice breakers that included

steal the bacon and ninja! Afterwards we all feasted on

warm hot dogs and baked goods and mingled around

the benches. At one point, we had a water balloon toss

which eventually led to a full on water balloon fight! It

was a great opportunity to bond with our buddy club and

it couldn’t have gone better.

-Jessica Tran, La Quinta KIWIN’S Vice President


CLUB PROJECT OF THE MONTH: Fountain Valley

This month, we did a lot of events with our FV Kiwanis, but this

certain event really takes the cake (or should I say the ice

cream?). Our Ice Cream Social event was held on the 17th of

August alongside FV Kiwanis at the Historical Center inside

Heritage Park. At the event, members helped by cleaning up

the gazebo, setting up the ice cream stand and raking leaves.

When the event started, our members got to work scooping ice

cream and topping it with goodies for the customer. The event

went well for everyone --- both the customers and Kiwanis were

impressed with the volunteers for their sunny dispositions and

great work.

MANATEE OF THE MONTH: Sandy Tsan

When Sandy first joined KIWIN’S, she instantly fell in

love with the people in the club as well as the work that

we do. It’s apparent that she tries her best to come to

every event despite how busy she is during those week-

ends. Sandy has walked to school for events, provided

rides, and even encouraged others to join KIWIN’S. Be-

side being involved with KIWIN’S on a club level, Sandy

also attended the previous divisional events as well! You

can always catch her a DCM, movie night, bonfire, and

of course, Fall Rally. Sandy is never afraid to demon-

strate her love for the club, service, and the people

around her, and that is why she deserves to be recog-

nized as Manatee of the Month.

-nominated by Yenyen Tran, La Quinta President

nominated by Manuel Santiago, Fountain Valley Presidident


Hours

In need of projects? Try these!

Name: OC Walk to Remember 5K

Address: The District at Tustin Legacy (2437 Park Avenue, Tustin, CA, 92782)

Date: October 5th Info: (1-800) 714-9320 - OC Walk to Remember takes place in October, which is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness month! Event volunteers participate in various aspects of the event - such as setup, registration, marking the walking route, putting up signs

along the route, and cleaning up after the event. There will be many different ar-

eas volunteers can work at. Name: Paws FUR Pink

Address: Irvine Regional Park (Irvine Park Road, Orange, CA 92869) Date: February 15th, 2014 Info: Register online at http://bookthatevent.com/pawsfurpink

- This 5K walk is not only dedicated to animals, but also raises funds for breast cancer! Volunteers will monitor courses, set up parking, stuff goodie bags, man-age water stations, clean up, and help out with a variety of tasks!

April May June July Au-gust

Sept Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb March Club Total

Edison

— 26 18 54 1 98

Fountain Valley

66 851 717 306 696 1,940

La Quinta

488 814 123 384 782 1,809

Los Amigos

— 38 118 150 136 534

Marina

4 538 204 98 109 844

Seger-strom

142 160 604 145 119 1,051

Monthly Totals

700 2,427 1,784 1,137 1,843 6,276

WE REACHED OUR GOAL OF 1,500!!! 2,000 FOR SEPTEMBER?!

http://bookthatevent.com/pawsfurpink

Jet Regional Advisor Jet Lieutenant Governor


CONTACTS

Halena Ngo La Quinta High School [email protected]

C: (714) 829-6471

Presidents E-mail Addresses Katherine Pham (LA) [email protected]

Yenyen Tran (LQ) [email protected]

Austin Nguyen (Marina) [email protected]

Manuel Santiago (FV) [email protected]

Paul Pham(Segerstrom) [email protected]

Sabrina Vuong(Edi) [email protected]

Jasmine Nguyen (Edi) [email protected]

Mindy Pham (OCSA) [email protected]

District website: http://kiwins.org Divisional Reflector: http://jetreflector.tumblr.com

Jet Regional Advisor

Jeff Dimsdale Costa Mesa Kiwanis

[email protected] C: (949)929-1201

Jet Executive Assistant

Diana Du La Quinta High School

[email protected] C: (714) 867-4435

Follow us! Twitter: @cnhkiwins Tumblr: cnhkiwins.tumblr.com Youtube: TheCalNevHaKIWINS

“When the student is ready, the master

appears.” -Buddhist Proverb

Shout out to

the worker from the FV Rec Cen-

ter who helped us hook the lap-

top to the speakers at the

movie night!! LOL

Jet Regional Assistant Advisor

Brett Butler CAYP Kiwanis


Jet Projects Chair

Miribel Tran Marina High School


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