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VARINA K.C. NEWS Volume 1, Issue 8 April 2014

INSIDE THIS ISSUE

1 Message from ME!

1 Upcoming Events/DCON Snap

2 Eliminate/DCON pics

3 Ruritan/Miscellaneous

4 Reminders/ Key Leader

5 Finale

April Showers bring May

Flowers Karina Calderon, Editor

Message

Varina Key Club.

Winter is gone and Spring is amongst us!

No more delays, snow days, or unwanted icy roads

that keep you in the house; it’s time for some fun in

the sun!

Now that the weather won’t be a problem

anymore, we’re going to have more time to some

service projects and actually have fun without

having to wear 5 layers of clothing.

We’ve been having a very good member

participation rate and I hope to keep that up. Key

Club isn’t just about gaining hours for a seal on

your diploma, it’s about having fun while you’re

helping out others who sometimes can’t help

themselves. As the school year is coming to an

Upcoming Events Some upcoming events that we’re going to be working on

- Golden Anniversary Dinner, April 12th

- Ruritan Dinner , April 17th @ 5:30

- Big Feet Meet, April 22nd

- Exceptional Education Prom, May 3rd

o Theme: Red Carpet, if you have

any props, let us know!

- Relay for Life, May 17th

- Elections

- Inductions

A snap from DCON, including, from L-R,

Holly Love, LTG from Thomas Dale district, Sydney Taylor, Kaitlin Douglass, and Jessie

Bowman.

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end, I hope that all of you are able to look in the

mirrors and see a change in yourselves, a bigger

and better person, and hopefully you have Key

Club to thank! I know I’ve changed since

September of my freshman year. We’re all a little

family now, keep up the good work!

I also want to thank the entire club who

are dedicated to serving in Key Club, and who

attend the meetings and majority of the events.

You keep us strong!

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ELIMINATE

As you all know, ELIMINATE is Key Club’s biggest project, and the

time where you hear about it most is sometime in the fall, but that doesn’t mean you have to stop thinking about it! There is always a time to act, and

that time is NOW!

The District Board of the Capital District of Key Club International set

up a goal of raising $68,000 as a district for the Eliminate Project by

the time of District Convention (which just past), and it turns out that we raised, just over $70,000, now if

that isn’t something to celebrate about, I don’t know what is! It was from the dedication from all of our members that were able to meet our goal and go above and beyond our

calling.

- On another bright note, Varina raised $1,000 towards Eliminate, kudos to us!

DCON has come and gone, I hope for all that went that they enjoyed themselves and got to see what Key Clubbers are all about! Here are a few pics, courtesy of some of our members, from the trip!

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We had a great turnout at the Ruritan dinner on March 20th, I’d like to thank everyone who attended, and your work hasn’t gone unnoticed because we got a donation of $200! Keep it up!

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The Golden Anniversary Dinner is coming up and I would absolutely love if everyone participated! It’s one of my favorite events to do and it just makes you feel right. Also called the 50th anniversary dinner, this is when couples that have been married for 50+ years join in a church to have dinner, cake, view pictures of them and also listen to a live band. As volunteers, we are to help pass out food/beverages and then help to clean up afterwards, you also get to eat, so please sign up! You get to see the faces of real love that is still going strong to this day!

On May 3rd, the Exceptional Education prom is occurring, although last year was fun, this year, we want to make it even better! The theme you ask? RED CARPET; glitz and glam, so if any of you fantastic members have any props that you would feel go great with our theme, let us know, we can use all the stuff we can get! We’re trying to make this prom the best one yet.

The Big Feet Meet, sort of like the Olympics for our special education students is taking place April 22nd, and we’ve been asked to help! It is from 9:30am- 1pm, at Sports Backers Arena, in Richmond.

Basically, we’ll just be a buddy for the students that are participating.

Just a friendly FIY, Varina is no longer in division 4C anymore, we are now 11B, I know this is kind of a big change, but it’s alright! That doesn’t change who we are .

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REMINDERS:

- If you would like to run for a position

in office, be sure to let that be known!

Applications will soon be out for

those who would like to run

- Got any fundraising or service project

ideas? Don’t hesitate to let us know,

we’re always looking for new ways to

help out!

- T-shirt ideas!! If you have any t-shirt

ideas, create one and show it to an

advisor/ and or officer!

Key Leader What is it/When…

Key Leader is a weekend leadership education

program, sponsored by Kiwanis. It’s for high

school students who are looking to gain concepts

of service leadership and the five principles:

integrity, growth, respect, community and

excellence.

The weekend is causal and includes hands-on

exercises; writing and reflection activities;

cooperative, team activities; physical challenges

and more.

For more information, or to sign up, go to

www.key-leader.org.

There will be a Capital District Key Leader

event in the Jamestown 4-H Center in

Williamsburg, Va, May 2-4, 2014.

Below, you can see a picture from the Oct. 2013 Key Leader event in Front Royal, VA.

Courtesy of, www.capitalkeyclub.org/key-leader.html

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That’s all for this month, I hope you all enjoyed our little update on the newsletter; nothing wrong with a little change .

Have a great month of April. Yours truly,

Karina Calderon, Editor.

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