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Transcript of January Newsletter
PAGE 1 A Message From Your Bulletin Editor
PAGE 2 Presidential Message Advisor Comments
PAGE 3 2012 Recap
PAGE 4 Cosmic Bowling
PAGE 5 LTG Elections
PAGE 6 Library of Love Toy/Food Drive
PAGE 7
Highest Service Hours PAGE 8
Contact Information
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Presidential Message
Advisor Comments
With only three months left until District Convention (and the rest of this Key Club year) there is so much left to be done! This month is all about fundraising. Coming up on January 20th is one of my favorite social events-- our annual Cosmic Bowling night. I can't wait to spend a night bowling with some of my favorite people, my fellow key clubbers! We also have consession stands at the basketball games and play showings. For the first time, our club is participating in a cookie dough fundraiser! All of our efforts this month will go to club scholarships and more fun activities! Coming up are a new event and an old event with a twist! This February our club will be putting on a "fun night" for all of the k-kids in Bloomfield. The night will be filled with fun festivities for the youngsters! For several years, the BHS Key Club has organized a Volleyball Marathon to raise money for the Tomor-row's Children's Fund. This year, we decided to change things up a little bit by making our Volleyball Marathon an All Sports Marathon which will include volleyball, basketball, badmitten, and soccer competitions! As usual the marathon will also include Just Dance, free food, and open gym as well! With so much to do and so little time, I am looking forward to a Key Club packed winter! Last month, a tragedy occurred in the Newton community when several young students and staff members at Sandy Hook Elementary School where killed in a mass shooting. From our community to theirs, the BHS Key Club is doing all that it can to help ease the pain of such a tragic event. The first meeting after the holiday break, our club came together and made snowflakes to send to the new school all the Newton students would be returning to. In hopes of creating a lighter and happier atmosphere, these snowflakes will decorate the school in a "winter wonderland." Our club is also participating in the "Library of Love" project, a children's book drive to send to the new school. Part of the drive is also sending Valentine Day cards to the children. Though only time can heal this broken community, love and support from other communities like ours can assure the people of Newton that they are not alone.
The Key Club has been busy for the past two months organizing a multitude of activities, including community service and social events. Throughout the month of December, we held three drives (coats, food, & toys) to support our com-munity. We were shocked to find out that someone from the Turtle Back Zoo called our school to find out if we were doing a toy drive. Apparently, their organization collected a large amount of toys and decided to donate them to our toy drive. All of these toys were distributed to children in our own community who are less fortunate. This made our toy drive a huge success! Member Induction night was also in December. Students received their pins and certificates which signified their induction into our club. We hope everyone had a great time and are proud to be officially in-ducted into Key Club! January is shaping up to be a busy month too with a variety of club fundraisers! We have basketball concessions for
th we are taking over the lanes at Brunswick Zone in Belleville for a night of Cosmic Bowling! Admission is $20 at the door and all are welcome. This is a huge fundraiser for our club so be sure to attend. The last fundraiser this month is selling cookie dough! Please make sure you pick up a packet from the Key Club office and start selling now!! Anyone interested in going to District Convention will be able to reduce their cost based on the number of containers sold. For more details, please see one of the advisors. Finally, I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of you for the hard work so far this year. I know life gets busy at times but we still have plenty of service opportunities available for you to reach your 20 hour requirement. We hope that you continue to attend meetings and sign up for the variety of service projects that are available. If you have any questions, do not hesitate to contact one of the officers or advisors!!
Key Club 2012 Recap!
Haunted House from scratch inside of Bloomfield High school to serve as a means of entertainment for younger children and older kids alike. This event took many hours and days to plan, organize, and finally decorate the Hallways to make it as scary as possible. It really was that scary! We also advocated
Elementary Schools and the money raised by these donations were ultimately donated to the Eliminate Project. Aside from working in operations for great causes, we also conduct traditional Community Service and we did just that by serving our Senior Citizens a day before Thanksgiving. Just like our
-our sense of care and love by serving food to the elderly, by sharing our friendships with them, and proving to them that many kids are still capable of executing selfless acts for the welfare and joy of
from the Key Club. With over 200 members that are part of this wonderful Organization, the President of
was present in the auditorium on that day and handed them an authentic certificate verifying that the student is a Member of one of the most prospec-tive Organizations in the World. It was most cer-tainly a monumental night for all members, the board, and for our amazing, ardent, and devoted advisor: Mr. Cappello. The ceremony was a success
2012 year. Of course, the past is the past and it remains in the past. Nothing from the past should linger in the present unless it is positive, and on that note 2013 has begun stronger than ever. The Key
upcoming events that will promptly come in the future and a fellow Bloomfield Key Clubber has been elected as Lieutenant Governor for the upcoming year. The Key Club of Bloomfield has prevailed and will continue to prosper in future years due to the more-than-qualified students who run the board and who serve as general members. The Key Club has brought peace, service, and care to those who have seen brighter days and lifted the hearts of many Bloomfield citizens whose minds were not at peace. Being a part of Key Club is not just working a job, it is a way of life.
Frank Mariscal
2012 brought exciting, yet despondent memories that are continually being reminisced, even after the long awaited New Year. For Bloomfield it was a year filled with tears and misery, but simultaneously with merry optimism. The tragic and unforgettable death of our beloved peer and friend: Christina Lembo, truly debilitated our hearts, but at the same time strengthened the spirit of our community. An ordinary and humdrum town has now transformed into an exemplary model of an ideal community; forged with the bonds of love, compassion, and camaraderie. Amongst the heart-stricken and the recuperating citizens of Bloomfield there was a special, and a unique group whose main objective
Key Club Chapter from Bloomfield was indubitably one of the most virtuous Organizations which helped animate the spirits of our citizens through selfless Community Service acts, showing our integrity in whatever we may do, and simply by exhibiting a positive attitude. There were many distinguishing and successful
throughout this past year, and none of them in-volved the production or even the confabulation of keys! First and foremost, we carried out a donation service so that all the money that was donated to us would be sent to the Lembo family so that we could help out with their financial troubles and whatnot. On another note, there was also an event that was hosted by the Key Club, and was sponsored by the
cancer will not stop their way of life, and it quickly became an overnight community fundraising walk. Not only were cancer survivors honored at one point but there was awesome music in the background as we walked around the huge circle many times, whilst metaphorically standing up against cancer. Another
Key Club was the Eliminate Project; whose objective was to join forces with UNICEF and to eliminate maternal and neonatal tetanus which is a deadly disease that is plaguing and stealing the lives of nearly 60,000 innocent babies plus a significant number of women each year. Vaccines, syringes, safe storage, and transportation are required in order to eliminate MNT from various countries in the world. The Key Club organized a number of fun and memo-rable events which served as fundraisers directed
have raised a lot of money for this benevolent and charitable cause. An event that was successfully
Cosmic Bowling
Greetings fellow Key Clubbers! I hope that all of you enjoyed your holidays and are well adjusted to the new year. It is hard to be-lieve that the school year is almost over! However dread because there is still lots to do for Key Club, which means that there is still a lot more fun to have. As many of you are aware, Cosmic Bowling is being held on the 20th of this month at Brunswick Zone in Belleville, NJ from 9 pm to midnight.
Invite your friends to
come and enjoy a night of bowling with Key Club. Having gone to Cosmic Bowling for the past two years, I highly recommend attending and sharing a great night filled with lots of fun with all your friends. You get to bowl with your friends and fellow Key
Clubbers until midnight and then, it gets better, we have no school the next day! The sign up sheets for Cosmic Bowling are on the bulletin board in the Key Club office. Come in dur-ing your lunch or after school to sign up. Make sure to sign up before the actual event, but you have to pay at the door. This a major fundraiser for Key Club so come with friends and have fun!
Manny Diaz Historian
LTG Elections
Hello Bloomfield! I hope everyone has had a great new year, and I wish you a fabulous twelve months of 2013. Recently at Nutley High School, we held our Lieutenant Governor Elections for 2013-2014. Though this is an extremely bittersweet moment, I am proud to an-nounce that our new LTG is none other than your home club's Eliza-beth Wallace. With her amazing speech and extremely contagious per-sonality, Liz won over several votes within the division. I am positive that she will bring me and our division much pride in the upcoming months. Luckily I still have a few more months in this wonderful posi-tion so buckle up, cause I promise that this service year will end with a bang! I have a few more divisional events up my sleeve, so definitely look out for those.
On another note, in just a few months, we have our 67th District Convention coming up! The theme this year is spectacular as we go back in time to the 20's! With flappers and Gatsby, I am so excited for the fun that awaits us all in April at Ocean Hotel and Spa so get in con-tact with President Katelyn on all the information for registration. I promise fun dances, amazing awards, cool competitions and fabulous people who have at least one thing in common with you: Key Club! It's going to be the best weekend ever, so you better keep your calendar free.
It's time for me to head back to my homework, but I hope to inform you all soon with new divisional events! Congratulations Liz, I'm so proud.
Yours in Service and Caring,
Ashna Bhatia
Library of Love: Sandy Hook Elementary
Christmas Toy/Food Drive
The Key Club has started a new project called Library of Love.
Hook Elementary School. The students have been moved to a new school building and need books to fill their bookshelves. Donations are being collected in a box on the table directly across from the Key Club office. In addition, in the coming weeks we will also be sending Valen-
Elizabeth Wallace Sophomore Class Director
of the month, as our monthly service project, we had a food and toy drive. These contribu-tions were to be delivered to the children and different families around town. A lot was collected through this process and we hope to definitely keep this up in the future. This project was a huge success and we would like to thank everyone who contributed the needy families. Your donations were greatly appreciated by the families and I hope that you will continue to serve the needy in our special town of Bloomfield.
Later in the month of December, our Key Club had a toy drive. These toys were also be-ing sent to the needy kids around town as a special Christmas gift from us. We would like to thank Turtle Back Zoo for their generous donations for our toy drive. We hope to have another toy drive in the future and hopefully you will continue to donate your new toys to
greatly appreciated. Most of all; we would like to thank our very own Key Clubbers for re-membering our community and the needs that we all have to fulfill. To make the world and especially Bloomfield a better place.
LJ Mckenzie Junior Class Director
What Coming up?
Keep your eyes open to sev-eral events coming up soon. Concessions will be going for the next couple of months
ketball games. It is an easy way to get hours without and strenuous work required. We also have the K-Kids Fun Nigh on February 22nd, where the K-Kids will come to the highschool to play several
us to join Key Club when they go to the high school.
School. Every year, we hold a Volleyball Marathon and de-cided this year to hold an All Sports Marathon where there will be competitions in soccer volleyball, basketball, and bad-minton.
Outstanding Members of 2012
Congrats on the following general members who having the most amount of hours in the club to this point. Remember, there is still time to in-crease your hours so do not feel discouraged!
Rosalyn Feliciano: 28.5 hours Alana Navarro: 27.5 hours
Ryan Zayas: 26 hours Frank Mariscal: 23.5 hours
President Katelyn Feliciano [email protected] Vice President Nicholas Porcelli [email protected] Vice President Zachary Zayas [email protected] Secretary Grace Fucci [email protected] Treasurer Joel Shaji [email protected] Bulletin Editor Nicholas Acuna [email protected] Scrapbook Editor Jenny Villanueva [email protected] Lieutenant Gov. Division 17 Ashna Bhatia [email protected]
Nicholas Acuna
Katelyn Feliciano
Lou Cappello
Frank Mariscal
Manny Diaz
Ashna Bhatia
Elizabeth Wallace
LJ Mckenzie
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KEY CLUB FACTS
Key Club Interna-tional is the oldest and largest service program for high school stu-dents. It is a student-led organization that teaches leadership through serving others. Members of Key Club, also part of the Ki-wanis International family, build them-selves as they build their schools and com-munities.
The Key Club colors consist of blue for unwavering charac-ter, gold for service, and white for purity.
The core values of Key Club International
acter Building, Caring,