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Volume 3 Issue 5

October 2014

Official Newsletter of LaMissTenn District Key Club Board

Spooktacular Service

In this issue! Spooktacular Service

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Fang-tastic Info!

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To-Do List

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Greetings from the

President!

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Boo! It’s Service Project

Time!..………..5

K E Y C L U B

UPCOMING EVENTS!

Division 8A Rally/October 4, 2014/McKinley High School

Divisions 7A and 12 Rally/October 11, 2014/Barbe High School

Divisions 13 and 15 Rally/October 18, 2014/Covington High School

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Ghostly Greetings, LaMissTenn District Board!

Black and orange everywhere, jack-o-lanterns beside doors, and

candy galore-it’s October!

I hope all of you are having a good school year so far and your

football team is scoring W’s!

I enjoyed spending the weekend with you all for our September

Board Meeting! Congrats to Mallory and Vaval for putting together

an awesome kick-off rally. I am proud of all of the work that we

accomplished over the weekend, and I am thrilled to have so many

new additions to the board. Our family keeps growing, and that is

fantastic!

Way to go to Emma for hosting a very energetic Cajun rally! I cannot

wait to visit all of the divisions during this rally season. I know that all

of your hard work will pay off! Keep striving to put together a

wonderful rally because it will all be worth it when you see Key

Clubbers smiling and having an amazing time.

Please continue to read my weekly updates. Until we meet again in

November, the weekly updates will contain important information

regarding planning for NOT.

This October issue of Keeping Tabs includes information for this month

and upcoming events, a greeting from Key Club International

President Maria Palazzolo, and Halloween service projects.

Let me know if you have any questions or if I can assist you in any

way. Have a Happy Halloween! Make your service “spooktacular”

this month!

Yours in Service,

Tabitha Kearns

LaMissTenn District Governor

LaMissTenn Kiwanis

Governor John McKay and I

at Division 4’s fall rally

Keeping Tabs

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Fang-tastic Info!

Dues The Membership Update Center is open for clubs to update their membership and pay dues. District dues are $6.50 and International dues are $7.00. Clubs that submit dues and membership roster forms by November 1, 2014, will receive an Early Bird patch for their club banner. Click here to access the Membership Update Center tutorial. Click here to access the Membership Update Center.

Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF is a great way for your clubs to come together this month! Order Trick-or-Treat boxes for your clubs today. More information about Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF can be found here. All proceeds go to The Eliminate Project.

Online Monthly Report Submission Inform your club secretaries that club monthly reports can now be submitted via the district website.

District Website At your PCMs this month, ask officers for suggestions for the district website. The website needs to be a functional, valuable resource to clubs, so club feedback is needed and greatly appreciated!

To-Do List

“Nothing is impossible. The word itself says ‘I’m possible’!” ~Audrey Hepburn 3

Possible topics for discussion at your upcoming PCM: divisional service project

ideas, suggestions for the district website, fundraising for The Eliminate Project,

submitting club monthly reports, future location(s) for the PCM-online

meetings?

Kaelyn will be contacting committees this month. Committee chairs should

be communicating with their committees and progressing in reaching goals.

newsletters

due

monthly

reports

due

Division

8A Rally

Divisions

7A & 12

Rally

Divisions 13

& 15 Rally

Happy

Halloween!

Divisions

6, 9, &

11 Rally

Exec.

Evals. due

LTG Evals.

issued,

Pres. Ess.

issued

committee

reports due

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Greetings from the President!

Greetings, LaMissTenn Key Clubbers!

It is such an honor to serve you as your Key Club

International President this year! As your International President,

my main job is to lead the International Board, which consists

of me, our Vice President Kevin Zhang, and 11 Trustees.

Our main goal is to ensure that:

1. You and our 270,000 members have the best

experience possible.

2. Your club has the resources necessary to achieve

its full potential.

To do this, our International Board plans to present multiple webinars, twitter

chats, and video updates to connect with members. We also want to increase the

organizations that we work with to increase our name and influence.

Right now, we are focusing on Trick-Or-Treating for UNICEF as we fundraise to

eliminate maternal and neonatal tetanus! This project is one of my passions. We have

the power and possibility to save millions of mothers and their babies from a disease

by paying $1.80. Less than a Starbucks coffee. Less than a pack of gum. Less than a

soda and chips. If we give up one of those items, we have saved LIVES. That idea

motivates me to spread the word constantly to ensure we reach our goal! If you want

to learn more about the project or how to fundraise, please email me!

Thank you for all that you do. Regardless of your position in Key Club (member,

club officer, or district officer), we couldn’t do what we do without your hard work

and passion for changing the world. Thank you for giving up time and energy to

make the world a better place. You motivate me every day.

Yours in service,

Maria Palazzolo

ipmariapalazzolo@gmail.com

Contact Information Tabitha Kearns

Governor

Email:

tabithakearns.lamisstenn@gmail.

com

Hunter Burkhardt

Secretary-Treasurer

Email:

sectreas_hunterburk@live.com

Jean Benoit

District Administrator

Email: jean5benoit@yahoo.com

LaMissTenn District Key Club

www.lamisstennkeyclub.org

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BOO! It’s Service Project Time!

Halloween Service Projects The following projects could be divisional projects! Talk to your clubs about

how you all can serve the community for the month of October!

13 Days ‘til Halloween This is a spinoff of the “12 Days of Christmas”. During the

thirteen days before Halloween, start a “Pay It Forward”

movement in your school or community. You can make a

ghost cut-out called the “Giving Ghost”. Place these cut-outs

on cars or houses of family, friends, and classmates. If you

receive a “Giving Ghost”, you have been challenged to do a

good deed.

Trick or Treat for the Food Bank Instead of going door to door for candy, ask neighbors and

friends for canned goods to donate to the local food bank.

You could also make this a school wide event and collect the

canned goods at school.

LaMissTenn District Board at the September Board Meeting