Key Club News

Colebrook Academy Key Club

February

“Caring—Our Way of Life”

Editor’s Note                

Well, I hope everyone enjoyed their February vacation.  I sure appreciated the break from all the hectic activities with school and Key Club.  This newsletter is reporting on the month of February and all the activities we have done.  The biggest news for this month was that the board finally finished the Every 15 Minutes project by doing the community night.  I was very pleased with the turnout from the community, Kiwanis, and the parents.  I have written a full report on this event and I hope everyone enjoys hearing about it. 

                                                                                                        Kimberly Lyons

Board of Directors

President:  Kyle Robidas

Vice President:  Kayla Soucy

Secretary:  Erika Brooks

Treasurer:  Amy Fothergill

Editor:  Kimberly Lyons

Chairman:  Emily Freedman

Lt. Governor:  Paul Tarkelson

Every 15 Minutes Community Night

             When we did the Every 15 Minutes project in November we always knew that at some point later in the year, the Key Club would put together an event to show this project to the parents and community.  The hard part was trying to find a date for this night.  With everything so hectic around Christmas and then mid-terms it didn’t get done but the board found a date that worked.  On February 13 we put together a great evening for anyone who attended. 

The evening started with a brief opening explaining what the projects was and the events surrounding it.  Then the first dvd was shown which was the whole accident scene on the front lawn but we did not show the entire video because it would have taken too long.  The next video shown was Bobby’s trip to jail.  After these two videos the board wanted to thank different people and groups that helped us with the project.  These people and groups included the ambulance crew, fire department, jail, police department, Valerie Rella, Ms. McGuire, John Falconer, Mr. Brooks, Mr. Mills, and the Country Club.  After the thank you more video footage was shown.  The next dvd shown was the injured students going to the hospital which was followed by the dvd of the trial scene Friday morning.  Following all of this Bobby Gooch got up and read the speech he had written that he had read to the students at the trial.  As a whole the evening was a success and questions were answered throughout the evening.   

Reminder: 

             Anyone who is signed up to do pages for our scrapbook needs to work on those pages so that the scrapbook can be done in time for convention.  Also anyone who is going to convention remember that you must have your 30 hours, 15 meeting, and 2 Kiwanis meetings before convention in order to attend. 

 Winter Carnival

             This year our Key Club again helped at the Winter Carnival putting together  the cardboard sled race.  For those who don’t know about it, the cardboard sled race is when kids design colorful and creative sleds out of cardboard boxes and race them down a hill.  Prizes are awarded on creativity, fastest sled, and so on.  Next year we are hoping that the sled race is organized better with better communication between those involved but it went off okay this year.  In other news at the winter carnival representatives from our club won the Bocce tournament and the canoe race. 

Key Club Pledge

I pledge, on my honor,

to uphold the objects of Key Club International; to build my home, school, and community; to serve my nation and God; and combat all forces which tend to undermine these institutions. 

Upcoming Events: 

Þ March 2—second hand smoke meeting

Þ March 11—Samantha Skunk project day

Þ April 1, 2, and 3—Key Club District Convention

Þ April 13—Kick Butts Day

Major Emphasis Report:

     We finally have a date to do the Samantha Skunk project for the kids at school.  Samantha Skunk is for grades K-2 and we will also be doing some other projects with the older students.  At our last major emphasis meeting we brainstormed different activities to do with the older grades and got ideas like Smoking Sue, questionnaires, pre-test, post-test, games, and the aging machine.  The projects we do and how many we do still depends on the grant.