Colebrook Key Club September 2004 Newsletter

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	Key Club News	Colebrook Academy Key Club
		September
		“Caring—Our Way of Life”

Editor’s Note

Well, it’s time for a new school year. I would like to welcome everyone back and extend a special welcome to all incoming freshmen. I hope you have fun in your years at high school. This is my first newsletter as editor for Colebrook Academy Key Club. Through my newsletters I want to let members or even potential members know what our Key Club is up to and what we are doing to help our homes, schools, and communities.

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

What is Key Club?

Key Club is a student led service organization. It teaches leadership through serving others. Here are some facts about Key Club:

Þ The Key Club motto is “Caring—Our Way of Life”

Þ The “Key” in Key Club stands for “Kiwanis Educates Youth”

Þ The first Key Club was founded in Sacramento, California in 1925

Throughout the year we do projects that help our community in some way. This year will be no different we have several different ideas for different projects we can do this year. Also throughout the year we do various fundraisers. We must do fundraisers so that we can have money in order to do the service projects we would like to do. Key Club is not as boring as I make it sound. In doing all our projects and fundraisers we have a lot of fun. There are many reasons to join Key Club. These include:

Þ It gives you a chance to give back to your community.

Þ It looks good on your college applications.

Þ It is really fun.

Þ District Convention in April is a chance to have a lot of fun and meet a lot of other Key Clubbers

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:

· September 25—Ethan Allen appreciation

· September 25—water booth for Dixville Races

· October 20—Induction of New Members

· October 16—KPTI (Kiwanis Pediatric Trauma Institute) tour of facility in Boston

Summer News

Over the summer our club didn’t stop everything we were doing just because we weren’t in school. Even though we only had one summer meeting, our club continued to work on several different projects. Early in the summer, on June 24th we held a Spaghetti dinner for the bicyclists who were going through Colebrook. Also the next morning, on June 25th we held a pancake breakfast for the same group of bicyclists. We have been putting these two events on for the last couple of years and this year was a huge success. The bicyclists enjoyed the food and we made quite a bit of money.

Also during the summer we worked on the Moose Festival by helping to run the dunking booth. The kids really enjoyed dunking people but there was also a line of kids who wanted to be in the dunking booth. They found that to be even more fun than dunking people.

Kimberly Lyons

Joining Information:

If you are interested in joining Key Club please come to our meetings Wednesdays at 7:00 in the Colebrook Academy cafeteria. If you have any questions you can talk to any of the board members listed above. We look forward to seeing you.

Major Emphasis Report:

Our major emphasis project this year is the Samantha Skunk project. It is a project that promotes non-smoking. We will go into the schools and tell kids the dangers of smoking. Right now we are working on getting the help and things that we will need. Soon there will be a committee meeting to start getting things ready and the events planned and in order.