the more rewarding and fun it will be.If you cannot come to a meeting, don’t worry. Info is always posted on our website, or feel free to contact one of the officers and get caught up.

COMMUNITY SERVICE There are a number of things that our club does every year, from Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF and the holiday Toy Drive to Relay for Life. Also, after every meeting you can volunteer at the Mt. Si Helping Hands Food Bank in North Bend for two to three hours. We love to start new projects, too, so if you have a cause you want to support or a fundraising idea, or both, or just want to help someone else with their idea, let us know! Key Club is about the members.

Key NotesVolume 2 Issue 1

Mount Si High School Key Club Division 28 Pacific Northwest District

Key Club 101So, you made it to your first Key Club meeting. Congratulations! You know we do community service, but you still have a lot of questions. Here are some answers.

MEETINGSWe meet every Wednesday in Mr. Dockery’s room, 121, from about 2:30 to about 3:30. Some meetings are shorter and some are longer, and if you stay for the bulletin board (You should! It’s fun! We need you!) or another extra activity, that will take an extra fifteen to forty-five minutes, depending on what it is.You are free to sit with your friends, but please don’t talk the whole time; it helps the meeting go faster. Do raise your hand to volunteer and to share your ideas, the more energy you put into Key Club

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Relay for Life............2

Meet Your Officers....3

Challenge Day..........3

Key Club Cheer........3

Upcoming Events……3

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Relay For Life

This year’s Key Club Relay teams raised about $7,000 for the American Cancer Society. That’s not quite what we raised last year, but it was still an impressive accomplishment earned through lots of hard work. Next year, we will raise even more!

WHY RELAY?Joining a Relay for Life team is a great way to get to know a lot of different Key Club members, have fun, and most of all, help end cancer and celebrate more birthdays! The American Cancer Society supports cancer research, detection, treatment, education, and services to patients, survivors, and families. Relay is one of

the ACS’s biggest fundraisers, and has raised more than $3 billion dollars to fight cancer since 1986.

SIGN ME UP!Becoming part of Relay is easy. Fundraising usually starts in December or January for the coming July, and you can register online. If you’re looking for a leadership role, be a team captain! It’s an important and rewarding job, and our 2011 captains, Jenny Green and Sarah Tracy, would be there to help. On the day of Relay, everyone converges on Centennial Field in Snoqualmie. Each team has someone on the track at all times, from late

afternoon to the following morning, because cancer never sleeps. Various ceremonies celebrate survivors, honor those lost to cancer, and inspire everyone to keep on fighting. Key Clubbers can be found listening to the concerts by local bands, playing cards and eating snacks in our tent, or, of course, walking! For more information:www.cancer.orgwww.relayforlife.orgwww.snovalleyrelay.org

FOOTBALL GAMESKey Club sells cotton candy at all home football games as a club fundraiser. If you have your food handler’s permit, you can help make the cotton candy itself, but even without it, you can help in other ways! Contact an officer for more information.

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UPCOMING EVENTS

Meet Your OfficersLynell SolenepresidentHeidi DeHartvice-presidentMolly MabelsecretaryLandon StorrudtreasurerJenny GreenwebmasterRiley EdwardseditorBrynn Davisrecycling coordinatorJewell Dockery and Rachel WachtendonkphotographersJoe Dockerystaff advisorDave HumphreyKiwanis advisor

The Key Club CheerHey Key Clubbers, how do you feel?

We feel good!Oh, we feel so good! (Uh!)Double it up! (Uh, uh!)Triple it up! (Uh, uh, uh!)One long uh! (Uuuuh!)Rapper style! (Uh-uh-uh-uh-uh.)

If you go to DCON or another big Key Club event, be prepared to yell this at the top of your lungs along with many other enthusiastic Key Clubbers. The division with the most spirit wins the Spirit Stick (and a year of bragging rights), so learn the cheer and yell it loud!

On July 16th, smiling children from around the Eastside gathered to race gravity cars down a hill in Issaquah. The kids all had something in common- developmental disabilities- but they didn’t let that stop them from having a great time.Their time at Challenge Day was made even more fun by the Key Club booth which provided face painting and a game where the kids fished for prizes.

This wonderful event was introduced to the Key Club by Abby Conrad, who has been helping at Challenge Day for several years and wanted to get more people involved. Through her planning and frequent reminders and announcements, the ideas came together

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