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Summer Edition of the Key WordsTRANSCRIPT
Wow! Can you believe it’s
already summer? The beach,
no homework, hanging out
with friends. Seems like every-
thing is going great, doesn’t it?
However your Key Club Ex-
ecutive Board hasn’t stopped
working since the school year
ended! We’re making sure that
all our members stay active
throughout the summer with
several events going on. Also
keep in mind that the school
year is only a month away so
try to get your friends in-
volved. The opportunities of-
fered from Key Club are end-
less. I want to keep this short
so you can enjoy the rest of the
newsletter. So, have fun with
the remainder of your summer
and remember to attend any
upcoming events!
Your Bulletin Editor
Nicholas Acuna
A Message From Your Bulletin Editor
PAGE 1 A Message From Your Editor PAGE 2 Presidential Message Kiwanis Bulletin PAGE 3 Alex’s Lemonade Stand Founda-
tion PAGE 4 International Convention 2012 PAGE 5 It’s elementary, dear Watson! PAGE 6 K-Family Picnic Member of the Month
TABLE OF CONTENTS
WHAT’S COMING UP
Kiwanis Family Picnic– July 28th Alex’s Lemonade Stand– July 31st Elementary School Help– August
7th-27th First Day of School– September
5th
DID YOU KNOW THAT...
Key Club was founded in Sacramento, California, in 1925? Former U.S. President Bill Clinton, actor Brad Pitt and singer Elvis Presley all were part of Key Club!
P.S. Yes, I am a
huge Toy Story
fanatic.
Key Club is an international
student-led organization which
provides its members with
opportunities to provide
service, build character and
develop leadership.
Summer is a time of relaxation, fun, and community gatherings. With the school year being over one would expect for our club to take a break from its usual activities. However, our commitment to service never goes out of season! This summer the Bloomfield High School Key Club will be holding two major events: an Alex’s Lemonade Stand and a project to beautify our elementary schools.
Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation is a nonprofit organization that focuses on raising awareness about childhood cancer and fundraises for research for cures and treatments. Key Club member Alyssa Torrisi brought the idea to our club to hold a stand on July 31 2012 at the Bloomfield Recreational Department’s annual concert at Brookside Park. While enjoying live music on a warm summer eve-ning, our club will be handing out lemonade for donations in support of Alex’s Lemonade Stand and the fight against childhood cancer.
Key Club International has had a long standing commitment to helping children. Our Major Emphasis slogan is “Children: Their Future, Our Focus.” In accordance with our organization’s prom-ise to help children worldwide, our home club has decided to make recess time a better place for every elementary student in Bloomfield. We first plan to beautify all eight of our elementary schools by planting gardens on each of their sites. Then we hope to encourage the children to be active during recess by painting new games throughout the playground blacktop. Early in the school year, our mem-bers will return to each elementary school and teach the children how to play their new games at re-cess. I’m sure our club will enjoy seeing the result of their hard work when they witness how much the elementary school staff and students appreciate their efforts.
Katelyn Feliciano
Presidential Message
Kiwanis Bulletin
Guidance
The Kiwanis Club of Bloomfield consists of community members who are commit-ted to the preservation of our Key Club to ensure its continued success on both the district and international levels. Kiwanis is the parent organization that sponsors K-Kids, Builders Club and Key Club in the town of Bloomfield. As a member of the Bloomfield Kiwanis club, I have the unique opportunity to be a part of the organiza-tion that sponsors our Key Club. We are currently working on recruiting new members to join Kiwanis so that we continue to provide support to our Key Club. Currently, our club consists of 8 dedi-cated individuals who are working diligently to encourage more people to join. Re-cently we held an interest meeting where former Key Club members came to see how they could help our club grow by becoming members of Kiwanis! It is our goal to be more active in the community through new service projects and to interact more with our sponsored youth clubs. Some of our new ideas for service projects include plant-ing flowers at the elementary schools and working closely with the food bank in Mont-clair. As always we would love to work on these projects together so we hope to see you out there with us! Lou Cappello
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Catch us on Twitter!
@BHSKeyClub
On July 31, at Brookside Park, there is a free concert, sponsored by the township of Bloomfield. During this concert, our Key Club will be hosting an Alex’s Lemon-ade Stand. This foundation raises money to support childhood cancer research. Not only has this founda-tion caught my attention, but the cause also hits close to home. The story behind Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation starts with a 4-year-old girl named Alex Scott. Diagnosed with can-cer at a young age, Alex held a lemonade stand in her front yard, wanting to raise money to help all of the kids suffering from her disease. After her passing, Alex’s family and community built up her idea, into what now is known as the ALSF or-ganization. This young girl’s ambition has helped mil-lions of families all over the
nation, including mine. I joined Key Club as a fresh-man, and I knew that by my senior year we could make it possible to bring back the ALSF project Bloomfield had hosted in the past. I, along with my fellow Key Clubbers, am looking for-ward to the event and am confident we will raise our goal of $750. I encourage everyone to attend the event for some music, lemonade, and the fight against child-hood cancer! Alyssa Torrisi Activities Director
Catch us on Twitter!
@BHS_KeyClub
Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation
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Key Club International Convention 2012
Two of my favorite things in this world are Key Club and Disney World. Now imagine a week straight of BOTH of those! That’s exactly what Interna-tional Convention was. The week started with the group of us taking a van to Philadelphia and spending the night there. We all woke up early the next morning to catch our flight to Orlando with about 50 other Key Clubbers from all over New Jersey. Upon reaching Orlando, we checked into the lovely Dolphin Resort. Over
next three days, we went to every Dis-ney Park. We even got to watch the Fourth of July fireworks in the Magic Kingdom! Everyone had a good time and the week was only half over. After the Disney parks were done, we trans-ferred to a Hilton hotel where the convention would be held. We met
tons of key clubbers from all around the world. There were people from Jamaica, Italy, and many more from different states around the U.S. It was an amazing experience and something that everyone should attend at least once, especially next year. While in Orlando, it was announced that next year’s International Conven-tion will be held in Washington D.C.! It will be an incredible trip that you won’t want to miss. I wish I wasn’t a senior so I could go on the trip!
Nicholas Porcelli
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Key Club It’s elementary, dear Watson!
If you asked the Key Club Board what the best way is to get involved with service this summer, they would respond with Sherlock's famous line: "It's elementary, dear Watson!" and elementary, it is. Our brand new pro-ject for this summer is one that in-volves all of us, all of you, and the Bloomfield elementary schools. We need as many volunteers as possible so if you have some free time in Au-gust, specifically the weeks of August 7th through August 27th, we need your help!
What will you be doing? Well, Watson, you will be bringing the Bloomfield youth joy, educational but entertaining activities, a safe environment to play, and a more beautiful schoolyard. Sounds like a tall order to fill, but in reality it is completely possible to accomplish with only 3 components: volunteers,
some paint and tape, and some interested schools. We have the last two on the list so it is up to the rest of you to help us help the commu-nity by volunteering. We have been requested at four elementary schools already: Berkeley, Oak View, Watsessing, and Demarest. At the schools we will be clean-ing up the blacktops and school-yards and leaving them with new blacktop games painted nicely, and a list of new recess games they can play when they return in the fall. But perhaps the best part of this project is the interaction we will have the students come the fall. Someone has to teach them how to use the new additions, and we all know there is nothing Key Club-bers like better than interacting with others. So once the school year picks up, we will be taking a trip to the elementary schools to spend a recess or two showing them how to play the new games we've brainstormed and playing along with them. Summer service sounds pretty simple now, doesn't it? Elementary, indeed. Grace Fucci
Are you ready to meet other Key Clubbers, Circle-K members, and Kiwanians from all over New Jersey? Then the K-Family Picnic will be perfect for you! This July 28th in Toms River, New Jersey you can have the op-portunity to meet people from the New Jersey District. Al-though it is a far drive from Bloomfield, it is definitely worth the trip. There will be the an-nual Brian C. Kull walk, service projects, delicious food, and a number of activities to partici-pate in! All for an entrance
K-Family Picnic Key Club Major Emphasis
In 1946, Key Club Interna-tional challenged all Key Clubs and members to focus energies on making an international impact. This program still is followed today through the Major Emphasis: “Children: Their Future, Our Focus.”
To fulfill the mission of the Major Emphasis, Key Club International serves children in many ways. Members par-ticipate in the hands-on service initiative, currently The Elimi-nate Project, and fundraise for Key Club International’s part-ner organizations: Children’s Miracle Network, March of Dimes and UNICEF.
Member of the Month
We will be starting something new in our bul-letin newsletters. YOU, as a general member or even extended board member, can have the opportunity to be our member of the month. What exactly do you have to do? Simple, come to events, attend meetings, or go above and beyond than what is required. We want to acknowledge our hardworking mem-bers to the rest of the club. Make yourself known to the Executive Board or if you know someone email me their name! My email is [email protected] if you have any questions. So, good luck to everyone!
fee of $10. Can it honestly get any better? Get a bunch of your friends, hop in a car, and make your way down there. It is located at the Green Island Community Association Clubhouse. Hope many of you have the opportunity to go and have fun!
If you’d like to submit an article, or just have any
suggestions or ideas for future issues of the Key
Words, feel free to e-mail me, Nick Acuna (the Edi-
tor) at [email protected]. Even if you’re
not on the Key Words Staff, you can still have the
ability to write about a Key Club (or unrelated to
Key Club but still re-
lates to service) project
or event, just feel free to
contact me by e-mail!
President Katelyn Feliciano [email protected] Vice President Nicholas Porcelli [email protected] Vice President Bobby Thompson [email protected] Secretary Grace Fucci [email protected] Treasurer Robert Schiller [email protected] Bulletin Editor Nicholas Acuna [email protected] Activities Director Alyssa Torrisi [email protected] Lieutenant Gov. Division 17 Ashna Bhatia [email protected]
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 are “Leadership, Char-acter Building, Caring, and Inclusiveness.”
Nicholas Acuna— “Message From Your Editor,” “K-Family Picnic,” & “Member of the Month.” Katelyn Feliciano—“Presidential Message” Lou Cappello—“Kiwanis Bulletin” Alyssa Torrisi—“Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation” Nicholas Porcelli— “International Convention: Orlando, Florida 2012”