the squeeze volume 7, issue 1

Table of ConTenTsMessages....................Leadership....................service ....................FeLLowship ...................MeMber recognition ........MeMbership deveLopMent & education ...............Kiwanis FaMiLy ...........divison .....................district ................internationaL ...............MisceLLaneous ...........

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Hi there, Orange Coast College! My name is Christopher Riley and I am serving as your 2016-2017 District Membership Development and Edu-cation Chair! I am a second year at CSU Fullerton and am studying Chemistry and Communications. In my time in Circle K, I have developed a love for service but an even greater love for educating others on the service that we do and developing the members all around me. One thing I am super excited to do this term is get to

JESUS PELAYO

Magic Kingdom Lieutenant Governor

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Messages|Leadereship|service|FeLLowship|MeMber|Md&e|Kiwanis|division|district|internationaL|Misc

Christopher Riley

District Member Development and Education Chair

Hello Pirates! For those of you who may not know me, my name is Jesus Pelayo and I am a senior at CSU Fullerton! I am currently an American Studies major with a minor in Physics and Gender Studies. I am a huge fan of League of Legends fan and gaming! Now that we’re well ac-quainted, I just wanted to say how excited I am to be your Magic Kingdom Lieutenant Governor for the 2016-2017 term! I have a lot of plans for this coming year but what I am most excited about is meeting all of you! Nev-er hesitate to drop by and say hi! I’m incredibly awkward so it’s all good if you’re shy. It’s going to be an amazing year full of new experiences, old favorites, and friends, old and new!

Hello everybody my name is Paul and I’m serving as your 2016 - 2017 Club President! I’m currently a second year at OCC and my major is Astronomy! I’m really big on anime and gaming and I spend most of my free time on anime and gaming. If you need someone to fangirl with, I may be your guy! I’ve been involved with the Kiwanis family ever since the beginning of High School and now I’ve worked my way up to where I am now with you guys! I can’t wait to see what this year has in store! Paul Pham

Orange Coast College Circle K President

see a whole new side of Circle K international and get to interact with members all across the District!

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Hello everyone! Welcome to the First Issue of the 7th Volume of Orange Coast College Circle K’s newsletter: The Squeeze!

My name is LIlian Nguyen and I’m going to be the editor for the newsletter this year! I am the Public Relations chair of the 2016-2017 term of OCC Circle K! I am a first year studying Kinesiology. I like spending my days listening to music, going on adventures, and spending time with my friends and family.

First and foremost, what is a newsletter?A newsletter is a publication that is distributed regularly to keep everyone updated on upcoming events and informed about important topics. I hope to keep you intnrigued of what is in store with Circle K International. I will put my heart and soul into every newsletter that I make! I hope to motivate members who have not been attending club meetings to participate in club projects!

I’m really excited to share the accomplishments that our organizations will bring. Thank you for taking your time out to read my first ever newsletter! I hope you enjoy!

READ ON; as we dwelve into the new year; the new term of new beginnings.

EDITORLilian Nguyen

Orange Coast College Circle K Public Relations Chair

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INTRODUCING

EXECUTIVE BOARD OF 2016-2017

KATELYN DUCH CHRISTINA TRAN

PAUL PHAM

MANUEL SANTIAGOIVAN HOZ

What are you looking forward to in the 2016-2017 term?

secretary presidentvice president

of service

treasurer

vice presidentof

administration

2nd year Biology Major 1st year

Public Health Major

2nd year Astronomy Major 1st year

History Major

3rd year Film & Astrophysics

Double Major

KATELYN:I’m looking for-ward to working with the new board officers, as well as the old ones on board currently, and obviously meeting new people! I ha-ven’t been able to do so last year as I focused more within the club, but I hope to ex-pand my horizons and meet people from my division and of course, from the CNH district.

CHRISTINA:I’m looking forward to working with everyone on board this term and having a really run year filled with lots of service, leadership, and fellowship.

PAUL:I’m looking forward to all the new friends and memories I will be making! I’m also looking forward to how our environment will be looking once we com-plete this year. I truly do want to have an impact to help our future and I can’t wait to get started!

MANUEL:I’m really look-ing forward to working with the appointed board to get our club’s name more out there! I’m so excited to get to know everyone in board and be able to sharp-en their unique talents and shape their person-al leaderships skills, so that as a board, we can teach what we learn down to our members as well!

IVAN:I’m looking forward to work-ing with the new board and meeting all the new amazing people that will join this year! Can’t wait to see all the new faces, watch them grow, and witness all the great things they will achieve!

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KIWANIS ONE DAY:CHILDREN’S CENTER PROJECT

The Costa Mesa Kiwanis One Day, hosted by Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa High School and Estancia High School, is an event where students are given the opportunity to vol-unteer at the Children’s Center at OCC. Many volunteers assisted the faculty by creating new and patching up fences, cleaning windows, painting new projects, planting new veg-etables in the garden, and many more for the center.

My group members and I were given the job of cleaning the garden which included picking out weeds, pulling, categoriz-ing, and washing vegetables that were still edible, and plant-ing a few new additions to the garden. My group worked efficiently and we even had a system of rotating jobs within our groups. Besides the fact that I had completely forgotten to wear sunblock and worked outside in the hot, blazing sun for hours, I had an absolute great time working with the other members to help out the Children’s Center. We even bond-ed through talking about our hobbies and favorite TV shows as we washed the vegetables together.

If I were given the opportunity to volunteer at an event such as this again, I would love to do it! Not only did I enjoy this ex-perience, but I have gotten to know a little more about those I was able to work with. And as a bonus, I have a new found love for gardening! This might possibly be one of my favorite volunteer opportunities that I have ever done!

By: Annie Dang | General Member

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costa Mesa coMMunity run:

GOODIE BAG STUFFING

By Helen Nguyen | Kiwanis Family Chair

On Thursday, April 22nd, members from Orange Coast College Circle K had the opportunity to volunteer at an event called Goodie Bag Stuffing. This event was in prepa-ration of the Community Run on the follow-ing Saturday. We met inside Estancia High School and gathered together to stuff bags. It was a great opportunity to work with our Key Club, Circle K, and Kiwanis clubs in Costa Mesa also known as United K. During this event Circle K and Key Club members made an assembly line around a table filled with flyers and products from sponsors of the Community Run. While we filled the cinch bag with goodies, Kiwanians stood at each end of the tables to collect

them. We were able to fill out roughly a thousand cinch bags for the runners. It was a fun event because we created a race of our own by seeing who filled the most bags fastest. At the end of volunteering we were rewarded with FREE food- pizza and drinks. Overall it was a great event because we got to 1) volunteer and 2) work with our Kiwanis Family members. Circle K members enjoyed the fun bonding with our Key Clubs and Kiwanians. We even got to hear our advisor roast our VP of Service. I believe most of our members enjoyed this service project and so did I. I can’t wait to participate in an-other one like this!

Costa Mesa Community Run

By: Pow Hwa ChanSpirit & Entertainment Chair

An exciting event that I went to was the Costa Mesa Community Run. This event helps promote a healthy lifestyle and brings many benefits to education foundations in Costa Mesa. During this particular event, I was in charge of making sure that the runners who have already finished as well as family mem-bers do not cross the trail while the runners were still taking part in the run. While doing

this, I also got to cheer on the runners while they were on their way to the finish line. I really did enjoy the event because while I was volunteering, I was able to cheer on the runners as they cross the finish line. In the future, I would love to participate in the event again as I get to see many people as well as children take part in the run.

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March oF diMes

March for Babies

By Allan Le | General MemberI went to the March of Dimes. The goal of the event is to fund vital research and programs to end premature birth, birth defects, and infant mortality through a walk around the Fashion Island area of Newport Beach. I was assigned the task of a parking usher at the event. I among the other Circle K attendees (both from OCC and from other schools like CSUF and GWC), were charged with directing traffic in and out of 2 parking structures.I enjoyed the event, since it is my second time doing it, and this time I ended up actually volunteering outside the walk instead of partaking in the walk itself. I would definitely do this again, since it was a memorable event the first time I did it in my senior year of Key Club and I’d like to come back and contribute alongside the future Key Clubbers and Circle K’ers.

SERVICE | LEADERSHIP | FELLOWSHIPhours

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APPLICATION PROCESSAPRIL 29TH, 2016 – MAY 6TH, 2016

2. APPLICATIONS MUST BE SUBMITTED BY FRIDAY, MAY 6TH, 2016 BY 11:59 PM TO FAMILY AND SOCIAL CHAIR, JAMES TRUONG ([email protected]).

3. APPLICANTS WILL BE INVITED TO AN INTERVIEW AND WILL BE NOTIFIED BY SATURDAY, MAY 7TH, 2015.

4. INTERVIEWS WILL TAKE PLACE MONDAY, MAY 9TH, TUESDAY MAY 10TH, AND WEDNESDAY, MAY 11TH, 2016.

5. APPOINTED BIGS WILL BE ANNOUNCED BY THURSDAY, MAY 19TH, 2016. ALL APPLICANTS WILL BE NOTIFIED OF THE FINAL SELECTIONS.

APPLY TO BE A BIG!BIGS are members of the club who organize and help retain members. They are people who

specialize in strengthening bonds and networking within and outside the clubThese people are in charge of creating their own socials, and organize larger scale events with

the Family and Social chairIt will be an incredible experience and definitely one to remember.

We look forward to working with you!


Cal State Fullerton’s BanquetBy: Ivy Dang|General Member

The event I attended was Cal State Fullerton’s End of the Year Banquet. This event was held to com-memorate the term of the 2015-2016 year. Their club theme this past term was traveling, so for their ban-quet theme it was “ Welcome Home”. The banquet was about coming back home to reflect on the past term’s memories and achievements with their Ful-lerton Circle K family and guest. As well as showing appreciation to their seniors and wishing them luck in

their lives beyond their college years They also promoted the new term and what is to come this this upcoming year. When you first walk through the doors, you are struck with awe at the beautiful ball-room and the cute centerpieces and decorations that adorned the middle of each table. We got time before the event to catch up and socialize with friends and even make some new friends. The food served was so delicious that, dare I say it, I got thirds. We listened to Judy give out hilarious superlative to every member that attended the banquet. Watched a surprise dance performance from the “Village of Idiots”. Disclaimer: I didn’t call them that, they named themselves that. Then proceeded to watch old board get retired and new board get appointed by the IP Lieutenant Governor and this terms new Lieutenant Gov-ernor. Lastly we watched as Judy, the immediate past president, attempted to hold back tears as she read her speech. The night ended with people taking pictures with the back-drop and saying their goodbyes and congratulations. I very much enjoyed this event because throughout the year I have built strong rela-tionships with many of the people on board and in their club. It made me proud to be there and hear about the many accomplishments they’ve had throughout the year. I would like to come back to this event because I know this upcoming term will be amazing and I can’t wait to look back at it again a year from now.

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Member of the MonthMarch

OCC represents Magic KingdomCongratulations to the following OCC Circle K members for making it into the Magic Kingdom Divisional Leadership Team!

Member Recognition

Jennifer Hoang Don Nguyen

Divisional Fellowship ChairDivisional Creative Assistant

Oliver Nguyen

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What is Circle K International?Circle K International (CKI) is the premier collegiate and university community service, leadership development, and friendship organization in the world. With more than 13,770 members in 17 nations, CKI is making a positive impact on the world every day.

Circle K clubs are organized and sponsored by a Kiwanis club on a college or university campus. CKI is a self-governing organization and elects its own offi-cers, conducts its own meetings, and determines its own service activities.

CKI blends community service and leadership training with the opportunity to meet other college students around the world. The District Service Initiative is one of our service projects.

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Messages|Leadereship|service|FeLLowship|Md&e|Kiwanis|division|district|internationaL|Misc

MEET KIWANIAN

DR.RICH PAGEL

Dr. Rich Pagel is a Kiwanian of Costa Mesa.He works at Orange Coast College as the Vice President of Administration and teaches Higher Education at Califor-nia State University of Long Beach.What have you learned from being a Kiwanis? Kiwanis is a community. It’s where every-one comes together and work as a team to achieve one goal. It’s prepares leaders for the next generations. If you keep giv-ing your time and yourself, what you get in return is the fullfillment, content, for help-ing out your colleagues and community.

MEET KEY CLUBBER

CONNOR NGUYEN

Connor Nguyen was the 2015 - 2016 President of the Costa Mesa High School Key Club. He is currently a senior and will be transferring to University California of San Diego, majoring in psych. How did you get involved with Kiwanins?My first Key Club event was actually, the Children’s Center Project. My cousin took me to the event, and I KNEW NO ONE.

We think globally and act locally. We bring a global prespective to this club because of the diversity of people involved. That’s the best thing about community.Do you have any advice you’d like to leave for everyone? I think that you are on the right path right now, doing the right things. This can be applied throughout your whole life. It’s a framework of leadership to raise a family; build a communi-ty. We learn to organize, bring together for a common good. It’s simple. You have to keep going.

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Key Club is the oldest and largest service program for high school students. It is a student-led organization that teaches leadership through service to others. Members of the Kiwanis International family, Key Club members build them-selves as they build their schools and communities.

Kiwanis International offers three clubs for adults: Kiwanis, Aktion Club and Circle K International. Kiwanis clubs serve their communities by sponsoring 150,000 service projects each year.

Speaking of Kiwanis Family Appreciation Month, the Kiwanis Family and Foundation commit-tee alongside past Kiwanis Family Chairs will be hosting a webinar about the Kiwanis Family! Don’t know how or who to appreciate? Attend this webinar and post for the social media challenge right after!

Netflix wasn’t that big yet, and I had no life. This was the sum-mer of 8th grade going into 9th grade. In 9th grade, I joined Key Club. I was a very active member freshman year, and eventually ran for board sophmore year. What have you learned from being a Kiwanis?I learned to be a leader. I got to tell them what to do and they got to listen. All these people are also trying to achieve leadership skills; having other responsibilities and how to plan accordingly. Before joining every club, people say “You know, IT’S REALLY FUN!”, and you don’t believe them. You just have to experience it before judging it. Do you have any advice you’d like to leave for everyone?Join if you actually want to help. Don’t join if you just want to look good. You have to want to make a change.

I love Mrs. Sheldon!Connor’s Advisor

Did you know that April is Kiwanis Appreciation Month? Our sponsoring and surrounding Kiwanis Clubs do so much for our organization. Circle K would not exist without Kiwanis. To thank them for all that they do, we set aside a month every year to show our appreciation.

Our Kiwanis Family Chair, Helen Nguyen, is putting together a video to show OCC CKI’s ap-preciation. She will be in the Open Study Room (located in the library)during her available times this upcoming week, so if you see her, go up to her to shoot a quick video of you show-ing your appreciation! We will also be making Thank You cards!

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MAGIC KINGDOM TRAINER

At the Annual Magic Kingdom Trainer, we had a chance to interact with the rest of the division and learn new leadership skills. The day started off with activity that had us throw around tennis balls, to a very inspirational speech from our past Lieutenant Governor Phillip Chow, on the topic of Having a Positive Attitude in Circle K Interna-tional and Life. After Phillip Chow’s presentation, we were split into sections to meet our counterparts from other schools. We also learned from Peter Yu, the Magic Kingdom Regional Advisor, about Professional v Personal Relationships; keeping it professional between board and leaving personal issues aside and how to address someone if they are conflicting with problems. Finally, the day geared towards workshops held by stu-dents. Andy Nguyen on Public Relations and Angelina Chan on Balancing Personal & Professional Life and CKI. All in all, that day was a pretty fun and successful one!

Orange Coast College Circle K’s members that attended Magic Kingdom Trainer.(left to right): James Truong, Jennifer Hoang, Mariella Batacan, Pow Hwa Chan, Manuel Santiago,

Lilian Nguyen, Davis Bui, Ethan Aben, Katelyn Duch, Christine Nguyen, Oliver Nguyen, Paul Pham, Don Nguyen, James Nguyen, & Helen Nguyen

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District Conventionby: Mariella Batacan | Charitable Fundrasising Chair

I went to District Conven-tion 2016 and it was my first district event ever since I joined Circle K. This event was to recognize all the accomplishments that each school has done throughout the year. It is an event where schools from Cali-fornia, Nevada, and Hawaii come together to celebrate the wonder-ful year they had. It was the time to congratulate all individuals who went above and beyond through-out the year. At District Convention, I vol-unteered as a Sergeant at Arms on Saturday night/morning. My shift was from 1-2 am and what I did was to walk around the floor that I was assigned and make sure that

there’s no loud noises around or students yelling from across the hall and stuff. I did enjoy the event, it was really fun and a new experience for me. I met new peo-ple which was a step up for me since I’m not really out-going. I went to a dance workshop with was funny and tiring. Funny because I was able to see other people struggle like I did and tiring because I’m not fit so all the dancing, moving left, right, up, down was tiring for me. Overall I would definitely go next year because I want to meet more people and attend more workshops.

SHOUT OUT THE FOLLOWING RECOGNITIONS OCC CKI RECEIVED AT DCON:100% ON-TIME MRF: JACK WANGDISTINGUISHED MD&E: DON NGUYEN & DARIUS NGUYENDISTINGUISHED KIWANIS FAMILY RELATIONS: CECILIA PHAMCLUB IMPROVEMENT 2ND PLACE HIGHEST HOURS OVERALL: IVY DANG2ND PLACE OUTSTANDING CLUB WEBSITE: MARYLOU AqUINO1ST PLACE OUTSTANDING INTERCLUBBING: MATTHEW VU2ND PLACE TRADITIONAL SCRAPBOOK: KATELYN DUCH3RD PLACE NON-TRADITIONAL SCRAPBOOK: JENNIFER HOANGDISTINGUISHED APPOINTED BOARD: IVY DANGDISTINGUISHED APPOINTED BOARD: IVAN HOZ KURLANDDISTINGUISHED APPOINTED BOARD: JENNIFER HOANGDISTINGUISHED APPOINTED BOARD: KATELYN DUCHDISTINGUISHED APPOINTED BOARD: YEN VODISTINGUISHED SECRETARY: JACK WANG

DISTINGUISHED VICE PRESIDENT OF SERVICE: VUONG VU PHAMDISTINGUISHED VICE PRESIDENT OF ADMINISTRATION: PETER V. NGUYENDISTINGUISHED PRESIDENT: HELEN NGUYEN1ST PLACE MEI PO WONG OVERALL SERVICE:GOLD DIVISIONDISTINGUISHED KIWANIS CLUB: COSTA MESA KIWANISTALENT ACT EXHIBITION PERFORMANCE: KRISTIN KIM NGUYENDOUBLE PLATINUM MRP RECIPIENTS: HELEN NGUYENDOUBLE PLATINUM MRP RECIPIENTS: IVAN HOZ KURLANDTRIPLE PLATINUM MRP RECIPIENTS: IVY DANG13 BRONZE MRP RECIPIENTS3 SILVER MRP RECIPIENTS6 GOLD MRP RECIPIENTS16 PLATINUM MRP RECIPIENTS

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District Committees are a great way for you to grow through leadership in Circle K and to make connections with members from all across Cal-Nev-Ha. All different skill sets are extremely appreciated, so we hope that you take a chance and apply!

Office Hours Our district chairs will also be holding office hours throughout the week to answer any questions you may have.

Sun Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri

5/110PM-12AM:Service

5/29PM: DCON

5/36PM: FiFun8PM: C&M9PM: FTC10PM: KFF11PM: DCON

5/46-8PM: KFF8-10 PM: FTC10PM: FiFun11PM: C&M

5/55PM: DCON9PM: FiFun10PM: KFF11PM: MD&E

5/610PM: KFF

11PM: Service

If there are any questions or concerns, please contact the respective Committee Chairs.

Good luck! We look forward to your application.Check us on our on Facebook event page!

Natalie Mann, District Member Recognition Chair

Sienna Serrano, District Convention Chair

Donald Franks, District Finance and Fundraising Chair

Claire Lee, Fall Training Conference Chair

Vivian Tran, District Service Chair

Josef Madrigal, District Kiwanis Family & Foundation Chair

Christopher Riley, District Membership Development & Education Chair

Heyun Jeong, District Communications & Marketing Chair

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GO TO

WHY GO TO THE CONVENTION?Because it's the biggest event of the Circle K year! Imagine giving back to the convention

host city by doing service and celebrating the amazing things CKI does with members from across the United States, Canada and the Caribbean.

If that isn't enough, you'll also have the opportunity to:

Listen to amazing speakers.Elect the 2016-17 Circle K International Board.

Have fun and make memories and friendships that last a lifetime.

JOIN US!The Circle K International Convention and Large Scale Service Project will take place June 22-26 at the Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel and the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, To-

ronto, Ontario, Canada.

You should plan on arriving mid-morning/afternoon on Wednesday, June 22 and departing any time on Sunday, June 26.

May 1, 2016:List of proposed amendments published on CKIx website

List of candidates published on CKIx website

May 15, 2016:Last day to register for the US$300 registration rate

Final day to report voting delegates and alternates Service Fair application due

May 16, 2016:Registration rate increases to US$500

May 30, 2016:Deadline to book housing at the Sheraton Centre Toronto

June 1, 2016:Postmark required for club awards (if no club members are attending CKIx)Last day to cancel your CKIx registration and full refund of registration fee

(less a US$25 processing fee)

IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER:

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WHAT TIME IS IT ?!

IT’S PARTY TIME!!

1...2...WOOP! WOOP! O~...C~...C!

1...2...WOOP! WOOP! O~...C~...C!

1...2...WOOP! WOOP!

OCC CHEER

qUOTE OF THE MONTH :

"Never forget what you are, for surely the world will not. Make it your strength. Then it can never be your weakness. Armour yourself in it, and it will never be used to hurt you."

-- George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones

NEXT ISSUE : June 6th

PLANTING A GARDEN OF SERVICEINTRODUCING APPOINTED BOARD AND MORE

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MARK YOUR CALENDARS! may 2016SUN MON TUES WED THURS FRI SAT

1OC MARATHON

2 3kiwanis appreciation webinar

4 5 6 OCC RECYCLING CENTEr GROUNd BREAKING

7spring training conferencemay dcm

8mother's day

9 10 11 12last springgeneral meeting

13csu fullterton7/10 split

14ellis hill restorationunited k Trainer

15environmentalnature centerspring faire

16 17 18 19 20uc irvinedance for a chance

21magic kingdomeotybanquet

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23 24 25 26 27 28 may dsp:bols a chica restoration occ's eoty banquet

29 30 31 1 june 2 3united k awards dinner

4relay for lifejune dspfamily olympics

key: Service|leadership |fellowship|district |division|interclub|kfam| | eoty: end of the year | dcm: divsional counsel meeting| dsp: district service project

UPCOMING MAY events infoocc recycling center groundbreakingWhere: OCC Recycling CenterTime: 11:00 AM - 2:30 PM Help out with the recycling center with parking, greeting, or whatever they request from us!

ellis hill restorationWhere: 18602 Quarterhorse LnHuntington Beach, CA 92648 Time: 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM Work with the Huntington Beach Tree Society in restoring Ellis Hill!

environmental nature center SPring faireWhere: 1601 E.16th Street Newport Beach California, 92663Time: 12:30 PM - 4:00 PM Help out with the event with coordinators.

table top service projectsWhen: Every WeekWhere: Open Study RoomTime: Varies between 12:00 PM - 7:00 PM Help out with the event with coordinators.Every week we will have various service projects, such as making ABC booklets or bookmarks for Better World Books, in the open study room for members to work on during their free time.spring training conferenceWhere: California State Fullerton900 Nutwood Ave, Fullerton, California 92831Time: 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM Price: $7occ end of the year banquet: a banquet worth fighting forWhere: OCC Student Center Time: 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM Price: $20 presale~$22 at the door~$10 not eating

*** all events on this calendar are tentative! refer to our website or our vice president of service to get the final details for all the events***

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