Club News

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Division 1

Nina Gamell
Sentinel High School
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1/10/12
I hope everyone has a spectacualr Christmas and Happy New Year! It was great to have a nice break and comeback to Keyclub. We are still participating and working a lot of fun different activities. Today was the Annual Early Head Start Puppet Show, and the Key Club, Drama Club and Hosa Club all contributed to it! We had a little puppet show in front of little kids and they LOVED IT :) It's always is fun to help out with kids younger than us. All the Keyclubbers are still selling there raffle tickets to support the Key Club into going to the District Convention this year!The Kiwanis Luncheons are still happening as well. KEY CLUB IS THE BEST:)

Molly Winegart
Florence-Carlton
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January 2012
With the New Year finally at our doorstep we continue volunteering our service to help out the community. We are preparing for the upcoming Key Club Convention and we’re super excited! We will also be working concessions this month. Coming up we have our elections for our new officers, so that should be exciting. Other than that we continue to help out with tutoring and preparing to have a great time at convention!!

Molly Winegart
Florence-Carlton
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December 2011
As 2011 winds down our key club is in full swing, with the Christmas season upon us. So far this month, we have kept pretty busy. Coming up this month we will be working a Christmas Craft Sale. Our Key Club will have at a table at the craft fair where we will help children make Christmas crafts. Before we leave for our Christmas break we will wrap presents for Toys for Tots and taking 20 kids on a shopping spree to Shopko, with the help of Student Council. We also helped out with a food drive put on by Pantry Partners, to help support the less fortunate in our society. Some of our members are also offering their tutoring services after school for students struggling in Algebra. Other than that our Key Club members are looking forward to continuing their service when they come back from Christ mas break and we hope to start off the New Year with a bang!

Kayla Hodges
Frenchtown
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November 2011
We organized a food drive, which provided 19 families with food for Thanksgiving. We began organizing our participation with the Christmas Star program, giving toys to children in need. We also raised funds by selling wreaths & delivering them.

Nina Gamell
Sentinel High School
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12/10/11
What a fun packed Key Club Month!!!! First off, we are having a big Raffle fundraiser to raise money for Key Club, if you win you can get a date night package, a handmade fly fishing rod, and free taekwondo lessons. We are going to be pulling for winners in January!! Early Head Start starts this weekend, so all the keyclubbers will be meeting up and shopping for presents to give away for this Christmas. Key Club will be shopping, assembling gift baskets, and will be giving families gifts at the carousel next week. The Great Hospital Puppet Show is coming up and some of the keyclubbers are training to be entertaining puppeteers. The Sentinel Showcase was last week which is when the incoming eighth graders tour around the school for next year. We put up a Key Club stand to let as many students know h ow awesome Key Club is! Also, congratulations to Lexi Steele our keyclubber of the month! HAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM SENTINEL HIGHSCHOOL KEY CLUB!!!!

Nina Gamell
Sentinel High School
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November 10, 2011
This past month in Key Club has been a BLAST! :)
We are attending fun packed Kiwanis Luncheons, and just round up our last few football chains for the season.
This weekend, all of the Sentinel key clubbers are extra excited to help out with the RUN FOR THE HEALTH OF IT event on November 12th!
Also we have been assisting the Child Care Resources, and been helping them fundraise for there program.
This last month, Sentinel had a very successful MEA/MFT educators conference. What we did was help teachers all around Montana not get lost in our school! It was so fun! :) KEY CLUB ROCKS

Molly Winegart
Florence-Carlton High School
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November 2011
Hello all! Well so far, this month of November has kept our key club really busy getting ready for our Mr. Flacon Beauty Pageant. This fashion show put on by our key club, is a where our senior boys showcase their many talents. It has become an annual event for our key club and each year the money we raise from it goes to a different charity that we pick. This year we will be giving the proceeds of the fashion show to the Watson's Children Center. Other than that we have been working concessions for volleyball, and doing childcare for middle school parents during music concerts. Lastly, a few of our senior key clubbers have been tutoring some eight graders, and freshmen, in Math and Spanish. Oh, and we just wrapped up “Trick or Treat for UNICEF”. So until next month, Adios!

Kayla Hodges
Frenchtown, MT
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October 2011
Throughout the month of October, the Frenchtown Key Club has been very active. We have sold wreaths to community members for Christmas. We went trick-or-treating for canned goods. We also did a highway cleanup.

Nina Gamell
Sentinel High School
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October 10, 2011
HELLO WONDERFUL KEY CLUB!!!!!!! The Sentinel Key Club has been off to a great start to the beginning of the 2011/2012 school year. We have been attending Kiwanis luncheons which have been awesome! In September some of the Key Clubbers helped out with the ice-cream scoop social at Russel Elementary School, and we plan on helping out with homework and after school activities with Russel Elementary school kids!!! We are so excited. The Blood Drive was also here last month and that was a great success. Everyone brought in food and helped blood downers not faint! The Montana Annual cross Country meet was held in Missoula so we lent some of our key club help to the cross country runners as well! There have been football chains that we have been assisting too. This month there is another State cross cou ntry meet and a MEA/MFT educators conference. I LOVE KEY CLUB SO MUCH THAT I THINK EVERYONE SHOULD JOIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Molly Winegart
Florence-Carlton High School
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June 2011
Key Clubbers at Florence-Carlton just keep plugging along! As the end of the school year approaches here at Florence, our key club is in full swing. Recently we adopted a few miles of highway 93 outside of Florence and we cleaned up litter there. The hours that we spent cleaning up people's mindless litter, made each of us think twice about ever possibly littering. And of course with June comes the March of Dimes. We have been fundraising for the March of Dimes for a while now and we are getting excited for the actual walk on June 18th in Missoula:) And of course we continue to have bake sales to support our key club!

Division 2

Britney Gibbs
CMR Great Falls
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October
The month of October was busy for our club as usual. With October comes Halloween, and with Halloween comes one of our clubs biggest attractions to both members and non-members alike which was Trick-or-treat for UNICEF. At this event, a combined event with Great Falls High’s Key Club the two groups raised $600 to help give children tetanus shots. Next, our club became a lane sponsor for Big Brothers and Big Sisters Bowl for Kids’ sake and sent two teams to participate in bowling. Another activity one of our club members has devoted himself, to is helping out the Women of the Moose weekly with their bingo fundraiser. A teacher of the month was also picked this month. Another activity a couple members helped with was to run the elevators at a state wide administrator’s convention. Finally, we with a fundraiser raising money for a teacher at our school that got injured over the summer. The members of our school all showed great support in this event.

Yasmine Ryan
Great Falls High School
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September 10 - October 10
The Great Falls High Key Club is kicking off its Fall volunteer projects. We are continuing with our fundraising for Tetanus shots in developing countries. We plan to have a bake sale and help spread awareness through out our school. Our Key Club plans on to participate in Trick-or-Treat For UNICEF pretty soon, and we are very excited about that. Our president Caiti Cayer and our other board members are coming up with new ideas to help local families during the holidays that are having troubles making ends meet and spreading the cheer to them. It is true with the saying of 'Sharing Is Caring' and our Key Club is looking forward to volunteering in our community with the holidays coming up!

Britney Gibbs
CMR Great Falls
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September
The first full month back in school, our club accomplished much. First off this month we ran a membership drive, encouraging new members to attend meetings and get involved by sending them hand-made cards. We also helped out with the Boys and Girls Club National Kids day by painting faces, making hats, and assisting with some games. Those who participated greatly enjoyed their time spent there. Next, our club was privileged to receive a fundraising opportunity from Bison Ford. Bison Ford donated some money for every person that test-drove one of their new cars. With this money our club plans to purchase a trailer, tables, and chairs to improve upon our efficiency when putting on a barbeque for charities. The DUI Taskforce also asked for a member from our Key Club to participate in their meetings a nd share input from a young person’s point of view, which one member is taking part in. Finally, CMR had their homecoming activities this month in which many of our members participated in building a float as well as putting on a barbeque for other participants. Next month our club is looking forward to our annual participation in Trick or Treat for UNICEF, a great attraction of many to the Key Club.

Britney Gibbs
CMR
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Summer 2011
Despite not having many projects this summer our Key Club has had a few meetings, planned for the new school year, and one of our members, Clair acquired somewhere in the range of 200 hours of service. She spent about four weeks volunteering full-time with the Montana Conservation Core. In doing this she helped to restore public lands, trails, and much more. Our Key Club is excited for the opportunities that will present themselves this school year and for the many ways in which we can help out in our community.

Yasmine Ryan
Great Falls High School
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June 3 2011-September 10 2011
As the Great Falls High Key Club starts a new year, we are very excited to get started on new projects. We'd like to continue our fundraising for Tetanus shots for developing countries and pick up where we left off. Our Key Club is working on getting back into the school year groove after a summer break and getting volunteer opportunities for us to hop aboard on. Also, we are looking forward to having new members join and bring in new ideas to help make GFH Key Club an active part of our community.

Division 3

Bobby Smollack
Anaconda
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December
Sorry I'm a day late on the report. Our club has collected a very high number of pop tabs and will continue to do so until convention. Our club has been considering donating to a local scholarship with some our clubs extra money. We are already getting freshman excited about convention. Until next time, thanks.

Connor McGree
Butte Central High School
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December 2011
For the month of December our Key Club was able to help with many different projects in the community of Butte. We were able to sell candy canes to our school that were given to the students of our school. With the money from the candy canes we were able to buy holiday gift baskets for six parishes in Butte. The baskets were given to people of need that the parishes knew about. These baskets were able to help the families very much and the families greatly appreciated them.
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Britney Gibbs
CMR Great Falls
For the activity filled month of December our club was kept very busy. First we helped out with Basketball concessions all month long. This is a fun and exciting time in which our members sell popcorn and slushes to the spectators. Next, Women of the Moose, an ongoing project for our club was continued. Parenting wisely another ongoing project kept our members busy watching little children while their parents were in a meeting. A teacher of the Month was also picked to win an award and gift certificate. Our club also helped fill food baskets for those students in need to take home before the break. This month our club helped out with the Friends and Family Night at Sears wrapping presents and giving out hot cocoa and coffee. This month our club also held our annual Christmas party and gift exchang e. All of our members thoroughly enjoyed this event. Along with our Christmas party our members also helped out with the Skyline Christmas Party in which we helped Santa pass out presents to the children of the school. All in all this month our club was kept extremely busy and are looking forward to another productive new year. We are continuing on this month with parenting wisely, women of the moose, basketball concessions, and many other projects.

Kelsey Peterson
Dillon
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December
We put on the winter formal. We had about 100 couples and it was great! We also did santa grams in our school by selling candy canes. We also helped with the food drive and helped at the animal shelter. It was a good month and we accomplished alot!!

Bobby Smollack
Anaconda
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November
The Anaconda Key Club had a bit of a slow November. However, we were able to help service the community at the Anaconda Community Cafe. We helped serve and make food for underprivelaged citizens who eat for free at the community cafe. Our club also helped with the Thanksgiving community dinner. Hopefully the month of Deccember picks up for our club. Until next time, Bobby Smollack.

Connor McGree
Butte Central High School
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October 2011
During the month of October our key club attended the Installation Dinner for the Butte-Silverbow Kiwanis Club. The dinner was on October 21 in Butte. It was a great dinner and our club was a great help to it. We had 6 members at the dinner and these members helped to sell the 50/50 tickets at the dinner. The guest speaker at the dinner was David Curry, who is the past International Kiwanis Club president. At the dinner old members of the board were retired and the new board members were activated. The new president of the Butte Silverbow Kiwanis Club is Shane Ford. It was a great dinner and it is always fun.

Bobby Smollack
Anaconda
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September
I would like to appologize ahead of time for not having any pictures attatched to this report. I had some technical difficulties with a fellow members camera. In the past month our club hosted homecoming. We planned out the days for spirit week and also hosted the dance. Although we lost homecoming we still had a fun week. Our club also did highway cleanup and gave many new members a chance to get the experience of service. Next meeting we are doing bring a freshman day. And for every new freshman member we bring to the club meeting we get a half hour of service accounted for. Thats about all for now, so until next time, Bobby Smollack.

Connor McGree
Butte Central Catholic High School
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September 2011
In the month of September we helped with the M.S. walk in Butte. The walk was held on September 17, 2011.It was a very good M.S. walk and we had lots of people attend and help out. The walk started at 10 in the morning and it was a very nice day. We were able to help the walk by setting up the walk and helping to take down the area that it was held in. It was a very good walk and it was lots of fun.

Bobby Smollack
Anaconda High School
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Summer 2011
Unfortunately our club did not do any outstanding projects during the summer. We did help at a concert in town. It was very fun.

Connor McGree
Butte Central Catholic High School
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August 2011
During the month of August we had a very important meeting. This meeting was held at Stodden Park in Butte. It was a very fun meeting as well as productive. During this meeting we had a vistor, Ms. Debb McKinnon, who has the disease of Muscular Dystrophy. Ms. McKinnon came to inform us about the disease as well as to tell us about the upcoming M.S. Walk in Butte held in the month of September. This was our major club project in the month of August.

Connor McGree
Butte Central Catholic High School
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May 2011
Our project for the month of May was a very important project for Butte Central Catholic High School. The project was the Laverne Combo Invitational Softball Tournament. The tournament is a softball tournament that is played with teams from all over the state and is very important to softball teams and their records.
Our job was to work the concession stand and to earn money for the tournament. The tournament helps Butte's economy and all of the businesses in and around Butte. It was a great project and was a lot of fun.

Division 4

Kaylee Curtiss
Skyview
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oct 10 to nov 10
Well we have been very busy so far this month we have had Pack the Place in Pink, The Rose Park Carnival, Of course TWIRP which was a hit very fun, everyone had a blast. then tomrrow till the thirtheenth is Youth Conference we have lots of kids going to that.

Emily Reed
Senior High
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Sept
This year has started out with a great start! We did the Out of The Dark Walk for suicide prevention and handed out water and candy to all the particpants. Next Saturday we will be doing Saturday Live and setting up our dice booth to raise money for our school and club. The little kids love doing the dice toss. Our club is already planning for Youth Conference this year! It's going to be AMAZING!

Kaylee Curtiss
Skyview High School
9/1/11 to 9/15/11
Well it great to be back to school it's been a very busy summer. So far this summer we have had a total number a 5 meetings. This school year we gone to burn the point sold snow cones made a total profit of $163. We've had the out of darkness walk it was great fun. Saturday live is coming up this next week we'll have two snow cone machines fifty cents each. Thats all we've done so far this new school year

Kaylee Curtiss
Skyview highschool
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Summer
This summer has been very very busy. We haven't really had a lot of events. Not very many board meetings well, to be honest we haven't any meetings this summer. We haven't had any events this month so far we haven't had anything. When we go to have our meetings more then just one of us are out of town. On the up side we have two meetings coming up that can't be cancelled.

Division 5

Ciara Parks
Sidney High School
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December
Hello Key Clubbers! December has come and gone, and boy was it a fantastic and busy month! During December we had many service projects. We kicked of the month by helping with the Salvation Army bell ringing. Our Key Club, along with multiple other clubs in the Sidney High School and community, helped take shifts to ring the bell at a local grocery store. All month long members in teams of two signed up to ring the bell for 3 hour shifts.
Also in December our club helped at the Sidney Christmas Coalition. Every year our area has a coalition for families who need help providing their children with presents for Christmas. Our club helped by organizing and setting up for the event. We also helped on the day of the actual event. Member led the parents through the building and helped gather and pick out presents for their children.
Another project in december that our club took part in was selling candy cane candy grams. For two weeks during lunch we pre-sold candy canes that students or teachers could send to one another for Christmas. Then, the last day of school before the break, our club delivered these candy cane gifts to the students. It was a nice way to spread christmas cheer.
And it wouldn't be Christmas time without a little caroling! For our December get together with the K-Kids, we took them to a local nursing home, Crestwood Inn, to carol for the elderly. For about 45 minutes we took the kids through the nursing home singing all the fun Christmas songs. It was great to see how happy the elderly were to see the kids singing. And we all had a great time!
Also in December our club decided we should try and help the Richland County Boys and Girl's Club. We decided to donate snack items, which the club was in drie need of. A couple of our members got together and spent about four hundred dollars on healthy snack food for the club. It was great to see the shelves at the Boys and Girls Club a bit fuller so the students can have an after school snack and not leave hungry.
In December our club also worked concessions during a basket ball game. Concessions are a great way to serve our community and make some money for our club. It is also so fun to see everyone! We also went to the rally in Glendive in December. A couple of our members were able to make it and had a lot of fun playing games and getting to know the other wonderful people from division five! And, of course, in December, we continued our usual service project of attending extended care bingo and helping the elderly play bingo!
December was a fantastic month and the Sidney club can't wait for January and all the amazing projects to come!

Shaylee Singleton
Miles City
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December
Hi Guys! I Hope you all had a great Christmas! I know we did here in Miles City! Our club had a Christmas party on the 17th, where we all could get to know each other and play games and have door prizes. On the 13th we wrapped presents in the VA hospital. We are Baking pies and making door hangers for the teachers appretiation week. During the Christmas break, any members could come help paint the Eagles building. We had a Division Rally in Glendive on the 18th at Glendive. Our Ongoing pizza sales are still going everyday at lunch.

Shaylee Singleton
Miles City
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November
Hello Key Clubbers, this month was a pretty slow month, but we still have done some pretty fun things. We had some of our members go to YC, which we had lots of good comments come back. We also had some members help serve food at our choral music Madrigal dinner. This month, we also are having a fundraiser for the childrens mirical center called Maul Ball, boys volleyball. Any boy can participate, and they do not have to be a member of key club. We are still selling pizza everyday for lunch and it's going great. We went trick or treating for UNICEF during halloween and it went well. Some members also helped the choral with their halloween haunted house.

Ciara Parks
Sidney High School
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November
Well, November was a pretty great month here in Sidney for Key Club! This month we continued selling raffle tickets for the basket raffle. Our Key Club also took part in the Parade of Trees. We decorated a tree for the tree auction. This year our tree’s theme was Breast Cancer Awareness and we won the award for “Best Theme.” The money from the auction went towards benefiting the Richland County Family Resource Center, Sidney Business Professionals of America, Sidney High School Key Club, and the Richland County Boys and Girls Club. It was great to see how so many clubs could get together to hold a fundraiser that benefitted so many and brought so many groups together. We also took part in the town’s Christmas stroll this year. We helped entertain the children with crafts. We made Christmas ornament s with the kids and it was a great time!
Also in November Key Club made an effort to honor the teachers for Teacher Appreciation week. We handmade cards for all of the High School staff and teachers. We also made them goodie bags including chocolate dipped pretzels, popcorn, and other goodies. In November we also celebrated national Key Club week. We decided to serve the school free Shirley temples in order to spread the name of Key Club. It was a great time.
Of course in November we continued doing regular service activities. We got groceries for an elderly woman from extended care. We also attended bingo at Extended Care to help the elderly. Overall November was a great month for Key Club and we are excited for December to come with all of the holiday projects!

Ciara Parks
Sidney High School
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October
Hello Key Clubbers!!!
Well, October was another crazy month here for the Sidney Key Club. Homecoming was this month and lots of activities come a long with Homecoming! Every year we enter a float in the parade. This year Sidney was playing the bulldogs so our motto was "send them to the pound." We had a big cage on a flat bed that had a huge lock on it. The members riding the float had big keys because we had "locked" the cage and we were Key Club. The float was decked out in Key Club colors and the best part was we had an actual bulldog in the cage! It was a pretty great float and actually managed to win Key Club the homecoming float competition! Also for during the homecoming coronation/peprally, a member of Key Club represented our club in the meatball eating contest. If we had won we would have won money for our club, but it was nice to be involved in a fun community event.
Also during October, our club helped out our Kiwanis Club box apples. Every year, the Sidney Kiwanis sells boxes upon boxes of apples and pears. Our Key Club helps mix the boxes for the Kiwanis. It was nice to work together with them.
Lately in Sidney, there has been a group of workers who are in town working the beet harvest. There isn't enough housing though so they have been living in tents at our fair grounds. Our Key Club decided to take them a nice warm dinner. We brought them chili and served them all dinner. It was nice to meet some of the new people in our community and give to those who are struggling.
Another activity our club did in October was work concessions during the football game. It is a really good way to raise some money for our club and help out the school. During the football game we also helped the Education Foundation with their tailgating fundraiser. We helped them serve hot dogs and burgers to hungry football fans.
Of course in October our club took part in Trick or Treat for Unicef. While trick or treating, we also did a food drive. A big group of us split up the town and trick or treated for an hour and a half. We gathered as much money and canned food in that amount of time then all met up at our advisor's house for a big party. The night was very successful both as a food drive and as trick or treating. The party was also a great time to hang out with fellow Key Clubbers.
Another service we did in October was what we call the "Crestwood Brunch." Crestwood is a local nursing home here in Sidney. The elderly that live there, however, are not provided with meals on the weekends. So every year we provide the residents with a nice brunch. We bring egg bakes, fruit salad, and other brunch food and serve it to the elderly.
And of course in October our club continued its usual activities. We got groceries for an elderly woman from Crestwood. We also attended and helped with bingo at extended care. The club also continued to collect money from teachers on Friday for wearing jeans. Overall, October was very busy but very fun. We are looking forward to November!!

Tori Zander
Dawson County High School
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September
DCHS key club had our first official Key Club meeting and had a large amount of people sign up as new members. New members jumped right in for signing up for announcements, football conncessions, and football chains. Our advisor Shana Kauffman has done a great job in promoting Key Club by having BubbleGum blowing contests, Raffels, and Root Beer Floats at our meetings.
Soon our Key Club should be receiving in the mail magnet Keys to put on the lockers to promote Key Club even more. As of right now we are also preparing for our UNICEF fundraiser.

Ciara Parks
Sidney High School
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September
Hello Key Clubbers!!
The Sidney Key Club had a fantastic September! It was nice getting back into the swing of things and our first full month of Key Club!
To kick of September and get some money raised for the Lap Montana project, our club decided to have a big bake sale the first week of September. All of our members baked two dozen baked goodies each. We sold these baked goods during lunch for a couple days. We managed to raise quite a bit of money in just a couple of days off of our bake sale!
Our club also took part in the Kid's Community Carnival. Our club decided that for our booth at the carnival, we should sell cotton candy. The members had so much fun working the booth and making cotton candy together. We also decided to sell some baked goods left over from the bake sale at the carnival. This allowed our club to raise even more money for the Lap Montana Project. It was so much fun making cotton candy with each other and munching on yummy baked goods!
Also in September, our club attended the Division 5 rally. The rally was held at Makoshika Park in Glendive. We had 7 members attend and 2 advisors. It was such a good time taking a nice "walk" (hike) in our goal to lap Montana. We got to meet other Key Club members from our division and play some fun games.
Another project we took part in was called Stand Down. The Stand Down event was held at the VFW in Sidney and at it, homeless veterans came and were issued personal hygiene products, clothes and blankets. Our members took part in this even by helping register the veterans. Once the veterans were registered properly, our members helped to distribute the items. It was a great experience for the members who were able to attend and offered our club a chance to give back to the veterans who had risked so much for our country.
Our club also took part in K-Kids in September. For K-Kids, our members went to the Boys and Girls Club after school one day and taught the kids the importance of keeping the community clean. They then took the kids outside and around the neighborhood to clean up garbage. It was a great learning experience for our K-Kids and a nice way for our Kiwanis, Key Club, and K-Kids members to come together and have a fun time!
In addition to these other projects, the Sidney Club also started its regular service projects. In September we began, once again, to do Crestwood Groceries. For Crestwood Groceries, members of our club go and buy groceries for an elderly woman, Barb, once a week because she is unable to do so. Barb was very excited to see us once again and have us get her groceries for her. We also began to go to our local Extended Care facility in the Hospital to play Bingo with the elderly. We do this on a every other week basis. It is so fun to get out of our seventh period class to help the elderly play bingo and compete for a prize of quarters!
The final service project we did is that our club provided dinner for a local nurturing class. At this class, young parents learn different things about how to raise their children. We provide them with a meal so they don't have to worry about missing the class to make dinner.
Well, September was a fantastic month here in Sidney, We are looking forward to what October has to offer and all the fun times to be had!

Shaylee Singleton
Miles City
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October
Hello Key Clubbers! This month has been a good start of the new year for key club! We had our Installation of officers on the 26th of September to install our..
PRESIDENT: Sanvannah Leidholt
VICE PRESIDENT: Kaylee Swope
TRESURER: Clint LaRowe
SECRETARY: Shelby Arnold,and
REPORTER: ME, of course!:)
Thank you to Jaelynn Grisso for installing this year officers.!
We also got started on Kiwanis Apple Sales. Each member in our club had to at least sell one box to be a member. We had 67 members sell apples and we are hoping to get 75 ACTIVE members total in our club for this year. we started doing Pizza Sales everyday at lunch for the students or faculty to buy, this will be ongoing all year long. Our club is also doing the concessions at the Go Western Day Rodeo on the 8th of this month. Sign ups for Youth Confrence are still ongoing and we have stared to talk and signing up to raise money for UNICEF.

Tori Zander
Dawson County High School
Summer Months
This Summer had a great start with the new board members for our Key Club. In June Lt. Jaelynn Grisso organized a trainer and rally to happen in the beginnig of June. Which members of Miles City, Sidney, and Glendive participated in.
During the summer our Key Club Members helped our Kiwanis chapter with cooking conncessions for local events, such as Buzzard Day and Cars in the Park. In August members also helped the Kiwanis chapter by taking admission into the county fair.

Shaylee Singleton
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September
Hello Key Clubbers! I am the new repoter for Miles City's Key club, I'm Shaylee,and im loving my job as reporter and learing alot. This summer was one of the best summers! Our club did a car wash for a fundraiser and it was a blast! We also participated in the Relay For Life and it had the best theme ever! SEASONS! Every group was fun to see all dressed up in different seasons. We had a great turn out and we also had a blast. We also made a new key club room where we have our meeting and for us to do we do best! For the start of a new year, it is going really well and is going to get even better!!

Ciara Parks
Sidney High School
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August
Hey Key Clubbers! Well, school has started and Key Club is getting back into its normal routine. Before summer ended though, our club had a end of summer party! As many people that could come got together at our President, Katie Staffanson's house. We all had dinner and then played some card games. After that we decided to go help our advisor unpack her room. She had boxes and boxes of books to unpack and only a couple hours to do it. With our help we managed to get a ton of work done in just a couple of hours. After that we all went back to Katie's house and those of us who could, stayed the night and watched a bunch of movies.it was a great time and got Key Club back on everyone's minds!
On the first day of school, which is freshman orientation, our Key Club had a table at the club fair. We told all the freshman and new students about Key Club and tried to get them interested in joining. We were pretty successful and have a group of new freshman! Also on the first day of school the Sidney Key Club prepared and served all of the students root beer floats. it was fun getting to see all the incoming students and to spread the word of Key Club with them! Also a little bit messy, but that just makes it more fun!
In August our club began its weekly meetings and some of our usual weekly projects. We got back into the habit of getting groceries for an elderly lady at Crestwood Extended Care. its always nice to help out an elderly lady even if its something as simple as getting her groceries for her every monday after school.
Also in August our school had a parent's night in which the parents of the high school students came and went through their class schedules. Our Key Club provided dinner for all of the parents and teachers. We served them ham sandwiches, chips, lemonade, and a yummy cookie! We also provided child care for the parents with younger children who needed to be watched.
Overall, August was a great month. The Sidney Key Club is getting back into the swing of things! We are very excited for this school year and all of the things it has to offer!

Ciara Parks
Sidney High School
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June
Hey there! Well, finally, its summer! But just because school has ended, doesn't mean our duties as Key Club members have!
At the beginning of the month 3 of our board members were able to attend the Division 5 trainer and rally. What a great time! It was nice to meet Key Club members from our division. We also learned a lot of information on our different jobs being on the board. Playing games with everyone was a blast and we were so glad we were able to attend!
We also had some opportunities to give back to our community. Our club participated in E-Waste. E-Waste is a recycling program in which people are able to drop off their old electronics at a drop off site and the stuff gets sent off to be recycled. Our members helped at the drop off station. We helped unload all of the electronics and put them on palates, then wrap the stuff with plastic wrap so they don't fall off. It was nice to see the people in our community making an effort to help the planet and our members having some fun with some different organizations.
Another thing our club did in June was take part in the community clean up day. Members met up with people of the community at an early 8 o'clock in the morning (in the summer!) and everyone went to different parts of town to clean up all the trash. Our town looked pretty great after this!
Because we weren't able to have a second food drive during the school year, we decided to have another one during June. We all met up at the school then split into groups and went to different parts of town. We decided we would all go out and collect for two hours then meet back up at the high school. After two hours of going door to door, everyone met up at the school and we had managed to collect 189 pounds of food in only 2 hours.
This summer, in June, Sidney celebrated its centennial. As a part of the celebrations, The Sidney Education Foundation was putting on a pitchfork fondu. We were asked to help with this event by the Education Foundation. On the day of the event we helped set up the tables and chairs, transport the food, and other general set up. We also helped during the event with serving food and then cleaning up. It was great to take part in the town's celebration and be apart of a different kind of fundraiser.
Well, June was a great month and our club is looking forward to July and all that it has to offer!

Ciara Parks
Sidney High School
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May
Hey Key Clubbers! Well, I can’t believe May is over and summer vacation is already here! Key club was really winding down in May and we were working on planning some summer projects.
During May our club wrapped up its year by going to play bingo with the elderly at Extended Care for the last times before summer. Members also got groceries for an elderly lady for the last times before summer. We are looking forward to restarting these projects back in the fall!
In May our club also had a fun time with our middle school’s Builders Club. In an effort to encourage the 8th grade Builder’s Club members to join Key Club this coming fall. Some of our Key Club members went had pizza with their whole club. Kiwanis provided the pizza for us and we got to teach their club about Key Club and why it is such an awesome club. It was a great time hanging out with the Builder’s Club and having some good pizza.
Two of our members are our Co-Captains for the Relay for Life team. In May they attended the monthly Relay for Life meeting to get more information on the event. Our club is looking forward to attending Relay for Life. This year we get to run Kids Corner again, which includes face painting, carnival games, and (hopefully) a bouncy house!
Our club also took part in a “Bra Auction” in which we had to decorate a bra. It was then auctioned off and all the money was donated to cancer research. This event is put on annually in our town. We had a committee that decorated and took on this project but our club decided as a whole the theme of a bra. Seeing as we are a high school club, we went with our school mascot so our theme was Eagle Spirit. It was such a fun project and a good cause. We were very excited to take part in this project.
Well, that is our May in a nutshell. Our club is looking forward to this summer (well, who isn’t?) and all the projects that are coming up!

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Division 7

Emma Fewer
Glasgow, MT
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1,10,12
This past month we have done this coat drive donation box. It is a large box set up in the school and anyone that has a coat they don't need puts it in the box for us to give. A lot of people are sending in their coats and it's been going well. A few members went caroling with the Kiwanis members during the Christmas season. We went to a couple nursing homes in our town to spread the Christmas cheer. Today we had a committee meeting during our club meeting. My committee in particular is the anti bullying and project life week. We are planning to do an anti bullying video and get the school involved to become bully free to especially prevent suicide for project life week. Likewise the other committees are also making their own plans to make a better community and school.

Avery Wiese
Malta High School
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December 10th-January 10th
On December 12th we had a key club board meeting we discussed the bell ringing and the junior girls decided they could do it. We also discussed a christmas party. We had a key club meeting, 20 members were present and 2 advisors were also present. We will have a bell ringing again on Monday December 19th. We had a good bell ringing before already. We discusssed the food drive again. We decided to cell candy cane grams again this year. We also discussed the christmas party again.On January 3 we had a key club meeting. during that meeting we had 21 members present and 2 advisors. Talked about dcon and a first grade social. We talked about bringing cookies to cocessions for the speech and drama meet. On January 9th we had a board meeting. We discussed fundraising ideas and inernational. We also discus sed who was going to come were the consessions for the speech and drama meet. On January 10th we had a key club meeting we discussed the concessions for the speech and drama meet and we got 7 members volunteer.

Emma Fewer
Glasgow MT
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November
This past month we were as busy as usual. We held our divisional rally, unfortunately only the Glasgow members showed up but it was still a lot of fun and we learned a lot about key club. We have helped the kiwanis members a lot lately. We helped pack peanuts for them to sell and we have been ringing the bell at some local stores for the salvation army with the kiwanis members. We've put up and taken down the flags a couple times this past month also. Like always, a couple members head to the kiwanis meeting on Wednesdays. A project that we are about to work on for this next month is we are adopting a family for Christmas.

Avery Wiese
Malta High School
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September-November
September 13th-We worked concessions for the volleyball games. From 2:30-5:30 Mckenna,Danielle, Josh, Drew, Zach, and Megan J. all worked that session. Then 5:30-closing Justin W., Drew, Amber, Josh, Megan J., and Thalia all worked that session. Our committee for our first grade social were Drew, Josh, and Amber. We desided on our prices for dues. Our winners for door prizes were Lauren, Heather, Kelsey, Fern, Hannah, Anna, and Drew.

October 11th-We Discussed highway clean-up. We also descussed Youth Convention. When the dues were due and the dates. We had a donation and we discussed making a donation to the food bank.

October 18th- We work consessions tonight for volleyball games again. People who worked first session were Joe, Zach, Josh, and Drew. First session lasted from 4:15 to 6:00. People who worked second session were Anthony, Drew, and Megan J. We disccused drive by raking and after raking we could have root beer floats. We talked about Avery's fundraiser. Her Fundraiser was to collect as many phone books as she can and recycle them for money for the club. We discussed highway clean up again for the 19th. The people who signed up for that were brett, Graeme, Zach, Joe, Amber, Skye, Josh, Garrett, Thalia, Alec, Phil, and Megan J.

October 31st-Heather and Nicole are the committee for the first grades social. For the social they desided on November 22 from 3:00-4:30. We trick-or-treated for unisef at 7:00. We met at the high school. People to work the first grade social were Hannah, Caitlyn, Heather, Nicole, Drew, and Amber. We also discussed the food drive again because Avery made a $15 donation.

November 28th-We were going to talk to people who haven't paid their memberships. December 1st for first grade social. We were still discussing that date it wasn't set and scale yet. We descussed babysittying for the head start.
Britney Gibbs
CMR Great Falls
November
The CMR Key Club had many events going on this month. We had many long term projects that we continued on with as well as individual projects. The long-term projects included: parenting wisely, in which members help to watch the children while their parents are in a meeting and Women of the Moose in which one of our members helps to serve food to those who attend the weekly meeting. The Speech and Debate tournament was also on the agenda. There we helped to work concession selling food to those who participated. Next, our club cooked as served food for a lunch at Youth Conference. As the festivities of Thanksgiving approached we helped serve food to members of the Boys and Girls Club. Finally, a Teacher was picked for the monthly Teacher of the Month award. Next moth our club is eagerly awaiting t he coming of basketball concessions as well as the continuation of parenting wisely and Women of the Moose.

Emma Fewer
Glasgow
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11/1/11
This past month we have been busy working concessions for the football and volleyball games. We make a lot of money off of these and it helps our club a lot. Yesterday, we just did our haunted hallways. We had a lot of our club members help us set up and it was really fun scaring the kids that walked by and handing them candy at the end. We moved our divisional rally to a later date because hardly anyone would have made the previous date. It's a good chance to meet other key clubbers so it was a good decision to make. Like always once a week we have some members join the kiwanis meeting where they eat lunch and discuss each of their activities going on.

Emma
glasgow
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september
This past month we have begun our key club school year. We got a lot of new members and we have been stressing that members should get 20-40 hours of community service. This weekend we are going to paint our underpass in scotty plaid. Also, every week we have a couple members go to a kiwanis meeting and they talk to the members and explain what our club is doing. Our club works closely with our kiwanis group and we help them with some of their projects. This year we are continuing our individual club groups like anti-bullying, haunted hallways, bra contest, fundraising, and project life week.

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Maggie
Columbia Falls
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December
Hi, from The Key Club in Columbia Falls. We all hope that your Holiday Season was wonderful. The Key Club had a busy month, and I am so happy that everyone in Key Club was so willing to help out. The Key Club played Bingo with the veterans twice this December. Members of Key Club were great bell ringers at Smith's Grocery Store for the Salvation Army. The Key Club went to the elementary school and with a second grade class made Christmas crafts. From what I understand, it was crazy but fun. Key Club members learned that scissors, sequins, a hot glue gun, and second graders are a dangerous combination. Together they made ornaments for their parents which in the end, turned out to be beautiful, and I am sure no ornament looked the same. The Key Club here in Columbia Falls sold and made Christmas cook ies. The proceeds from the cookie sales were used to buy Christmas gifts for an adopted family, needless to say the Key Club went shopping! The Key Club is brainstorming ideas for future service- Enjoying January-Maggie and the Key Club in Columbia Falls

Maggie
Columbia Falls
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November 2011
Hello! The Key Club in Columbia Falls is very busy helping out in the community, finally! Our members have been doing an excellent job attending the meetings and participating in projects. The board members are very thankful for their ideas and service. Thanks guys. Our entire Club owes a huge thank you to Mrs. Ramstead, our adviser. She is doing a great job and honestly we could not have such a wonderful Key Club without her. She has taken the time to communicate with community members, to help us help in the community. She has organized our club, and she and her ideas help to keep us rolling. As for November, the Key Club along with Builders Club, helped the Veterans play Bingo. Bingo is always fun and without a dull moment! Some of our members cleaned up garbage with the Kiwanis Club. We had a handful of members attend the Youth Conference in Great Falls, and I heard that it was inspiring and super fun. Last but not least, we "Drive-by Raked". We were not as stealthy as I think we thought, but we secretly raked a few yards. It was very exciting and there was a ton of leaves! Our December schedule is booked and we cannot wait to get started. With many missions-Maggie and the Key Club of Columbia Falls

Maggie
Columbia Falls
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October
A huge hello from the Key Club at Columbia Falls High School, goes out to our fellow Key Clubs across the State. I, Maggie am the new Key Club reporter in Columbia Falls and I am completely new at this reporter stuff, so please bear with me as this is my first report. I must admit that our Key Club has been off to a slightly rocky start. The Key Club just acquired, through much persuasion, a new and wonderful adviser Mrs. Ramstead. The members of our club along with Mrs. Ramstead, are all recovering from the terrible confusion that has spread throughout our meetings each Monday. So as October has come to a close, the Key Club has accomplished so little but yet so much. Individually, we started this year with only the hope to do great things in our community as volunteers, and now we have a Club. We now have a President, a Vice-President, a secretary, a treasurer, and an official Reporter. So as for October, the Key Club members Trick-or-Treated for UNICEF and worked concessions with our Kiwanis Club. We have big ideas for November- with the wish that those ideas become plans, the Key Club in Columbia Falls will report back soon.

Alex Damon
Columbia Falls
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September
Hello Key Clubbers! We had our first Key Club meeting on September 29, 2011. We decided to make it an ice-cream social to attract more members. We had an amazing 23 members in attending! We are looking forward to our up coming activities such as calendar delivery, K-Family Garbage Clean-up, Canyon Haunted House, and Trick or Treat for UNICEF! We are looking forward to October, when the fun really begins!