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Club News

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Division 1

Msla Sentinel/May/Emily Thane

Hey everyone! The school year is finally coming to an end, but we plan on continueing our key club projects throughout the summer. We just finished our work with the Missoula Youth Track Club and everyone had a great time, coaching the young kids. The high schoolers planned two to three practices a week and coached their athletes in two meets. Also our local Kiwanis Club has just given out several scholorships and three of them were given to three of our former board members. This summer we are planning on keeping in contact and working events such as habitat for humanity. Happy summer! :)

Frenchtown/April/Kyla Wilson

Last month in April, Frenchtown Key Club helped with the special olympics. We helped time the swimmmers and we had a great time. Also, last month we did highway cleanup along the frontage road in Frenchtown. We just elected new officers and I am now the new reporter. We are looking forward to doing Relay for Life in Missoula this summer.

Florence/March-April/Ross Mangun

We just finished our suicide prevention week. It went really well. We did a week long activity to raise awareness in the high school and ended the activity with an assembly. We had Jeromy Emerling, the speaker who was at convention come talk to our school. It had a great effect and will hopefully make a difference. We are also taking part in March of Dimes for the first time and will be doing the march on Saturday the 8th. We are also doing small service projects for our school like elementary child care, a literacy lunch, and we will be working with our National Honor Society to do a blood drive this month also.

Florence/February - March/Ross Mangun
The Report: We have mainly been focusing on convention. It was great! We all
had a wonderful time. To help do we have been raised money by selling out
mary k stuff, and it has been going well. We are excited to try new
projects. Our up coming projects are highway clean up, baby sitting at
elementary concerts, and help with outdoor class room.

Sentinel High School/1/11-2/9/Shelby Harris
Convention is right around the corner and our club is just as
excited as I am! We have been working very hard filling out award
applications and nominations for various awards. Also, we had a few board
members and key clubbers make a movie (the best key club movie ever) to be
viewed at convention. Other than convention we have been working on other
projects and events such as; cleaning the school basement, score keeping for
Kiwanis basketball games, hosting a speech and debate meet, etc. Denver even
got to vist one of our meetings this past month!

Division 2

Great Falls/May-June/Shannon Lineberry

This month, my key club volunteered in the March of Dimes. We had five members here who participated in making cotton candy for the younger children and also painting their faces. We also helped with the MS walk this month where we had four members there. We set up the first break/water station and after all the walkers passed, we headed back to the main area to help pass out the food. As usual, we did our read and lead program at Longfellow elementary where two members attended. We read to a variety of age groups as well as helped them with any questions they may have about the dewey decimal system and finding a library book. Furthermore, this month we were asked to help with Miss Linda's Dance Performance in which four members helped entertain the younger children and also kept the program running by bringing the children to the stage when it was their time to perform. Along with all of these events, we have been planning for a high heel event and anti bullying skits which we hope to occur this summer and next fall.

CMR/May/Leslie Bellwood

This month CMR Key Club was involved in many projects. On May 7th, HeadStart asked for volunteers help with face painting and games. Overall it was a great time. March of Dimes was May 8th, the following day. There CMR and GFH Key Clubs helped set up and run some of the activities like the jolly jumper. CMR Key Club also put on the BBQ for the event and the food was fantastic. The event was a great success and they really appreciated all of our help. MS Society walk was May 15th and we also put on the BBQ for that event. Another event was Strut Your Mutt, a walk to benefit animals. Members helped with the general event and were also in the parade. It was an enjoyable time despite the weather was less than agreeable. We are starting a Staff of the Week award to begin during the 2010-2011 school year. It is in the process of being finalized so that it is ready for the upcoming year. Summer meetings have been set for the third Tuesday of each month. Our last meeting of the school year was an Ice Cream social that was a great time and a moment for everyone to say goodbye to seniors. The month overall was a success and was a great last month of the school year.

Great Falls High School/February 10- March10/Elizabeth Gilligan
The Report: As spring quickly approaches, our Key Club has been preparing
for several new projects. We look forward to participating at the March of
Dimes and Special Olympics. We also sent a good number of members to
District Convention March 7-9. Members also continue to volunteer with Head
Start Child Care and Read and Lead. Recently, our club voted for new board
members, which gives hope for a great club next year. We have also discussed
particpating in a "Leap Night", in which 8th graders visit our school to
learn about extracurricular options. We hope to recruit many new hopeful
members!

CMR/February/Allyson Barksdale
The Report: Feb 2- We are continuing to help with basketball concessions
throughout this month.  With the exception of a possible playoff game in
March, February is the last month we can have basketball concessions and are
encouraging as many people as we can to sign up, help out, and have fun!
HeadStart programs are still running and we are continuing to ask people to
sign up and help the children in these programs.  Those that do attend have
a great time and want to go back again.  District Convention is drawing near
and those who have ever attended this event are excited to go again!  We
also have some new members attending this year, which is great for igniting
a passion for service and bringing it back to the club.  The MS Society has
asked for our help in advertising the annual walk this year by hanging up
posters.  They should be shipped to us in early March.  A March of Dimes
committee is underway to create a March of Dimes kickoff week at our school.
We should have
  our first meeting within a month or so.  Lorri Brown, from the Governor's
Office in Helena, came today to talk with us about starting a Teen Community
Emergency Response Team (CERT) here at school. It was a great idea and we
had around 18 people sign up for these classes.  While we hope we will never
have to use this training, it is always best to be prepared.  Feb 9- In
addition to our normal basketball concessions, we have a great opportunity
to finish off concessions this season.  We are hosting the A  Divisional for
Basketball and could use volunteers for the 25, 26, and 27 of February to
help out.  These concessions will last all day.  This is a great way to earn
a lot of hours at once and see some great basketball games.  Chocolat Noir
is upon us again and the Children's Museum could really use some help in
escorting people to their tables and doing coat checks.  This is a formal
event so professional attire and demeanor is expected.  This has always been
a fun event,
  
so we will have plenty of help for this night.  The Teen CERT training has
been approved by our principal and we just need to figure out the hours we
want to take each day to complete the training.  We may even have some
faculty that want to attend these training sessions as well.  Feb 16- We are
still continuing to have people sign up for basketball concessions and
HeadStart events.  District Convention plans are being finalized and we are
looking forward to heading up to Billings in a few weeks.  At Chocolat Noir
those who attended had to improvise a little with the coat check, using
chairs instead of actual coat racks, but it was a great time and things went
smoothly throughout the night.  We have the hours finalized for the Teen
CERT training and have our first session on March 19.  We have been asked to
do a fund raiser for Cystic Fibrosis and are determining ways to help them
out.  Feb 23- John Fassler came today to talk to us about being a couselor
for Camp St. Vincen
t
.  We have had many people sign up to help with this event in past years
and those same people sign up multiple times because they love working with
the kids and having a positive impact on them.  We should have no trouble
providing them with counselors.  Debbie came today to talk to us about
performing coat checks at a local auction at the C.M. Russell Art Museum.
This would be a first for us, but we are excited to get people there and
help out our local museum.  Pet Paw-see's has asked for our help with an
internet campaign.  With so many guest speakers we couldn't quite get to
this tonight, but we will start what they have for us at our next meeting.
To everyone on the District Board, you did an awesome job this year!

Division 3

Great Falls High School/March 10-April 10/Shannon Lineberry

Upon returning form DCON, we were filled with enthusiasm and immediately began a membership drive for new excited Key Clubbers. We have sent out invitations and personally recruited some new people.

We are also continuing on with our monthly projects, Read & Lead, Head Start, and Park Place Pals. Many Key CLubbers are visitng Longfellow Elementary and Park Place Nursing Home to interact with its students/residents.

But our big push currently, is to raise money for the March of Dimes. GFH has instituted a Hat Day, where we get as many students to wear a hat as possible and pay $1 to do so. (At our school you are not allowed to wear hats in the building) We will donate all the proceeds to the march. A few members have spent time making posters and writing announcements to advertise this.

And lastly we are preparing for the annual middle school LEAP NIGHT. All the middle schoolers come to GFH for a mini orientation. Each club and sport etc. has a table and is there to answer questions and recruit members. Key Club has made a power point, illuminated bulletin board, and has pamphlets to hand out to prospective members. Leap Night will be held April 27.

Anaconda/February/Shelby Durkin

At the beginning of the school year our school had presenters
that spoke about teen dating violence. Our club distributed pamphlets, and
hung up posters to create more awareness on the topic. On the posters a
helpful website was listed, and our local resource center number was also
put on. Also our club has been busy collecting pop tabs, and is preparing
for district convention.

Division 4

Blgs Skyview/June/Brittany Boehm

Once upon a time in the faraway land of Skyview Key Club we wrapped up the end of the year with our 5k walk for kids in crisis and International car wash fundraiser. First, at the 5k we met up with our fellow Key Club members from the rest of Div. 4! We had so much fun getting to know them and having fun for a good cause. We were tired in the end so we skipped out on our little get together at the park and went home instead. It was still neat to see others from out-of-town to come and participate!! Second, the International car wash was a blast! We were kinda cold though because halfway through the day it started raining!!! We had a minor water fight with the hose and rags! The Kiwanis also had a BBQ to help out as well. We were running back and forth between the two work sattions helping in anyway that we could. Hopefully the next time we decide to do this the weather will actually be nice and sunny. Well that's all for this months report! Stayed tuned for the next report!! Happy Summer Everyone!! :)

 

Billings Senior/May/ Emily Reed

I heard the site was down so here is my report just in case you didn't get it.
This week we had our last Key Club meeting, and had our last meeting celebration at Dose Muchos, on Tuesday. We had a great time and we are getting ready to do the Key Club 5k walk on the 15 of this month. We are all disapointed to that it's the school year is coming to an end and we have to so good bye to our senior members, but can't wait to get started recruiting new members this upcoming year.

Skyview/April 10- May 10/Brittany Boehm

Once upon a time in the faraway land of Skyview Key Club, April and May time weather came. (Well not entirely) Skyview’s Key Clubbers have been getting busy again! Here are some events that they have done: Bowling for Kids, March of Dimes, Highway Clean-up, & MS Walk. First , they helped teach kids how to bowling at the Bowling for Kids. It was loads of fun and the kids made it all the more fun! Key Clubbers were wonderful teachers for the kids. One boy fell down the actual bowling lane and was laughing the whole time! Second, at March of Dimes they helped set up by building an arch out of balloons! It was fun and they named their group ‘Fun Muffins’! They spilt-up during the walk. Half were walking and half stayed to help with the bounce house for the kids. The bounce house was a bit chaotic, kids flying in from everywhere! Eventually they had to make the kids wait in a line formed behind one of the Key Clubbers, so that it was a little more organized and safe. Third, at the Highway Clean-up they were surprised at how much better the area was compared to how it was the same time last year! After they were done they were treated to doughnuts and juice or water. Finally, at the MS Walk people got to have the wind as a friend for the day! They had to either walk or run with it or against it. They made it through, though which is good! That’s all for this month! Stay tuned for next month’s report!

Skyview/March 10- April 10/Brittany Boehm

Once upon a time in the far away land of Skyview Key Club we had three major events. We had Induction, the Freshman Open House, and Alkali Creek Elementary Carnival! Induction was great! Our new 2010-2011 board consists of Nikolette Concepcion-President, Decee Lang-Vice President, Karense Christenson-Treasurer, Eryn Rudolph-Secretary, and Brittany Boehm-Reporter! We had a blast with loads of our members, cake, and punch! The Freshie Open House we had a great turn out. We got about 60 of the incoming freshman interested, which is a big improvement from last year! We were entertained with the bouncie balls and yo-yos we were giving out to the kids who signed up. We had the balls going everywhere!! And then there were the yo-yos that kept gettin' slinged around and one of us got smacked in the head with them, they are very dangerous! HAHA! Now onto the carnival! Lots of students attended with their families. We also had a bunch of our members help out with some of the activities. I did the dino dig. You had to find an egg in this pool of packing peanuts and when you did you had to open it (some didn't want to "hatch") and see what number you got and that would determine your prize. I remember there was one family that kept coming back and spending almost all of their tickets on it! I had fun watching the kids try to find an egg. It was a huge mess when it was time to clean up! That's all for now! Stay tuned for the next report!

Blgs Senior/April-May/Emily Reed

First off, we really enjoyed Key Club convention. It gave everyone another reason why Key Club is so awesome.
Once we got back we held our Key club elections. Our new President is Garret Hillier, VP is Hailey Muller; Secretary is Monique Naylor; Treasurer is Robert Martin, and again for Reporter is Emily Reed. We are all making sure that this year next year will be unforgetable. Already there our plans to go to our local middle schools to promote Key club.
Just this past week we have held a Blood Drive and volunteered in Special Olympics, which are in the pictures attached. We had a blast helping out with the kids even though it was freazing cold and raining, all of us had a bright smile in our faces.

Red Lodge/February/ELizabeth Bertolino
This month we held a "Italian Dinner".  This was a community
dinner where we made Italia dishes free of charge.  We set up a donation box
for kids with Leukemia and the benefit went quite well.  We also did our
annual eHarmony fundraiser.  This consists of a survey taken by the students
of RLHS and a computer matches up students with their top compatable
matches.  Students pay three dollars to see their results and, as usual,
this was a huge hit.

Billings Senior High/Jan-Feb/Emily Reed
The club is consintly busy with volunteering for consesion
stands for the big games this week. Almost done with the poster that we are
making for Convention next month, it is looking pretty good, and everyone is
getting in their slips and are very excited for Convention.

Skyview High School/January- February/Decee Lang
For Skyveiw Key Club this year has started off well. We have
done a couple of projects. In the month of January we helped with the
Sandstone Carnival. At the carnival some of us participated in face painting
and some toke part in the fish cup toss. Although many of the parents
weren't to thrilled that we gave away real fish, we found great joy in
seeing the children's ecstatic faces.
    In the few days that have passed in February we have done two
projects. The first project we helped with was the Max Brookes spaghetti
dinner. This project touched many of us, because it involves a teacher at
Skyview High School. Although the dinner reminded us of the tragedies the
Brooke's family faced, we still had fun raising money, for a good cause. The
second project Kiwanis, Circle - K , K- Kids, and Key club participated in
was the Bench elementary Pancake Breakfast. At the breakfast we had an
amazing turn out.  Many were in shocked, due to the amount of pancakes we
served. Overall, Skyview Key Club is happy with the way this year is
starting off. We are all excited to participate in more projects, this year,
and have more fun helping out others!

Division 5

Dawson County/May/Elizabeth Clapp

Elizabeth Clapp - May Reporter's Report- School's out for summer! School's out forever! Well, we had one more month of Key Club activities, but everyone was ready for break to start. First of all, two big events were the Mexican Meal fundraiser for our ICON-bound members, and the 5K Walk. In an effort to make the Meal a success, our club did some advertising. From posters around the school, to an ad over the radio waves, to a notice on public television, we got the word around about the fundraiser. Our local Kiwanis club helped with cooking the food, Key Clubbers helped serve the meal, and we came up with a couple hundred dollars to split between Caitlin Taggart and Ryan Doll. Next up was the 5K Walk, with our walkers raising money for people around the community inflicted with illness. Even with school ending, our club will have other things to work on,including helping Kiwanis cooking for Buzzard Day, a yearly summer celebration in our state park. Another summer event is Cars in the Park, a festival featuring antique cars that our club can help the Kiwanis cook for. Hope all fellow Key Clubbers will have lots of fun in the sun this summer!

Sidney High School/February/Amy Rassier
The Report: Our club assisted with the Shepherd of the Valley Children's
Christmas shopping event and the Richland County Christmas Coalition. We
acted as proctors for the BPA Regional Leadership Conference. We sold candy
canes at Christmas.

Division 6

Bozeman/May/Anna Vanderwende

we helped out at the special olympics,the longfellow school carnival and last but not least we designed some "buckle up" signs at our school parking lot to promote save driving by spray painting a sigh

Helena High School/February/Catie Opar
The Report: Monthly Report February:
Once again Key Club had a slow month. The one event we had just took place
on February 28. The Elk's Club was promoting reading, and had our club
(along with Capitol High Schools) come and read Dr. Seuss books to the kids.
We had two readers, one that read The Cat in the Hat, and the other read Fox
in Socks. Also, our entire group acted out The Snitches. The kids really
enjoyed it, and most of club was able to attend.

Division 7

Glasgow High School/April/Alison Dahl

Hi! My name is Alison Dahl, and I have just been inducted as our club's new reporter. So this will be my first report for the job, and I hope it's up to snuff.
So! One of our bigger projects we are focusing on right now is Project Life, which, essentially, is being more focused on the bullying aspect. We have formed an anti-bully committee that is in the process of coming up with ideas to really promote anti-bully behavior, such as videos for video announcements in the mornings, t-shirts, and possibly workshops where we would "train" younger middle school kids how to spot bullying and prevent it.
Last Easter we held an Easter egg hunt for the little kids community wide. It was a pretty popular event. We also have a project for Headstart where we buy school supplies and back packs for middle school kids who may not be able to afford all that they need. And we had a day where we made root beer floats for the little kids to have some bonding time with them. That was a hit.
We are still aggressively collecting pop tabs for Ronald McDonald house. It's going pretty well.
As for summer projects, we have initiated the relay for life team, and they are actively having meetings and such. In our town, we have an underpass that gets alot of graffiti written all over and really nasty stuff, so usually one of the local groups paints over all the writing to try to keep it clean. Annually. So this year Key Club has decided to take it on as a project for our community. It should be fun!

That's all I have for now. See ya for the next report! Hope I didn't dissapoint. :D

Malta High School/3/30-4/23/Ramona King

Sorry this is really kind of late. In March we had our annual Key Club Board installation banquet In April we've been quite busy. We helped in serving a few treats during one of the Little Rockie Preformances. We also had a First Grade Social centered around the theme of May Day, it was awesome. In our meetings we are talking about how we are going start Project Life in our school (it's a work in progress)

Malta High School/February 10, 2010 -March 10, 2010/Kelli Christofferson
I wasn't sure if I was supposed to do a report since the new
elections were done but i'll do it anyways!! =]  In February our Key Club
went to the Elementary to do a First Grade Social. This social went the best
out of all of them that i have gone to in the past. Nicole Arnold organized
this Social very well. Our board wrote recommendations for people in our
club who have done greatly this past year.  For the first time in a long
time, we paid early dues for DCON. I have talked to new people who went this
year to Districts and they thought it was a blast. They like the food and
the workshops that was there. Hopefully they'll tell their friends to come
next year also.

Malta High School/1-10 to 2-10/Kelli Christofferson
The Report: Sorry for a day late on this report i've been real busy with
getting my health up to par. The past month we helped with Kiwanis and
Speech and Drama Meet that was held here in Malta. We have been talking
about the Distinguished officer and are meeting tonight to fill it out.  We
are so ready for DCON!!!!

Division 8

Columbia Falls/MayRachael Hagadone

The month of May was pretty solid. We held the March of Dimes walk on May 11th. Some people helped in selling root beer floats to raise money to go to ICON! On May 23rd some people painted the football concession stands. We also did school garbage clean up. On Memorial Day we went flag posting with our Kiwanis. We also painted the chamber of commerce and on the 24th of May we did our senior appreciation. We got cupcakes and got to hear the last words of our seniors! So that’s it for the month of May!

Columbia Falls/March and April/Rachael Hagadone

Hello all :) In march CFHS key club helped with special olympics and the 1st and 2nd. it was such a blast! we also did bingo and the 4th and the 18th at the veterans home! We also went to DCON. which was more than amazing. We had seven people go it was pretty legit. Also in march about 10 people Volunteered to go to our discovery center to do the nasty job... clean toilets! Also some people helped out with parking cars on the 19,20, and 21 with the kalispell Kiwanis. and the read and lead on the 26. Now on to April. there was Bingo on the 1st and 15. And on the 9th there was Jump for heart at one of the elemantry schools. We also held the Ballers vs. brawlers on april 12. and on april 30th we held a spring fling dance.