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Avery High School Key Club
Project Eliminate Fundraiser
Avery High Key Club members Caroline Goff (left) and Reagan Dellinger flanked
Principal Todd Griffin on May 15. Students purchased $2 lengths of duct tape to tape
their principal to the cafeteria wall--all part of a fundraiser to support Project
Eliminate. The cost of one piece of tape covers the expense of an immunization
preventing maternal neonatal tetanus in an underdeveloped country. As a result of Key
Club imagination and a good-hearted principal, 100 babies will be saved from a tetanus
death. (from Jim Swinkola)
05-27-2015 15:18:58 Posted by: Web Elk
AHS Award Winning Key Club
The Avery High Key Club returned from Durham with multiple awards. For overall stellar
performance, the local group received the Distinguished Service Diamond Club
recognition. Additional club awards included: Focus on Kiwanis One Day 2014 Single Service
Award - 1st Place; Non-Traditional Scrapbook Award - 1st Place; Digital Poster Award - 1st Place;
Key Club Video - 3rd Place.
Two club members placed on the awards podium for individual contest achievement: Essay
Contest - 2nd Place Individual - Caroline Shirley; Oratorical Contest - 3rd Place Individual - Reagan
Dellinger
Sarah Cleary, who has served as Carolinas Key Club Lt. Governor for the past two years was
announced as a Kiwanis Foundation Scholarship recipient and will receive a $1,000 college
scholarship. Reagan Dellinger was elected the new Lt. Governor for Carolinas District Key Club.
Front row, left to right: Brittany Storie, Allison Gregory, Tess Snider, Maddie Daniels. Back
row: Teresa Shadoin, Advisor, Reagan Dellinger, Mallory Tenge, Caroline Shirley, Aubrey Greene,
Kelly Magner, and Gary Cooper, Carolina's District Governor.
Of the many awards brought home by the Avery County High School Key Club following the threeday 2015 District Convention in Durham, receiving "distinguished diamond club honors" for service
reflects the greatest overall club achievement. After providing a stunning 4,000+ hours of
volunteer service to the Avery County community in the last year, the local club was one of three
among 240 eligible Key Club organizations in both North and South Carolina to "bring home the
diamond!" Superintendent David Burleson (left) joins Kiwanis Club of Banner Elk President Dan
Brubaker in displaying the coveted award.
03-30-2015 18:20:13 Posted by: Web Elk
2015 AHS Key Club Conference Reps
This "gaggle of girls" from the Key Club will represent Avery County High
School during the 3-day Key Club District
Convention starting March 13 in Durham.
Left to right on front row: Caroline
Shirley, Reagan Dellinger, Caroline Goff,
Kelly Magner, Mallory Tenge. Back row:
Aubrey Greene, Brittany Storie, Allison
Gregory, Tess Snider, Maddie Daniels
and Sarah Cleary. An annual event, the
2015 DCON is tagged Need to Lead and
promotes leadership skills. (Jim Swinkola)
03-05-2015 12:41:02 Posted by: Web Elk