FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2009
Contact: Dave Wellman, Director of Communications, 304-696-7153
 

Marshall’s annual Day of Service is Saturday, Sept. 12

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Marshall University’s Student Affairs and Student Government Association are sponsoring the university’s annual Day of Service, an organized cleanup of the Huntington campus and the community, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 12

UNI 101 and Honors 101 classes, along with student organizations, will participate, along with faculty and staff wanting to get involved in the cleanup.

“Day of Service is the perfect opportunity for students, faculty, staff and the community to show their pride in Marshall University and the Huntington area,” said Lisa Martin, coordinator of the event. “We have a variety of tasks from picking up trash to washing cars to raise funds for the United Way to creating get-well cards for hospitalized children. This event will help those who participate realize the importance of giving back to the community.”  

Below is a list of projects, many off campus, for people to participate in on the Day of Service.

  • Huntington Community Gardens needs 25 people to weed, work on compost bins and waste center and various other manual tasks. People will meet at the Barnett Center at 1524 10th Ave. and will be dispersed from there to various other sites.

  • The MU Greenhouse directed by Marcia Harrison needs five people to clean up storage areas and clutter around the site.

  • Habitat for Humanity is looking for five people to participate in a build. They will meet at a specified site and need to call Nikki at 304-523-4822 two days in advance to verify the site.

  • The MU Child Development Academy located at 520 22nd St. needs approximately 22 people to shovel and spread mulch in the playground area, wipe down and disinfect chairs in a classroom, and various other tasks in the academy. 

  • Ebenezer Community Outreach Center located at 1660 8th Ave. needs 10 people to pull weeds around playgrounds, plant, and mulch.

  • Goodwill needs five people to work in the main office and in the store both in the Huntington and Barboursville locations.

  • Enslow needs approximately 10 people to weed around the Little League field.

  • Career Services at Marshall University needs one class of students to wash automobiles. Proceeds will benefit the United Way.

  • Marshall University needs an unlimited amount of people to write letters for St. Jude’s Hospital. Students will have the opportunity to send letters out to their friends and family members asking them if they would like to help fight childhood cancer by donating to St. Jude. St. Jude will provide the written letters and students will fill out the names and addresses. The goal for the Huntington campus is to complete 1,000 letters. Participants will need to bring a list of addresses of people they know and will also be making get-well cards for the children in the hospital. They will meet in the Don Morris room, located on the second floor of the Memorial Student Center.

  • Hospitality House located at 2801 South Staunton Rd. will need an unlimited amount of people for miscellaneous projects.

Student Affairs and the SGA are currently accepting names and addresses for the St. Jude’s letter writing campaign. Names and addresses may be submitted to Amy Saunders at saunde22@marshall.edu through Thursday.

Day of Service registration begins at 9 a.m. on the Memorial Student Center plaza. A cookout for all participants will take place on the plaza following the service projects, and the Marshall-Virginia Tech football game will be shown on TVs inside the student center beginning at 1:30 p.m.

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