Students Take to The Streets to Do Local Community Service Work
An army of Westminster College students, faculty and staff will take to the Fulton streets from 10 a.m. until noon on Saturday, Oct. 12, to do everything from landscaping to making get well cards for children in the hospital.
Westminster College students, faculty and staff spend at least 10,000 hours every year doing community service.
“We call our project ‘Into the Streets’ because our students leave the Westminster campus on this day to go out into the streets of Fulton to engage in service projects for the local community,” says Katie McMurtrey, ’14, President of Service Corps who is organizing and coordinating the day’s activities. “Teaching students to become involved in their communities is an integral part of our mission here at Westminster College.”
Last year approximately 200 students participated in the day’s activities.
Twenty different projects will be undertaken at city sites such as the Fulton Housing Authority, Head Start, Our House, Churchill Terrace, Fulton Theater, Faith Maternity Care, Clothes Cupboard, Soup Kitchen and a number of private residences.
Student volunteers will be doing landscaping, painting, cleaning, raking leaves, creating get well cards for children in the hospital, moving flowers, pulling weeds, trimming, decorating for Halloween and picking up Walnuts.
Volunteers will meet at 9:15 a.m. in the Hunter Activity Center on campus to receive their assignments. Free breakfast and a limited number of free t-shirts will be provided.
The day is supported by Westminster Service Corps, the Office of Community Engagement and Service-Learning and the Emerson Center for Leadership & Service.
Sponsors of this year’s event include Alpha Gamma Delta, Beta Theta Pi, Black Student Association, Environmentally Concerned Students (ECos), Service Corps, Emerson Center for Leadership & Service, Habitat for Humanity/Blue Jay Builders, International Club, Kappa Alpha Order, Kappa Alpha Theta, Making Lives Better, Phi Delta Theta, PieceMakers, Student Ambassadors and World Health Empowerment Project.
