Food drive, student projects part of MLK day of service
By Erin McIlraith, Center for Civic Engagement
PULLMAN, Wash. – Donations of sustainable, local, organic food for 13 rural Whitman County food pantries will be accepted 8 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday, Jan. 16, by Washington State University students at Dissmore’s IGA as part of the national Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service.
Donors will receive a fair trade tote bag.
WSU students will also participate in seven community service projects: maintenance and cleaning for Family Promise of the Palouse; sorting and archiving civil rights era newspaper articles with White Spring Ranch Museum; assisting seniors with chores with the Pullman Council on Aging; cleaning up Paradise Creek with the Palouse-Clearwater Environmental Institute; helping seniors with computers and other devices at Avalon Care Center; taking down and storing Christmas decorations at the Regional Theatre of the Palouse; and taking inventory and sorting donations at the Hope Center in Moscow, Idaho.
Students can sign up on CougSync (https://orgsync.com/390/community/opportunities?utf8=%E2%9C%93&sort=&title=%28cce+transportation+provided%29&date=Jan+16%2C+2017&
partner_id=&timeframe%5Bsingle%5D=1&timeframe%5Bmultiple%5D=1&timeframe%5Bongoing%5D=1); transportation is provided.
Community volunteers are welcome at the Hope Center and regional theater; contact them before Monday at hopecenterservices@gmail.com and rtoptheatre@gmail.com, respectively, to schedule a shift.
Other WSU events celebrating King’s legacy include a public square discussion Jan. 19 and the 30th annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Celebration on Jan. 26. Learn more at http://cce.wsu.edu/daysofservice and http://mlk.wsu.edu.
News media contact:
Erin McIlraith, WSU Center for Civic Engagement, 509-335-0578, emcilraith@wsu.edu
