Helping a family go home
Community service spotlight part of MUNdays
By Jeff Green
Tool boxes in hand and a spark of determination in their eyes, a team of Memorial staff, faculty and students are heading to Mount Pearl this week to help put a brand new roof over the heads of one deserving family.
It’s all part of a massive community service project that will see a five-bedroom home for the eight-member Anthony family go up in the span of only nine days.
Memorial has teamed up with Petro-Canada to build the house in collaboration with Cabot Habitat for Humanity.
More than 300 members of the university community – 100 employees and 200 students – will do everything from install sinks and subfloors to painting and plastering.
Employees and students from a string of units ranging from Education, Pharmacy and Nursing to Facilities Management, Engineering and the Botanical Garden jumped on board weeks ago, volunteering to help give back to the community.
The build takes place in the midst of MUNdays, Memorial’s annual fall celebration on the St. John’s campus.
“Melissa James, a Faculty of Arts student and a Student Affairs and Services ‘Amazing Student’ brought this exciting idea to me this past winter,” said Kim Kelly, experiential learning co-ordinator with Career Development and Experiential Learning and one of the key organizers. She, Jessica Clarke with Marketing and Communications and Ms. James have spent months spearheading the project at Memorial and gathering support for the mammoth project.
They’ve been joined by a subcommittee that includes representatives from academic and administrative units.
Faculty members from both Social Work and Community Health in Medicine have also incorporated the build into their curriculum.
Organizers hope the Anthony’s new home will be completed by Oct. 26.
To learn more about Memorial’s involvement and its partnership with Petro-Canada in the Cabot Habitat for Humanity build, call Kim Kelly at 737-2607, or Jessica Clarke at 737-8415.
8 can’t miss MUNDays events
From Oct. 21-25, Memorial is kicking up its heels and throwing a
great big party – so big it needs two campuses to celebrate.
Check out these must-see events taking place under the banners of I
Love MUNdays on the St. John’s campus and I Fell for Grenfell
in Corner Brook.
Battle of the Sexes and Out-Move
Sammy
Oct. 21 at the Field
House
Campus Dash
Oct. 22 in the Food Court,
Grenfell College
Rant like Rick
Finals
Oct. 22 University
Centre
Healthy Bodies/Healthy Minds
Fair
Oct. 23 Food Court, Grenfell
College
International
Night
Oct. 23 Food Court, Grenfell
College
Sports Challenge
Oct. 24 Grenfell College
gym
Battle of the Rock
Bands
Oct. 24 Breezeway
Barnes House Charity Truck
Pull
Oct. 25 Area 15 Parking
Lot
Check out www.mun.ca/mundays/and
www.swgc.mun.ca/celebrate for full details
on these and lots of other events.
