First-Year Students Volunteer Through Hands for Change

Aug 24, 2012

FOR MORE INFORMATION:
EMILY SELLER, Hands for Change Coordinator
(218) 299-4167, csc@cord.edu
AMY KELLY, Media Relations director
(218) 299-3642

FIRST-YEAR CONCORDIA STUDENTS VOLUNTEER
THROUGH HANDS FOR CHANGE

Students at Concordia College, Moorhead, Minn., will participate in the 19th annual Hands for Change outreach event on Monday, Aug. 27, during new student orientation week. Concordia will send hundreds of volunteers out into the Fargo-Moorhead community to participate in 37 different service projects.

Activities will begin with a send-off ceremony at 8:15 a.m. at the bell tower (rain site Memorial Auditorium). President William Craft will speak at the ceremony.

Students will arrive at various service sites at approximately 9 a.m. and work until 11:30 a.m. when they will return to campus for lunch. Throughout the afternoon, students will be engaging in conversations about their service-learning experiences. The 2012 Hands for Change coordinator Emily Seller, English professor Amy Watkin and Dr. Mark Krejci, provost and dean of the college, will speak at the closing ceremony at 3:15 p.m.

Hands for Change projects which are open to the media are listed below with their locations and contact names.

American Red Cross: Teresa – (701) 364-1800
2602 12th St, North, Fargo
Variety of projects including organizing offices, washing windows and cleaning out disaster vehicles

Bonanzaville USA: Julie – (701) 282-2822
1351 Main Avenue West, West Fargo
Cleaning the exhibits and beautifying the grounds

Fargo Air Museum: Helen – (701) 293-8043
1609 19th Avenue North  Fargo
Cleaning of the exhibit floor and glass cleaning

Fargo-Moorhead Community Theatre: Shelly –  (701) 235-6778
333 4th St. S., Fargo
A variety of projects around the theatre, including painting, moving furniture, helping in the costume and scenic department

Fraser, Ltd.: Barb – (701) 232-3301
2902 University Dr. S. #2, Fargo
Serving in the child care center doing crafts, reading or playing with the children

Great Plains Food Bank: Jesse – (701) 476-9110
1720 3rd Ave. N., Fargo
Packing, repack, and sorting of food donation boxes

Lutheran Social Services – NAS: Darci (701) 271-1604
3911 20th Ave. S, Fargo
Organizing warehouse and storage spaces

PATH: Tracey – (701) 551-6364
1112 Nodak Drive, Suite 200, Fargo
Nurtured Heart rock project

Red River Zoo: Debbie – (701) 277-9240
4255 23rd Avenue South, Fargo
Beautifying the grounds; weeding flower beds and clearing garbage around the fence lines

United Way: Teresa – (701) 237-5050
219 7th St. S., Fargo
Organizing books for United Way’s Imagination Library program. After preparing books, the students will be walking over to the YMCA to read to the children

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