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May 4, 2004
Volunteers
venture ‘Into the Streets’
Francesca van
der Feltz
Mesa Legend
Volunteers representing MCC donned light blue T-shirts, ate breakfast
in the Kirk Student Center and prepared to serve their community with
their time and talents April 18.
The participants of Into the Streets, the Associated Students of Mesa
Community College’s annual day of community service, split into
three groups to work on projects to benefit the people of Mesa.
About 60 MCC staff, faculty members, students and non-MCC participants
worked together for Into the Streets, the only volunteer event planned
solely by ASMCC, said Alisha Bloom, executive vice president of fiscal
affairs for ASMCC.
“We do have a lot of volunteer events that go on throughout the
year … we just take on events through other people; we don’t
plan them, but we try to get participants and sponsor them,” Bloom
said.
One group of Into the Streets participants distributed information packets
for the Mesa Senior Center to the homes of senior citizens. Another group
helped Neighborhood Outreach, an organization dedicated to improving the
community, by analyzing and photographing sites in need of repair. A third
group of volunteers stayed in MCC’s Kirk Center and made crafts
to be sold for funding for the Mesa Men’s Center.
“This is the (event) where we try to do more than one thing; that’s
why it’s called ‘Into the Streets’ – because it’s
not just one volunteer project,” Bloom said.
The projects for April 18 were unique because each one was a part of a
larger project hosted by the service organizations that collaborated with
the ASMCC for the event, Bloom explained.
“It’s a way for us to get students involved in the community
… We’re trying to help MCC have a positive influence on the
community, and we’re doing it through students and faculty and administration
going out into the community and giving their time and effort to it,”
Bloom added.
Jessica Hatfield, an MCC student, heard about Into the Streets through
an announcement at a Phi Theta Kappa meeting.
“It sounded like a good opportunity because I knew a lot of people
would be coming, and with all the different … places that I knew
we would be going, it just sounded like something that would be fun,”
Hatfield said.
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