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November 16, 2004
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Photo courtesy of Rebecca Straughmatt |
| Michelle McConnell paints Tosh Summons’ face during an “Into the Streets” event. Approximately 150 volunteers signed up for the event in order to allow children in Tempe, Mesa, and Scottsdale, to have fun. |
MCC goes "Into the Streets"
Program allows students to reach out to local children
Ben Lohmeier
Mesa Legend
Mesa Community College’s Associated Students of Mesa Community College (ASMCC) group put together a program called “Into the Streets,” on Oct. 30. The program rounded up approximately 150 volunteers for the event that actually went into the streets of Tempe, Mesa, and Scottsdale, to host numerous activities from face painting for kids, to reading to disabled individuals.
“This is for the kids,” said MCC student and volunteer for the Into the Streets program, Dominique Wilson. “We just want to let the kids have a good time somewhere where they can be safe, and this is free for them, too.”
Wilson was involved at the Boys and Girls Club in Tempe where kids got to dress up in their halloween costumes and went to different stations such as a ring toss, coloring, face painting, and were given grab bags packed with goodies.
“This program goes as far back as 1999,” said Youth Development Director for the Boys and Girls Club in Tempe, Vic Cordts.
“This is just for the kids to have fun and to teach them a few different things. This year, we are really focusing on diversity issues. We just incorporate it into a little presentation and a few activities. The kids are great, too, they really take it all in.”
There were nine different sites that ASMCC visited that day, including the Neighborhood Outreach in Tempe, and Star in Scottsdale for the disabled.
“There were just numerous activities that we put on today,” said Alisha Bloom.
“We donated books, cleaned alleyways and had Halloween parties. It’s great for the people we put this on for.”
The volunteers were split into groups according to the measure of the sites.
“The volunteers were at school by 7:30 in the morning and they won’t be done until after two in the afternoon,” said the director of Into the Streets, Dawn Russell.
Following the site visits, the participants reconvened at MCC for lunch and to thank all the volunteers for their time.
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