College life isn’t only well-nigh classes, projects too exams. Sometimes it’s well-nigh helping others. As wintertime atmospheric condition approaches, the students, faculty too staff at Reynolds adopted several projects inward back upwardly of the local community during the vacation season:
- The Program for Adults inward Vocational Education (PAVE) Club, which develops leadership too social skills for students inward the PAVE program, sponsored a Toys for Tots Drive to collect novel toys for distribution to less fortunate children inward the local community.
- A squad of xi volunteers recruited past times the Classified Council worked over fifty hours at the Salvation Army’s Christmas warehouse on Dec fourteen too 17 helping to distribute Angel Tree gifts. According to the Salvation Army, for many kids, the gifts they have through Angel Tree volition survive the exclusively ones they opened upwardly on Christmas Day.
- The Reynolds Department of Police likewise gave it’s fourth dimension to the community during the vacation flavor equally Reynolds Police Sergeant William Judon assisted the Richmond Police Department too the Virginia Attorney General’s Office inward handing out gifts to 52 children inward the City of Richmond. The Reynolds shuttle was used to carry bikes too other gifts inward Church Hill.
- Reynolds Professional Administrative too Faculty Senate (PAFS) sponsored a schoolhouse provide crusade for Lakeside too Westover Hills Elementary Schools, collecting supplies to restock shelves amongst fresh notebooks, crayons, paper, glue, markers, pencils, etc. for the students when they render to schoolhouse from wintertime break. The crusade was a HUGE success amongst only nether 3,000 items--enough to own amount upwardly 2 cars delivered on Thursday, Dec 17.
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| Fredrick Geissler, associate main at Lakeside Elementary School too Laurie Weinberg |
- Finally, keeping warm inward the months ahead is challenging for roughly inward our community. To own amount this require the Classified Council placed Warming Trees on each campus seeking donations of novel hats, gloves, mittens, etc. inward a arrive at of sizes from infants to adults. More than 500 items were collected too delivered to the Salvation Army on Monday, Dec 21.
A heartfelt give thank you lot you to all who donated too volunteered to brand the flavor brilliant too warm for others!