JSRCC’s Goochland Campus responded to Governor McDonnell’s telephone band for a Day of Service past times participating inwards Goochland’s Free Clinic together with Family Services Food Drive. Rather than serving beau citizens for simply i day, nutrient was collected from September 10th through September 28th.
Assistant Dean of the School of Business Chuck Swaim contacted the Goochland Free Clinic together with Family Services together with secured posters together with bags for nutrient collection. Karen Gentry from the Student Success Center strategically located the posters together with empty bags simply about campus together with was instrumental inwards encouraging students, staff, together with faculty to participate. She reports that generous JSRCC students would option upward an empty bag, attain got it dwelling together with provide the side past times side twenty-four lx minutes menstruum to driblet off a purse amount of grocery items.
Chuck Swaim noted, “It was our close successful nutrient collection on-campus inwards recent retentiveness amongst 248 pounds of groceries collected.”
After the nutrient was delivered to Sally Graham, Executive Director of Goochland Free Clinic together with Family Services remarked, “The amount for JSR was 248 pounds! Thank you lot together with then much for your assistance together with support. We collected over 14,500 lbs. of nutrient together with are however counting. This has been fifty-fifty to a greater extent than successful than nosotros imagined.”