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Staff Council is sponsoring a food and toy drive for the GRACE for Christmas Food and Toy Drive beginning on Monday, Nov. 16, to Friday, Dec. 4, 2009. Pick up will be on Monday, Dec. 7. GRACE, (Greater Rolla Area Community Enterprise) provides food, clothing and toys for the less fortunate in our community every year, bringing assistance to over 700 families.

Types of donations accepted are: Canned foods, non-perishable food items, new toys and children's books.

Drop Boxes will be located in the following buildings and departments:

IDE
Bookstore
Campus Support Facility
Castleman Hall
Civil Engineering
Computer Science
Electrical Engineering
Engineering Management
ERL
Fulton Hall
General Services
Harris Hall
Havener Center
HSS
Human Resources
IT
Library
McNutt Hall
Mechanical Engineering
Multi-Purpose Building
MRC
Norwood
Parker Hall
Physics
RPDC
Rock Mechanics
Rolla Building
Schrenk Hall
Centennial Hall
USBM
Grounds Shop
Residential Life

There are a number of children in our area that don't get enough to eat over the weekend. Staff Council is asking faculty, staff and students to help with the Friday Backpack Program, facilitated by the Hope Alliance of Missouri. This program helps fill the nutritional gap over the weekend for young students who exhibit signs of needing extra food and nutrition.

Each child receives a backpack filled with nutritious pre-assembled food to take home on Fridays. Although many kids look forward to weekends, for others, weekends are a time when they go hungry. The backpacks help fill this void for more than 205 students from Rolla and Newburg elementary schools.

Continue Reading - Friday Backpack Program Information

Staff Council is sponsoring a food and toy drive for GRACE (Greater Rolla Area Community Enterprise) for the next few weeks. GRACE responds to emergency needs of individuals and families in Phelps County. All gifts will go directly to needy individuals and families. Monetary donations also will be accepted and may be given to any Staff Council member or your building coordinator. Building coordinators in each campus building will prepare boxes to serve as collection sites. Suggested items to be donated include:

-- Toys: for children from birth through teens (new or like new accepted)

-- Canned goods: chicken noodle soup, tomato soup, vegetable soup, tomato sauce, spaghetti, ravioli, applesauce, mixed fruit, pork-n-beans (no glass containers please)

-- Boxed items: elbow macaroni, saltine crackers, pancake syrup, Bisquick, oatmeal, corn flakes, brownie mix, sandwich cookies, cocoa mix

Building Contact List:

IDE - Patty Robertson - Room #107 Ext. 4974

Bookstore - David Wilson - Ext. #7523

Campus Support Facility - Joyce Beadle - Room #105 - Ext. 4260

Castleman Hall - Shelly Plank - Room #127 - Ext. 4185

Civil Engineering - Darlene Turner - Room #211F - Ext. 4412

Comp Sci Building - Rhonda Grayson - Room #325 - Ext. 4492

Electrical Engineering - Carol Lay - Room #140 - Ext. 4509

Engineering Management - Mandy Soylemezoglu - Room #223 - Ext. 4561

ERL - Gail Richards - Room #306 - Ext. 4615

Fulton Hall - Debbie Singer - Room #306 - Ext. 7216

General Services - Dee White - Room #101 - Ext. 6424

Harris Hall - Marcy Scott - Room #101 - Ext. 4800

Havener Center - Tina Malchert - Room #218 - Ext. 4297

HSS Building -

Human Resource Services - Lauri Bracken - Room #113 Centennial Hall - Ext. 4241

Information Technology - Cheryl Ahrens - Room #104 - Ext. 7525

Library - Mary Gabel - Ext. 4427 

McNutt Hall - Judy Russell - Room #230 - Ext. 7652

Mechanical Engineering - Cathy Williams - Room #111 - Ext. 4602

Multi-Purpose Building - Patti Peterson - Room #G-2 - Ext. 4973

MRC - Judy Edgar - Room #101 - Ext. 4352

Norwood Hall

Nuclear Reactor

Parker Hall - Parker Hall - Joyce Abbott - Room #210 - Ext. 4122

Physics - Pam Crabtree - Room #102 - Ext. 4781

RPDC - Christina Nothnagel - 800 Univeristy Drive - Ext. 6818

Rock Mechanics Diance Henke - Room #116 - Ext. 4365

Rolla Building

Schrenk Hall - Jessica Pelc - Room #105 - Ext. 4831

Centennial Hall - Christie Wilson - Room #202 - Ext. 4134

USBM Building 1 - Tina Krewson - Room #103 BOM#1 - Ext. 6162

Grounds Shop - Brenda Cook - Room #101 W. 12th - Ext. 4247

Staff Council is sponsoring a food and toy drive for GRACE (Greater Rolla Area Community Enterprise). GRACE responds to emergency needs of individuals and families in Phelps County. All gifts will go directly to needy individuals and families. Monetary donations also will be accepted and may be given to any Staff Council member or your Building Coordinator. Building coordinators in each campus building will prepare boxes to serve as collection sites. Staff Council will be collecting all items on December 7, 2007. Suggested items to be donated include:

Toys: for children from birth through teens (new or like new accepted)

Canned goods: chicken noodle soup, tomato soup, vegetable soup, tomato sauce, spaghetti, ravioli, applesauce, mixed fruit, pork-n-beans, (no glass containers please)

Boxed items: elbow macaroni, saltine crackers, pancake syrup, Bisquick, oatmeal, corn flakes, brownie mix, sandwhich cookies, cocoa mix.

UMR Staff Council and UMR Retirees will host a blood drive with the Community Blood Center of the Ozarks. The drive will be held from 11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 26, in St. Pats Rooms A and B of the Havener Center on the UMR campus.

Participants in the Rock & Roll up your Sleeve Blood Drive will receive a collectible and custom event t-shirt, and can win prizes from Pepsi. KKID Radio will be rocking the drive away with a live remote broadcast from 11:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. The drive is sponsored by KKID Radio and Pepsi Cola Bottling Company of Rolla.

Donors are needed. The Community Blood Center of the Ozarks has issued a code yellow alert for all negative blood types, Type A positive and O Positive. There is less than a two-day supply of these blood types on hospital shelves.