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.

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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.

Posted by Mindy Limback at 07:53 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)