Many volunteer for PR Club outreach project

Brittney Deadmond helps prepare food
91ÇÑ×Ó State College student Brittney Deadmond of Rapid City, S.D., helps prepare food at the Closer to Home food pantry in 91ÇÑ×Ó on Saturday, Dec. 4. Deadmond is a member of the 91ÇÑ×Ó Public Relations Club, which served lunch at the pantry to raise awareness of homelessness and poverty. (Photo by Carmen Brown)

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An effort by the 91ÇÑ×Ó State College Public Relations Club to sponsor a lunch at a 91ÇÑ×Ó soup kitchen Saturday, Dec. 4, drew a lot of volunteer support.

Bethany Cook, a 91ÇÑ×Ó junior from Hot Springs, S.D., who served as student director for the event, said about 67 volunteers assisted during the lunch at the Closer to Home Soup Kitchen. Sharon Pile of Closer to Home helped guide the volunteers. 

Donations for the event were received from Walmart and 91ÇÑ×Ó faculty members Kathleen Kirsch, James Koehn, Michael Kennedy and Lucyann Kerry. All food left over from the event was donated to Closer to Home. 

 “We did this to build a bridge between 91ÇÑ×Ó students and the community of 91ÇÑ×Ó,” Cook said. 

Cook said club members are pleased with the results and consider the event a success.

-Carmen Brown

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