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January 11, 2007
MOORESTOWN FRIENDS SCHOOL CELEBRATES For the seventh consecutive year, Moorestown Friends School students, faculty and parents will perform community service work together to observe the national Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, Monday, January 15. Volunteers of all ages will gather at 10 a.m. at the school. They will assemble in the Moorestown Friends Meeting House for a Quaker Meeting for Worship in honor of Dr. King, coordinated by student members of the Upper School Martin Luther King Club, before beginning work on the projects at activity centers on campus. Each activity has student and parent coordinators. The activities are:
Activity 1 — Casseroles for the New Visions Community Services in Camden: Students and their families will be making casseroles at the school and will also be bringing frozen or ready-to-be frozen casseroles to the school.
Activity 2 — Birthday Party Bags: Materials will be gathered to make birthday party bags for people who would not otherwise have a birthday celebration at the Devereux Foundation Group Homes for mentally challenged residents. The bags (to be decorated that day) contain cake mix, frosting, candles, decorations, and a small gift. Activity 3 — Computer-generated Coloring Books: The 4th Grade Service Club is organizing students to copy and collate pages and bind them into coloring books for the Birthday Bags for Devereux. Activity 4 — Health Kits: Students organize and fill two-gallon plastic zip lock bags with toiletries for homeless people who come to New Visions to shower and get a hot meal. Bags contain toothpaste, toothbrush, soap, shampoo, disposable razor, deodorant, shaving cream, hand cream, washcloth, comb, and socks. Activity 5 — Knitting and crocheting scarves: Participants make scarves for a women’s shelter.
Activity 6 — Holiday boxes: Storage boxes are filled with easy crafts for a variety of holidays for the Devereux Foundation.
Activity 7 — Wooden Toy Kits: In the MFS woodshop, the Middle School Kids for Peace club direct volunteers to cut pieces for simple wooden toys. Parts are sanded and bagged into kits with instructions provided to Devereux homes, Samaritan Hospice and New Visions. Activity 8 — Sewing soft stuffed toys. Activity 9 — Project Linus Blankets: Fleece cuddly blankets are made for hospitalized children. This is the seventh year that MFS has scheduled community service activities as part of the King Day observance. In previous years, over 200 students, faculty and parent volunteers have prepared dozens of casseroles, pans of brownies and decorated cookies, and hundreds of health kits, birthday boxes and birthday cards. In addition, some MFS families elect to spend the day on community service work organized through their own houses of worship and other organizations. Service learning is a longstanding part of the curriculum at MFS. It is an MFS graduation requirement to complete 50 hours of community service. ###
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