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Finding
treasure while rummaging through junk
By Michelle Siazon
On-line Forty-Niner
As dorm residents
pack up their belongings to vacate the halls, they may begin
to wonder how they'll ever be able to take all the accumulated
and miscellaneous junk home. Well, one person's junk may be
another's treasure.
Student Housing, in its first year collaborating with the
Isabel Patterson Child Development Center and Physical Planning
and Facilities Management, is asking dorm residents to donate
their unwanted items for the Child Development Center's annual
rummage sale on June 1.
"Since I live six and a half hours away, it's great to
know that I can give them my unwanted stuff and not have to
take it all home," said Parkside Commons resident Kristiana
Camateros. "And it's for a good cause."
From today through the 28, marked containers for clothes will
be located in the residence hall office of each dormitory
for donation. Near the trash dumpsters outside of each hall
building will be a marked bin for flattened cardboard and
mixed paper, along with a designated area for used furniture
and working appliances.
"I would definitely be willing to help out," said
Parkside Commons resident Diana Bartels. "I work with
kids and many of them would benefit from donations to this
event. I think it's important to do things to raise money
that will benefit kids."
The center aims to raise $2,000 this year in order to fund
playground renovations to meet new playground safety regulations
for the state of California, according to Brigette Wong, development
associate for Associated Students Inc.
"I'd totally participate because benefiting at least
once child, let alone the whole center, makes a difference,"
said International house resident assistant, Kassie Thornton
from Kansas. "It's well worth supporting this cause because
it'll give the kids a safer place to play, which is always
good. They'll probably be able to use the money they get from
my stuff more than I actually use some of my things."
Operating for about 32 years now, the center has held its
annual rummage sale, run by the center's staff and student
workers, for more than 10 years and will be advertised in
surrounding neighborhood areas, as well as the Grunion Gazette
and the Pennysaver.
"Staff and student-parents mostly donate used clothes,
books, toys, appliances and used bicycles ... ," said
Wong. "We hope housing residents make donations as well
as recycle their used items. It's a win-win situation because
we are recycling unwanted items instead of throwing them in
the trash and landfills."
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