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Red Nose Day to raise money for Oxford food pantry
Megan Brooks
Issue date: 3/7/08 Section: Campus
If all goes according to some students' plans, everyone will be walking around campus with a red nose by April 18.
In mid-April, Miami University students will have the chance buy and wear a red nose as part of Red Nose Day, a community service project put on by Clawson Hall's Community Council.
According to Isaac Reynolds, Associated Student Government (ASG) student senator for Clawson Hall, members of the council will be selling red noses for $2 during the week of April 14-18. The noses will go on sale at various locations, including Haines Food Court and Alexander Hall.
The idea was inspired by the event Comic Relief, which takes place every two years in the United Kingdom to fight poverty.
Reynolds said he thought there could be a way to bring Red Nose day from the United Kingdom to Oxford, so he brought it up to Clawson's Hall Council, and the idea took off.
Money from the sales will go toward the Oxford Community Choice pantry, which provides foods for families in need, according to sophomore Supal Desai, president of Clawson's Hall Council.
"The pantry is really a small storage room on (Route) 27," Desai said. "It feeds 450 in the Talawanda area and the number is growing. They want to expand to not only being a pantry but having a social services office."
According to Desai, the Oxford Community Choice Pantry is set up like a Wal-Mart, where people take a cart and are able to pick out the foods they want.
"It takes $25,000 just to run the pantry every year," Desai said. "We want to help them with helping people. It's not just the average food bank. It's really trying to help people with nutritional food."
Mike Johnson, food manager of the Oxford Community Choice Pantry, said the donation from Red Nose Day will help the pantry in two ways.
"The funds that they're able to raise will be used for the purchase of food items that we don't necessarily get from food drives and for operating expenses," Johnson said.
In mid-April, Miami University students will have the chance buy and wear a red nose as part of Red Nose Day, a community service project put on by Clawson Hall's Community Council.
According to Isaac Reynolds, Associated Student Government (ASG) student senator for Clawson Hall, members of the council will be selling red noses for $2 during the week of April 14-18. The noses will go on sale at various locations, including Haines Food Court and Alexander Hall.
The idea was inspired by the event Comic Relief, which takes place every two years in the United Kingdom to fight poverty.
Reynolds said he thought there could be a way to bring Red Nose day from the United Kingdom to Oxford, so he brought it up to Clawson's Hall Council, and the idea took off.
Money from the sales will go toward the Oxford Community Choice pantry, which provides foods for families in need, according to sophomore Supal Desai, president of Clawson's Hall Council.
"The pantry is really a small storage room on (Route) 27," Desai said. "It feeds 450 in the Talawanda area and the number is growing. They want to expand to not only being a pantry but having a social services office."
According to Desai, the Oxford Community Choice Pantry is set up like a Wal-Mart, where people take a cart and are able to pick out the foods they want.
"It takes $25,000 just to run the pantry every year," Desai said. "We want to help them with helping people. It's not just the average food bank. It's really trying to help people with nutritional food."
Mike Johnson, food manager of the Oxford Community Choice Pantry, said the donation from Red Nose Day will help the pantry in two ways.
"The funds that they're able to raise will be used for the purchase of food items that we don't necessarily get from food drives and for operating expenses," Johnson said.
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Christina Zielke
posted 3/11/08 @ 12:52 AM EST
Anyone interested in helping out with Red Nose Day please contact the Clawson Community Council via the Miami University Red Nose Day facebook group or event, or at MUrednoseday@gmail. (Continued…)
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