{"id":1270,"date":"2017-10-05T09:31:51","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T14:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/?p=1270"},"modified":"2017-10-05T09:35:24","modified_gmt":"2017-10-05T14:35:24","slug":"morningside-community-service-day-into-the-streets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/2017\/10\/05\/morningside-community-service-day-into-the-streets\/","title":{"rendered":"Morningside Community Service Day “Into the Streets”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Approximately 825 Morningside College students, faculty and staff left the classroom to go \u201cInto the Streets\u201d for a morning of community service on Wednesday, Oct. 4.<\/p>\n

Organized by Morningside\u2019s chapter of Omicron Delta Kappa (ODK), a national leadership honor society, Into the Streets gives student groups and teams an opportunity to volunteer at over 90 different locations within the Sioux City area.<\/p>\n

Volunteers received their agency assignments at 8 a.m. in Eppley Auditorium, 3625 Garretson Ave. From 8:30 a.m. to noon, they will accomplish a variety of service work, such as cleaning, painting, gardening, helping elementary school students and more.<\/p>\n

Morningside students Kelsey Brenner of Schaller, Iowa, and Karissa Heckens of Omaha, Neb., are coordinating the service project with a student committee that includes Sam Anderson of Sioux City; Rachael Arnts of Alta, Iowa; Emalee Barton of Elkhorn, Neb.; Lucas Farrington of Rockwell City, Iowa; Rylee Frake of Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Kyle Kommes of Le Mars, Iowa; Nicole Langbein of Sac City, Iowa; Sara Larson of Sioux City; Lauren Lehmkuhl of Wakefield, Neb.; Katy Miller of Sergeant Bluff, Iowa ; Jesse Nitzschke of Le Mars, Iowa; Lexa Rahn of Sioux Falls, S.D.;\u00a0 Suzanne Ras of Bancroft, Neb.; Kailyn Robert of Osage City, Kan.; Ashton Schweers of Wayne, Neb.; and Nikki Yablonski of Omaha, Neb.<\/p>\n

This is Omicron Delta Kappa’s 11th year of organizing this event, which takes place each year during Homecoming week.<\/p>\n

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Christ Connections went to LaunchPAD Children’s Museum and helped out during toddler adventure time.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Some Mustang swimmers spent time with kids at Bryant Elementary in the library.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Sigma Tau Delta students lent a helping hand at the Sioux City Animal Adoption and Rescue Center and were able to take some of the dogs out for a walk.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Approximately 825 Morningside College students, faculty and staff left the classroom to go \u201cInto the Streets\u201d for a morning of community service on Wednesday, Oct. 4. Organized by Morningside\u2019s chapter of Omicron Delta Kappa (ODK), a national leadership honor society, Into the Streets gives student groups and teams an opportunity to volunteer at over 90 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1005,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52909],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-volume-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1005"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1270"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1280,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270\/revisions\/1280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.morningside.edu\/alumninewsletter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}