Sinclair Community College\u2019s Englewood, Huber Heights and Preble County Learning Centers worked in conjunction with the downtown admissions office to feed the homeless at the Gettysburg Gateway for Men shelter on Saturday, Oct. 23.<\/p>\n
Twenty-seven people from Sinclair, including students, staff, faculty and alumni fed over 250 people at the Make a Difference Day event, according to the manager of the Englewood and Huber Heights Learning Centers, Dawayne Kirkman.<\/p>\n
Kirkman worked with the manager of the Preble County Learning Center, Janet Schmitt, and the Director of Admissions Dani Stoll to organize the event.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe idea was to be able to teach our students to have a spirit of servitude,\u201d Kirkman said.<\/p>\n
The 27 people who volunteered were responsible for bringing food, preparing it, cooking it, serving it and then cleaning everything up.<\/p>\n
Evan Kloth, the generalist at the Huber Heights Learning Center, brought two gas grills with him that were used to cook hamburgers and hotdogs, and Kloth estimated they would cook over 300 combined.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think this was an awesome place to do something like this,\u201d Kloth said.\u00a0 \u201cEvery year we do something nice and really it\u2019s my favorite thing we do all year round.\u00a0 It\u2019s not even really at Sinclair but I\u2019ve always really enjoyed this more hands-on stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kirkman said that the event wasn\u2019t about the food, but rather putting a face on Sinclair for those who may not be familiar with what the college offers.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is community outreach,\u201d Kirkman said.\u00a0 \u201cBuild relationships.\u00a0 Sinclair can be the key to changing your life.\u201d<\/p>\n
Along with hamburgers, hotdogs, bags of chips and cases of pop of all kinds, Dottie Bailey, a DEV reading instructor, brought with her over 300 t-shirts.<\/p>\n
\u201cNot just feeding their stomachs, feeding their hearts,\u201d Schmitt said.\u00a0 \u201cAs educators, we need to work outside our four walls to truly educate the community.\u201d<\/p>\n
This was the fifth Make a Difference Day, and Kirkman said he felt this was the most \u201cimportant\u201d of the five.\u00a0 Previous Make a Difference Days have, for example, featured cleaning up vines at a local park.<\/p>\n
Kathy Rowell, the director for the Center for Teaching and Learning, advocated for the Gettysburg Gateway for Men shelter to be the location for the Make a Difference Day, according to Kirkman.<\/p>\n
\u201cDawayne and I talked about doing a group project,\u201d Rowell said.\u00a0 \u201cI told him that they don\u2019t have enough people out here to feed [those in the shelter], and nobody wants to come out here and cook a whole meal.\u00a0 So we decided it would be a good idea.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rowell works with different homeless shelters and has for many years, she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou know you look at Make a Difference Day projects and sometimes people do things, small projects and make a difference that one day.\u00a0 [The people at the shelter] wouldn\u2019t have had dinner tonight if we hadn\u2019t come out here.\u00a0 They never get a grilled hamburger or hotdogs, they never have pop.\u00a0 We\u2019re going to be pretty popular.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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