August 22, 20007 == MEDIA ADVISORY
Summary: On August 30, August 31 and September 1 more than 1,000 Calvin College first-year students will take part in a venerable orientation project that sees them serving and learning at sites all over Grand Rapids.
Full story, including color Streetfest logo, see http://www.calvin.edu/news/releases/2007-08/streetfest.htm
When 1,045 incoming students arrive on the Calvin College campus next week, they will take part in an orientation tradition that has them serving and learning at sites all over the Grand Rapids area.
Streetfest 2007 will take place August 30 to September 1. The event, now in its 15th year, is a Calvin student's first introduction to service-learning, an acquaintance that organizers hope will last a lifetime.
"It's not a day about volunteerism and it's not a mini-missions trip," says Streetfest co-leader Laura Wolff, a Calvin junior. "It's a totally different breed of service. Students get outside the college and learn that they have just as much to gain from people in the community as they have to offer them."
Over the three days of Streetfest, teams of incoming students will work alongside more than 60 Grand Rapids nonprofit organizations. Student teams will assemble food bags at Meals on Wheels, host a rummage sale for Project Rehab and clean alleys in the Madison Ave. neighborhood among other chores. More importantly, they will listen as leaders of these organizations explain their missions and services.
This year's Streetfest theme, "Revive. Renew. Restore," was inspired by a recycling logo and organizers applied the familiar recycling arrow to the larger theme of renewing the community.
For more info, including complete daily schedules, contact the Calvin Service-Learning Center at 616-526-6455
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