If you plan on sticking around during spring recess — due to sports, your thesis, or just a fondness for America’s most romantic Main Street — consider spending a few afternoons with our friends at the Green Street Teaching and Learning Center. Many Wesleyan students volunteer regularly with Green Street’s Discovery AfterSchool Program, and the show must…
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Volunteer Opportunity: Humanity Festival, April 13th, on Foss Hill.
The Humanity Festival is a one-day musical celebration in solidarity against bigotry, racism, and social divisions within a community. The Wesleyan Humanity Festival will take place on April 13th, 2013 on the bottom of Foss hill and intends to bring all members of the Wesleyan and greater Middletown community together through music, art, and spoken word. The festival will encourage dialogue about—and…
Volunteer Opportunity: CT Draft Horse Rescue
Interested in volunteering with animals? From Beth Bolduc at the CT Draft Horse Rescue: “Because we are volunteer-run we are always looking for people who love horses or are interested in learning more about them to fill shifts of the horses care. People can go to the website www.ctdraftrescue.com to fill out an application to volunteer. They…
Patch Spotlight on Amazing Grace & St. Vincent de Paul’s
The community blog, Middletown Patch, just released an article entitled, “Stock the Shelves or Make Some Soup,” demonstrating to Middletown residents how to volunteer their time at the Amazing Grace food pantry and St. Vincent de Paul soup kitchen. http://middletown-ct.patch.com/articles/stock-the-shelves-or-make-some-soup-98997251 Making a batch of sweet onion bread pudding at St. Vincent de Paul’s (photo…
Program Spotlight: WesReads/WesMath
It’s summer here at Wesleyan, and although campus may seem like a ghost town from the severe lack of student population, I can assure you that students are, in fact, scattered in buildings across campus working on projects for the upcoming year. Just yesterday I ran into two Student Coordinators, one of whom informed me of…
Program Spotlight: WesAGE
Do you like listening to stories of those who are older and wiser? Looking for some interaction with people who are not in their late teens to 20-somethings? If you answered yes to either of these questions, then you should become involved with WesAGE! I recently sat down with Sofia Warren’ 13, the coordinator of this program to find out more. WesAGE, the…