FEBRUARY 4, 2014
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THE DAILY TITAN
A cause among the grove Students pick oranges for charities
ELEONOR SEGURA / Daily Titan Alfred Estaca, 24, business and marketing major, helps harvest oranges from the groves outside Langsdorf Hall for Mihaylo’s Citrus Service Project event on Saturday, Feb. 1, 2014.
Twenty three students and members of the Business Inter-Club Council harvest oranges to be transferred to charity food banks in Orange County.
Lydia Wang, 20, a finance major, puts the harvested oranges in bags to be transferred to charity food banks for Mihaylo’s Citrus Service Project event.
The oranges are given to two charities, Casa Teresa and Share Our Selves, as part of the Mihaylo’s Citrus Service Project event on Saturday, Feb. 1, 2014.
The sun was shining bright and the sweet, Southern California oranges were ripe for picking. On Feb. 1, Cal State Fullerton students from the Business Inter-Club Council (BICC) and 23 other business clubs donated their time picking oranges from the trees nestled outside of Steven G. Mihaylo Hall. The BICC donated the fruit to two local charities. The two charities that received the oranges are Casa Teresa in Orange, which houses women and children and providing health and counseling services, and Share Our Selves, a nationally recognized health center located in Newport Beach. The event was organized by Amanda Leon, who works in the Dean’s office at the Steven G. Mihaylo College of Business and Economics. Oranges can only be picked for the purpose of
donating. Students and faculty are otherwise prohibited from picking oranges off the trees. After the event, students
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who volunteered met at Oggi’s bar and restaurant. Oggi’s rewarded the volunteers with pizza for serving their community.
Members of the Business Inter-Club Council travel in cars to two different local charities that receive the picked orange donations.
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