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Enactus begins “Mission 58:10,” community-wide food drive By JULIA WILLIAMS Copy Editor
A team of Ouachita Enactus students began an outreach ministry in the last few weeks to aid in the fight against hunger in the city of Arkadelphia and the surrounding community. Beginning on October 9, members of OBU’s Enactus chapter began what they call “Mission 58:10.” According to Victoria White, a junior accounting major from Paris, Texas, this project was inspired from a project that Enactus participated in last year called “Rosas Mobile Pack,” sponsored by Feed My Starving Children. As a member of that leadership team, White said that this involved quite a few local school children who had helped them pack meals for these families in need. “I thought, ‘I bet some of these kids that are helping would like to take some home, because they don’t have enough either,’” White said. “There’s just as much of a mission in Arkadelphia as there is internationally.” According to White, the team will be conducting a community-wide canned food drive from October 9 through 30 with the partnership of nine local businesses and churches. All resources are
provided by Mission 58:10, and “all proceeds of the drive will be donated to two local food pantries, one being the Clark County Ecumenical Food Pantry, and the other being Lighthouse Ministries,” White said. “From the contacts I’ve talked to, they do once a month feedings, and then they always have programs where they help kids in schools as well,” White said. “The goal was to have a more localized approach to end hunger.” Further goals include gathering monetary donations throughout the year for another Arkansas Mobile Pack team that is lacking some resources. With Feed My Starving Children, each meal cost 22 cents to pack, meaning that 100,000 meals will cost $22,000. “With a lot of it, we’ve just been in prayer for what the Good Lord wants us to have,” White said. “We are praying for all of the people we’ll be able to impact. Even if we can just help one family to have a Thanksgiving meal, that’s enough.” This sponsoring group, Feed My Starving Children, is a national, non-profit organization. If teams provide the volunteer manpower and the finances, the organization brings all the necessary resources to host an event in
Elise Cobb z Photo Lab ENACTUS MEMBERS (front, from left) Abigail Brizuela, Sarah Coles, Victoria White, Katie Smith; (back, from left) Katie Young, Drew Holland and Madison Parks have been part of the team behind Mission 58:10. Other members not pictured include Chris Morrison, Emily Schlieff, Haley Ryburn, Josh Altenbaumer, Kelly Powell, Kelsea Moore and Shelby Reams.
the area. Driving some aspects of this mission back to Feed My Starving Children, White said that the team drew its name and inspiration from Isaiah 58:10, which says, “And if you draw out your soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noonday” (KJV). In the future, White said that there will be meetings between project leaders, in which they will research
further options with the Mission for the spring. Among the businesses and churches involved, there is Big Cheese Pizza, Chicken Express, Clark County Christian Academy, First United Methodist Church, Goza Middle School, River Ridge Pizza and Ice Cream, Slim and Shorty’s, Southern Bancorp and Third Street Baptist Church. While all of these locations do have the capacity to accept monetary and canned food donations, there are also three locations
The Nutrition Den opens in downtown Arkadelphia
Andy Henderson z Photo Lab THE NUTRITION DEN opened recently in downtown Arkadelphia. The business serves meal replacement shakes and teas and offers a relaxed atmosphere.
By KATIE KEMP News Editor
Downtown Arkadelphia recently welcomed the Nutrition Den, a hangout space that serves meal replacement shakes and tea. The business opened on Saturday, October 15 on South Sixth Street in downtown and hopes to offer a space for local students to congregate. “We have meal replacement shakes, flavors such as banana caramel, German chocolate cake, [and] cookies and cream,” said Matt Edmonds, one of the owners of the Nutrition Den.
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In addition to shakes, the Den offers a variety of flavored tea beverages on its menu. Edmonds and fellow owner Jason Cantwell opened the Den with the intention of creating a space in Arkadelphia where college-aged students could gather and enjoy healthy drinks. “The atmosphere is kind of like a modern coffee shop,” Edmonds said. “It’s a very relaxed environment.” Cantwell, a Ouachita grad, saw a need in the community for a place where students could do homework and enjoy each other’s company outside of the student center, as well as a need for a place
that provided nutritional options. “It’s a place for students to relax, hang out, do homework, play games [and] talk with friends,” Edmonds said. “It’s not a place where we want you to just come in and leave. We want you to come in and hang out and talk with us.” This atmosphere is reflected in the aesthetic of the business—the Den is furnished with pallet furniture, coffee tables, couches and rustic bars, and the walls of the building’s interior feature chalk art. Ouachita senior Emily Knocke, an English and Spanish major from Wichita,
Kan., was one of the artists behind the Den’s wall art. “They sell nutritious shakes, and Sammie Pascoe took a nice photograph for their brochure with two shakes on it, so it’s a loose representation of her idea,” Knocke said. “Once all the wall art was done, the room seemed a lot brighter and more energetic.” The Nutrition Den opened Saturday, October 15 and featured raffle giveaways as well as a live music performance by Ouachita students Emily Weeden and Nathan Perry. Despite opening weekend coinciding with Ouachita’s homecoming weekend, the Den still saw positive community response in its opening days and has continued to gain positive feedback in the weeks since. “It’s a fresh option that you don’t see in Arkadelphia, and it’s geared towards something college students might focus on more than older people,” Knocke said. “The Den is different and has a very laid back atmosphere where everyone realizes [that] we are college students and we just need another place to go and do homework and sip some tea other than the student center.” The Nutrition Den is located at 201 South Sixth Street in downtown Arkadelphia. For more information, visit the Den’s Facebook page, “The Nutrition Den.”n
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on Ouachita’s campus in which to make a contribution. There is a box in the lobby of Hickingbotham Hall, on the third floor of Evans’ Student Center and outside the door of the Student Development office. Contributions and donations are being accepted through October 30, 2016. For more information on Mission 58:10 or how you can be of help, contact Victoria White at whi57899@obu.edu. n
Ouachita holds annual Homecoming weekend By ASHLYNN MORTON Staff Writer
Homecoming weekend at Ouachita features many traditional events that are highly anticipated by alumni and current students, and this year did not disappoint. With the many events held during Homecoming weekend, there were a few that stood out. Tiger Tunes, the Homecoming football game, Eta Muggin’ and the Barret Baber concert exceeded expectations this year and represented Ouachita well. Tiger Tunes is an event in which clubs participate on campus. Along with the hosts’ and hostesses’ performances, the clubs each have a show that matches a theme of their choice. They prepare for four weeks, dedicating countless hours to the unique costumes, singing and dancing. This year proved to be thoroughly entertaining for students, families and alumni. Abby Root, a senior speech communications and theater education major from Arkadelphia, said that she has attended every Tiger see Homecoming z 2
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