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6 The Mirror
Monday, April 19, 2010
Church hosts day of community service Students, Mormon missionaries help clean portions of campus, plant flowers BENJAMIN WELCH news@uncmirror.com
In an act of community service, students and missionaries of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints dedicated an afternoon to sprucing up areas of UNC’s campus. About 35 members of the church attended the clean-up event. The participants did a variety of work, including transplanting foliage from the area by the 10th Avenue and 20th Street intersection and replanting them by the University Center, mulching flowerbeds and picking up litter. “The LDS church is based on service,” said Patrick Risk, a senior business management major, who was the foreman of the group. “Whenever the opportunity comes to serve, everyone raises their hands (to participate).” Risk said the group plans on sponsoring the flora near the 10th Avenue and 20th Street intersection through the University of Northern Colorado’s Adopt-A-Spot pro-
“A big part of what we do is gram, where flowers will be serving; I love to serve because it planted later this spring. The students were accompa- makes me feel closer to the Lord nied by missionaries of the LDS and it makes me feel like I’m doing something church. Risk good for other said the mispeople and not sionaries will just myself,” occasionally said Jessica come to the Foschini, a school to edusophomore cate students journalism about the mesmajor. sage of the Foschini M o r m o n said she agreed church and with Risk about offer informathe church tion on the LDS being very servbelief system. ice- and giving“One of the — Jessica Foschini, a sophooriented. She scriptures in the more journalism major said although Book of Mormon many people is, ‘Do service to your fellow beings in service of think the LDS church is a secretive God,’ and that’s what we’re all society, the church members are about — trying to represent Jesus very welcoming to newcomers and Christ as best we know how,” said wish to promote the church’s mesMelelangi Tuiasoa, a missionary sage to everyone. Additional information can originally from California who is be found on the Church of Jesus assigned to the Greeley area. Women missionaries gener- Christ of Latter Day Saints at ally serve for 18 months, but www.lds.org, the LDS institution at 2030 10th Ave. or by talkmen normally serve two years.
A big part of what we do is serving; I love to serve because it makes me feel closer to the Lord and it makes me feel like I’m doing something good for other people and not just myself.
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Patrick Risk, a senior business major, picks up trash as part of volunteer project Saturday organized by the Church of Latter Day Saints. The church’s UNC location is behind the University Center, 2030 10th Ave. ing to one of the missionaries often found on campus. “One of our goals is good
publicity; we want to show we’re just a big group of kids that want to have fun,” Risk said.
Play leaps over language barrier Play from Page 5 “We usually tour in the mornings to elementary school kids, and they really get into it because they don’t really know theater etiquette yet,” said Mehry Eslaminia, a junior acting major, who was the lead in the play. “It’s really inspiring, and it’s a lot of fun.” Eslaminia said she has loved working with the cast and crew, particularly under the direction of Provenzano.
“Sam is seriously one of the most genuine and fun people to be around,” she said. “It was great because most other rehearsals are stressful because the director is a professor. But with Sam, we were all in it together as students, doing everything together; so, it was great.” Gillian McNally, a theater professor and the production supervisor, also said she enjoyed the play. “At every school we’ve been to, the biggest compliment I get is from
the teachers, councilors and principals; they are amazed we captivate (the children’s) attention for 45 whole minutes,” McNally said. She also said she is proud of Provenzano and the effort she has made to put on a successful show. “Instead of giving this to a faculty member, I gave it to a student, which says a lot about her ability,” McNally said. “She came up with the ideas and gave them to Andrea Moon, but it’s really her idea and her brainchild.”