Service
Watch your e-mail and the newsletter for fabulous service activities this year! Contact Michelle Brownell at Michelle.Brownell@hsc.utah.edu or Liz Tyler at runsurvive@gmail.com with any questions or ideas.
UNI Kids’ Health and Safety Fair
Saturday, September 6, 2008 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Outdoors just behind UNI in Research Park, 501 Chipeta Way, Salt Lake City
Contacts: Cristine Platt at 587-3115 or cristine.platt@hsc.utah.edu
Michelle Brownell at 587-1345 or michelle.brownell@hsc.utah.edu
We will help with set-up from 7:00 to 9:00 a.m., jobs from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., and clean-up beginning at 1:00 pm. (Clean-up should last between one and two hours, depending on how many stay to help.) If you cannot make an entire shift, we can arrange shorter shifts. Just come—we can find jobs for everyone! We’d like to get a volunteer count and assign shifts right away, so please contact us as soon as possible.
http://www.kued.org/?area=outreach&action=uniKidsFair
Faux Paw
Saturday, September 6, 2008 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Contacts: Dave Poslusny at 706-0423 or sneezer78@hotmail.com
Michelle Brownell at 587-1345 or Michelle.Brownell@hsc.utah.edu
Faux Paw will kick off the new school year at the UNI Kids’ Health and Safety Fair on September 6th. We'll have a table under a canopy plus Faux Paw and a few of her friends will walk around passing out bookmarks with internet safety tips. If you are interested in donating time to this service project, please contact Dave or Michelle so we can coordinate times and meeting points.
Blankets for Cancer Patients
November 2008
Contact: Michelle Brownell at Michelle.Brownell@hsc.utah.edu
In November 2008, we will be making blankets for patients at the Huntsman Cancer Institute. Michelle Brownell works in the Huntsman Infusion room, which gives chemotherapy to hundreds of adults. When patients finish all of the required chemotherapy treatments, they "graduate" and then receive a song and a blanket as a gift of love. The Institute is currently in desperate need of additional blankets. The MSA's service activity will involve our donating time, talents, and materials to make blankets for these patients. Please let us know if you would like to help (i.e. if you know how to quilt, how to tie a quilt, or have any quilting boards; if have other ideas, like tying fleece blankets; or if you would like to bring blankets made ahead of time for the MSA to donate.)
Festival of Trees
Information and theme contest
Contest deadline on September 18th; Ornament preparation in October and November; Tree decorating on Monday, December 1st
Contact: Laurel Brennan at laureldbrennan@hotmail.com
Each year, MSA donates a decorated Christmas tree to the Festival of Trees. It then goes on display at the Festival and is sold at auction to benefit Primary Children's Hospital. Each year we choose a medicine-related theme for our tree, and we need your ides to help choose this year’s theme. Remember to keep it related to doctors or medicine: past themes include "an apple a day," "a spoonful of sugar," "M*A*S*H*," and "five little monkeys." The Festival advises that Christmas-themed or Christmas-colored trees sell best. If you would like to submit a theme idea or just get involved, email Laurel by September 18th. If your theme is chosen, you will receive two tickets to the Festival of Trees!
