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My name is Misty Chandler
and I'm the Campus Life and Leadership coordinator
here at MCC-Maple Woods.
Welcome to our second annual Martin Luther King Day of Service for MCC.
All five of our campuses have gathered together this morning
to recognize Martin Luther King Day
and honor it by having our students, faculty, and staff serve our communities
which is part of the MCC mission, serving communities.
We are scattered all over the city
sending students out, staying on campus, doing lots of projects
just to make an impact on our community
and to make it a day on, instead of a day off.
Last year's Martin Luther King Day of Service was an amazing experience.
We had an overwhelming response and it led us to believe
that this really needed to be a tradition here at MCC.
So, I'm so proud to be a part of it.
I'm glad to see such a great turnout despite the cold weather.
And it just really shows that a lot of us here at MCC are committed
to not only serving our students but to serving our communities.
We're really excited to be here at MLK d-day, day today.
Um, chance to give back to the community.
Um, the community has given a lot to us,
so this is our opportunity to give back.
And we're just really excited to be here.
Hopefully it won't be too cold today, but yeah,
we're just really stoked to be here after the break.
Our team is helping out with our local community here at the, uh,
Rainbow Center in Blue Springs doing a fine job, I think.
We're painting, trimming, you know, we're about to start cleaning up.
Hi, I'm Jessica. I'm Christie.
[Jessica] And we're here at Rainbow Center painting.
[Christie] Uh, we're painting and shoveling
and just doing a bunch of stuff for Rainbow Center, helping them out a little.
Um, we came out about nine and were staying until we're done.
I'm Pat Weary, Director of Programs and Services here at CSL
and we're so excited to have this group of Blue River students
coming out and helping us.
We're trying to get ready for our move down to 404 North Noland Road.
And these students are helping us tremendously.
We rely heavily on volunteers and this special project is, the timing is ideal,
so thank you so much.
Uh, my name is Ronnie Jones.
I'm a part-time custodian here at Penn Valley Community College or MCC-Penn Valley.
Um, basically what I'm doing here is, uh, giving back to the neighborhood,
doing what I can.
Usually this would be a day off, but I'm here to do the service in Dr. King's memory.
Uh, this is very important to me because, uh,
certainly Dr. King did more than, uh, when he created the healthy communities for equal rights
for every citizen African-American or not.
And, uh, it kind of reminds me of President Kennedy's inaugural address when he said,
"Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country."
In other words, give back or give back to your community.
And, uh, this certainly is a better way of doing it,
there's no better way of doing it, than, uh, than doing something like this.
So, uh, very grateful to be, uh, to be doing this today. It's well worth it.
Hi, my name's Amanda Beers and I am a Maple Woods ambassador and today,
we are celebrating Martin Luther King Day.
So my group is here at the St. Charles Church
and we are working in the food pantry
and helping out this church in the food pantry today.
I think that it's very good to be a part of your community
and do something for your community
and just go out and be a part of this day and do some kind of service.
And to me it means a lot, um, to just be, um,
a part of something that is so much bigger than myself.
And it's-it's a big deal, nationwide.
It's something that we celebrate every year.
Why not do something, you know,
that is your small part, to be a part of something so much bigger
and it just means a lot to me, so that's why I'm doing my service today.
Hi, I'm Kristin Brumley. Um, here on Martin Luther King Day,
we're at, um, Hillcrest Transitional Housing, here in Liberty.
I'm here with a bunch of students from Maple Woods
and also the Business and Technology campus.
Were out here, doing a paint project today,
um, gonna help this housing, um, out and, um, they needed a lot of things done.
We've already hauled off a bunch of stuff to take to a Goodwill here in town,
so we're just here to help 'em out
and We're glad we could be here to do this.
Hi, I'm making blankets for Children's Mercy and I think this is a great idea
and I'm really looking forward to doing this for my children,
so they can give back and do something nice for somebody else.
My name's Mace. I'm a student ambassador with Maple Woods
and my group and I are here, at the Hillcrest Thrift Shop sorting donations.
I think that it's extremely important
that people take the time to volunteer and come out,
not just on Martin Luther King Day of Service,
but just anytime that they have the time to volunteer 'cause, you know,
Martin Luther King's legacy is to help people, to make a difference.
And I think that people taking out, you know, a couple hours out of the day,
taking time with their family, with their kids, take them out in the community,
doing something, volunteering, donating their time or their own money.
That makes the difference. That makes that person become part of the change
that Martin Luther King was making, you know,
back whenever he was still around, making those speeches, fighting for civil rights.
It's just making a difference is what matters.
Hi, I'm Crystal.
I'm a student at Maple Woods and I'm also an ambassador for Maple Woods.
We're at Heritage Village for Martin Luther King Day of Service
and today we set up a carnival for all the residents.
We had a fishing game, people won prizes. They had a great time.
There were balloon animals, obviously,
and face painting and everyone just had a great fun time.
I think it's important to do community service
like this because it's just great to get involved.
You see how happy everybody gets,
it just makes you feel so good that you're helping people out.
I mean even if it's something small like folding clothes or setting up a carnival.
It really makes their day and it really helps them out a lot.
Hi, I'm Cyan Inzarro, that's my mom.
Hi I'm Nicole Inzarro, I'm the Campus Life and Leadership coordinator here at Penn Valley.
Um, today we made blankets for children at Children's Mercy
and we cut some out for the people at the elderly homes
so they could tie their own blankets.
And we made Buddy dolls for kids at Children's Mercy
so they could see where their surgeries and stuff are gonna happen.
They point them out on there. It's pretty cool. Lots of labor was involved.
[Nicole] Today, we're celebrating
Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday, um, here at MCC-Penn Valley.
We are making it a day on, instead of a day off, so we've had, like, a blast.
We've had our family members, we've had friends, faculty, and staff all come together
to do a lot of, well a lot of crafts for Children's Mercy.
We've had some projects done at Mattie Rhodes
and were also doing a service project for the St. Louis Senior Center.
Hi, my name is Mary Bowman Gregs and I run the food pantry here at St. Charles.
I'm a volunteer and I have a volunteer organization
that staffs and stocks the pantry.
I am really grateful to have the help of Maple Woods kids here today,
they're doing a fabulous job.
What we're doing is cleaning the pantry.
We're doing some really deep cleaning,
taking all the food off the bottom shelves,
prying up the shelves, and cleaning underneath,
getting all the cobwebs and bugs and spiders and stuff out.
And it's been a fabulous, fabulous job.
The kids are enthusiastic and strong and healthy.
They've taken all that food off the shelves and lifted up those shelves, cleaned them off,
and are putting it back really nice.
This is work that we don't do every day. We can't get to it every day.
Most of my volunteers are retired folks
and that's really hard work for them so I am very grateful
to have the help of the Maple Woods people here today.
I have a book here, the words of Martin Luther King Jr.,
that was given to me by a friend of mine.
And the first quote in the book is,
"An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines
"of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity."
That's what today is all about. It's about giving to all.
It's about being concerned about all.
It's about serving others and realizing
that there are, um, greater needs than those of your own.
And so I am proud of MCC for making a commitment to coming together
and figuring out a way to serve the communities around us.
And for us, that's the whole city,
the entire span of the city is being served through this project.
Hat's off to the college.