{"id":726,"date":"2015-08-16T09:31:31","date_gmt":"2015-08-16T14:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maryville.edu\/mpress\/?p=726"},"modified":"2020-02-26T13:49:08","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T19:49:08","slug":"maryville-reaches-out-to-serve-90-st-louis-area-agencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maryville.edu\/mpress\/maryville-reaches-out-to-serve-90-st-louis-area-agencies\/","title":{"rendered":"MRO to Serve 90 St Louis Agencies"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"x-default\"<\/a>Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵAPP’s\u00a08th annual campus-wide community service day, Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵAPPReaches Out<\/a> (MRO), is scheduled for Tuesday, Sept. 22. More than 1,200 Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵAPPvolunteers are expected to fan out across the greater St. Louis area to share time and talents with 90 local agencies and organizations.<\/p>\n

Registration opens at 8 a.m. on Monday, Aug. 24, and runs through 8 a.m. on Monday, Sept. 14. On this day, classes beginning before 4 p.m. are cancelled so the entire campus community is able to participate.<\/p>\n

\"MRO\"<\/a>MRO engages Ë¿¹ÏÊÓƵAPPstudents, faculty, staff and alumni in a wide variety of service opportunities,<\/span>\u00a0including painting, landscaping, arts and crafts with children and adults, tutoring and reading with children, animal shelter work, sorting donated goods, office assistance, accompanying elderly residents on a zoo outing, light construction and much more.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Last year, nearly 1000 volunteers provided over 3,500 hours of service on 84 different projects.\u00a0This year, there are more than 1,200 available volunteer spots on\u00a090 plus projects.<\/p>\n

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