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The Martin Richard Foundation Hosts Autumn Service Day

Friday Oct 19, 2018

Invites Community Members of All Ages and Abilities to Do More

On Sunday, October 21, from 11 am - 2 pmn The Martin Richard Foundation hosts Autumn Service Day, a family-friendly event that will bring the community together to do meaningful work supporting those in need. The day will include hands-on service activities, food, and live music while learning the importance of community service. Participants will learn how volunteering can create a ripple effect on communities, in turn, creating positive change for populations in need.

The event will be held at IBEW Local 103, 256 Freeport Street, Dorchester.

Autumn Service Day is a family-friendly event that will bring the community together to do meaningful work supporting those in need. The day will include hands-on service activities, food, and live music while learning the importance of community service. Participants will learn how volunteering can create a ripple effect on communities, in turn, creating positive change for populations in need.

The day will include three shifts of hands-on service activities, including packing book bags for elementary school children as part of the Foundation's initiative to advance its values of sportsmanship, inclusion, kindness, and peace through reading; assembling hygiene kits; and making sleeping mats for the homeless with "plarn" made from plastic shopping bags.

Volunteers are encouraged to bring high demand food items that will be donated to Food Bank 4 U, a food bank for students at Bridgewater State University. Those items include granola bars, canned chicken, Spam, black beans, cereal, oatmeal, beef stew, canned meat products, meat-based soups, canned salmon, rice, microwaveable meals in a bowl, macaroni and cheese, peanut butter and almond milk.

To volunteer, visit: http://www.martinrichardfoundation.org/event/autumn-service-day