Pancake breakfast to raise funds for service trip
Jan. 30, 2013
LACEY, WASHINGTON —Saint Martin’s University students participating
in Campus Ministry’s annual mission service trip will host a Pancake
Breakfast for the public on Saturday, Feb. 16 from 8:00 a.m. to 1 p.m.
in the Norman Worthington Conference Center, 5300 Pacific Ave. SE.
Tickets are $5.00, which includes buttermilk and blueberry pancakes,
meat and vegetarian sausage, fresh fruit, and beverages, and can be
purchased at the door. Children under the age of 6 are free.
The Pancake Breakfast is an element of the fundraising campaign
for the annual mission service trip. This May, sixteen participants
will travel to the Yakima Valley to work with Migrant Farm Workers
and Catholic Charities Housing for one week. “Fundraising is important
to the success of this trip,” says Susan Leyster, director of service
immersion. “It mitigates the cost of the service trip, allowing this
wonderful opportunity to remain available to all students.”
In addition to the Pancake Breakfast, students will be selling Fair
Trade items and collecting electronic items to recycle, including cell
phones, inkjet cartridges, MP3 players, GPS devices and laptops. The
public can drop off their electronics during the breakfast and request
a donation receipt.
This year marks eleven years of Campus Ministry leading service trips
across the country. The 2013 mission service trip will offer students the
opportunity to explore the realities of poverty and immigration in America
and work for a more just society.
For more information contact Susan Leyster at
leysters@stmartin.edu or at 360-789-6701.
Saint Martin’s University is an independent four-year,
coeducational university located on a wooded campus of more than 300
acres in Lacey, Washington. Established in 1895 by the Catholic
Order of Saint Benedict, the University is one of 14 Benedictine
colleges and universities in the United States and Canada, and the
only one west of the Rocky Mountains. Saint Martin’s University
prepares students for successful lives through its 23 majors and
seven graduate programs spanning the liberal arts, business,
education, nursing and engineering. Saint Martin’s welcomes more
than 1,100 undergraduate students and 400 graduate students from
many ethnic and religious backgrounds to its Lacey campus, and 300
more undergraduate students to its extension campuses located at
Joint Base Lewis-McChord and Centralia College. Visit the Saint
Martin’s University website at
www.stmartin.edu.
For additional information:
Susan Leyster
Director of service immersion
360-789-6701;
leysters@stmartin.edu
Sarah Holdener
Director of event services
Saint Martin’s University
360-412-6140;
sholdener@stmartin.edu