/news-archive/tag/kroger/ 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Tue, 16 Jul 2019 14:39:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 /news-archive/2019/07/16/rotary-club-donation/ Tue, 16 Jul 2019 14:39:04 +0000 /news/?p=74735 ... Rotary Club donates $1,000 to Trojan Food Pantry]]> The 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock’s Trojan Food Pantry will be better stocked this fall thanks to a $1,000 cash donation from the Rotary Club of Little Rock Midtowne chapter. Members of the Rotary Club of Little Rock Midtowne presented an oversized check on July 8 to Aresh Assadi, a counselor in 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock鈥檚 Counseling Services and other university employees. The gift was one of the last donations made by the club as it merges with the West Little Rock Rotary Club, of which Assadi is a member.听聽 The donation was 鈥渁 nice way to end an era and begin a new chapter,鈥� the chapter announced on its Facebook page. 鈥淚 know what it is like to try to feed yourself on a tight budget while in college, and that is why I have been helping the pantry any way I can since 2015-2016,鈥� Assadi said. 鈥淭he 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Food Pantry is actually one of our service projects. Rotary has given three checks and three carts to the pantry. My fellow Rotarians also provide weekly donations as well.鈥澛� The Food Pantry also receives generous donations from Walmart, Kroger, Natural Grocers, Fresh Market, Target, PCSI, American Gold and Silver Exchange, Arkansas Family Dental, Altitude Trampoline Park, and many other organizations and individuals. The Trojan Food Pantry provides food to 200-250 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock students, staff, and faculty each month who experience food insecurity. The pantry operates your-round, and in the summer, it offers fresh vegetables and produce grown in the Campus Garden. 鈥淲e thank the Midtown Rotary Club for their generous donation to the Trojan Food Pantry,鈥� said Amber Wolf, coordinator of the Chancellor’s Leadership Corps, Trojan Marketplace Food Pantry and Career Closet. 鈥�With their donation, we will be able to keep our pantry stocked and continue the fight to end hunger on our campus.鈥� The Trojan Pantry is located on the second floor of the Administration North building. Summer hours are 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Monday through Thursday.  ]]> /news-archive/2018/11/29/staff-senate-fall-open-house-dec-5/ Thu, 29 Nov 2018 14:33:25 +0000 /news/?p=72831 ... 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock Staff Senate to host Fall Open House Dec. 5]]> The University of Arkansas at Little Rock Staff Senate will host its annual Fall Open House on Wednesday, Dec. 5, to raise money for the holiday season for 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock families in need. The open house will offer a reception for 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock employees to visit and network, win door prizes, use the Employee Wellness Center鈥檚 new massage chair, play board games, and bid on fun prizes in the teacup and silent auctions. Light refreshments will be served during the event. Guests are invited to bring a brown bag lunch to enjoy in fellowship with their coworkers. The event will take place from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Donaghey Student Center Ledbetter Hall. The open house kicks off Staff Senate鈥檚 annual. Money raised and donations of nonperishable food items collected from the open house will be used to put together holiday meal baskets for 糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock applicants who would otherwise not be able to provide a traditional holiday dinner for their families. Tickets for the teacup auction are $5 for six tickets. Participants also can receive one free auction ticket, up to a maximum of five, for every two items donated from the list of items needed to create the holiday meal baskets. Check out the items for auction.听 Items needed include stuffing mix, cornbread mix, cream of chicken soup, cream of mushroom soup, chicken broth, macaroni and cheese, green beans, green peas, black eyed peas, corn, rice, canned potatoes, canned yams, cranberry sauce, cake mix and frosting, Kool-Aid, and nonperishable juices. To purchase auction tickets or to donate items for the teacup auction or a door prize, contact Paula Rogers at 501-663-5541 or parogers@ualr.edu or Angie Faller at 501-916-5905 or amfaller@ualr.edu. Donations to the Staff Senate Helping Hands Campaign can be made online by visiting the Campus Campaign website at /giving/product/campus/. Under the Fund category, click “Other” and then type in “Staff Senate” or “Helping Hands.” In the upper right photo,聽糖心Vlog传媒 Little Rock employees browse the teacup auction during the 2017 Staff Senate Fall Open House.]]>