Close to 200 SMU students — joined by five staff members — participated in "Make a Difference Day" on October 24. These volunteers shoveled dirt, moved bricks, hung sheetrock, painted, sorted clothes and assisted with a variety of other work at 35 locations throughout the Winona area. "Make a Difference Day" is a national day for helping others, a celebration of neighbors helping neighbors. Saint Mary’s Volunteer Services group invited Winona nonprofit agencies to submit requests for service.
Students teamed up and spent their Saturday lending helping hands to local groups and organizations.
That same day, the Saint Mary’s University Alumni Association and its board of directors sponsored a volunteer service day called “Lasallian Day of Service." Numerous groups of alumni came together in the spirit of the Lasallian mission of service to others while participating in service projects in their hometowns and neighborhoods, including Chicago, the Twin Cities and Winona.
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