Still Time Left to Hit the Rink And Help the Hungry and Homeless

By Lavielle Hibbert
Staff Reporter

Today’s Farmers Market has ended but free ice skating is still available until 6 p.m., in the Sculpture Garden.

The event is part of the CSUDH Basic Needs Initiative’s Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week. Along with the free ice skating presented by the LSU, donations of toiletries for the Holiday Shoebox Drive will be accepted.

Events the rest of the week include:

Tonight, a documentary about being homeless in Los Angeles, “On the Streets,” will be screened from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. in LSU 327.

A mental health and well-being feast Wednesday from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. in LSU 326 & 327, in which mental health and coping strategies will be discussed.

A Donations and Donuts event from 11 a.m. 1 p.m. the East Walkway in which any donation of school supplies gets you a free donut.

The Holiday Shoebox Drive, in which travel-sized toiletries can be in a donation box in front of TGS in the Student Success Hub on the third floor of the North Library.

Additionally, the Office of Sustainability will be selling fresh produce from local growers at cost every Tuesday to the campus community for the rest of the semester’s Farmers Markets until Dec 2.

Toros can choose to donate their change or a little extra for our own Toro Market Match fund which helps fellows Toros battle food insecurity for themselves and their families.  Contributions will also go towards buying extra produce for donation to our on-campus food pantries.

The produce selection includes fresh berries and strawberries starting at 10 a.m.. In addition to a cooking demonstration, between 10am and noon there will be other fresh fruit varietals not normally found in grocery stores. Stop by for your weekly produce shopping, and for some cooking demo samples of these wares from their friendly interns.