Salisbury University’s new community service project “Maroon

wind gusts on sunday are expected to be in the evening and overnight, possibly even into monday . monday is expected to have windy conditions most of the day, with periods of rain throughout the first part of the day. this labor day weekend — some new college students will be helping out some elementary students — in a very important way. 47 abc’s justina coronel reports. track 1 chips mac and cheese water and little snacks… these are “maroon and gold make meals”. it’s a community service project — where salisbury university students — get assigned to a student at east salisbury elementary school — to build them a special weekend care package — complete with personalized messages. mark thompson, a coordinator at the wicomico board of education explains how during the week — the school feeds these youngsters breakfast and lunch. but after school hours — are a different story. east salisbury elementary school is one of our highest free and reduced meals school. they had a program for feeding kids on the weekend but due to grant funding running out, they needed to find a system how to feed kids on the weekend. track 2 the idea came up when the coordinator of the volunteer center, samantha beck, who spoke to thompson about how she wanted to create a program where freshman can engage in their community. we wanted the freshman when they come in to get a real feel for salisbury as a town not just as a university so we wanted them to be connected immediately right from the first week.” track 2 this project happens — labor day weekend –as a part of the welcome week student activities. which is timely — beck says — because the holiday is an extended three-day weekend for the little ones. there’s 472 students at east salisbury elementary school. we are preparing to make 500 just because when i met with the principal, he said that sometimes there’s open enrollment. so students can sign up, so the list that we got on wednesday, it can be different. track 3 michelle conrad — is an s-u student participating in the effort. we are such a small piece of such a bigger picture and we definitely love the opportunity to make any impact we can no matter how small or big it is. it seems like such an easy task for us, it took all of five minutes for us to make the little bag but it’s going to make a child’s day. track 4 justina coronel, 47 abc organizers hope to see these kinds of events happen monthly. the hope is that it will show other people in the community the need — and motivate them help out, as well. the finalists have been announced for the 2016-2017 maryland teacher