Service Project at Seward Park

The University of Washington sponsors a day of service every year to honor the memory of Martin Luther King. As the member of the institute council in charge of campus relations, I had the opportunity to be a group leader for UW. I signed up for a service project at Seward Park. We were supposed to be planting trees. I signed up for that project so that we wouldn't have to pull up any nasty pokey bushes. But the week before the project, the design changed: we were now pulling blackberry bushes.

We were sad, but we went anyway! This picture is the "we're-going-to-be-pulling-blackberries-and-dominate!" faces.

(L to R: Jon, Hollis, Maren, Laura)

Maren didn't seem to have the intimidation face down. Just the "Yay! I'm excited to be here!" face.

To be nice, our group (the Latter-day Saint Student Association) volunteered to provide lunch for everyone. I had Maren head up the lunch-making committee and asked four people to help her.

(L to R: Hollis, Maren, [can't see her face], Jon)

The project coordinator told me that there were going to be 150 people there (our group composed of 32 or so). I prepared for 200.

Yes, that is a lot of lunches. The only problem was that there ended up being about 250 people there. We had to get creative and some of us went without lunches so we could get the last several people fed.

During lunch there may or may not have been a spontaneous dance party. We did get one non-Mormon to join us.