FULL DISCLOSURE: The writer who wrote the story had a conflict of interest due to a miscommunication between the writer and the editor. Joanna Banegas is an employee of Parents and Families Services and this is a breech of Technician’s Code of Ethics. Technician regrets this error.
As a part of Parents and Families Weekend, Office of Parents and Families Services held their 11th Student-Family Planting Project yesterday morning on Central Campus.
The service project was sponsored by the Center for Student Leadership, Ethics, & Public Service, University Housing and Grounds Management.
Laci Weeden, assistant director of Parents and Families Services, said approximately 40 people came to the Sunday morning service project.
“This is our eleventh year of doing the planting project,” Weeden said. “We always pick a location around campus which is usually near one of the residential halls to beautify the campus and let the families give back by planting flowers, plants and trees.”
The families and student volunteers mulched the area and planted 130 plants, which took them about an hour to complete, said Weeden.
“The CSLEPS office talked about the importance of service at the University, because it is such a core value of who we care,” Weeden said. “We gave the families and students instructions and education on the plants that we were planting today and then we started planting.”
The service project was located at Owen and Tucker Residential halls, according to Weeden.
“We chose Tucker beach, but the service project was originally located at Turlington and Alexander Halls, but because of the rain we had to move locations to the Owen and Tucker residential halls area,” Weeden said.
The Parents and Families Weekend service project has been a planting service project each year.
“We pick a different side of campus and beautify it,” Weeden said. “We clean out the trash; we plant new plants and remove any damaged plants or trees.”
Weeden said University Housing is one of the partners that works with IRC, and thanks families for community service and provided refreshments at the service project.
“We got there and had some coffee and Krispy Kreme doughnuts,” Weeden said.
According to Weeden, three families returned from last year and several new families said they planned to come back next year.
“Some of them were alumni from the University and who were also horticultural majors who just wanted to do the service project so that was very exciting to them,” Weeden said.
Weeden said the entire planting service project was great and the families were excited to give back to the University.
“We thanked the returning families with a gift and we thanked the new families with a spade that they could use for gardening and all the families left with N.C. State gardening gloves,” Weeden said.
