By Grace Romund (The Cascade) – Email
Print Edition: November 23, 2011
Students who live on campus are faced with a dearth of meal options on weekends, and may find that even their off-campus choices aren’t always budget friendly. An event hosted by three fourth-year communications students on Sunday responded to these concerns, offering students at Baker house a hot breakfast for only $2. And the situation was win-win: residents snagged an affordable meal, while the hosts completed a project for one of their courses.
Nancy Hagglov, Aaron Laurie, and Janice Barkey are all students currently enrolled in CMNS 430 Project Management: Communication in Action. It is a course designed to prepare communications students to work collaboratively as project team members. Students develop effective and efficient communication strategies through real projects.
Hagglov explained, “As a part of CMNS 430 we have to do a project to give back to UFV, and the UFV community. So we brainstormed; I went and talked to Sheila McKay, Martin Kelly and Junelle Mah and got many ideas from them.”
“We were made aware that there weren’t many food services available to students on campus on the weekend,” she noted, “so that’s what we decided to do.”
On Sunday morning in the first floor common room of Baker House, which has been renovated this year to now include a kitchen, the three communications students hosted their breakfast event. They served pancakes and turkey bacon with pastries donated by Safeway and fruit trays donated by Save On Foods.
Baker House resident and former Baker House Residence Association president Matthew Bo was in attendance on Sunday morning, and he agreed that there are not many food service options on campus for residents during the weekend. He said he was happy to have the communications students come in to feed him a very affordable meal at $2 a plate.
All proceeds generated by the event were to go to Abbotsford Food Bank. Hagglov said that her team wanted to follow UFV Student Life’s lead by donating any additional funds generated by their community dinners to Abbotsford Food Bank, because of how many UFV students utilize their services.
