Opinion article from Tuesday's Lariat about CK--check it out

http://baylorlariat.com/2011/02/08/2310/

Garden Training Session Opportunity

The garden training session will be this Wednesday, February 9th at 6 pm in Goebel Building (located right next to Baylor's Energy Complex between the library and Russell gym) Room 120. We plan to start planting at the end of February and beginning of March and in order to volunteer in the Garden you must attend a training session. This session will be a short, fun and informative, equipping volunteers how to be efficient in the garden. We will be needing lots of volunteers to help so bring your friends. This is an awesome opportunity for you to help start this wonderful project!

Sonic drinks: still good, but no longer necessary

Campus Kitchen is looking to broaden its horizons in Spring 2011. Our marketing and PR people are working together to create a veritable storm of promotional material and hopefully reign in some new volunteers. We have more consistency than ever, so our focus is shifting to streamlining what we already do so we can do more. As we grow and change we hope to hear your thoughts and encouragement. To that end, we're going to start blogging weekly. There will be updates from the garden, stories (and maybe some recipes?) from the kitchen, anecdotes from delivery shifts, volunteer profiles and much much more. Stay tuned, let us know you're listening and come out to volunteer whenever you can.

Here's the first in our attempt to get up close and personal with the exec board of Baylor's Campus Kitchen. Ellie Keeling has been running delivery shifts for Campus Kitchen for several years. When other volunteers don't show, Ellie comes through, and has been known to keep the deliveries running almost single handedly. Here are her thoughts...

This semester Campus Kitchen has started off with a bang. For the first time in Baylor CKP history we actually have a different leader for every delivery shift. Yesterday, I had the privilege of training our newest leader. Not only was it exciting to be adding another set of hands to the team, but it was also really cool to witness the expansion of this organization first hand. Gone are the days of dragging roommates and close friends into volunteering. Helpful as they were, they generally only complied because I promised Sonic happy hour drinks as a reward. Now we have had several instances in just three short weeks of school where we have had an excess of help. Never would I have expected to be asking people to come back and help another day. Though this is an amazing victory for Campus Kitchen, I also think that it brings about more opportunity and responsibility than ever before. Campus Kitchens is on the verge of becoming an even more amazing organization as well as an asset to Baylor university and the Waco community.

Interest Meeting

Hey everyone! We will be having an interest meeting tomorrow, February 1st, in the Fentress Room of the SUB. Come check it out!!!

COMMUNITY GARDEN GROUNDBREAKING CEREMONY!

Turkeypalooza was a Success!!!

With the help of multiple organizations and volunteers, the Baylor University Campus Kitchen was able to collect 65 Thanksgiving meals! These meals were donated to The Family Abuse Center of Waco, Talitha Koum, and the Waco Arts Initiative. Many underprivilaged families around Waco will now be able to enjoy an amazing Thanksgiving dinner due to all of the time, effort, money, and hard work put in by our volunteers. We want to say a HUGE thanks to everyone who participated!!! It is because of you all that Campus Kitchens is able to have such a great impact on the community. THANKS EVERYONE!!!