PICTURE: Tucker Reilly / The Bona Venture BY TUCKER REILLY, ADVISORY EDITOR Fr. Greg Boyle, the founder and director of Homeboy Industries, spoke with students and faculty this week in a series of presentations on Tuesday and Wednesday. With talks focusing on leadership, corporate responsibility and kinship, Boyle spent time illustrating a vision of service…
BY CASSIDEY KAVATHAS, NEWS EDITOR The Franciscan Center of Social Concern, Residential education and High Education Opportunity Program joined forces for Clare’s coats drive. Donations of winter coats, hats, gloves and other winter gear will be accepted from now until Oct. 18. This drive is a first of its kind. If this year goes well…
By Kurt Martone, Staff Writer The annual St. Bonaventure University move-out sale will take place this year, after not occurring last year. It will be held in Butler Gym, from May 17-19. The move-out sale is the Franciscan Center for Social Concern’s way to give back to the community. Valentina Cossio, a sophomore accounting major,…
By A.J. Powers, Contributing Writer St. Bonaventure University’s Farm to Table is a program run by the university ministries center that occurs every summer. During a 10-weekperiod over the summer, much time is spent at a local farm preparing food that will later be served at The Warming House, a local student-run soup kitchen in…
On Wednesday, members of St. Bonaventure University’s Franciscan Center for Social Concern (FCSC), a program of University Ministries, had the official grand opening of their newest project: a food pantry. Located in the McGinley-Carney Center for Franciscan Ministry’s room 114, the food pantry serves to provide food for students and employees that might otherwise not…
Service trips are different from the usual tourist attraction or vacation because they focus on the ministry of presence. “Instead of doing and fixing, focus on being and be present to other humans who live in these countries,” said Maggie Morris Kibler, former director of Franciscan Center for Social Concern. Kibler and Jeff Sved, current…
By Vanessa Hulse Staff Writer Don Watkins has been volunteering at the Warming House for over three years. He began volunteering in the kitchen with the dishes and progressed to helping make the meals. After retiring, this gave him something to do with his free time. “It gave me a place to be, it gave…
By Alexis Young Staff Writer Want to ‘turnip the beet’ with a summer filled with community service and personal growth? Farm to Table happens to be serving quite the dish. “When students are taking finals, there is still a need in our community, when students are on break there’s still a need in the community,”…
By Julia Mericle News Assignment Editor “We’re trying to change a culture here,” Sr. Suzanne Kush C.S.S.F., director of the Franciscan Center for Social Concern, said, speaking about Recyclemania, a national competition to increase recycling on college and university campuses. Recyclemania began on Feb. 1 and continues through March 28. This is the second year…
Jason Klaiber Staff Writer The Franciscan Center for Social Concern will conduct its first-ever garage sale for old furniture items over the span of two days. The event will be hosted in the garages behind Doyle Hall from noon to 6 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 14, and from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on…
By Bryce Spadafora Contributing Writer Nine students visited Saint’s Place in Rochester, NY for a day of community service. The students worked with families who have come to Rochester to escape persecution, violence, and poverty. One group helped set up an apartment for a refugee family from Nepal, while another group worked in the Saint’s…