By MICHAEL BUSHNELL
Northeast News
August 15, 2012

If you saw an army of folks scattered throughout the community dressed in brightly colored orange and purple T-shirts sweeping, pruning and cleaning, you weren’t dreaming. Those fine people were part of the Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences (KCUMB) annual We Care Community Service Day.

Now in it’s 15th year, the event sent more than 250 medical students, along with faculty and staff volunteers, to a dozen service agencies in the Kansas City metro to assist in tasks from painting boarded up windows along Independence Avenue to distributing backpacks filled with school supplies to low income elementary school students. KCUMB volunteers also stopped by Northeast’s Mattie Rhodes Center, Don Bosco Senior Center and Whatsoever Community Center. More than 1,000 community service hours were donated on Wednesday, Aug. 8, according to KCUMB Public Information Officer Lisa Cambridge.