SAB organizes upcoming Harvest Festival for campus clubs

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Changes in the ownership of the annual Waynesburg University Harvest Festival have shifted back into the hands of Student Senate after the Student Activities Board (SAB) had possession of it last year.

Student Senate executive board member A.J. McClure said the event used to be conquered jointly.

“Years past SAB and Student Senate have worked hand in hand to create Harvest Fest,” said McClure, junior applied business major. “We are just taking a burden off SAB to share in the event planning.”

Each year campus clubs and organizations take part in setting up tables in Johnson Commons to welcome children from the community and college students alike to participate in different events.

Funds raised at these tables will go to charity like the years prior, however, this year, McClure said that the clubs get to choose their own organization for the funds to go to. In years past all the clubs donated to the same organizations.

McClure said this way there will be a larger impact in the community this way.

For senate, they are selling gourds that participants can paint and take home with them. Donations collected will have a direct impact on the local community because the money will help with Project Bundle Up in the community. Other campus clubs have chosen organizations, such as the Hurricane Harvey Relief Fund, as their represented charity.

Campus clubs have until Sept. 30 to contact McClure about participating in Harvest Fest.

Since children from the community are encouraged to come to Harvest Fest in their Halloween costumes, McClure hopes to see clubs handing out candy.

“We highly suggest that each club has a bowl of candy because we’re really trying to get the community involved, “said McClure. “We are trying to get the kids in their costume[s] to go trick or treating at each table.”

Harvest Fest is slated to take place in Johnson Commons at 4 p.m. Oct. 26.

“It’s just a really great time to give back and a lot of the organizations that our clubs will be donating to are all local,” said McClure, “they need our help more than ever.”