2008 Woodie Awards
PRIDE's Persistence Pays off:
AIDS Quilt comes to LCCC
Patricia Bergquist
Issue date: 12/11/06 Section: News
The PRIDE club has accomplished their goal of bringing the AIDS Quilt to Lorain Community College with food sales and the help of other Student Life entities. The club held about six food sales , selling a variety of items from hotdogs to soup and sandwiches.
PRIDE started having food sales to raise funds for this project early in Sept. Members of the club, Steven Vasquez and others worked together to bring their goal into reality. The money from the food sales was added to donations made to Student Life for this project.
Twelve panels were on display until Dec. 10. A charity dinner was held Saturday to benefit the Lorain County AIDS Taskforce, a non-profit self-sustaining organization which helps AIDS patients. According to PRIDE President Scott Norton, PRIDE has raised over $1400 for the cost of the quilt. The AIDS Quilt Benefit Dinner was covered through a grant from the LCCC Student Senate.
The AIDS quilt was started in 1987 as an effort to call to action to aid those with the virus, to stop new HIV infections, remember those who died, and to restore the heart and spirit, according to the AIDS Quilt website http//www.aidsquilt.org. The quilt is made from blocks measuring 12 feet square with eight panels sewn together. The 3 ft by 6 ft panels are tributes to the lost lives of AIDS victims. The quilt is "the largest ongoing community arts project in the world."
Ohio has over 13,000 reported cases of AIDS of all ages and ranks 16th in the nation, according to www.statehealthfacts.kff.org.
Information for AIDS testing can be obtained by contacting Cathy Shaw at Women's Link at 440-366-7634.
PRIDE started having food sales to raise funds for this project early in Sept. Members of the club, Steven Vasquez and others worked together to bring their goal into reality. The money from the food sales was added to donations made to Student Life for this project.
Twelve panels were on display until Dec. 10. A charity dinner was held Saturday to benefit the Lorain County AIDS Taskforce, a non-profit self-sustaining organization which helps AIDS patients. According to PRIDE President Scott Norton, PRIDE has raised over $1400 for the cost of the quilt. The AIDS Quilt Benefit Dinner was covered through a grant from the LCCC Student Senate.
The AIDS quilt was started in 1987 as an effort to call to action to aid those with the virus, to stop new HIV infections, remember those who died, and to restore the heart and spirit, according to the AIDS Quilt website http//www.aidsquilt.org. The quilt is made from blocks measuring 12 feet square with eight panels sewn together. The 3 ft by 6 ft panels are tributes to the lost lives of AIDS victims. The quilt is "the largest ongoing community arts project in the world."
Ohio has over 13,000 reported cases of AIDS of all ages and ranks 16th in the nation, according to www.statehealthfacts.kff.org.
Information for AIDS testing can be obtained by contacting Cathy Shaw at Women's Link at 440-366-7634.
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