W-MU basketball teams host clinic to benefit MOPS

Last season, Winfield-Mt. Union received one of the state?s five Outstanding Service Awards for the basketball teams? visit to the Morning Sun Care Center, a project they did for the Iowa Hall of Pride.

This year, though the teams ? along with the band and choir ? are returning to the care center, they will be doing a different Hall of Pride service project.

The student council will be collecting items for MOPS (Mothers of Preschoolers) that are donated by students. The basketball teams and their coaches will be hosting a clinic for boys and girls in third grade through sixth grade on Nov. 26 from 9 a.m. until 11 a.m.

The only cost for attending the clinic is a donated item for MOPS.

Currently, MOPS is in need of the following: mushroom soup, white and brown sugar, flour, cake mix, pancake mix, tuna, Mandarin oranges, pinapple, chicken noodle soup, canned meat, toilet paper, detergent, and Kleenex.

They do not need any green beans, peaches, tomato soup or chow mein noodles.

The Iowa Hall of Pride Challenge is a voluntary statewide community service initiative for high schools and middle schools. When basketball teams register for and complete the Iowa Pride Challenge by doing a service project in a designated time period, they may play a ?Pride Scrimmage? gmae.

For W-MU, that game will be against West Burlington on Nov. 26. The girls will play after that morning?s clinic, at 2 p.m., and the boys will follow.