Senior hosts fourth annual Pop-Up Thrift Shop
Proceeds from the event will support the Nature Preserve, BU’s Food Pantry
April 15, 2021 Sidney Slon/Photography Editor All of the proceeds from the fourth annual Pop-Up Thrift Shop will be donated directly to the Nature Preserve and the Binghamton University Food Pantry.
This year, College-in-the-Woods Dining Center will once again be converted into a secondhand store in order to raise funds for the Binghamton University Food Pantry and Nature Preserve.
The Pop-Up Thrift Shop, run by Jacob Kerr, a senior majoring in science communications, has for the past three years fundraised on behalf of the Nature Preserve, raising about $1,000 each time. In the past, its funds have been used to treat the hemlock trees of the Nature Preserve to protect them from a species of destructive invasive insect. This year, proceeds from the shop will be split equally between BU’s Food Pantry, which will use them to purchase produce a
BU enforces new safety protocols as COVID-19 cases on campus rise Michael Golann / Contributing Photographer Students bear long lines waiting to get food in the Chenango Champlain Collegiate Center (C4), one of just two dining halls that remain open on campus during a surge of COVID-19 cases.
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