Meal Service This Week: Meal service will be available in the Washington Diner at Seacobeck on Thursday and  Friday, Jan. 9 and 10.   Breakfast service will be 7 to 8:30 a.m.; Lunch 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.; and dinner 5 to 7 p.m.  All dining services will resume regular operating hours on Monday, Jan. 13.

Commit To Be Fit Exercise Demonstrations: Campus Dining is hosting demonstrations of various exercise classes that are available here on campus, and spectators will be invited to join in! Demonstrations will begin at 5:30 p.m. in the Dome Room at Seacobeck and will include Zumba, Kick Boxing, and a Total Body Workout. You can also get information about the many fitness classes offered here at UMW. There is no charge to attend the demonstrations. The cost for dinner for any member of the faculty and staff is $5, and $10.75 plus tax for other guests. For additional information, contact Rose Benedict at (540) 654-2169.

The Faculty and Staff Dining Room will be open and serving lunch on Monday and Tuesday, Nov. 25 and 26. The Wholly Habaneros Food Truck and EagleExpress Food Cart will not be open on Monday or Tuesday. All dining services will resume regular operations on Monday, Dec. 2.

Our Holiday Lunch for Faculty and Staff will be served on Wednesday, Dec. 4 between 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.  The cost is $6 for faculty and staff and $8.35 plus tax for guests. The Holiday Dinner for students will be served that same evening in all the dining rooms at Seacobeck between 5 and 8 p.m. Members of the faculty and staff are welcome to join us at a cost of $6. The dinner cost for guests is $11.40 plus tax. Menus for the lunch and dinner will be on the dining website Dec. 2  at www.umwdining.com. For additional information, contact Rose Benedict at 540-654-2169.

Thanksgiving Lunch:  Campus Dining will be serving our annual Thanksgiving Lunch for faculty and staff on Thursday, Nov. 21 in the Faculty and Staff Dining Room between 11 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.  The full menu is available on the dining web site at www.umwdining.com.  Please note:  The cost for members of the faculty and staff is $6. Guests and others without meal plans will be charged $8.35 plus tax.

Volunteers Still Needed:  We still need volunteers to assist in serving the Thanksgiving Dinner for students for one hour shifts between 4:45 p.m. and 7:45 p.m. on Nov. 21.  Anyone interested in assisting is asked to contact Rose Benedict at rbenedic@umw.edu.

Holiday Schedule: The Faculty and Staff Dining Room will be open through Tuesday, Nov. 26.  To view the operational hours for all dining facilities during the holiday period please visit our dining website at www.umwdining.com.

Campus Dining invites you to join us for our annual Thanksgiving Lunch for faculty and staff, which will be served on Thursday, Nov.  21 in the Historic Dining Room at Seacobeck (faculty and staff dining room).

The menu will include carved roast turkey, turkey gravy, herbed bread stuffing, glazed baked ham, mashed potatoes, candied sweet potatoes, pumpkin pie and a host of other traditional favorites.

Service will begin one half hour early at 11 a.m. and continue until 1:30 p.m.  The cost for this special lunch will be $6.  We hope to see you there!

Campus Dining will be serving  a grand Thanksgiving Dinner Nov. 21, a festive Holiday Dinner Dec. 4, and a free “Midnight Breakfast” Dec. 9 for UMW students at the Restaurants of Seacobeck. It’s a wonderful tradition for members of the faculty and staff to volunteer as guest servers at these lively events. Students get a great kick out of being served their meal by staffers, administrators,  or professors all decked out in chefs’ hats and aprons!

For the dinner services we ask volunteers to work for a one hour shift. Shifts begin at 4:45 p.m., 5:45 p.m. and 6:45 p.m. For the Midnight Breakfast volunteers are asked to work from 10:45 p.m. to 12:30 a.m.  If you are interested in helping with any of these delightful events, please contact Rose Benedict at rbenedic@umw.edu

Campus Dining’s Annual STOP Hunger Food Drive will run Nov. 4  to 20.  We invite everyone to join us in collecting food to donate to the Fredericksburg Area Food Bank, which is in great need of our support. Donation bins will be located in all dining facilities, and we encourage you to set up collection boxes in your offices and classrooms, too. Donations may be brought to our dining bins at any time, or be dropped off at our curb-side collection site outside Seacobeck Hall by the FRED bus stop  between noon and 5 p.m. on Nov. 20.

All donations made to our general collection bins Nov. 11 to 20 will be “credited” to the Athletic Department as they seek to take first place in their conference food drive competition. We hope you will all help make this the most successful campus food drive ever!  Our goal is to collect over 3,000 pounds of food, and we know we can make it happen!  For more information, contact Rose Benedict at rbenedic@umw.edu.

Applications are  being taken until Dec. 5  for Stephen J. Brady STOP Hunger Scholarships that are awarded by the Sodexo Foundation to students in kindergarten through graduate school who have worked to help fight hunger in their communities. The students receive a $5,000 scholarship plus a matching $5,000 grant for the hunger-related charity of their choice. If you know a student who has made significant contributions to fighting hunger, please encourage them to apply for the scholarship. Complete information is available at www.SodexoFoundation.org.