MoWest to host Family Day Saturday

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (News-Press NOW) -- Missouri Western State University will welcome students and their families to campus this weekend for its annual Family Day celebration.

Check-in for the events is at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 13, in Blum Union.

Families can take part in a legacy coffee social, tour the newly renovated library or join Griffs Give Back.

The Center for Service partners with Sleep in Heavenly Peace for Bunks Across America to build beds for local children in need.

Registration is required for the service event and those interested can register here.

Other activities throughout the day include a campus walking tour, monarch butterfly tagging on the John Rushin Teaching and Research Prairie and a Scanlon Hall open house.

The celebration concludes with Griffon football at 6 p.m. in Spratt Memorial Stadium.

For a full schedule and registration details, visit MoWest's website at missouriwestern.edu.