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University's Spring Work Day meets community needs
FOR RELEASE April 17, 2008
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Amanda Prior, a junior educational ministries major from Van Wert,
Ohio, rakes leaves for the City of Huntington's Parks and Recreation
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HUNTINGTON, IN—Huntington
University’s Joe Mertz Center for Volunteer Service sponsored Spring Work
Day on April 12. Groups comprised of 170 students, five faculty and two
staff completed work projects at 15 sites in Huntington. Sites and tasks
included
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Helping Paws Cat Adoption Center:
Spring house cleaning, scrubbing floors, washing windows, cleaning the
garage, and pulling out dead trees to put in the burn pile
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Boys and Girls Club of Huntington County:
outdoor spring cleaning, cleaning the windows, and inside work
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City of Huntington’s Parks and Recreation
Department: cleaning up in the
downtown mall district, raking, mulching, and sweeping off sidewalks.
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Jacob Workman, a freshman digital media arts major from
Wooster, Ohio, picks up sticks at Good Shepherd Church. |
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Huntington County American Red Cross:
cleaning and re-organizing the Disaster truck and trailer, assisting
with the annual check-up on the truck, helping set up two compactable
computer stations that will be used if a shelter is needed
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Forester Village:
general pick-up in Forester Village and cleaning in the woods
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Colin Whitehurst (left), a junior digital media arts major
from Villa Park, Ill., and Ryan Barger, a sophomore digital
media arts major from Warsaw, Ind., clean up around the Boys
and Girls Club of Huntington County. |
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Habitat for Humanity of Huntington County
of Huntington County, Inc.:
laying concrete blocks
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Huntington County Solid Waste Department:
picking up litter in Salamonie and the Huntington Reservoir
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Huntington City-Township Public Library:
mulching, sprucing up landscape
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Parkview Huntington Family YMCA:
getting ready for garage sale; sorting and pricing items
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The United States Vice Presidential Museum:
cleaning out the museum house
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Kids Kampus:
sprucing up outside, fixing the butterfly garden, general garden
cleanup.
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Salvation Army Huntington Corps:
raking, picking up twigs in the front and back, sweeping asphalt off of
the sidewalk
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Good Shepherd Church:
outside work
“Our aim for
Spring Work Day is that it would be an opportunity for our campus to come
together and help out different organizations in town that are doing a great
deal of good work in the community,” said Adam Shoemaker, student director
for the Joe Mertz Center. “It also serves as a springboard for students to
get involved in Huntington. Often, students first experience serving in town
through one of our work days or the new student plunge at the start of the
year, so we hope that this one Saturday morning might spark something in a
student that leads them to further service throughout their years at
Huntington University and the rest of their life.”
Donations from local
businesses and campus organizations including the Student Activities Board,
Student Senate and the Huntingtonian went toward purchasing T-shirts
and breakfast for participants.
Huntington University is a comprehensive
Christian college of the liberal arts offering graduate and undergraduate
programs in more than 70 academic concentrations.
U.S.News & World Report
ranks Huntington among the best colleges in the Midwest.
Founded in 1897 by the Church of the United Brethren in Christ, Huntington
University is located on a contemporary, lakeside
campus in northeast
Indiana. The University is a member of the
Council for Christian Colleges
and Universities (CCCU).
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