Great UIndy Clean Up 2010
On Saturday, April 10, students, faculty and staff volunteered their time to help clean up campus and the areas surrounding as part of the Great UIndy Clean Up, an annual event that is held in the spring.
“We do this project as part of a service project in order to help clean up the UIndy campus as well as the surrounding campus area,” said Katherine Allen, IMPACT UIndy Chair for Campus Program Board.
Close to 70 individuals volunteered their time to pitch in and beautify campus.
“I was greatly pleased with the turn out this year. All the projects went just perfectly,” Allen said.
Junior Lindsay Brickens has been a part of the clean up since she was a freshman, and she feels like it has impacted the rest of her life.
“I was first involved because the Bible study that I was in was participating, but now I sign up because it is a lot of fun and for a great cause,” Brickens said. “I think it really puts “education for service” into action and allows students to serve together. I plan on participating in activities like this after leaving school.”
Volunteers were split into groups and each worked in different areas with different tasks.
“Our group cleaned up south of Warren Hall and Cravens Hall and then over toward University Heights Methodist, where we did some landscaping around the church and on the playground,” Brickens said.
While Brickens stayed near campus others helped at the Hanna House on Madison, and the Montisorri on 31, a few groups cleaned up trash around the perimeter of campus and helped to make dog toys from old T-shirts that will be donated to an area animal shelter.
Allen noted that without the help of others this project would not have been quite the success.
“I would like to thank Marianna Foulkrod, Dan Stoker and Nancy Collins for all of their wonderful help on making this event so wonderful, I wouldn’t have been able to do it all without them,” Allen said. “I also want to thank all the volunteers that came out and helped with the Clean Up, it only takes a few people to make a big difference.”
