FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Monday, Sept. 24, 2007
Contact: Dave Wellman, Director of Communications (304) 696-7153
 

Annual Day of Service planned Saturday at Marshall, in community

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – Marshall University’s annual Day of Service, an organized cleanup of the Huntington campus and community, will take place from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, Sept. 29 on the Huntington campus.

Marshall students, faculty and staff will meet on the Memorial Student Center plaza at 9:15 a.m. for breakfast and registration, then begin the cleanup at 10 a.m.

“The students should consider the campus their home,” said Prudy Barker, director of judicial affairs and volunteer services at Marshall. “This is a day set aside for the students, faculty and staff to come together and spruce up their “home,” to spend a couple of hours cleaning up the campus and assisting in some much-needed work off campus.”

Day of Service, which originated a few years ago as SweatEquity Day, typically draws hundreds of Marshall students. Projects on campus include washing windows, pulling weeds, sweeping, dusting and picking up trash.

This year, as part of Day of Service, workers will be washing automobiles in a parking lot at the corner of 3^rd Avenue and 20^th Street. The cost is a $10 donation. Proceeds will help fund a Habitat House, which Marshall and Huntington Area Habitat for Humanity are teaming to build this fall.

Off-campus projects are planned at the Huntington Museum of Art, the Keith-Albee Performing Arts Center and Barnett Child Care Center.

Those who participate in Day of Service will receive a t-shirt.

For more information, contact Barker at (304) 696-2495 or barkerp@marshall.edu.

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