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Students sprucing
up the community
By Ayako Ando
On-line Forty-Niner
Long Beach's Washington
Middle School area will look nicer and feel safer after Cal
State Long Beach students and other community volunteers help
the neighborhood by rearranging the
environment.
Volunteers, as part of the national "Make a Difference
Day," will create butterfly zones, plant tree and flowers
in parks and stencil addresses around the neighborhood to
create a nicer environment.
"This event is very important for the neighborhood,"
said Sarah Shogren, CSULB's partnership coordinator for the
Community Service Learning Center.
"Since this area is considered as the high risk area,
not many people actually go there," Shogren said. "But
if we try to change the environment, more students will start
thinking about collage in this area."
Shogren has been working on this project since August when
she heard from one of the community services that the area
needed some neighborhood reconstruction.
She is expecting to see about 300 volunteers to participate
in this project.
Shogren said about 100 of them are CSULB students whom she
and other CSULB's coordinators have been gathering through
the campus' club activities.
Other participants are community volunteers and students from
Cabrillo, Jordan, Millikan and Poly high schools that Shogren
also has been asking to join the project.
"I am so glad that many students and other people are
volunteering for the community," Shogren said. "Those
people are really making the project successful."
This event is also backed up by a lot of community services
such as CSULB's Community Service Learning Center, Student
Life and Development, the city of Long Beach's Neighborhood
Service Bureau and Parks and more.
The event will be held on Saturday at 8 a.m. with breakfast
at the Long Beach Rescue Mission, 1335 Pacific Ave. Lunch
is also prepared for the volunteers. They will have the opportunity
to join in volleyball games and some other games after the
meal.
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