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Media Memo: Students to clean up neighborhoods Saturday

TO: News/Photo Editors and Directors

FROM: Judy Berthiaume, Director

DATE: May 5, 2010

SUBJECT: Students to clean up neighborhoods Saturday

Several UW-Eau Claire students will spend part of Saturday, May 8, cleaning up trash and other debris in a neighborhood that includes many student rentals.

The students will work from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday in an area bordered by the Chippewa River, Lake Street, First Avenue and 10th Avenue.

Katie Caldwell, the organizer of the cleanup effort, said she was inspired by a service project she participated in while on a Civil Rights Pilgrimage to the south during spring break. During that trip she and others spent several hours cleaning up a park in Selma, Ala. She said she was amazed by the difference they made. She returned from the trip determined to do something similar for the Eau Claire community.

For more information about Saturday's neighborhood cleanup, contact Katie Caldwell at caldweks@uwec.edu.

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