Village benefits from College at Brockport students’ efforts in local parks
On Saturday, August 29, about 40 incoming freshmen worked on a hot and sunny afternoon upgrading the landscape of the Village of Brockport parks. Supervised by college faculty and Parks Committee members, the young men and women from across New York state, took shovels in hand, weeded, pushed wheelbarrows, pulled tarps with wooden mulch to spread under playground equipment, and painted picnic table tops in Corbett Park. Other completed tasks included: painting yellow parking barriers and removal of weeds at Monika Andrews Children’s Park, and painting swing set posts at Evergreen Park. Each “frosh” put in approximately two hours of community service that day before their classes began.
The Saturday Day of Service is a cooperative venture between The College at Brockport and fifty organizations, agencies, churches, libraries, etc. throughout the Greater Rochester area, and is mandatory for over 2,000 freshman and transfer students. Richard Harris, Coordinator of Services and Community Building, College at Brockport, coordinated the parks’ projects with Linda Ketchum, Vice-Chair of the Village of Brockport’s Parks Committee.
Thanks go to Bill and Joyce Connors, Sri Ram Bakshi, Mark and Linda Ketchum for use of their yards for storing equipment, Brockport’s Department of Public Works, and Parks Committee members Losh Spalla, Joe and Barbara Blosenhauer, Sandi Henschel, Hanny Heyen, and Linda Ketchum for their contributions in helping make the 6th Saturday Day of Service a success.
