On Saturday, August 26, incoming students from The College at Brockport participated in the 8th Annual Saturday Day of Service.
The program was developed cooperatively through the Village of Brockport, the Brockport Parks Committee, The College at Brockport and fifty organizations, agencies, churches, libraries, and more, throughout the Greater Rochester area.
New freshmen were given the choice of which of the many areas they’d prefer to work on, then were divided into groups and were directed to their assignments across the greater Brockport area. The students participated in this at-large community service initiative during their first weekend at college. In that way they take some responsibility for and are “giving back” to their new homes in the village.
The students walked from campus to their assigned areas including Monika Andrews Children’s Park on Utica Street, and Corbett Park on Clark Street in Brockport. Students gave two hours of service, sanding and painting parking barriers, bicycle racks, weeding and mulching under and around the playground equipment, and weeding lilac and flower beds, racking up an impressive 80 hours of volunteer service.
Harry Donahue and the Brockport’s Department of Public Works supplied materials and tools, and parks committee members supervised the young workers. Sandi Henschel and Linda Ketchum worked with and supervised a group of students at Monika Andrews Children’s Park, and Losh Spalla and Joe Blosenhauer were the student supervisors at Corbett Park. Mayor Margay Blackman worked with a group of students walking around the village and delivering informational materials to students living in off-campus housing.
Thanks to the students, parks committee members, Nikole Van Wie, Coordinator of Community Service at The College at Brockport, Mayor Blackman and Linda Ketchum, Vice-Chair of the Village of Brockport’s Parks Committee, for their efforts in making the 8th Annual Saturday of Service in the Village of Brockport a rousing success.
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