SRU students clean up Ritts Park
While most college students look forward to sleeping in on a frosty Saturday morning, 30 Slippery Rock University undergrads bundled up, donned work gloves and headed to Ritts Park in Butler to improve the recreation venue.
Jeff Smith, Butler city councilman and an SRU trustee, said his goal is to foster collaboration between the city and university and give SRU a presence in Butler.
“I want to generate awareness that Slippery Rock is Butler County's university,” said Smith, who wore a green tassel cap and gloves to ward off Saturday morning's biting temperatures.
Chrissy Pfeil, an SRU graduate assistant, and Alyssa Hilliard, an SRU junior and assessment coordinator for the university's Office for Community-Engaged Learning, said the work was being performed by the student volunteers as part of a pilot program called “Service Saturdays.”
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