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Wednesday, March 23, 2016
Community volunteers from Tabernacle Evangelical Presbyterian Church, Victory Christian Center, and students from YSU boarded up and cleaned up total of 19 vacant homes in the Newport neighborhood on Youngstown's south side.
This workday is part of an ongoing effort to board up all vacant and unsecured homes in the neighborhood. A total of 20 cubic yards of blight were hauled off in dump trucks and over 50 tires were removed. The event was planned and coordinated by AmeriCorps VISTAs Sarah Conkle, Anika Jacobs, and Frank Elling. AmeriCorps NCCC Maple 3 team members serving at YNDC worked side by side with volunteers in what represented their first community workday experience since their arrival in Youngstown on March 12th. Maple 3 is serving at YNDC to help board up over 100 vacant homes by the end of April.
Special thanks to Southgate Pizza on Southern Boulevard for providing pizza for the volunteers at the event!