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Volunteer Action Proves to be ‘Contagious’ Volunteers taking action in a wide array of springtime projects is one of the hallmarks of a successful local Great American Cleanup program. Keep Clark County Beautiful (KCCB) in Springfield, Ohio, was representative of the more than 38,000 different organizations that produced community-building events this year.
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Carly Woodrow, executive director of KCCB, reported that KCCB’s 2012 Great American Cleanup produced another year of great results. Nearly 1,900 volunteers participated, cleaning up and beautifying more than 100 public spaces through 4,000 hours of donated volunteer time.
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The Great American Cleanup is “a way to not only do something tremendously positive to enhance our neighborhoods, parks and roadways, but it instills a sense of pride that’s truly contagious,” Compton told the Springfield News-Sun. “I’m really proud to be a part of this effort.” The variety of projects that were undertaken was equally impressive. Despite cool weather and some rain, 86
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participants turned out to pick up litter, pull weeds and lay mulch, remove graffiti, collect dumped scrap tires and spruce up about 30 blocks of downtown Springfield during the 3rd Annual Downtown Cleanup in April. Students from Wittenberg University, Springfield High School, and the Ridgewood School painted over graffiti along the multi-use trails in four different locations during three separate paint-out events. There were 27,000 graffiti-laden sites that were removed or abated during the 2012 GAC. Beyond school groups, volunteers from various fraternal and environmental groups participated, including the Boy Scouts of America, the 4-H, the Kiwanis Club and the Greater Springfield Friends of the Trails, among others. These committed volunteers combined to collect more than 20 tons of litter and debris from March through May.
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