Volunteers Come Together for Make A Difference Day and REVITALIZE in the Oak Hill Neighborhood

Wednesday, October 26, 2016

On Saturday, October 22, 2016, volunteers from the Four Square Block Watch, Valley Christian School, Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Horizon Science Academy, Mike Notar, ORC, and 614 Church, came together for one of the largest annual single-days of service nationwide, Make A Difference Day.

Volunteers cleaned up over 30 properties in the Oak Hill neighborhood. A total of 125 tires, 207 bags of trash, and 4 tractor trailers of debris and overgrowth were removed from the neighborhood. Over 1100 linear feet of sidewalk were scraped and cleaned up to make it safer for neighborhood children to reach school bus stops in the neighborhood. The project was planned and coordinated by AmeriCorps VISTA Anika Jacobs with support from VISTAs Gia Cappabianca, Kaytlin Fenlason, and Grant Taylor.

Special thanks to Southgate Pizza and Walmart for donating lunch for the volunteers, Greater Friendship Missionary Baptist Church for accommodating the volunteers for lunch, Randy Ware for helping to haul debris and brush out of the neighborhood with his excavator, and to Mr. and Mrs. Sipp for helping to coordinate the event! REVITALIZE.