Release
Media Advisory and
Photo Op:
Mayor Jennings, Presidents Hall and Sullivan
Make Clean Sweep
UAlbany Campus Clean-Up Day Focuses on Downtown for 10th Anniversary
Contact: Catherine Herman (518) 437-4980
ALBANY, N.Y. (April 28, 2006)
What:
Albany Mayor Gerald D. Jennings and
College of Saint Rose President R. Mark
Sullivan join University at Albany President
Kermit L. Hall for UAlbany's annual Campus
Clean-Up Day. Also joining them will be
hundreds of UAlbany volunteers, along with
local merchants, area neighborhood
associations, the UAlbany men's soccer team,
and students and employees of The College of
Saint Rose.
Who:
Mayor Gerald D. Jennings
University at Albany President Kermit L. Hall
College of Saint Rose President R. Mark Sullivan
UAlbany Men's Soccer Team
And members of the Albany Police Department, the
Pine Hills Neighborhood Association, the
Washington Park Neighborhood Association, the
Midtown Corridor Neighborhood Merchants, the
Midtown Neighborhood Churches, and the Midtown
Neighborhood Watch.
When:
Tuesday, May 2, 2006 9:30 a.m.
Rain date: Friday, May 5, 2006 9:30 a.m.
Where:
Corner of Western Avenue and Partridge
Street (O'Leary Blvd.), across from
Waterbury Hall, UAlbany downtown campus,
Albany, N.Y.
Background:
About NERFI
The University at Albany's annual spring
campus clean up began with 100 volunteers in
1997 and has grown to over 500 volunteers
pitching in time and energy to beautify the
campus and enjoy camaraderie and morale
building in the fresh air. For this tenth
anniversary, the focus shifts to the midtown
section of the city surrounding Alumni Quad
and UAlbany's downtown campus where
participants will rake, hoe, plant, and sod
while beautifying the campus community for
Commencement and key signature events.
In 2005, volunteers on the uptown campus placed 120 yards of mulch, spread 60 yards of topsoil, and spread and compacted 3 tons of stone dust in sub-base preparation of a new walk and gazebo area. In addition, they rolled out 2 thousand feet of new sod, raked and collected 150 yards of leaves and debris, and restriped 300 parking spaces in the Dutch Quad student parking lot. For the crowning touch, they planted 100 flats of pansies, 25 forsythia bushes, and six flowering trees.
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