ServErie volunteers clean, beautify United Way of Erie County's community schools
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More than 200 volunteers spent Thursday and Friday helping clean and spruce-up eight area community schools throughout Erie County during their Summer Project 2024.
Beckett Caplan, 13, helped paint geometric designs on walls at Woodrow Wilson Middle School in Erie and liked his time volunteering.
"I think it's amazing," Caplan said of the work. "I find it fun, working with a group to improve things."
Across town at Grover Cleveland Elementary School, volunteers painted over thousands of multi-colored handprints from students' art projects in years past. Volunteers worked in hallways and stairwells, painting over the red, yellow, blue and green handprints with a deep red color.
At Iroquois Elementary School, volunteers helped maintenance staff deep clean desks and chairs as classrooms were emptied of equipment and walls and floors scrubbed.
Volunteer Ryan Humphreys, 18, cleaned a whiteboard while describing plans to study nuclear propulsion in the U.S. Navy in August after graduating from Harbor Creek High School this year.
"I'm excited to start a new chapter of my life," Humphreys said. "I'm trying to do what I can for the community while I'm still here."
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The eight community schools welcoming volunteers were Harding, Pfeiffer-Burleigh, Grover Cleveland, Edison, Elk Valley, McKinley and Iroquois elementary schools and Woodrow Wilson Middle School.
Greg Wohlford can be reached at gwohlford@timesnews.com.
This article originally appeared on Erie Times-News: ServErie volunteers help United Way of Erie County's community schools
