SUNY Fredonia’s Fall Sweep is poised once again to draw hundreds of students into the community surrounding campus on Saturday, Nov. 11, to rake leaves in residents’ yards.
The event is designed to help foster positive relations between the students and the local community. Flyers will be put on neighborhood porches the week of Fall Sweep, and those would like their lawn raked should hang the flyer on the front door or mailbox the day of the event.
All student groups on campus as well as individual students are encouraged to join the 18th edition of the volunteer project, organized by the Applied Communication Association (ACA). Organizations who wish to participate are asked to email ACA President Amarah Ghori. Individuals or friend groups may also create their own team.
Opening remarks, refreshments and raffles will begin at 11 a.m. in the Williams Center Multipurpose Room, prior to students going out in the community to rake.
Equipped with about three-dozen tarps and over a hundred rakes, the students will be deployed from Temple Street to the Birchwood Street area, and additional streets may be added. Afterwards, the students should return the rakes to ACA members at LoGrasso Hall.
Around 400 students participated in Fall Sweep in 2022.
