97-10-29 Advisory: High on Pride Campus Cleanup is Saturday

                          NEWS ADVISORY:
            “HIGH ON PRIDE” CAMPUS CLEANUP IS SATURDAY

     Some 2,000 Ohio State University students, faculty and staff
will join neighborhood residents in the seventh “High on Pride”
University Community Cleanup on Saturday, Nov. 1, from 9 a.m. to
noon.  Volunteers will pick up litter, remove bulk trash, sweep
streets and sidewalks, and collect recyclables in the
neighborhood just east of campus.  The area covers 267 city
blocks with 33 miles of sidewalk and more than 67 miles of
roadway.  The north boundary is Blake Avenue, the south is Ninth
Avenue and the east is the Conrail tracks.  The western boundary
is North High Street and the Ohio State campus.

     All volunteers will receive free T-shirts and will be served
coffee, juice, donuts and soft drinks.

     Radio station CD101 will broadcast from the Wexner Center
plaza area all morning, providing music and public address
announcements.  A celebration will be held immediately following
the Cleanup, with pizza and soft drinks from area vendors.
Support for the Cleanup comes from the City of Columbus, the Keep
Columbus Beautiful Office, and several area businesses, including
Huntington National Bank.

     For further information, call Tracy Turner in the Office of
University Communications, 688-3682.  For assistance in covering
the Cleanup, stop by the registration tables at the Wexner Center
plaza at 15th Avenue and High Street between 8 a.m. and noon on
Saturday.

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[Submitted by: Von Vargas  (vargas.12@osu.edu)
               
Wed, 29 Oct 1997 14:07:06 -0500 (EST)]
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