Gannon University joins community members for Day of Caring workday
The weather didn't stop volunteers from cleaning up around the bayfront on Saturday.
Students, faculty, and staff at Gannon University joined the community for their Day of Caring workday.
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Volunteers were cleaning up streets, picking up litter, doing gardening work and more.
Over 400 students signed up early that morning and were spread throughout Erie doing what they could for the community.
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'Gannon University is a part of the community and we're only as strong as our community and its living out our mission so this is what gannon university is all about we are engaged in trying to develop socially responsible students and so giving back to the community is a way to do that and a way to engage them in that process,' said Dr. Sarah Ewing, provost and vice president for student experience at Gannon University.
The general public was also able to join Gannon in their efforts.
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