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Show Students ready clean-up drive University and local high school students are getting set for a massive clean-up drive in Salt Lake City this Saturday as the first of several projects to collect funds for minority scholarships. The clean-up is being sponsored by Outreach, a student and alumni organization working to establish a per-menant per-menant scholarship fund for minority students at the University. The project has received endorsement from national and local government leaders including: Elliot Richardson, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare; presidential candidate Ceorge McCovern and the Salt Lake City Commission. Com-mission. Utah Secretary of State Clyde L. Miller declared Saturday "Community Self-Help Day." The clean-up area runs from South Temple to 13th South and from State Street west to Interstate 15. Outreach chairman Dave Hansen has invited all University students and faculty, Salt Lake residents and businessmen, and local high school students to participate. According to Hansen, Outreach has raised $22,000 since fund raising activities began last spring. He says he expects the clean-up to increase that figure considerably. Hansen said Salt Lake businesses will contribute money to pay each of the clean-up workers a day's wages, and the money raised will be contributed to the scholarship fund. "We are trying to make the Outreach program permanent so that we won't bring up students for a year or two and then have to tell them, sorry, no mopre money. " Hansen said. |