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Show Outreach hits charge of the white brigade ZAP! Look! Up in the sky! s it a white tornado? Is ,t Mr. Clean? No, it's the Outreach Volunteer Brigade, come o clean out Salt Lake City. Sunny autumn swept away the last dregs of s ale summer as nearly 500 Salt Lakers and University students descended on a 100-square 100-square block area of City Salt on Saturday painting houses, cleaning yards, mending fences and earning well over $9 000 for the Outreach Minority Scholarship Fund. The volunteer worker brigade concentrated con-centrated its clean-up campaign in an area stretching from South Temple to 13th South and west from State Street to the freeway. They scraped, sanded, painted and generally groomed between 45 and 50 homes, according to project Chairman Jeff Evershed. The project had a huge and indiscriminate appetite, consuming both 130 gallons of paint donated by a local paint company and 30 loads of trash along with four large trucks that carried them; then crunching down a fine assortment of donated rakes, shovels, brooms and hammers. "Wages" for the day's work were also contributed. Local businessman donated to the Outreach Scholarship Fund established to provide financial aid to University students from low-income tamilies. Evershed said that the $9000 earned on Saturday raised the total amount of the fund, raised entirely by the Outreach Committee since its organization last spring, to $22,000. Saturday's clean up came as the culmination of two months worth of . planning by Outreach in coordination with the Peoples' Freeway Neighborhood Council (Satellite) an organization formed in the target neighborhoods. In addition to verbal contact and poster advertising on campus and in the community. com-munity. Outreach sent 7,500 letters to downtown businessmen, asking for support and contributions. Outreach programs are probably the best form of Public Relations. By acting as a contributing part of the community, the University and its students gain the support and confidence of the general community and local businessmen. University President Alfred C. Emery regards such programs as the only viable means for dealing with the community, "By getting the student out and involved with the community, we show that community that the student is interested in doing something worthwhile and not primarily in destroying life as we know it." |
