Students aim to beautify downtown
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Pi Kappa Phi fraternity members freshman Kevin Ornduff, junior George Scholtz and sophomore Drew Dickherber scrub graffiti off of a city mailbox south of Broadway on Wednesday. Volunteers spent the afternoon cleaning up Flat Branch Park and removing trash and graffiti from downtown Columbia.
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Pi Kappa Phi fraternity members scour Flat Branch Creek for garbage on Wednesday afternoon. The MU Office of Community Involvement hopes to hold cleanups more frequently in the future.
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Junior Pi Kappa Phi fraternity member George Scholtz peels a poopdeth sticker off the back of a stop sign near Cherry Street in downtown Columbia on Wednesday. The graffiti removal and creek cleanup were part of National Volunteer Week.
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Senior Megan Gore, volunteer coordinator for MU’s Office of Community Involvement, gives volunteers instructions before the Flat Branch Park cleanup on Wednesday. The event split volunteers into groups dedicated to either stream cleanup or graffiti removal.
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Trash collected from Flat Branch Creek sits on a curb in bags waiting to be picked up after the cleanup on Wednesday. The Missouri Department of Conservation provided the reusable litter bags.




