Hundreds of members of the Union community, including Greek organizations and student clubs, will help spruce up the city and surrounding area from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 15, for the 22nd annual John Calvin Toll Day.
The deadline to register is Saturday, Oct. 8.
Participants will meet at Memorial Fieldhouse at noon and the first 200 to sign in will receive a free t-shirt.
Volunteers will clean up parks, and other public spaces, and provide other help as needed.
Among the sites or organizations/projects receiving assistance are:
Bethesda House Lighthouse
Bethesda House
Damien Center
FUMC Girls Inc.
Hamilton Hill Arts Center
Harmony Fellowship Church
Heritage Home for Women
Mont Pleasant Neighborhood Assn. - three sites
Out of the Darkness Community Walk set up
Out of the Darkness Community Walk event
Regional Food Bank
Street cleanup in Schenectady
Vale Cemetery
Vale Park
Vale Urban Farm
YWCA
Coordinated by Union’s Kenney Community Center, Toll Day strengthens Union’s commitment to the city through these volunteer opportunities.
The College consistently is named to the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for exemplary service to the local community. The honor is the highest federal recognition a school can achieve for its commitment to volunteering, service learning and civic engagement.
John Calvin Toll Day is named for one of Union's first graduates in 1799. It has been supported each year by Al Hill ‘46 and his wife, Perrie. Toll was the great-great-grandfather of Hill, a retired attorney from Buffalo who died in 2007. The Hills created the fund to encourage Union students to undertake volunteer service.