Roanoke Lee Street Neighborhood Cleanup September 26th 2004

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Roanoke Lee Street Neighborhood
Clean-upSeptember 26th 2004
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Partnership Sponsors

• The Roanoke Lee Street Community Development
  Block Grant Program in conjunction with the
  Downtown Eastside Neighborhood Group hosted the
  clean-up
• Organizations involved included
• Blacksburg Methodist Church
• Downtown Eastside Neighborhood Group
• Fraternity/Sorority Life
• St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church
• Christ Episcopal Church
• Blacksburg Jewish Community Center
• Town Housing and Community Development
• VT College Alcohol Prevention Programs
• VT Judicial Affairs Office

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Fraternity Involvement

• House Tours and Fall Clean-up Removal
• Zeta Psi
• Lambda Chi Alpha
• Delta Kappa Epsilon
• Kappa Alpha
• Phil Gamma Delta
• Fence Painting at the Historic Price House on Lee
  St.
• Beta Theta Pi
• Curbside Litter Collection
• Alpha Phi Omega

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Historic Price House Project
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Price House Before
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Price House Work In Progress
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Price House Work in Progress
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Price House After
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Fall Clean-up Events

• 12pm-2pm Street Clean up
• 2pm-330pm Fraternity Tours
• 330-evening Cook out at Blacksburg Methodist
  Church

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Street Clean-up
Fraternities and other volunteers scoured the
streets gutter and sidewalks for trash.
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Street Clean-up cont
Volunteers sweeping streets and collecting
curb-side litter
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Street Clean-up cont
Fraternity members helped local residents remove
large trash items from their houses, sheds and
basements
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Street Clean-up cont
Debris removed from residents house
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Street Clean-up cont
Before and after photo of resident driveway
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Street Clean-up cont
One of the many piles of collected curbside litter
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Fraternity Tours
Local residents were encouraged to tour the
fraternities along Roanoke Street. Residents,
college students, police and other volunteers
shared conversation over refreshments provided by
the fraternities.
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Fraternity Tours cont
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Fraternity Tours cont
Members of Kappa Alpha
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Fraternity Tours cont
Members of Zeta Psi
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Fraternity Tours cont
Fraternity member and local resident sharing
conversation
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Fraternity Tours cont
Any participant attending the Greek House tours
and the Cook Out was offered a free t-shirt
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Cook-out
The days events convened with an invitation for
all to a cook-out at the Blacksburg Methodist
Church.
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Cook-out cont...
Enjoying food and the weather
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Cook-out cont
Pastor Reginald Tuck talking to Blacksburg
residents at the cook-out
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ABC Grant Partnership

• The street clean-up was done in conjunction with
  requirements for the ABC Community Coalition
  Grant
• Total alcohol related trash collection
• 450 cans
• 540 bottles
• 280 party cups
• 175 related cardboard packaging