Western Carolina University’s Center for Service Learning will coordinate four community service projects on Wednesday, Oct. 14, in honor of Homecoming 2009.

Students, faculty, staff and members of the community are invited to sign up with the Center for Service Learning to assist with several community projects:

• Painting and community clean-up in Cullowhee as part of a beautification effort led by the nonprofit Cullowhee Revitalization Endeavor. Volunteers can assist either from 9:30 to 11 a.m. or from 3 to 5 p.m.
  
  
• Trail building, gardening and other projects at the Appalachian Homestead Farm and Preserve, which is managed by a nonprofit organization, near Tilley Creek in Cullowhee from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Lunch will be provided.
  
  
• Splitting, loading and delivering firewood to low-income and elderly Jackson County residents as part of Project F.I.R.E., a Jackson County Department on Aging initiative to provide firewood for cooking and heating to low-income elderly people whose only source of heat and cooking fuel is wood. Volunteers will assist from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., and gather at the transfer station on Mineral Springs Road in Sylva.
  
  
• Creating and installing a new sign for and winterizing the WCU Campus Kitchen Garden, which is located behind Hennon Stadium, from 10 a.m. to noon. The WCU Center for Service Learning developed the garden in 2008 and donates produce to the Community Table dining facility in Sylva.

For more information, contact the Center for Service Learning at servicelearning@wcu.edu or (828) 227-7184.

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Last Modified: Thursday, Oct. 1, 2009