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Mercy Students Give Back to Rivertowns Communities in Dobbs Ferry Clean-Up Day and Annual Day of Service
Students worked with Mercy's neighbors in Dobbs Ferry, including Mayor Hartley Connett, to help clean-up the local environment as part of the village's fourth annual Clean-up Day.
More than 70 Mercy College students and staff carried on Mercy’s tradition of community service during the College’s second annual Day of Service on April 19 and Dobbs Ferry’s Annual Clean-Up Day on April 21.
This year’s Day of Service projects included clean-up and planting projects along the Old Croton Aqueduct in Dobbs Ferry, Randall’s Island in Manhattan, at The Point in Hunts Point, Bronx and at Teatown Lake Preserve in Ossining.
The official 2013 Day of Service t-shirt worn by all participants was designed by Aisha Malik ‘16, a Biology major, whose design was selected in the annual competition to design the Day of Service t-shirt.
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On Sunday, April 21, student-athletes from the women’s softball team worked with Mercy’s neighbors in Dobbs Ferry, including Mayor Hartley Connett, to help
clean-up the local environment as part of the village’s fourth annual Clean-up
Day. Projects included the waterfront park, high school, Gould Park and other areas around Dobbs Ferry.
Mercy College has a long-standing tradition of community service. The College received national recognition from the White House in March when it was named to the 2013 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll.
