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During a week when the vast majority of Ohio University students hightailed it out of Athens for spring break, a group of college students from another institution picked our county as their spring break destination.<\/p>\n
But they didn’t come here for recreation. Rather, the group of 15 students and three faculty members from Wright State University in Dayton came to Athens County as part of a public-service work retreat. The project has been coordinated with the Good Works homeless shelter in Athens, which also has served as host during the six-day project.<\/p>\n
Since last Friday, the Wright State volunteers have been working on a great variety of public-service projects in Athens County and the surrounding region, among them trail construction, agricultural initiatives and Good Works’ Neighbors Helping Neighbors program, as well as doing a variety of mainly outdoor work with Green Edge Gardens in Amesville, the Monday Creek Restoration Project in New Straitsville, Rural Action, local churches and the village of Glouster.<\/p>\n
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