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Events set for disposing of unwanted items
3:22 p.m., May 17, 2006--Students living on- and off-campus and local residents can clean out their rooms and make a difference at the same time with Newark's Town & Gown Environmental Cooperative initiative, “UDon't Need It?” Beginning Thursday, May 18, and ending Monday, June 5, local residents and students can give away unwanted items and pick up new ones, as well as donate food, clothing and shoes. Deborah Hoff, assistant University secretary and member of the Town & Gown Committee, said this is the first time this broad an initiative has happened in Newark. The Town & Gown Environmental Cooperative is a subsidiary of the Newark Town & Gown Committee. The initiative is intended to reduce the amount of trash left behind by departing on- and off-campus students and residents, donate to those in need and create a sense of community among students and local residents. “We are attempting to bring organizations together within the University and Newark community that have an interest in environmental causes such as recycling and reducing environmental waste,” Hoff said. “We wanted to provide an opportunity for that transaction to take place and to have another opportunity for students and members of the Newark community to cooperate on a project.” A “Starving Students Yard Sale” will be held from 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Saturday, May 20. Residents of Cleveland Avenue, North Street, Prospect Avenue, Wilbur Street and White Clay Drive are encouraged to bring yard-sale items to sell to their curbs. From 2-5 p.m., a truck from Goodwill Industries will pick up any unsold and unwanted items. Items also can be dropped off from 8-9:40 a.m. at the North Street Flea Market. These items will be sold by the cooperative to fund its initiatives.
Unopened, nonperishable food donations will be collected from Thursday, May 18, to Saturday, May 27, in Delaware Food Bank boxes at the Perkins Student Center and Trabant University Center, Rodney and Harrington residence halls, and at Kent and Pencader dining halls. All donations will go to the Delaware Food Bank. Clothing and shoe donations also will be collected in PlanetAid boxes located in the Laird Campus parking lot, near the recycling bins at Rodney Residence Hall and at the North College Avenue and Hollingsworth Building parking lot near the recycling bins. From 2-5 p.m. on Saturday, May 20, the Newark Landlords Association will collect both food and clothing donations outside front doors on Cleveland Avenue, Prospect Avenue, North Street, Wilbur Street and White Clay Drive. “We are really excited about the number of organizations and environmental organizations that are coming together on this,” Hoff said. “I'm hoping the community really comes out to support it.” Article by Julia Parmley, AS '07
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