FSU Community and Students Spruce up Spring to Beautify the Burg!

On May 3, Frostburg hosted Beautify The Burg, a community outreach event. Students met at St. Michaels Church on 44 E Main Street to start registration at 8 a.m. and the volunteering went through 9 a.m. – 12 p.m.

Beautify the Burg was a special event previously called The Day of Caring and Sharing. This is the 13^th year FSU has hosted this event.

A few activities students participated in included planting flowers, painting light posts, sweep sidewalks and much more to give Frostburg a little taste of spring.

FSU has been heavily involved with this event but recently Greek Life has taken over this event to help the community. Greek Life has made a heavy impact on Beautify the Burg and makes up approximately 95 percent of the volunteers. This year, FSU had a total of 525 volunteers registered.

Alex Williams, who is the volunteer coordinator of this event, explained that this is a way for students to get involved and spruce up city of Frostburg for the spring.

The activities are supposed to make the city a more safe and, of course, more beautiful place to live. The students wore special yellow t-shirts to exemplify that they were working for the community. This is event was not just for the students of Frostburg, but it was open to the whole community. Families of the area could become helpful to the Frostburg city as well.

“The common purpose of this event is simple. It’s Beautifying the Burg,” Williams explained. FSU offers the opportunity to bring students together and do something positive for the community.

Many students not only felt good about giving back to the city of Frostburg but they had a great time doing it as well. With the sun shining and pretty decent weather, Beautify the Burg was a great success to many students and more.

There are community partners that helped with this event as well. These include Save-A-Lot, Food Lion, Fat Boys Pizza, the Dialogue Series, ASTAR AmeriCorps, Frostburg First, and the City of Frostburg.

For these groups involved, it is a great opportunity for students to gain friends while doing something great for the community. Because Greek Life is so heavily involved, it makes an impact of their sororities and fraternities as well.

Randy Ogu, a member of Phi Beta Sigma, stated that his fraternity enjoyed the Beautify the Burg event and that many others students should become involved in community involvement.

Because Beautify the Burg is annual, students in the upcoming years can look forward to helping the city of Frostburg by registering and sprucing up the community for the spring.