iHelp this Friday!

We are very excited to announce that we will be having students downtown taking part in the iHelp clean-up this Friday. They will arrive at the One Main Plaza parking lot at 3 pm this Friday, October 2nd. I will be putting them in groups of 5-10 and sending them out to conquer the streets.

Help from the members:
How can members help out and be involved?
1- We need to borrow brooms, shovels, rakes, gloves, and/or garbage grabbers. I will be calling around to members on Wednesday to check for any help. Beginning at noon on Friday I will go around and pick up the supplies. Members may also drop them off to us and we’ll store them in the office until Friday. Please right your name or business’ name on a handle or something so that we can promptly return them after the event.

2- Join in! Take part in the communal clean-up efforts and show the students your commitment to your own neighborhood. Also a great chance to talk to students about what is downtown and get them interested in visiting again. Also a large group of CDA members to meet the students on Friday at the plaza would be great. Interns will be available but the more members the better.

3- Open your doors, hand out information, etc- With this large group of students we have the opportunity to let them know what’s downtown. Students will receive a map with the highlighted areas where they will cover when they arrive but more information about your downtown business to give them at the conclusion of the event would be great. Member businesses can drop off this information

Big THANK YOU to Jim Gould for graciously donating some trash bags and gloves for the event. We are also looking for any more gloves to borrow and donations of trash bags.

Thank you in advance for any support you can give us.