Dixie State Campus to Community Service Project Targets Tuacahn Clean-Up Nov. 11

 Dixie State College students, faculty, and staff are uniting to participate in this semester’s Campus to Community service project, which will be held on Wednesday, November 11, at the Tuacahn Amphitheater and Center for the Arts. The project, entitled “Clean Up Your Act II,” marks the second-straight year DSC has teamed with the Tuacahn staff as it prepares for the Amphitheater’s winter season.

All volunteers, including student clubs, faculty, staff and community members, who wish to drive to Tuacahn are encouraged to be at the Tuacahn Amphitheater by 2:30 p.m., to receive their assignments. DSC will also provide transportation as school vans will leave from DSC’s Old Gym parking lot around 2 p.m., and will return around 5:30 p.m.

Dewey Denning, 2009-10 DSCSA Studentbody President, noted that last year’s project was such a success that DSCSA student organizers approached Tuacahn officials expressing interest in returning to assist this year. Participants in the project will be divided in to three different groups, with each group being assigned special tasks, including backstage clean up, grounds clean up and hanging Christmas lights.

“This is the ultimate opportunity for service learning groups, clubs and other organizations at Dixie State to experience the feeling that community service can bring, especially as we get closer to the holiday season,” Denning said. 

The Campus to Community service program was organized at Dixie State College in 2001. Campus to Community is Dixie State’s version of a nationwide trend known as service learning, designed to get college students involved in service and give them opportunities for practical application of textbook learning.

DSC’s Campus to Community program consists of one large-scale community service project each semester. Last spring, DSC students, faculty and staff teamed up with Washington City to prepare an earmarked for the City’s new sports complex, located near the Virgin River on 300 East.

Among the many other service projects DSC has been involved with in past years include planting trees for the new Southern Utah Water Conservation Gardens in St. George, a book drive to benefit literacy in local schools, assisting with the Confluence Project in Hurricane and LaVerkin, and students have held four “CANSTOCK” food drives for the Dixie Care and Share. DSC has also been involved in removing weeds and debris at the Santa Clara Arboretum, collecting money for Washington County School District leveled libraries, planting bushes and shrubs at the Canyons Softball Complex in St. George, and harvesting willow stems as part of St. George City’s effort to help re-vegetate area riverbeds in the wake of the flooding of 2005.

As always, community members are invited to take part in all Campus to Community projects.