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Earth Day events to raise environmental concerns
By Cory Fechtelkotter
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Thursday, April 17, 2003
The 2003 Earth Day Celebration this weekend will hold a variety of events for those with personal health and environmental interests.
Organized by SCSU Campus Rec, the Central Minnesota Heart Center and other individuals and groups, the events will include the Earth Day Half Marathon Festival, the Community Health Expo and a volunteer cleanup of neighborhoods surrounding the campus.
Over 200 volunteers from SCSU were involved in planning the events along with outside organizations. Most of the volunteers came from Campus Rec, but individual students with interests in marketing, public relations and communications also helped with the nearly year-long planning process.
"It's been pretty busy, but we're getting everything put together," said Aaron Fealy, Campus Rec coordinator of intramural sports and special events.
The Community Health Expo will kick-off the celebration tomorrow in Halenbeck Hall Field House, and will run from 3 p.m. to 10 p.m.. Activities will include free swimming, skating, a 5K run/walk, a pasta feed and many other children's activities. "We have over 50 vendors coming in for the expo," Fealy said. "This event is just gigantic. It's the Midwest's premiere fitness expo."
Fealy hopes that more students will come and see the expo this year. "There a lot of people on campus that haven't been down to the expo as much and it would be great to see more student faces; see what the community has to offer," Fealy said. "There's something for everyone."
Fealy went on to explain some of the goals of the event. "Were setting up a foundation for anyone around the community to use all the money we make for earth beautification projects," Fealy said. "So if the Boys Scouts wanted to do park benches along the river, they could use our funds to put that together. That's one of our goals, just to get they whole community involved.
The following day will include the Half Marathon Festival and the community cleanup project. The marathon is to begin at 9 a.m. and is expected to attract over 1,500 runners from all over the state.
Volunteers for the cleanup project , organized by Volunteer Link and Z- Club will meet Saturday at 1 p.m. in Barden Park for free pizza, and then move on to the cleanup area. The Atwood Main Lobby will be used as an alternate meeting place in case of rain.
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