ATLANTA -- The Oglethorpe University community will be part of the 17,000 volunteers expected to join Hands On Atlanta on Saturday, October 7 as part of Hands On Atlanta Day. Oglethorpe students, faculty and staff will be volunteering with Centennial Place Elementary, the Villages of East Lake and Rivers Alive.

The university community will join the students, families and friends of Centennial Place Elementary in making their school more beautiful. These Hands On Atlanta volunteers will paint murals, do landscaping, build benches and redecorate classrooms from 9:00 a.m. until noon.

The Oglethorpe volunteers will join the Villages of East Lake in their first community yard fair. “An amazing community transformation is happening at East Lake, setting a national standard for locally controlled community development, and I am proud to have the Oglethorpe community be part of this transformation,” said Oglethorpe President Lawrence M. Schall. Volunteers will make crafts, sell food and flea market items, play games and read stories from noon until 4:00 p.m.

Oglethorpe University will also partner with Rivers Alive, an agency that educates, motivates and empowers the citizens and businesses of Roswell in the beautification, conservation and preservation of our environment. The volunteers will remove debris and shrubbery from 9:00 a.m. until noon.