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Builders ‘get dirty’ to make a difference

Four teenage girls, dressed in blue jeans and sweatshirts, made their way down to Mill Run just above the Porter Street bridge early Saturday morning to start their day. Members of the Cochranton Junior/Senior High School Builders Club, they joined the nearly 1,000 volunteers at the 14th annual Crawford County (Pennsylvania) Make a Difference Day.

Builders Club members remove tree limbs during a community cleanup day. (Photo credit: The Meadville Tribune)

“I’m ready to get dirty,” laughed Erika Stininger.

“It’s fun,” added her friend, Shelby Proctor. “We did it last year. We just like helping the community out.”

The pair, along with Kelli Loper and Sarah Parker, all 8th-graders, were joined by dozens of others at Mill Run, hauling trash out of the water and removing tree limbs and tree stumps to allow the water to flow clearly.—The Meadville Tribune