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Bates students go "Into the Streets" Sept. 2 and 3

LEWISTON, Maine -- Forty-five incoming first-year Bates College students will plant trees at five Lewiston schools and do trail-maintenance work near Franklin Pasture as part of a two-day volunteer program (Thursday) Sept. 2 and Sept. 3.

"Into the Streets," Bates' volunteer pre-orientation program for first year students, led by Laura Biscoe, volunteer coordinator in the college's Center for Service-Learning, will have the new students planting 25 12-foot elm trees at Lewiston's Martel, Montello, McMahon and Farwell schools as well as Lewiston High School (Thursday) Sept. 2. The trees, purchased by the City of Lewiston through a $10,000 grant from Oakhurst Dairy, will be delivered by Steve Murch, Lewiston city arborist, who will supervise planting.

Trail-maintenance work near Franklin Pasture, including mulching and widening existing trails to accomodate cyclists and pedestrians, will be done (Friday) Sept. 3.

Biscoe and the Bates students will gather at the Multipurpose Center behind Governor Longley Elementary School, Birch Street, Lewiston, (Thursday) at 9 a.m. for tree planting. They will gather (Friday) at 9 a.m. at the Lewiston High School track for the trail maintenance work.