Eighty-two Buffalo State student-athletes and athletics staff members joined several other students and faculty for "Community Service Day" on Saturday April 27.



This was the fifth year for the annual event initiated when several faculty and staff members looked for ways to have Buffalo State be of increased service to the community within which it resides and to foster growing interaction between the college and community.



Athletes and coaches donned their work gloves and boarded busses to various sites and spent the morning cleaning up and beautifying the city of Buffalo. Included in the list of projects tackled by the volunteer work crew was the cleanup of several area parks and gardens, the clearing of a lot for a new playground, graffiti removal, and the planting of hundreds of new trees in the city's Delaware Park, in celebration of Arbor Day.



"We had a good representation from the athletics department," said Rocky Reeves, president of Buffalo State's Student-Athlete Advisory Committee and recent winner of the College Hockey Humanitarian Award. "It was great to see so many people excited about making a difference in the community."



"We are trying to stress to our student-athletes the importance of supporting the community that helps support us," said Buffalo State Athletics Director Jerry Boyes.



Busses left the college at 9 a.m. and returned shortly after 1 p.m., and the day concluded with a cookout for all of the workers.



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