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Building a habit of connecting to and helping your community is an important part of what it means to grow and learn during the college years. Football players at Marietta College are getting a good start on that lesson by doing work such as the clean-up at Oak Grove Cemetery last week.
Led by Marietta resident Roger Kalter last week, the players and other community volunteers helped to clear out a drainage ditch and clean up a sidewalk, among other tasks.
Regarding his team, head coach Tom Hinkle said "They're not coming to just play football. They're coming here to learn life skills and lesson, and they're going to give back to their community."
Certainly, the community appreciates them and all the others who showed up to do the work.
“The stuff they’re doing right now is to help out the community, so to get that for them and see that impact at the (football) games, I think would mean a lot," he said.
There are worse (and more expensive) ways to spend a Saturday than to support such an involved local college football team.
Meanwhile, several local businesses contributed to the cemetery effort, including Bridgeport Equipment, Greenleaf Landscape, Miller Memorials and Marietta College Facilities. It was truly a team effort.
“We just want the community to know what we’re doing,” Kalter said, “we’re doing it because we love the community and we want it to be a great place."
Well done, folks.