University School students (L to R) Colton Hudson, Jimmy Austin, Ryan Wukie, Tom Poplar and Mike Domino clean up the yard at Home Repair Resource Center.

Home Repair Resource Center recently benefited from the efforts of a group of University School students. Approximately forty students, grade nine through twelve, spent several hours mulching, pruning, weeding, and otherwise beautifying the landscape around HRRC’s office/teaching center on Noble Road. According to Andrew Swank, Senior Prefect for Hawley House (one of ten organizational divisions among the student body at the school), each house takes on a number of volunteer activities each year. The students of Hawley House previously assembled and distributed food baskets at Thanksgiving and worked with Habitat for Humanity.

Both Swank and Nolan Thompson, Junior Prefect for Hawley House, live in Summit County, but several members of the group are Cleveland Heights residents, as is their Housemaster, Gordon Loveland. In addition to enjoying the opportunity to work outdoors in the spring weather, the young men were happy to be giving back to their community.

Kathryn Lad is Executive Director of Home Repair Resource Center.