After a breakfast Friday at the Covelli Centre, some 600 volunteers from organizations, businesses and schools split into groups to work tirelessly for the 19th annual United Way Day of Caring.
Early Friday, Dorothy Smith, 65, site coordinator
for a special painting and landscaping project at 702 E. Lucius Ave., gave out
water, juice and apples to children walking to Taft Elementary School on the
city’s South Side.
Rick Dearing, president of Dearing Compressor and Pump Co., hauls a large piece of brush across the parking lot of the dilapidated and shuttered Master’s Tuxedo building on Market Street.
In these days of mega-money fundraisers and micro-targeted ads, Joe Biden still likes to do politics the old-fashioned way. WKSU’s M.L. Schultze reports on how the vice president spent the time between his two headline appearances in Lordstown and Parma yesterday.