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By Rex Barber
Johnson City Press
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Milligan College’s campus should be all spruced up for the arrival of students later this month after the school’s staff and faculty spend Friday morning tending to the 181-acre property.
The annual campus cleanup day involved painting, trimming, landscaping and general cleaning, said Milligan President Don Jeanes.
“About 13 years ago we started coming out about a week before students come to do some of the little things that we just don’t get around to doing,” Jeanes said after sweeping up some hedge trimmings from the front of a building Friday morning.
Jeanes said about 100 people from the faculty, staff and even community came to work on the campus.
“And we weed-eat, we trim shrubs, we put out mulch, we clean windows, whatever we think that our regular crews won’t get to,” Jeanes said.
The annual work day provides two benefits, Jeanes said.
“The advantage of this is, number one, it helps us look good when the students come in, but also I think it creates community, because faculty don’t always see landscaping folks and landscaping folks don’t know faculty and secretaries, so it’s an opportunity for (us) to work side-by-side and sweat together.”
The day began with at 8 with breakfast and ended around noon with a picnic lunch.