Seventeen UALR students recently volunteered their time at the annual Keep Little Rock Beautiful cleanup at Curran Conway Park.

Curran Conway Park is the site of Hogan Field, home of the UALR Trojan Baseball Team.

This event attracted a total of 57 volunteers who put in a total of 228 volunteer hours.

UALR student volunteers are residents of West Hall and members of the swim and golf teams. Other volunteers were from Interfaith Arkansas, the City of Little Rock, and the Fair Park neighborhood area.

Youth and staffers of UALR Children International also participated in the event, and they helped clear vegetation from areas surrounding the Oak Forest Community Garden, which is located on the east side of the park.

World Services for the Blind provided coffee and donuts in the morning, and Fair Park Residents Association cooked hot dogs in the afternoon. Lunch was donated by Sodexo.

Keep Little Rock Beautiful sponsored the cleanup and provided volunteers with tools, equipment, gloves, and t-shirts.

Keep Little Rock Beautiful is a nonprofit organization founded in 2005. It is a volunteer-based community organization that dedicates itself to litter prevention, recycling and waste reduction, beautification and community improvement.