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MLK service project organizers report 650 volunteers and sustainability pilot
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Organizers said the Martin Luther King Jr. service project mobilized about 650 volunteers, completed repairs on roughly 24 homes with an estimated $216,000 community impact, and piloted a waste-diversion program that diverted 4.5 tons from landfill.
Leaders of Decatur's Martin Luther King Jr. service project updated the city commission on the program's scale and an added sustainability pilot.
Paul Mitchell, chairman of the MLK service project, reported the event ran three days over the holiday, engaged roughly 650 volunteers and produced about 6,700 volunteer hours working on 24 homes. He said volunteer and donated labor created an estimated $216,000 in community value and described the project's logistical needs: house captains,…
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