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Members of the Portsmouth community participate in a previous Serve Day at Greenlawn Cemetery.
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PORTSMOUTH Scioto County citizens, along with area churches and their members, will work together on projects and general cleanup within the local community on Saturday, July 10 as part of Serve Day 2021.
Parents, grandparents, and children of all ages are welcome to participate in Serve Day 2021 as part of their or their community church’s Serve Day group.
In recent years, Portsmouth’s Serve Day has seen its’ participants help in general cleanup efforts at Greenlawn Cemetery, Portsmouth-area parks, help build porches on nearby homes, throw parties for children who live in low-income housing developments, offer cosmetic services for patients in nursing homes, volunteer at CRADLE Pregnancy Care Center, and providing dinner for residents of the Alexandria house.