TFC freshmen work to improve Toccoa's Main Street

New students at Toccoa Fall College are learning about Main Street Toccoa by volunteering their time to help make downtown a better place.

On Monday, August 17, some 25 volunteers from TFC spent two hours picking up trash and removing Kudzu from the Stephens County Market Building fence. They collected 12 bags of trash, which will be disposed of by the Toccoa Public Works Department.

Bags, vests, and other materials required for the cleanup were provided by Keep Toccoa Stephens County Beautiful (KTSCB).

Students cleaned up portions of Broad Street and Falls Road (as they run through the downtown district). They also picked up trash along the railroadtracks, from Broad to Pond Streets as well as around the vacant Alexander Apartments building.

This effort is day one in a three day campaign to introduce incoming TFC students to the Main Street district of Toccoa. The volunteers are led by TFC Senior Jeremiah Young who feels that TFC students can learn a great deal about Toccoa by volunteering their time and energy to community projects.

On Tuesday, a different group from TFC will be doing some landscaping work around the downtown area and Broad Street underpass, and on Wednesday they'll be working in the Currahee Military Museum and with Toccoa's special events coordinator.