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FSC students spend their break with Habitat for Humanity

MA (3/25/2010)

http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/features/x905410788/FSC-students-spend-their-break-with-Habitat-for-Humanity

FRAMINGHAM — For 18 Framingham State College students, spring break meant long work days of climbing scaffolding, priming and painting walls and building foundations at a Habitat for Humanity site in Washington, D.C.…

…The trip was organized last fall by Adam Goldfarb, a Massachusetts Campus Compact AmeriCorps*VISTA member currently in a one-year placement at Framingham State as a community service leader.

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