Jena Pugh and two fellow AmeriCorps VISTAs spent Tuesday morning the same way they’ve spent the previous six: At the library assisting Newark second-grade students during a visit.

“The tour is cool because they get to see the inner hallways they don’t normally get to see,” Pugh said.

. The VISTA program, through Ohio Campus Compact, seeks to alleviate poverty through education, said Pugh, a 2008 Denison graduate who is stationed at COTC.

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