When Becky Shoemaker, a teacher education student at Indiana University Southeast, asked a class of elementary school students what work they would like to do to help the community, they came up with a grand plan: they would fix up the whole neighborhood. Becky and three other Indiana students worked with the elementary school children on the Georgetown Beautification Project. They solicited donations from town businesses to buy trees and, upon presenting the idea to the town council, had a week in May declared Georgetown Beautification Week. The college students and school children worked together to plant the trees and clean up parts of town that had been affected by recent construction.
