Volunteers spruce up Gaston Point

Hundreds of volunteers spent hours in the heat in an effort to spruce up the Gaston Point community.
Over 100 volunteers from Climb CDC, the Gulf Coast Community Design Studio and the Gulfport Police Department participated in a community build at the Gaston Point Family Entertainment Center. Teams built garden benches, a community news board, and planted eggplants, tomatoes, peppers and herbs.
Organizers say the project aims to introduce the community to healthy eating and farm to table concept. Climb CDC CEO Stephanie Mathes said, “But mostly it’s about our students and the AmeriCorps program members to be able to have a footprint and to invest in their community.”
Student volunteer Adrian Spain said, “It means a lot from me because it lets me know that me and everybody did this and when we get older and have our own kids we can come back and be like ‘yeah, we did this.”
Volunteers were rewarded for all of their hard work with a barbecue cookout.