N.D. students stop in Mahoning Valley to help with cleanup

YOUNGSTOWN — While on a nine-day, 1,500-mile bus trip from Fargo, N.D., to Washington, D.C., a group of students is leaving a trail of good deeds.

“It’s our way of showing gratitude to the city,” said Nick Gonderinger, a North Dakota State University senior and social-services major, referring to a service project he and his group performed today at OH WOW! The Roger & Gloria Jones Children’s Center for Science & Technology, 11 W. Federal St.

Gonderinger and about 30 other NDSU students, all of whom are members of a nonprofit organization called Students Today Leaders Forever, spent part of Monday morning washing and disinfecting tables, chairs and several exhibits at the facility.

STLF is a nondenominational action organization that enhances participants’ leadership abilities via community-service efforts, philanthropy and forming bonds of trust with other like-minded students. To fulfill that mission, members take part in nine-day cross-country service trips called Pay it Forward Tours.

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