Ames community members and residents of Larch Hall’s Greene House will spend this evening cleaning up Campustown.

Kathy Svec, co-chairwoman of the Campustown Action Association (CAA) and program director of the Memorial Union, said Greene House has cleaned Campustown several times before.

“We are just completely delighted with the students taking an interest in Campustown,” Svec said.

Megan McGahuey, co-president of Greene House, said the floor chose the cleanup as its service project last fall and this semester because they wanted to be involved with Campustown.

“We wanted to give something back to the community, and we had a service they could use,” McGahuey said.

Scott Sackville, co-chairman of CAA, said the floor’s assistance has been a great help.

“We organize it, but they are the main workers,” he said.

Sackville said the cleanup included planting flowers in planters on Welch Avenue. He said the CAA also received help planting the flowers from employees of Coe’s ‘Campus’ Flowers, 303 Welch Ave.

Svec said local residents and merchants have noted the problem of litter in Campustown.

“We get comments every now and then about how they wish it was just a little cleaner in Campustown,” Svec said. “It would be a great opportunity for them to volunteer.”

She said the City of Ames will be providing garbage bags, and volunteers will meet at 6 p.m. at the corner of Chamberlain Street and Welch Avenue to start the project.

Sackville said with the help of Greene House residents, the previous cleanup took less than an hour.

McGahuey said her floor enjoyed their service project last semester and went out for pizza afterward.

“We tried to make it fun for everybody on the floor to go and do, and I think they really did have fun,” she said.

Although the campus cleanup is only scheduled as a biannual event, Svec said CAA would like to host the cleanup more often.

“There is such high foot traffic in Campustown,” she said. “It seems like litter is sort of a problem. A more routine cleanup would certainly be most welcome.”