JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Jacksonville University celebrated its 92nd anniversary on Friday by having its 14th annual Charter Day of Service. <\/p>\n
Students helped clean the banks of the St. Johns River with the St. Johns Riverkeeper.<\/p>\n
Following a brief orientation in front of the campus\u2019s Marine Science Research Institute building, the students gloved up, bagged up, got their grabbers, and hit the shoreline.<\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n \u201cThese are students who come from all over the country. You\u2019ve got athletes, fraternities and sororities,\u201d said Jacksonville University. President Tim Cost. <\/p>\n Among that small army of student volunteers at the shore were some Dolphins \u2014 the basketball team that is!<\/p>\n \u201cMan, just feels amazing just knowing how much the community does for us, and you know, supports us as a basketball team. You know, we just love having an opportunity just to help,\u201d said senior and basketball player Jason Thirdkill.<\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: <\/b>Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/b><\/a>]<\/b><\/p>\n \u201cJust pouring back into our community that pours back into us this entire season they\u2019ve been with us,\u201d said junior and Dolphins player Chris Lockett Jr.<\/p>\n The volunteers joined members of the St Johns River Keeper.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are the only organization whose sole purpose is advocating for the St. Johns River. She\u2019s right over here, and she doesn\u2019t have a voice for her own,\u201d said Dryden Mills, Community engagement specialist for the St. Johns Riverkeeper.<\/p>\n There were about 600 total volunteers at about 30 other volunteer sites on Friday, many of which were off campus. Some of the other non-profit partners participating in the charter day of service were Angels for Allison, READ USA, and Arlington Community Services.<\/p>\n [SIGN UP: <\/b>Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/b><\/a>] <\/b><\/p>\n Click here<\/b><\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, <\/b>click here<\/b><\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and <\/b>click here<\/b><\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/b><\/p>\n Action News Jax Top Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 Jacksonville University celebrated its 92nd anniversary on Friday by having its 14th annual Charter Day…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":735386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5136],"tags":[12189,5229,3188,723,7310,303779,303780,425,303781,98101,98096,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,250518],"class_list":["post-735385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-action_news","tag-america","tag-fl","tag-florida","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville_university","tag-jacques_zion_dakota","tag-local","tag-msri","tag-saint_johns","tag-saint_johns_river","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-zion_deoto"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116422509256410384","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=735385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/735385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/735386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=735385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=735385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=735385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}