AmeriCorps volunteers provide big boost to Hill District block

Stomping slush from their shoes after a morning of work, 45 people entered the Grace Memorial Church basement covered in grime, dust, plaster smears, wood shavings and dirt and began systematically emptying boxes of pizza. On a day off for many, Martin Luther King Day was a day on for the volunteers from around the country who gathered in the 900 block of Bryn Mawr Road in the Upper Hill District Monday.