Volunteers gathered on Thursday for a day of community service as part of the Cincinnati Reds Community Makeover Day, transforming Frederick Douglass Elementary School and its surroundings. The initiative, which began in 2010, was originally focused on building new baseball fields. This year, the efforts extend well beyond sports facilities. Volunteers installed new learning gardens across the street from the school and in a garden named after former Hamilton County Coroner Dr. O’Dell Owens. They also enhanced the school’s interior and exterior, touching up paint and a mural of the school’s namesake. They also began installing a new playground.
