Members of the Beta Omicron Chapter of Pi Kappa Phi Fraternity at Northwestern State University spent the Halloween holiday walking neighborhoods, filling bags with trash, instead of candy.

Participating in a Community Cleanup event sponsored by the mayor and city council of Natchitoches, members collected more than 18 pounds of litter.

The fraternity’s manpower was coordinated by philanthropy chairman Andrew Dubriske.

Pi Kappa Phi is committed to beautification projects in other areas, sponsoring road clean-ups along their adopted stretches of University Parkway and along Chaplin’s Lake on the NSU campus.