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For some students, spring break meant helping victims of Katrina (Racine Journal Times)

Like many college students, Racine native Jessica Schelling spent a good chunk of her spring break on the beach.

But for the 20-year-old University of Wisconsin-Madison sophomore, the time walking the sand wasn’t about fun and sun.

Schelling was picking up hurricane debris in Ocean Springs, Miss., just west of Biloxi, along the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast.