Cleaning Up My City
Personal memory by Chris Patterson
2013 • Fort Payne, AL, USA
I remember spending several months back in 2013 going around my old home town of Fort Payne, Alabama cleaning up houses and store fronts, removing litter from the rivers and roadsides, and helping grow community gardens for the homeless to help the city grow as a community and keep our enviroment clean.
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