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Grounds crew gets down and dirty
Members manicure lawns all day across Gainesville
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A group of three Gainesville employees mow grass at Alta Vista Cemetery. The landscape services crew maintains the cemetery and Lee Gilmer Airport grounds.
Imagine having 300 acres of grass to cut. Add 14 miles of edging around sidewalks, fertilizing, aerating and weed eating to the list and it describes the job of a landscape services worker for the city of Gainesville. “We’ve got 3.4 miles of roads in Alta Vista, seven miles of sidewalks, and 15,000 headstones to maintain,” supervisor Tommy Casper said.