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These volunteers pick up 850 pounds of trash in Gainesville

Latinos Conservative Organization and Keep Hall Beautiful hosted a Gainesville cleanup event on July 11, 2020. Fifty volunteers collected approximately 850 pounds of trash. Photos courtesy Art Gallegos Jr.

07142020 TRASH 1.jpg — Latinos Conservative Organization and Keep Hall Beautiful hosted a Gainesville cleanup event on July 11, 2020. Fifty volunteers collected approximately 850 pounds of trash. Photos courtesy Art Gallegos Jr.

For several hours under the hot sun, people of all ages and backgrounds picked up approximately 850 pounds of litter along 2 miles of Queen City Parkway, Dorsey Street and Pearl Nix Parkway.