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Youth volunteers clean up downtown graffiti
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Sarah Arenas, left, and Jade Butts, members of Youth and Community Leadership Academy, size up some of the graffiti Saturday morning on Maple Street downtown. Some 25 YCLA members painted over spray painted tags on walls, doors and glass on the narrow downtown street that looks like an alley. Not all merchants let the student group remove the tags. - photo by NAT GURLEY
Generation Inspiration, a youth organization under the Beulah Rucker Museum umbrella, helped beautify downtown Gainesville Saturday by washing away and painting over graffiti in the square. Kela Owens is the coordinator for Generation Inspiration, and has worked for the group’s facilitator and founder, former Hall County Commissioner Ashley Bell, for six years. “We try to do about three or four community service projects every summer,” Owens said.