Photos by Mary Alice Murphy
In a collaboration between the Mimbres Region Arts Council's Youth Mural Program and The Volunteer Center, students and adults put in hours creating a Food Is Life mural on the wall in front of The Volunteer Center. Other workers worked to prepare planting beds for the season and raked up debris.
Comcast Cares Day 2015
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Volunteers of all ages help put up the latest Youth Mural at The Volunteer Center
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Diana Ingalls-Leyba, Youth Mural Project director, and Faye McCalmont, Mimbres Region Arts Council executive director, take a break from attaching tiles to the walls.
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The Volunteer Center greenhouse, which was built by Juvenile Probation Office youths, is now full of plants awaiting the time to plant.
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Volunteers from Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. put in some hours helping, too.
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Lots of worker bees help The Volunteer Center many weekends a month.
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Students Iris Johnson and Ian Nova create a watermelon mosaic out of tiles.
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Volunteer Moxie Stroud creates a curvaceous banana mosaic out of tiles.
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And the work continues on the mosaic mural.