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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsShovel in hand, a 12-year-old boy fixes the potholes plaguing his street
A civic-minded 12-year-old boy took it upon himself to fill the many potholes plaguing his street.
Monte Scott stepped up after his mother's and grandmother's cars got flat tires on the road in Muskegon Heights, Michigan, his mother, Trinell Payne, told CNN.
"They had a half-day off at school, so he was out for the afternoon," she said. "He took a shovel and a garbage can full of dirt from our garden and started filling the holes.
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She said Monte filled 15 to 20 of the roughly 50 potholes on the street in a few hours.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/02/us/boy-fixing-potholes-trnd/index.html
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Shovel in hand, a 12-year-old boy fixes the potholes plaguing his street (Original Post)
mfcorey1
Apr 2019
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democrank
(11,098 posts)1. This is one special kid.
Good for him.
mfcorey1
(11,001 posts)2. Taking care of America's infrastructure one pothole at a time!
3Hotdogs
(12,396 posts)3. So far, he's done more for the infrastructure than the Orange Maggot has.
thesquanderer
(11,990 posts)4. Hope he didn't run into one of these signs...
(the bottom one)
MaryMagdaline
(6,855 posts)5. Can I change my vote from Inslee to Monte?
What a great kid.