Southeast Seminole Heights House Gets 'HIT' by Volunteers
HIT members get another home improvement project done.
A handful of folks joined forces and gathered on Saturday morning, May 12, to work on a neighbor’s front yard that needed some TLC. The HIT volunteers trimmed bushes, raked leaves and eradicated weeds at the house of Southeast Seminole Heights Civic Association president Sherry Genovar-Simons. HIT stands for Home Improvement Team, a Southeast Seminole Heights Civic Association’s grassroots project founded by Maria Garcia-Gutierrez. The way it works is simple but effective. Neighbors volunteer in two projects before being eligible to have work done at their houses. “We all get together on a Saturday and work on one person’s home improvement project,” said Garcia-Gutierrez. “If someone needs to be hit, we hit them.” Started in the early …
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