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Pasco Youngsters Wipe Out Graffiti

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By LISA A. DAVIS | The Tampa Tribune

Published: July 22, 2008

SHADY HILLS - While cars raced by below, a band of youngsters eagerly took paint rollers to concrete, covering graffiti on a Suncoast Parkway overpass.

The sun was already out with a vengeance around 9 a.m. recently, but the first five children on Lawless Road working with Pasco County deputies assigned as school resource officers didn't seem to mind.

Giant mushrooms, a pot leaf, the word "Rock" and the numbers "727" were emblazoned in bright blue spray paint above the traffic. Unrecognizable symbols marked the walls as well. But not for long.

The children from the summer day camp at Hudson's Veterans Memorial Park quickly applied gray paint over the graffiti.

Throughout the day, children from other county recreation camps covered unwanted markings on bridges and buildings in other parts of Pasco. The effort is part of the sheriff's office Gang Resistance Education and Training Program, taught to sixth-graders. School resource officers are working with children in summer programs to do community outreach projects.

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