Last month residents of Lancaster, CA celebrated Martin Luther King, Jr. day by showing their commitment to their community.  The city’s Antelope Valley High School, a 100-year-old school, has been in need of a clean-up, but short funds were spent on other priorities.  On MLK day about 500 residents came out to support the school: 

Cliff Haffmire, a volunteer from Grace Chapel, was busy sprucing up a restroom, cleaning fixtures and painting. “It’s like a new bathroom now, it was all graffitied up,” said Haffmire who graduated from the school in 1967.

In addition to painting the cemetery wall and painting the restrooms, volunteers also worked on the small gym, the weight room and spruced up the landscaping at the school.

Other projects around the city included work at a local kids/teen center, yard work and painting at the community Wellness homes, and landscape/litter-pick-up along the city’s main street among other projects. 

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