On a few hot summer days, a small crew including Mark and the Peterson brothers, painted the roof edges of the gym/community center. Mark was rather irritated with the neighbors across the street. They are pretty typical of the residents in town. Since he has started this project, neighbors and locals living in town haven't showed much interest or curiosity in the progress being made. He watched as the neighbor living across the street loaded up their three dogs and couple kids to drive 50 yards to the baseball diamond to let their dogs out to take a doo. The family was in pajama pants smoking cigarettes on a weekday mid morning. That is the kind of thing that makes Mark crazy. There are steps being taken at the gym to prepare it as they get closer and closer to switching hands from the school to city to community. On another day, several were working inside the gym and the city council members were working on the baseball diamond dugouts, literally 50 feet from the gym door. They were drinking beer and smoking and never even walked over to check out what was being done. In fact Mark invited them to go and take a look. He had no takers, sad.
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