Youths clean Gary senior citizens' apartments

Youths clean Gary senior citizens' apartments The volunteer effort was to have taken place on Good Friday, as it does annually, but the group postponed the work when a security guard told them the building had a bedbug infestation. Smith and his volunteers were in the building when Smith canceled it. "We have 16 units on the list compared to the 21 units on Good Friday. Volunteer Dierre Williams, 17, is a sophomore at Thea Bowman Leadership Academy. Mary Shampert stood in the kitchen of her fourth-floor apartment and smiled while the team cleaned. "I've lived here since 2006 and usually a relative comes through and help me clean up my place. "This is a make-up day for the cleanup," Smith said while cleaning the windows inside tenant Roosevelt Frazier's living room. "I've been with the group since I was a middle school student, but this is my first time doing the cleanup," Williams said. Gary Housing Authority interim director Nate Williams and tenant council president Beverly Johnson later called Smith and informed him the building was not infested with bedbugs. Frazier said this was the first time he signed up for the free clean-up. "I've lived here for seven years and knew nothing about the annual free clean-ups. ". " . Youths clean Gary senior citizens' apartments Trade News selected by Local Linkup on 07/05/2012