“The youth just dug right in,” said Kauste. “There was no complaining even when they were asked to go into crawl spaces to muck them out. I could see they really took pride in their work, and I watched their confidence grow.”
John Longhurst
John Longhurst
John Longhurst is a freelance writer in Winnipeg.
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