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maisie devore,dedication,community 83-Year Old Collects cans for 30 years- builds pool!

83-Year Old Collects cans for 30 years- builds pool!

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An 83-year-old Kansas woman spent 30 years driving open roads, picking up aluminum cans, in a single-handed effort to raise enough money to build a community swimming pool for the children in her home town of Eskridge. For more than three decades, Maisie DeVore, gathered and deliver cans, scrap metal and car parts to a recycling facility. Can by can, year after year, she earned $73,000 and received a matching grant to raise the rest. Says Maisie, “If you really want something and pursue it with all your mind, you’ll get it done one way or another.” Here’s a video featuring her and the pick-up truck, and that Kansas can-do attitude…

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30 years for $73,000... Amazing is not how I'd describe this.

Still, pretty cool dedicating her time towards a community endeavor like that. Plus cleaning up the trash is cool.


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