Youth Groups Once Bound to Farms Find Cities Fertile Ground
Sunday Gazette-Mail › August 08, 2005
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DAYTON, Ohio - In a neighborhood plagued by boarded-up homes, drug deals and drive-by shootings, 11-year-old Tiarra Comer pads along a path in a small wooded area and crosses a creek until she comes into a clearing.
She enters a wooden, shedlike building and gazes with wonder at two 500-gallon fish tanks containing bluegill.See the full content of this document
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Youth Groups Once Bound to Farms Find Cities Fertile Ground
A group historically associated with farming - 4-H - has set up the tanks to create an oasis, where children feed the fish, clean their tanks and then sell them for food or for stocking ponds.
Both 4-H and another group with roots ...See the full content of this document
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