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Company Gives Local Schools Maintenance Help

Volunteers Make Repairs, Paint Fences

POSTED: 2:57 pm HST June 3, 2008
UPDATED: 3:08 pm HST June 3, 2008

A company that builds and manages residential properties on Hawaii's military bases went to work for local schools Tuesday.

Two-dozen employees of the company Forest City Military Communities painted the fence at Pearl Harbor Kai Elementary School.

It is part of the company's fourth annual Community Day, where workers pitch in to do needed repairs and maintenance.

"Basically, the school is nice enough to give us some of the materials to get some of the work done. So, here we are painting about a mile worth of fence line," said Travis DeLima of Forest City Military Communities.

"The school looks a whole lot nicer. The kids are happier, the parents are ecstatic when they pass the school because the school looks brand new," Pearl Harbor Kai Principal Elynne Chung said.

In all, 150 Forest City workers contributed manpower at seven public schools with high military enrollments.

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