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by Pat Coate | October 28, 2009
"We’ll have to come back here and bring more guys to help."
- James Yahoudy, university-student volunteer

Tommie Garrett has lived in her Denton home for nearly a half-century, but it hadn’t undergone any repairs until this year.

Volunteers worked at Garrett’s home in Southeast Denton to fix a toilet that was sinking into the bathroom floor, repair a hole in the kitchen ceiling and update the home’s flooring and walls.

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