DETROIT –The 95-degree heat on Friday was no match for the 1,000-plus volunteers who gathered at the corner of Lyndon and Meyers in northwest Detroit to help transform the exterior of Jack Adams Memorial Arena and Adams Butzel Recreation Complex into a spectacular work of art.
The gathering was part of the annual Finale Friday celebration hosted by Summer in the City, a non-profit organization whose goal is to create a “Fun, Flexible and Fulfilling” environment for young people in Detroit by creating murals, building urban gardens and running youth enrichment programs throughout the summer.
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Over 1,000 Summer in the City youth campers, volunteers and community members from various city organizations joined together at Jack Adams Memorial Arena and Adams Butzel Recreation Complex for the Finale Friday event to help paint a large-scale mural—measuring more than 300 feet long and 18 feet high—on the building’s exterior.