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Planter painter

Virgil Frencheater puts his artistic talents to use as he paints one of the new planter boxes on the south end of Little Gaetz Avenue outside the No. 1 fire station. The planters have been seeded with vegetables.

Virgil Frencheater puts his artistic talents to use as he paints one of the new planter boxes on the south end of Little Gaetz Avenue outside the No. 1 fire station. The planters have been seeded with vegetables.

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