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7-year-old boy spending fall break cleaning up La Grange one project at a time

7-year-old boy spending fall break cleaning up La Grange one project at a time
TBU YOU WOULD NEVER KNOW IT. HE’S HARD AT WORK PAINTING OVER GS LEFT IN A LOCAL LA GRANGE BAKERY. HUNTER’S INTEREST IN CLEANING UP HIS COMMUNITY STARTED HERE AT THIS BATHROOM AND A PARK NEAR WHERE HE PLAYS LITTLE LEAGUE. HE TOLD HIS MOM. HE JUST COULDN’T UNDERSTAND WHY SOMEONE PUT SCRIBBLES ALL OVER THE BATHROOM WALL. HE WAS JUST REALLY UPSET THAT THE BATHROOM HAD BEEN DESTROYED IN THAT. YOU KNOW, HE KNE TWHAT HE COULD FIX IT AND AND PAINT OVER IT AND THAT’S WHAT HE WANTED TO DO BECAUSE HE WANTED TO LOOK PRETTY AGAIN BRANDY DUNK EXPLAINED TO HER SEVEN YREA OLD SON. THEY HAD TO CALL THE CITY AND SEE IF IT WAS OKAY AND THEY DID NEXT DAY. REACHED OUT TO THE CITY OF LA GRAN AND THEY SAID THEY WOULD LOVE HIS HELP BECAUSE IT’D BE A COUPLE DAYS. SOE H TOOK HIS BIRTHDAY MONEY AND WENT UP TO WALMART AND BOUGHT SUPPLIES AND WENT AND PAYMENT ALL THE GRAFFITI VIDEO OVER AND HE WASN’T DONE THERE. I THOUTGH GOOGLE’S ON THE WALL, AND I WANTED TO PAIEDNT IT NICE THOSE SCRIBBLES WERE HERE AT THE Q&A SWEET TREATS ON SOUTH 1ST STREET. IT’S ONE OF THE PLACES HE’S TAKING. PAINTBRUSH AND PAINT AND GONE TO WORK LA GRANGE’S OWN LITTLE SUPERHERO A HISND MOM’S PRIDE AND JOY, I AM VERY PROUD. HE’S PROUD MOM MOMENT. YOU KNOW, YOU MUST BE DOING SOMETHING RIGHT WHEN THEY WANT TO TAKE THE ITIATNIIVE TO TO HELP OUT THEIR COMMUNITY. AND THE WDOR IS GETTING AROUND AND OTHERS ARE PROUD OF HIM, TOO. I THINK IT’S GREAT. I MNEA THEY’RE THEY’RE GOOD FAMILY. HE’S A GREAT KID, AND I THINK THAT IT SULHOD IS A GOOD EXAMPLE FOR WHAT OTHER KIDS SHOULD DO. AND HIS MOM AGREES AS THEY PACK UP THEY’LL BE LOOKING FOR OTHER ARSEA THAT NEED ATTENTION T
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7-year-old boy spending fall break cleaning up La Grange one project at a time
Connor Dunk is on fall break, but you would never know it.He is hard at work painting over tags left on a La Grange bakery. Connor's interest in helping clean up started in a bathroom at a park near where he plays Little League baseball.His mom says he just couldn't understand why someone would put scribbles on the bathroom wall."He was just really upset that the bathroom had been destroyed. He knew he could fix it and paint over it, and that's what he wanted to do. He wanted it to look pretty again," said Brandi Dunk, Connor's mom.Brandi Dunk explained to her 7-year-old son they had to call the city and see if it was OK, and they did."The next day we reached out to the city of La Grange and said they would love his help. It would be a couple days, so he took his birthday money and went up to Walmart and bought supplies and painted all the graffiti over," she said.And he wasn't done there."I saw scribbles on the wall and I wanted to paint it nice," said Connor, who plans to do even more clean up during the break.Those scribbles were at the Q&A Sweet Treats on South First Street. It's one of the places he has taken his paint brush and paint and gone to work.La Grange's own little superhero and his mom's pride and joy."I am a very proud mom. Very proud mom moment. I mean, you must be doing something right when they want to take the initiative to help out their community," said Brandi Dunk, a mother of six.And the word is getting around, with others showing their appreciation for his hard work."I think it is great. They’re a good family, he's a great kid and it is a great example for what other kids should do," said La Grange resident Bridget Frailley.And his mom agrees — as they pack up from his latest project — they are already looking for other areas that need attention too.

Connor Dunk is on fall break, but you would never know it.

He is hard at work painting over tags left on a La Grange bakery. Connor's interest in helping clean up started in a bathroom at a park near where he plays Little League baseball.

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His mom says he just couldn't understand why someone would put scribbles on the bathroom wall.

"He was just really upset that the bathroom had been destroyed. He knew he could fix it and paint over it, and that's what he wanted to do. He wanted it to look pretty again," said Brandi Dunk, Connor's mom.

Brandi Dunk explained to her 7-year-old son they had to call the city and see if it was OK, and they did.

"The next day we reached out to the city of La Grange and said they would love his help. It would be a couple days, so he took his birthday money and went up to Walmart and bought supplies and painted all the graffiti over," she said.

And he wasn't done there.

"I saw scribbles on the wall and I wanted to paint it nice," said Connor, who plans to do even more clean up during the break.

Those scribbles were at the Q&A Sweet Treats on South First Street. It's one of the places he has taken his paint brush and paint and gone to work.

La Grange's own little superhero and his mom's pride and joy.

"I am a very proud mom. Very proud mom moment. I mean, you must be doing something right when they want to take the initiative to help out their community," said Brandi Dunk, a mother of six.

And the word is getting around, with others showing their appreciation for his hard work.

"I think it is great. They’re a good family, he's a great kid and it is a great example for what other kids should do," said La Grange resident Bridget Frailley.

And his mom agrees — as they pack up from his latest project — they are already looking for other areas that need attention too.