Current and former District youth detention residents honored for helping others

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As they waited Wednesday for Mayor Adrian Fenty’s arrival, the District’s Gulf Coast Recovery Corps members watched a rotating display of their craftsmanship on the City Hall press briefing room’s flat screen televisions.

“Yeah, we did that,” 18-year-old Danquin Lincoln said when a photo appeared of a home still under construction in Mississippi. “I painted that too.”

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