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Work Ethic Camp inmates get into dirty business
By mccookgazette.com- Connie Jo Discoe
Published: 09/29/2015

McCOOK, Neb. -- Gardener Janet Hepp believes in the therapeutic value of "getting your hands dirty" in a garden. v Earlier this summer, Janet and her husband, Greg, donated garden vegetables and an extra, unused garden storage shed to the Nebraska Department of Corrections Work Ethic Camp in McCook, Nebraska, with the hope that inmates would get their hands dirty planting, watering, caring for and harvesting their own garden produce.

"I envisioned this garden full of vegetables," Janet said as she and her 4-year-old daughter Ellie Gillen picked ripe-red cherry tomatoes Monday while they visited with WEC road crew sergeant John Gomez about the summer's garden project.

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