SAGINAW, MI — Countless buckets of paint covered a Saginaw skate park in color as residents and artists came together for an art-based community event this weekend.

The skate park, located within Frank N. Andersen Celebration Park, saw residents intermittently joining the Last-ish Skatepark Mural Community Paint on Saturday, Sept. 13.

The event was organized by Community Alliance for the People (CAP), which received a grant from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services.

Nyesha Clark-Young, treasurer and executive board member for CAP, explained how the grant helped form the event.

“The purpose of the grant is to form social cohesion and to get people outside and to just have events where everyone can be together,” she said. “And I feel like a skate park mural is the perfect

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