The community of Mt. Vernon showed its appreciation for the city last Friday and Saturday, with a two-day celebration called Love Mt. Vernon Day.
As part of the event, city organizations, officials and citizens put a little elbow grease into the areas of the city that needed it most.
The community took time to rally around an army recon veteran on Hickory Street whose yard had fallen into disrepair. Glenn Dulaney a resident of Mt. Vernon since 1977, had seen his yard become overgrown, a problem that planning and zoning director, Trent Thompson, local citizens and veterans and local business owner, Austin Gurney, set out to fix…