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One-Day Effort Reels In 1,000 Mentors for Florida United Way

Jacksonville, Fla.

At 9:45 a.m. on a muggy Saturday, Leroy Smith stands in line at City Hall with about 15 other people, waiting to get fingerprinted in preparation for a background check. Later he will undergo training to become a mentor to a high-school student in Duval County, where the dropout...

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