A tough city needs a tough name. So the Mower Gang was born. And, well, they do exactly what you think they do, cut grass. Their work is visible, their change is visible. It's something we can see.
Excerpt from the
Detroit News:
Tom Nardone could have called his latest project the Mower Club or the Mower Organization or the Mower Cotillion and Tea-Sipping Society, but this is tough duty in a tough city. So if you own a riding lawnmower or are otherwise inclined to cut loose on some unruly vegetation, come out Saturday and join the Mower Gang.
Vroom-vroom
Nardone, 40, is best known as that guy from Birmingham with a chainsaw who goes on TV to carve grossly imaginative jack-o-lanterns. But that's a gig with a very short shelf life.
The rest of the time, he's a highly successful business owner with a variety of deep and refined interests, like building his kids a bulbous 12-foot-tall blue metal rocket ship as a playhouse in their backyard. Also, he had always wanted a lawn tractor.
Never mind that the neighborhood boy who cuts his yard could use scissors and still finish in about an hour. Nardone yearned to feel the wind in his hair and hear the throaty rumble of an 18-hp engine while grass clippings flew up his nose.
Beyond that -- and this, you have to coax out of him -- he wanted to do some actual, visible good. He wanted to sweat a little and change some people's lives, even if the improvement was as simple as having a smoother place to play catch or an easier walk to a swing set.
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