Rake in hand, Deondrae Rhone looked over his shoulder at Roosevelt High School, where he graduated 2 1/2 years ago. He could easily imagine the message that about 800 collegians delivered Monday with their day of service on the North Portland campus.
“It will make a big impression, especially when the Roosevelt students find out who did it, that it was a lot of college students who actually were here,” said Rhone, 20, a 2009 Roosevelt graduate and a junior at Portland State University. “It will inspire them in their academics.”
