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Boatbuilding helps steer youths right

Boatbuilder Brett Hart needed a letter written by one of his young workers for a YOUTHadelphia grant. He chose Jeliel Bess, a quiet young man who has worked in the Philadelphia Wooden Boat Factory for a year. Usually, Bess doesn't say much as he sands and helps construct the large wooden boat flipped upside down in the middle of the shop.

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