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Midmorning With Aundrea - August 26, 2020 (Part 2)

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Midmorning With Aundrea - August 26, 2020 (Part 2)
Midmorning With Aundrea - August 26, 2020 (Part 2)

(Part 2 of 2) Most people try to avoid potholes, but one street artist is actively looking for them so he can fill them in with original artwork!

Where ahea most of us try to avoid potholes on the road.

But not all of us!

Here's lee cowan.

"...engin rumbling..."

In his vintage ford pickup - jim bachor is on the prowl - looking to find what most drivers hope to avoid.

"we came upon trio of potholes that i think might be perfect..."

Perfect potholes?

Preposterous.

"this is anothe good one..."

Bachor may be the only person behind a steering wheel... ...thump.."

...who sees car eating craters... "...thump thump.... ...as potential canvases.

"i'm completel subservient to the pothole gods, you know?

It's like whatever is served up to me, i've gotta deal with."

"....concret pouring..."

He's a true street artist in every sense of the word.

Since 2013 - on city streets in chicago and elsewhere - he's been filling potholes - with mosaics like these - depicting everything from popsicles - too pop stars.

"lee: you ever fee a little vulnerable out here?

Jim: yes, yes, yes i do."

We first met bachor -- naturally playing in the street - four years ago..

"le there's a hazard!"

"so since the las time we-- talked-- how much as your visibility gone up?"

"oh god.

Huge.

He's filled nearly 90 potholes with his work so far....one tiny piece of marble and glass at a time.

But the streets are quieter now than they were - and are empty of laughter too - "...hammering... which is where his latest works come in.

The perpetual toilet paper piece right now..."

You heard right - the perpetual toilet paper mosaic.

It became so popular - he's put it on iphone cases and made puzzles - even fine prints.

"somebody put i this way which i thought was kind of an interesting way.

// they wanted-- a souvenir of-- these times to look back on.

// 00:15:28 doesn't matter who you are, everybody can relate to toilet paper."

Just like everybody can relate to hand sanitizer.

Meet the purell pothole... "you're not tryin to make fun of it though?"

"oh god no.

// 00:29 18 it's really trying to pull out the positive out of a negative."

To do it - he's quite literally paving the streets with gold... "it's kind like..that..."

Gold leaf that is.

Each work gets a halo - the full saintly treatment it it's been 35 years since a young girl and her friend put a message in a bottle, hoping it would travel to someone who would write back.

Instead... the letter was hand- delivered by the kayaker who found it.

"please write bac when you receive this and tell us about yourself."

Cathi riddle and her friend stacey wells put this letter in a bottle on august 1st, 1985.

"we like animals lot.

Do you have any pets?

We have a dog."

ááácathi riddleááá "my cousin and were staying at the beach and we decided to write the letter and send it out and see how far it went."

The girls threw the bottle into the water at prime hook beach.

Just over 35 years later brad wachsmuth "it was ver innocent and nice."

"wachsmuth say he found the bottle floating on the broadkill about two miles that way on august 8th, just a few days after tropical storm isaias churned up the water."

"my friend jeff sai i think there's something in there, so when we got to shore i pulled the bottle out of the back of the kayak, opened it and found the letter."

Wachsmuth went to the milton historical society to get in touch with cathi who grew up in milton.

The curator reached out to family who still lives in the area to put the two in touch and on august 20th he returned the letter.

"with the tides an the amount of storms that come here, tropical storms, nor easters, hurricanes over 35 years, you would expect that it wouldn't end up in the same waters."

A message in a bottle travels through changing tides and times... "it didn't trave very far, but perhaps it traveled the world and came back."

..

Now back in the hands of those who wrote it.

With coverage you can hands of those who wrote it.

With coverage you can count on i'm mallory metzner in milton áááwrde coast tv news.

A west point church is helping families keep food on the table.

St.

Paul missionary baptist church hosted a drive- thru food drive today.

The giveaway was open to anyone in clay county.

As people drove up, volunteers loaded their cars with boxes of meat and other food.

Pastor eddie longstreet says his congregation is committed to helping anyone in need.

And certainly with the skyrocketing prices of food and individuals having to determine whether to pay rent or pay bills or buy their medicine- and certainly this is an added benefit to this community.

We've given over $250,000 worth of free food giveaway.

We have.

We had four last week.

The church distributed 840 boxes of food during today's giveaway we'll

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