LA GRANGE, Ky. — When driving through the city of La Grange, you might spot eight-year-old Connor Dunk, leaving his city cleaner than when he found it.
“I was watching the game and then I went to the bathroom and I saw the graffiti,” Connor Dunk said.
Since spotting the graffiti at North Oldham Little League a year ago, Connor’s reason behind what he does is simple.
“Because I didn’t like it,” Dunk said.
Connor has since done a handful of projects, including painting over graffiti on the fence at Q&A Sweet Treats, cleaning stop signs around town and his current project — the wall outside of Hometown Pizza.
“It made us overwhelmingly proud,” Connor’s mom, Brandi Dunk, said. “I know he has a really big heart. He always has, but to take the initiative to fix what other people have destroyed was just a really proud moment as a mom.”
The eight-year-old has even saved his birthday money and hosted a lemonade stand to raise money for cleaning supplies.
An act of kindness that caught the eye of the city La Grange mayor, John Black.
“At the time he was seven, just turned eight a couple weeks ago, but I don’t think he fully understood the impact of it, that he was getting a whole day in the city of La Grange named after him,” Brandi Dunk said.
So in between the scrubbing, painting and some breaks to rest his arms, the final product is worth the wait.
“You can tell once he gets it all off, all the tired arms and working in the heat just pays off once he sees that he got it all off and it looks a lot better than it did,” Brandi Dunk said.
Another reason behind why they call it the Kindness Capital of Kentucky.
The city of La Grange mayor, John Black, declared Dec. 6 as Connor Warren Dunk day throughout the city.