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Andre White, one of Pinecrest's newer Parks and
Recreation Department park service aides, is a gentle sort of a man,
with a deep bass voice and a ready smile.
"I'm guess I am an easy-going guy," White
said in a recent interview. "I get along with almost everyone.
And, I'm always meditating, I'm always thinking about something."
White, 28, works primarily in Suniland Park, taking
care of the baseball and football fields, maintaining the grounds and
turf, laying down the necessary field marking.
"A friend of mine told me that they had an
opening here and told me to apply," he said. "And, that's
how I got a job in Pinecrest."
White was born in Montreal, but moved to New York at
age three and grew up there. He came to Miami in 1992 just days after
the devastation of Hurricane Andrew to help his Mother and sister
recover from the disaster. He found construction work plentiful in the
wake of the storm and decided to remain here.
Soon, he enrolled in Miami-Dade Community College to
study mechanical engineering, where he continues to study today.
The South Miami Heights resident says he enjoys
reading particularly automobile magazines and expresses a strong
interest in auto mechanics.
"I like inventing things and building stuff and
I've got a few things up my sleeve, a couple of inventions," he
said cagily. "They're mechanical things to make a job a little
easier. But, that's going to be several years away. I've gotta get it
(the invention) patented, figure it out, do some more drawings on
it."
White says he enjoys his work in the Pinecrest, but he
has bigger goals ahead.
"Someday," he says, "I want to have my
own business, be an entrepreneur and a millionaire."
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