Roland Burris, a leading participant in Farmlab's Ag Bins on Skid Row project, was the subject of a profile in the Sunday, September 23, 2007 edition of the Los Angeles Daily News.
Burris -- a.k.a. "Elvis" -- resides at Lamp Lodge, one of the agencies that partnered with Farmlab for the Ag Bin project. Burris is becoming a media darling -- his gardening work has also recently been cited, and him quoted, in the Los Angeles Downtown News.
Burris' nickname, naturally, comes from his spot-on vocal impersonations of a certain Mr. Presley.
As reporter Tony Castro put it in the Daily News:
"The gardening has also spread Burris' reputation as an Elvis impersonator beyond Skid Row, with tales of how he has crooned 'Don't Be Cruel' and other classics of `The King' to struggling plants.
"'I talk to them, and sometimes I sing Elvis songs to them,' he said. 'Does it work? You don't see them wilting even in the heat, do you?'"
sweet! is that the dude that rocked the mike at the music performance?
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