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  • SAN JOSE - APRIL 21: Dane Fitzgeriald shovels some vegetation...

    SAN JOSE - APRIL 21: Dane Fitzgeriald shovels some vegetation onto a wheelbarrow as clients with the Genesis Project cleanup along Three Creeks Trail in San Jose, Calif., on Monday, April 20, 2020. (Randy Vazquez / Bay Area News Group)

  • SAN JOSE - APRIL 21: Clients with the Genesis Project...

    SAN JOSE - APRIL 21: Clients with the Genesis Project clear vegetation along Three Creeks Trail in San Jose, Calif., on Monday, April 20, 2020. (Randy Vazquez / Bay Area News Group)

  • SAN JOSE - APRIL 21: Max Stachelrodt a client with...

    SAN JOSE - APRIL 21: Max Stachelrodt a client with the Genesis Project pulls some of the weeds along Three Creeks Trail in San Jose, Calif., on Monday, April 20, 2020. (Randy Vazquez / Bay Area News Group)

  • SAN JOSE - APRIL 21: David Avina a client with...

    SAN JOSE - APRIL 21: David Avina a client with the Genesis Project clears vegetation along the Three Creeks Trail in San Jose, Calif., on Monday, April 20, 2020. (Randy Vazquez / Bay Area News Group)

  • SAN JOSE - APRIL 21: Jason Lusk, left, and Sam...

    SAN JOSE - APRIL 21: Jason Lusk, left, and Sam Ruczak, right, pull a pile of vegetation that was cleared out along the Three Creeks Trail in San Jose, Calif., on Monday, April 20, 2020. (Randy Vazquez / Bay Area News Group)

  • SAN JOSE - APRIL 21: Clients with the Genesis Project...

    SAN JOSE - APRIL 21: Clients with the Genesis Project clear vegetation along Three Creeks Trail in San Jose, Calif., on Monday, April 20, 2020. (Randy Vazquez / Bay Area News Group)

  • SAN JOSE - APRIL 21: Michael Lee, left, and Donald...

    SAN JOSE - APRIL 21: Michael Lee, left, and Donald Ansted, right, with the Genesis Project clear vegetation along Three Creeks Trail in San Jose, Calif., on Monday, April 20, 2020. (Randy Vazquez / Bay Area News Group)

  • SAN JOSE - APRIL 21: Clients with the Genesis Project...

    SAN JOSE - APRIL 21: Clients with the Genesis Project clear vegetation along Three Creeks Trail in San Jose, Calif., on Monday, April 20, 2020. (Randy Vazquez / Bay Area News Group)

  • SAN JOSE - APRIL 21: Chris Berry piles some of...

    SAN JOSE - APRIL 21: Chris Berry piles some of the vegetation cleared from Three Creeks Trail along Bird Avenue in San Jose, Calif., on Monday, April 20, 2020. (Randy Vazquez / Bay Area News Group)

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For a community service project, clients from the Genesis Project headed outside this week to tackle the overgrowth along the Three Creeks Trail in San Jose’s Willow Glen neighborhood. The men, all residents of the group’s sober-living homes, took special social-distancing precautions, working only in proximity to their housemates. According to director Trevar Shyshka, the nonprofit operates primarily as a construction/labor agency, with that vocational training providing funding for the program.