On Sunday, April 25th, from 8a – 11:30a, 1,500 volunteers will paint the faded rails and cross beams on LA County lifeguard towers in preparation for “Summer of Color,” a massive civic and public art project conceived and developed by Portraits of Hope ( www.portraitsofhope.org : http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id...85ca51be8212cc ) that will visually transform 158 towers on LA’s world renowned beaches. The scale of the Sunday morning undertaking for LA’s iconic lifeguard towers can be likened to the volunteers taking a 1” paint brush and painting a line to the international space station -- or putting it another way: painting*at a 65

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