DENVER -- Most people think of the wildly popular Cherry Creek Arts Festival as a three-day event, but it is really a year-round program.

Among the 750 volunteers required to run the July Fourth arts festival is George Hernandez.

Hernandez is the chairman of the Janus Student Art Buying Program. Twenty-four schools were selected this year to get a check from Janus to buy art at the festival. The students themselves select and buy the art work for their school.

"I think the reward for me is the excitement I get with interfacing with children of all ages," said Hernandez.

Hernandez also volunteers for the Cherry Creek Arts Festival Mobile Art Gallery. The project is filled with original art that perpetually travels to area schools. That means Hernandez does does a lot of traveling too.

"This year he has been to Colorado Springs to Broomfield and everywhere in-between visiting different schools," said Tara Brickell, Associate director of the arts fest.

"George is the perfect volunteer," said Carol Hiller, volunteer manager for the arts festival. "If I could clone anybody I would clone George, he is remarkable."