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How Alpena Pulls Together in Hard Times

Alpena, Michigan

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How have been come together in hard times in your town?

"How people in your town work together during hard times? All I can tell you was back in the 1980s when the earlier recession was occurring, interest rates were high and people in town just hung together by pooling. Parents taking kids in school because schools closed out ... well, the schools stayed open, but the busing fell apart. So those were harder times back then, and currently, with the last depression, people pulled together [inaudible 00:00:29] help you has really pulled together well in our current regrowth of the economy."

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Tags: #SmallTowns #Community #Crossroads #HardTimes

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