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Should
people be taken to services, or should services be taken to people?
One of the issues to come out of the Enterprise Innovation Institute's study of
Coweta County is whether efforts should be made to bring people from outlying
areas to Newnan or services -- or to take those services to the farflung needy.
Jason Chernock of EI2, a division of the Georgia Institute of Technology, gave a report on the
study -- sponsored by a coalition of organizations -- on Thursday at Central
Educational Center. As part of the study process, local businessmen James and
Gary Welden took a group of sponsor representatives and EI2 staff on a tour
"to really show the geographical diversity of the county," Chernock
said.
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