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	<description>Facts and Fiction About Life &#38; Real Estate in the North Georgia Mountains</description>
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		<title>Jasper Arts Festival This Weekend</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 14:45:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Clear out your weekend calendar. The Jasper Arts Festival is April 21-22, 2012. This will be the Jasper Arts Festival&#8217;s 2nd year and it was an outstanding success in its inaugural year. Festival hours are 10:00 am to 5 pm on Saturday and 10:00 am to 4 pm on Sunday. Don&#8217;t worry about &#8220;finding&#8221; it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Investment and Vacation Home Sales Surge in 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2012 11:41:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have been telling folks for months that activity in the local market was trying to recover. 2011 was actually one of my better years in total sales volume &#8211; admittedly, I reached that level with many smaller sales as opposed to fewer small ones. I am pleased to report that 2012 is continuing on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Small Businesses Expecting a Better Year</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 23:03:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Atlanta Journal &#038; Constitution is reporting today that Atlanta Small Business Owners are optimistic about the next 6 months. That is great news for our area as positive business growth in Atlanta will affect our local area. More jobs and more disposable income in the northern suburbs of Atlanta will translate into more traffic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Perfect Mortgage Loan ?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 11:13:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the press today, we frequently see reports of how hard it is to get a mortgage for a home loan and a great deal of the &#8220;blame&#8221; for the lack of a better housing recovery is laid at at the feet of the mortgage industry. When I tell folks that in the last 6 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Rotary Club of Jasper Breaks Ground on New Rotary Youth Park</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 16:28:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Rotary Club of Jasper has launched a project to bring a new youth park to Pickens County. The new Rotary Youth Park is located across from the Pickens County Middle School in the Roper Park complex. With all the competitive playing fields, the new County Recreation Center and future Boys &#038; Girls Club facility, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hans Rueffert in Huff Post Article</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 14:02:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Greetings from Beautiful Bent Tree, I just received this article and video on Hans Rueffert on the Huff Post from my little sister way up in New Jersey. It looks like it was posted in October, but I haven&#8217;t seen it before, so I am posting so anyone else that missed it can have a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Small Towns Rock</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 15:55:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have talked here before about &#8220;Shop Pickens First&#8221; and the importance of buying services and products locally. The Video below ran on NBC news and on their website. It is about Thomasville, GA and what they have done in their small town. NBC Video We can do the same thing here. We just need [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vice President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Speaks to Pickens Chamber of Commerce</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Nov 2010 03:38:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tuesday&#8217;s Pickens County Chamber Breakfast was no ordinary event. The crowd of well over 100 local business owners and professionals was treated to an update on the nation&#8217;s financial situation by Tom Cunningham.  Dr. Cunningham is the Vice President and Director of Research for the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and is also currently the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>61 Main Named One of Georgia’s Top 10!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 10:30:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Congratulations to the Owner&#8217;s &#38; Staff of 61 Main.  We already new it was one of the best restaurants around, but verification arrived from afar today as Georgia Trend magazine awarded  61 Main a  Silver Spoon indicative of its position as one of  Georgia&#8217;s Top 10 Restaurants. That puts them in the same tier with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pickens County “Thrives” Even in Hard Times</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:23:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don Martin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week the Small Business Council that I chair for the Chamber of Commerce co-sponsored a very successful seminar here in Pickens Couny.  The following article is the one I submitted to the Pickens Progress for publication. Chamber Seminar a Rousing Success Over 80 local community and business leaders gathered at the Appalachian Campus of [...]]]></description>
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