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COMMUNITY MATTERS

n response to “To the Community” (Our View, July/August 2022), my wife and I live on a small farm. We’re on 10 acres; our garden is 15 by 30 feet, and we have two horses and a miniature horse. We attend a small church about 30 minutes from our home in Newnan, Georgia. Our church does an outreach program called “Serve.” Every first Saturday, members and nonmembers go into the community and do a wide variety of projects — from building accessibility ramps to feeding the elderly 

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