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Article: Colleges bring coal country a fresh mine of resources: Law and pharmacy schools have created pride, jobs and hope in Buchanan County.
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- The Roanoke Times (Roanoke, VA)
- Article date:
- August 12, 2006
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Byline: Albert Raboteau
Aug. 12--GRUNDY -- Amanda Blankenship planned to move away from this coal mining region because she wanted her children to have more opportunity.
She changed her mind, and her career path, when the University of Appalachia College of Pharmacy opened just outside town last year.
Blankenship enrolled, and her husband withdrew his request for a job transfer.
"Now we not only intend to stay, we hope [our children] will stay in the area," Blankenship said.
In their ongoing effort to diversify their county's economy and stop the exodus of people like the Blankenships, officials in Grundy and surrounding ...