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The business of staying in business gets harder

Prince, Zenitha
Washington Afro-American
03-17-2006
This is the sixth of an 8-part series of stories about the Gulf Coast and
the road to recovery after Hurricane Katrina. This project is a cooperative
effort between the Afro-American Newspapers and National Newspaper
Publishers Association.

GULFPORT, Miss. - Hezekiah "Hezzie" Watts stood in the glare of the midday
sun looking at the shattered remains of his life's dream, H.W. Marine
Repair, a boat repair and service company that he started 15 years before.
It was not a large company; it comprised just him and an assistant, but it
was his.

"This was a dream of mine and it was going well," Watts said. But that was
before Hurricane Katrina tore ...

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