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Focus On Business: Sara Day Evans on Entrepreneurialism in Eastern Kentucky

WEKU | By Bryan Bartlett
Published December 14, 2015 at 9:13 AM EST

Sara Day Evans of Midway is the founding director of Accelerating Appalachia, described on its website as a “nature-based” business accelerator. The idea is to support the growth of entrepreneurialism in areas like eastern Kentucky where the decline of coal mining and related businesses has cost middle class jobs and driven young talent out of the region in search of better opportunities.
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