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All the more reason to support London Ohio. Small towns all over the place are drying up and blowing away. The small town life style is in deep trouble. We can't save them all, but we are helping to perserve a little slice of Americana right in our own back yard.
My wife is from a small town on the Ohio river. The industry there used to be coal mining and steel. As you can imagine, those are gone. A once thriving, beautiful little town is now a ghost town lined with closed shops and vacant housing. The younger generations are getting out as soon as they can, if they can. In just the 17 years or so I have been visiting her home town, I have seen a sharp decline in the area. Largely welfare and old folks are all that is left. Very depressing. Even her old high school, St. John's Central, a great old school with a proud history, has faced such a serious decline in enrollment that they don't even know if they will be able to field a football team with only 30 incoming freshmen.
LCS plays a much bigger part in London Ohio then most people can imagine!
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