What happened in Granite Falls felt a little like Guffman-with-paddles, and I wanted to know if that had occurred to Gaylord and Hanson.

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It has set up advisory boards in the towns around Granite Falls, made up of local dignitaries who help it to find worthy borrowers.

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They received some financial underwriting for the Granite Falls endeavor from Minnesota organizations devoted to the betterment of life along the river, but on the subject of making enough money doing this to support themselves, "we're still kind of trying to figure that out, " Gaylord said with a laugh.

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Try to help us, before this clay and granite planet falls apart?

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