But the trips can be worthwhile, said Kay Phillips who works in Chapel hill, North Carolina, 164 miles from her home in Granite Falls.

但是旅途可算是非常值得的，凯-菲利普斯如是说，她在北卡罗莱纳州的查珀尔·希尔工作，距她在格拉尼特·福尔斯的家有164英里。

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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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