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Andrew Guy
70:32 - 71:04
“Yeah, 7J has been really beneficial to the villages in my region. We have 4 to 5 village corporations. So 2/3 of them, which is about 30, rely on 7J to be profitable. Or even break even.”
- Speaker
- Andrew Guy
- Timestamp
- 70:32 – 71:04
- Community
- Alaska News
- Location
- Alaska
- Captured at
From the transcript
Yeah, 7J has been really beneficial to the villages in my region. We have 4 to 5 village corporations. So 2/3 of them, which is about 30, rely on 7J to be profitable. Or even break even. And our villages provide a lot of basic services like operate a store, operate a fuel business, you know, everything that's needed by folks to supplement the hunting and fishing that we have out there.
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