Communities of Opportunities meeting

Local residents and officials met at The Lincoln Center Thursday, October 18, to review the results of a town hall meeting conducted last fall in connection with the state's Communities of Opportunities initiative. A summary of the meeting will appear in a subsequent issue of The Lincoln Journal. Pictured are meeting facilitators (l-r) Langford Holbrook, the UGA Fanning Institute; Rick Brooks, rural development division director for the Georgia Department of Community Affairs (DCA); Tina Hutcheson, DCA Region 7 representative; and Skip Teaster and Matt Bishop, the Fanning Institute.