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People think the picture represents the way the place is all the time."
• Cantrell also talked about how a community can retain new comers to the community. One of the biggest reasons people move out of a community after a few years is because they don't feel they belong.
• "One of the things I've learned about small towns," Cantrell said. "Rural Communities don't like new comers. They don't have a biography. You don't know anything about them and they don't know how to go about making a contribution to the community even though they want to."
• Cantrell also stated that a good relationship between businesses and the development community is essential to making community successful and welcoming and the Chamber is great way to bring the two together.

• -Char Telkamp