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   Hi, Carol!   
      
    > Yup!  Lots of folks like to mentor and with work being slow, they are   
    > finding adding an extra skill set helps out.  Also builds a sort of   
    > 'network'.  Dan recently did that.  3 of his 6 workers came down with COVID   
    > after going to a party.  With only 5 total, he hit a real problem.  Then he   
    > started calling some of the fellows who'd worked on 'NextDoor' projects with   
    > him, and got 4 folks who were happy to pinch-hit on fencing work.  One he   
    > hired outright, Hassam.   
      
    > Hassam lives across the street from me.  Afgan refugee (some came to   
    > Virginia Beach and have legal alien status to work).  Good soul.  Crossed   
    > the border first day of the evacuation with family and what they could   
    > carry.  He's applied for citizenship already.   
      
   Yay!2 Ghood news stories are always good, especially with the ick/bleagh the   
   world's dealing with now!   
      
   I've posted an initial message, to feel people out.     
      
   I'll figure out next steps based on the responses I get (type & numbers)   
      
   Thanks a million, Carol!   
      
   I know you & I used to chat way back in the 1990s maybe even in this echo?   
      
   Your friend,   
      
   <+]:{)}   
   Cyberpope, Bishop of ROM   
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