Jasper County residents talk during the July 16 Promise Zone meeting
Here are some more recent news stories about the July 8-16 town hall meetings on the South Carolina Lowcountry Promise Zone held in a six-county region. Some excerpts:
Big crowd attends Promise Zone meeting, The (Walterboro) Press and Standard, July 23, 2015
“The Promise Zone is not a big pot of money out there waiting for us to pick it up,” Andy Brack of the Center for a Better South told the standing-room-only crowd at U.S.C. Salkehatchie last Thursday morning.
“But there is a big pot of money out there — we just have to work to get it. We have to work together to get it,” Brack added at the start of the Colleton County workshop attended by approximately 140 people.
Brack and the Center for a Better South worked with the SouthernCarolina Alliance to put together the successful application to have a portion of Colleton County and five other Lowcountry counties designated a Promise Zone by the federal government.
