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I’m calling about the article about too many people in Washington, too many tourists. I don’t have a business here or a restaurant or anything, but it’s very hard for these businesses to make money with the low population that we have here, and I am for having the tourists come in and plenty of them. I think it helps our businesses; it helps the town grow. I wish the paper really wouldn’t put in negative stuff like that. Just from one old grouch, I think it sends a bad signal to the tourist industry in general.

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