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nice to meet you. oh, you make the food? yes. from scratch. before we began, she told me she was nervous because her english wasn t very good. i told her we could do it in japanese, she said no. which is great, because i forgot i don t speak japanese. i m from osaka, japan. do you like it here? yeah, because my home town is very busy, beattyville has very few people. nice nature. it s peace, i like it a lot. it s official. there s somebody for everybody. i thought her english was great. i want to make sure she felt good about it? yes. good. thank you. is tourism the hope for this area? as soon as i walked outside, i met lana. what are you doing out here? i m rock climbing. now, what is it about this part of the country that has good rock climbing? this place is a well known destination. what s so great about this place is it is sandstone and it s really steep. so you can climb on rock that s
years and she s still taking care of me. i m proud to be from beattyville. and i want to help the community. that s what a small town is about. helping everybody. do you feel like you re running for mayor maybe there s a target on you now that people are trying to run your name down? i don t care how big a target on my back, i m guns loaded. i m ready to come out. when you say guns loaded you actually mean there s probably some guns you could load. you know how it is. when we say that, we mean metaphorical. pretty pretend guns. but if i need guns, they re loaded. absolutely. you say your mom has a sixth grade education but she s got a ph.d. in food. this is real, real good. robert touched on it a little bit, but like many communities dealing with poverty, drug abuse has become a serious issue. in 2015, 30% of residents in eastern kentucky reported having a family member or friend that abused prescription drugs. in the late 1990s abuse of pain pills surged with many blam
i was like ah! for your enjoyment. for your enjoyment. yeah. if there s one thing i ve learned since i ve been in beattiville is they may be down but they re not out. like they re not even outside. where is everybody? it s a small town. everybody knows everybody, but it s like family. maybe dysfunctional at times but at the end of the day everybody cares about each other and we ll do what we have to do to take care of each other. hope lives in this town, and city council member missy begly talked about the future plans. are we in downtown beattyville. where all the action happens. the city s buzzing. there was a time when there were two new car dealership and a bus lane downtown. right here? yeah. probably the 70s. that was a bustle era, thanks to disco.
lot of news people rolled through here and just take out the image of beattyville, the poorest white town in the country. people are suspicious. what are your thoughts on that? it s home. no matter what we have or don t have, it s always going to be home. but in all honesty, in a small community like us that s been going downhill for 40 years, a lot of people draw money from the government. no jobs leads to no money which leads to depression which leads to drugs or alcohol. you know, we just have 35% of our high school kids graduate. wow. young people leave to find something to do. i want young people to stay. i want them to find jobs and i want them to be with their families. just like i want my children to be with me. i ran for mayor back in 2010. i got beat by just a handful of votes. that s all you guys have here is a handful of votes. absolutely. i m proud of who i am. i m proud of my mother. she has a sixth grade education. she s cooked these home cooked meals. she has
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