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Expo features local businesses and their green benefits
Event offers 'networking opportunities' to vendors
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Todd and Ann Marvos get sample strawberries Thursday from the Oakwood Occasions booth at the Greater Hall Chamber of Commerce’s Buy Local Safe & Green Expo at the Gainesville Civic Center. Ann Marvos said she enjoys going to expos to learn about businesses she may not have heard about before. - photo by Erin O. Smith
A trip to the busy, giant retailer-filled Mall of Georgia in Buford is fine, but keeping their shopping dollars local is important to Ann and Todd Marvos of Gainesville. And so, attending the Greater Hall Chamber of Commerce’s annual Buy Local Safe & Green Expo helps them keep track of the area business scene. “Every year, it’s different,” Ann Marvos said.