Garage owners upset about program:
Garage owners upset about program:
0 Comments | Charleston Daily Mail, May 10, 2010 | by JIM WORKMAN
BECKLEY – Owners of some Beckley area auto repair shops are displeased about the emergence of a government-funded competitor.
Action Auto Repair raised its garage doors to customers at Raleigh Mall last month. It is operated by the Raleigh County Community Action Agency, which funded it with part of a $529,000 grant made possible through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, otherwise known as stimulus money.
“All the money that the garage brings in goes right back into the program to continue to be able to serve low-income people,” said agency director Bobbi Thomas Bailey. “Once the grant goes away in September, the garage will have to be able to be self-sustaining.”
But Mark Creager of Creager Auto Repairs Services said it’s not fair, and he’s not alone.
“The other local garages – any of the shops I’ve talked to, and I’ve called a pile of them – have expressed a concern over this,” Creager said
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