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Meet 63-year-old ‘Aunt Rhonda’, who did everything in her power to bring a store to a Syracuse food desert

Meet 63-year-old ‘Aunt Rhonda’, who did everything in her power to bring a store to a Syracuse food desert

Rhonda Vesey’s persistent grassroots campaign was the driving force behind A.K. Kaid’s decision to open a grocery store in Syracuse’s Valley neighborhood. For over five years, this soft-spoken daughter of a 1950s Civil Rights pioneer championed the replacement of the long-closed Tops Friendly Markets in the Valley Plaza, a closure that had left the community…

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