Region
Odawa Casino Resort plays a major role in the Petoskey area in terms of income and influence. The Odawa Casino Resort employs roughly 1000 people and was the 2nd largest employer in the area as of 2008. The opening of the casino signaled the hiring of nearly 500 people, helping to reverse a trend of unemployment that is higher than the national average.
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Famous quotes containing the word region:
“the Mind of Man—
My haunt, and the main region of my song.”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)
“America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.”
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)
“Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense Remote, the Wild, the Watery, the Unshored.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)