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 AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) - Surrounded by four housing projects in one of Augusta's rougher neighborhoods, the Castleberry's Food Co. plant has become a beacon for jobs, food and a sense of hope in its impoverished community.
The plant has long provided decent pay and an easy walk to work for the hundreds who live in nearby ramshackle buildings, and its managers have been ready contributors to the civic organizations hoping to strengthen the community.
The future of the neighborhood seems shakier than ever now that the plant has been temporarily shut down after it was linked to botulism in canned chili sauce, a discovery that triggered a massive recall of canned foods produced at the plant in the past two years.
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