Nick Graham is no longer a 17-yo boy. He became a man when he bought the closed grocery store. Now if the school can give him credit for what he's doing, it would sure help him out a lot. All I can say is that this young man has certainly put many people to shame for doing what needed to be done to keep his community growing. He's trying like crazy to break that downward spiral that so many small towns seem to be going through in the United States. It's a scary thought when you no longer have a grocery store in town, which is the backbone of the community. We have the same thing happening in Washington State. When I drive to the Tri-Cities (Kennewick, Richland, Pasco), I go through several small towns with no grocery stores and you can see the populations dropping. But they're building more homes, so they'll have to get a grocery store close by soon, so who knows. The farmers are selling their farmland to developers, which is why they're able to build those homes, and that means less people selling at the farmers' market, or finding products that you can grow here that you can't get else where, or are shipped in from Chile, Ecuador, Australia which defeats the purpose of locally grown foods. Anyway, here, here...to Nick Graham. What a man!!!!