Meet ‘Aunt Rhonda,’ whose years of persistence will bring a store to a Syracuse food desert (Syracuse.com)

By Jeremy Boyer | JBoyer@syracuse.com

Syracuse, N.Y. — Government help and cheap rent were not enough to convince A.K. Kaid to open a grocery store in Syracuse’s Valley neighborhood.

Instead, the Buffalo entrepreneur’s decision to invest in an impoverished area shunned by corporate supermarket chains came down to one person: Rhonda Vesey.

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