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Resilient businesses reopen; need more customers.

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Three weeks after devastating Hurricane Katrina, many Coast businesses are going to great lengths to reopen--whether they are serving insurance customers who might have lost their homes and businesses, people who need a haircut, or food to someone who hasn't had a hot meal for a while.

"Everyone is happiest about the restaurants reopening," said Reed Guice, president of The Guice Agency. "And I see we may have a movie theater opening tomorrow. That is nice for people who still don't have air conditioning. It is plain to me that business on the Mississippi Gulf Coast is recovering quickly. People are finding a way to reach and serve their customers."

Guice said his offices in downtown Biloxi on the top floor of the old library are in good shape except it doesn't have electricity and phones because the bottom floor of the building was heavily damaged. The Guice Agency staff has temporarily relocated...

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