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in Huron county and another in Halton region. The two areas
were chosen because Huron is a basically rural community while
Halton is a community undergoing the stress of urban
encroachment on a formerly rural area. '
The pilot study in Huron is centred specifically in the
Turnberry township and Wingham areas with a house on Victoria
Street in Wingham servings as headquarters.
The project first began on May 1, 1976, based on the belief
that the university's wealth of human and physical resources
gave it an opportunity to help rural areas. At that time a number
of areas were being considered for the pilot study including both
Perth and Bruce counties as well as Huron.
The project sounds suspiciously at first like a familiar old
pattern seen in rural areas of the message being delivered down
from the mount like Moses bringing down the 10
commandments. Many experts in the past from governments
and universities have come along to tell rural people the answers
to all their problems, without really knowing what the problems
were in the first place.
But for the educators involved in the Outreach program, the
first two years have involved more learning than teaching. Soon
after the project was announced, a series of workshops were
held, at first at the University and later in Huron county where
the project co-ordinators brought in rural residents to become
involved in discussions of rural problems. The workshops
involved six sectors of the rural population: professional and
public service people, rural women, farm operators, rural youth,
rural elderly and rural bqsiness people: There were a total of
eight workshops in the program, beginning Nov. 24, 1976 and
continuing periodically until May 31, 1977.
At each workshop a brief address was given by a member of
the faculty of the university following which the group broke into
discussion groups to discuss rural problems. The workshop
program ended with a summary workshop held at Johnston Hall,
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