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12 THE RURAL VOICE
A FAREWELL TO FARMS
Gord Wainrnan has been an urban -
based agriculture reporter for 15 years.
Keith Roulston in his Rural Voice
column last month wrote a brief 15th
anniversary ode to The Rural Voice, a
magazine he founded.
In those 15 years, he noted how
this gutsy little publication has im-
proved with each new owner.
With only three years of writing a
column for The Voice behind me, I'm
a relative newcomer. But I can say
without reservation that I have the
highest professional regard for editors
Sheila and Lise Gunby.
This is one farm paper that has
prided itself on protecting the corner-
stone of a free press by soliciting a
wide spectrum of opinion — partic-
ularly from its columnists.
I've been one of those lucky
columnists allowed to vent his or her
spleen pretty well any way I wished
— as long as no one was libelled.
In August, I too will be celebrating
15 years of writing on rural matters,
an uncommon vocation for a boy bred
in the factory town of all factory
towns, Windsor, Ontario.
For my detractors in the farm
community, this may explain why
my observations on the farm crisis are
often out of line with the status quo in
farm organizations.
Anyway, after 15 years of writing
for many publications, it is with some
regret that I must now hang up my
farm typewriter.
However, I am pleased that my
"farewell to farms" will be appearing
in this publication.
To my few, or many, readers —
writers in their isolation never know
which it is — an explanation is in
order.
Simply put, it was a bottom-line
decision more or less forced on me by
the economics of freelance writing.
Freelance writing, like farming in
many sectors, does not a living make.
And, like many farmers, I've been
forced to face the financial reality that
to meet my personal commitments I
must move on to other things —
which means getting a real job.
It took a bit of doing and a bit of
rejection before I finally landed that
job: a one-year appointment teaching
journalism at the University of
Regina, filling in for an instructor
on sabbatical.
Since I learned in mid-June that
I have landed the job, my wife has
been giving me the rib by calling me
"Professor Wainman."
I'm flattered to have landed the
job, but I promise it won't go to my
head. There won't be any of that
climbing the ivory tower for me. I
prefer my feet planted on the ground.0
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