The Rural Voice, 1993-08, Page 21Forum movement could be revived.
"It would be tough to duplicate
today," Murray Gaunt, CKNX Radio
farm director said, while recalling
how he looked forward to the Farm
Forum coming to his home near
Lucknow when he was a boy because
it meant he didn't have to do
homework that night.
Bob Carbert, the former CKNX
farm director who went on to become
the curator of the Ontario
Agricultural Museum also wondered
if it was possible to bring the Forum
back to life today.
Harry J. Boyle pointed out the
Canadian Radio -Television and
Telecommunications Commission, of
which he was once chairman, had
attempted to keep public access to the
mass media open by requiring
community channels be set up on
cable television systems. While these
systems are mostly available to urban
residents, new satellite technology in
the coming years will also have
capacity for public access channels
for people anywhere in Canada, he
said.
But the Farm Radio Forum was
more than just a method of
communication, he said. "Farm
Forum was a vehicle, something to
focus around. Part of the (attraction)
of Farm Forum for people was that it
was a way for people to escape
misery." There was a lot of anger in
those days, he recalled. When the war
began and suddenly there was all
kinds of money for war supplies,
farm people wondered how there
could have been so little money to
pay them decent money for their farm
goods just months before.
Vic Morrow, former field man
with the Farm Radio Forum who
travelled the country trying to set up
new forums, noted that many of the
co-ops and other rewards of the Farm
Forum movement have lost their
vitality as shapers of the community.
"What new models do we need to re-
invigorate an educational process,"
he wondered.
But for some people in the
audience, the whole discussion about
whether or not the Forum could be
revived was academic. Several
representatives of the Du -Cum -In
Farm Forum of Teeswater were in the
audience, and Marian Mundell of the
group was a member of the panel for
the re-enactment.0
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