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18 THE RURAL VOICE
ideas. Many of the innovations dis-
played at farm shows are from Europe,
he adds, where a stable agricultural
economy encourages experimentation.
Some communities have not only
recognized the need for co-operative
effort but have actively addressed the
need for community solidarity and
self-help. In Bruce County recently,
under a project known as Directions
'87, service agencies pooled their
efforts to hold a community meeting
to discuss financial assistance pro-
grams, day-care, family counselling,
and the Farmer's Helpline. About 50
residents came out to share informa-
tion and to offer suggestions about the
support needed by farm families.
Chaired by Culross Township reeve
Roy Pennington, the meeting was
sponsored by the Bruce County Social
Services with assistance from the
Community Network Support Team.
More such evenings are planned, and
in Huron County the idea has also
caught on. The first public meeting in
Huron will be held September 13 at
Brookside School near Dungannon.
Communities, it is clear, need to
be imaginative, to find new routes to
old destinations, and to be prepared to
accept responsibility for the future.
Programs should be integrated with all
levels of government and community
leaders should be prepared to consider
trade-offs. Garbage disposal provides
an example of this kind of compro-
mise. Some townships have had their
landfill sites closed and have limited
access to another site or have reached
a deadlock on the possibility of open-
ing another site because of opposition
from nearby landowners. Planners
have suggested that the co-operation
of several townships, or of all of them
at the county level, might solve the
problem. Intensive recycling could be
developed to minimize volume at a
new large site and to off -set the added
costs of trucking garbage.
We have to be optimistic about
the future of our communities, notes
Davidson, and not allow ourselves to
lose sight of our goals in the day to
day pressures of economics. Com-
munities want and seek simple solu-
tions, he adds, but the issues faced
today are often more complicated
than they have ever been before. As
Davidson says, however, "There is a
smorgasbord of ideas to draw on."0