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NOG 1H0 • Pool Table • Dart Boards • T.V.'s • Music • A special menu of your favourite finger foods below Tim's Family Restaurant Regional Road 25, Just east of Blyth PAGE 22. THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1993. Communities face challenges, speaker says Huron County communities face challenges and opportunities in the coming years but it is the commu- nities that show leadership that will reap the benefits, Paul Nichol, community development co-ordina- tor for Huron County told 25 area business people in Blyth Wednes- day night. It was the second of two meet- ings sponsored by The Citizen for Continued from page 6 beliefs despite a lack of evidence or overwhelming evidence to the contrary. One only becomes de-sensitized to violence when one is exposed from birth on in social, home, and institutional environments to it which leads to one accepting violence as "normal". When one is in a foul smelling room long enough, one does not notice any difference until one lez.ves the room for a breath of fresh air. As well, it's not only children, who are sexually ignorant. Sexual ignorance is the norm, carried into adulthood with the vast majority in society as a result of the christian churches teachings on human sexuality. The church's stand on procreative sexuality has resulted in a population time bomb that scientific evidence indicates will have catastrophic effects in the next 20 years. Humans are sexual beings primarily and to change that is like taking a fish out of water. Rather than seen as sad, it should be viewed as responsible and an investment in the future. With violent offenders, murderers, rapists, child molesters, and the like, there is one factor which can't be overlooked. All were raised with strict traditional religious, sexually repressive and restrictive attitudes as well as childhood traumas. Behaviour is instinctually learned in childhood from parents, their only role models. Lastly, perhaps you would be interested in the results of a 1987 study by psychiatrist Brandon Centrewall, who studied homicides and violent behaviour between the United States and South Africa where TV was banned until 1975. He found the average child in the U.S. watches 27 hours or more of TV per week. Centrewall and others who reviewed the study found it isn't what is being watched but rather TV viewing itself. If a child watched 27 hours or more of Sesame Street, Mr. Dressup, or National Geographic, the result would be the same. Children are failing to learn communication and local business people. A week ear- lier Mr. Nichol had spoken to 40 Brussels-area business people on the same topic. Mr. Nichol outlined economic forces, from globalization to the decline in the ability of agriculture to provide jobs, that will affect the local economy in future years. More jobs in the future will come from service businesses, he said, but service businesses work much socialization skills. The hours spent watching TV could be better spent. It's ironic most of the families being watched on television are busy doing all kinds of things other than watching TV. Perhaps child rearing on TV is not a spectator sport. Centrewall suggests that if television hadn't been developed, there would be 10,000 less homicides, 70,000 fewer rapes, and 700,000 fewer assaults in the U.S. per year today. I would think the most logical solution is to just turn the boob tube off. There are little black boxes to program in hours per child of television to be watched in a week. Once the allotted time is up, the child will do without the 90's babysitter until another week. They just may learn to be more responsible. D. Trollope. Brussels to write CIBC head office Expressing concern about the effect the exodus of many farm bank clients may have on the vil- lage economy Brussels village councillors voted Feb. 2 to send a letter to the headquarters of the Canadian Imperil Bank of Com- merce (CIBC) asking for someone to examine the local situation. Reeve Gordon Workman said people are upset with the local situ- ation. Many farmers are withdraw- ing their accounts from the branch and taking them to other towns, he said. When people bank elsewhere they buy many other goods and ser- vices elsewhere as well, he said. Councillors agreed to send the letter and asked for a reply from CIBC headquarters. "If they've got these computers could they at least look into it and see why they're los- ing all their clientele," the Reeve said. better in large urban areas than in smaller rural economies. However, he said, Huron county has advantges of being near major markets in Canada and the United States. Communities should help local businesses to grow because over the last 20 years, 80 per cent of new jobs in the average commu- nity have come from the expansion of existing businesses. Small busi- nesses should also be encouraged because these, not large corpora- tions, have provided the majority of growth in the economy, he said. Among the barriers to develop- ment is a lack of entrepreneurial culture, he said. Many complain that our schools are training stu- dents to work for large corpora- tions, not giving them the option of starting their own businesses. Financing for small business ideas is also a problem. "I'm convinced there are many viable business ideas that aren't getting a chance because there aren't finances avail- able," he said. Part of the problem may be solved through the Community Futures Program which is currently being put in place in Huron. A community development corpora- tion will have money available to loan to new businesses that can't get financing elsewhere. Huron must also provide a more highly-trained work force, he said. Often the quality of the local work force is the deciding factor in loca- tion of a new business. Huron does not have a high reputation for pro- ductivity of its work force. There must be a new partnership between education and business, he said. Huron County must diversify its economy, he said. Huron is the largest agricultural county east of Winnipeg but fewer, larger farms mean fewer jobs in agriculture. In addition more farm families require jobs off the farm. Still, the county should build on agriculture, finding more locally-based, value-added processing plants for farm products and helping farmers find more ways of direct marketin_g_ of value- r 1st Blyth/Londesboro Venturers DUCK/TURKEY DINNER Blyth Community Centre Thursday, February 11, 1993 5:00 - 8:00 p.m. Adults: $8.00 Children (under 12): $6.00 Tickets available from any Venturer or by calling L 523-9426 or 523-9660. added products from their farms. Tourism is another area that should be promoted, he said. Community development, he said, is grassroots development, building on what's good in the community and changing what is not so good. Experience shows, he said, that communities which have a vision and leadership are the ones that can deal with change and take advantage of opportunities and have the healthiest local economies. Letter to the editor