HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance-Times, 1983-06-15, Page 21Page 4—Crossroads—June 15, 1983
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TRUEIVIAN
My wife and I had a won-
derful day recently, in the
country north of Highway 7,
a beautiful patch of Ontario's
Laurentian Shield known as
North Frontenac. We drove,
up there in bright sunlight on
a Friday afternoon . .. rocks
and hills, pines and lakes,
nice little houses and some
pretty dejected looking
farms. The last time North
Frontenac could have been
considered prosperous was
during the last century when
logging was big business.
The population declined
steadily from 1900 until the
early 1970s, when it again be-
gan to grow a little. I think I
know why. Half of Toronto
has moved up there — a
sane, sober segment of the
back -to -the -land movement.
The recession has touched
North Frontenac, like most
other parts of the country.
The young people have had
to come home again, be-
cause the job market in the
cities is non-existant. But in
a way, North Frontenac
hasn't hurt as much as other
parts of the country, because
tough times are normal
there, and its residents ex-
pected less to begin with. If a
man has his health and his
house and a woodlot, all he
needs is a little money for
food, clothes, gas and taxes.
The other thing North Fron-
tenac has going for it is the
local Community Services
Corporation. The corpora-
tion's annual meeting was
held in the Township HaMkt_
Plevna, and if North Fron-
tenac is ina recession, there
was no sign of it in the moun-
tains of home -cooked food
and the happy faces of the
200 people in attendance. Not
for them the political apathy
of the big cities. They're
active participants in the
business of the community,
and self-help is not just a slo-
gan, but a way of life. There
is a volunteer probation pro-
gram, for example, ID which
offenders are. paired with a
pillar of the community, and
instead of doing thne, they
do good works. They're in-
volved in a community effort
to reduce drinking and driv-
ing. A music guild is active,
and so is the North Fronten-
ac Little Theatre. The com-
munity corporation is also
involved in caring for the
community's 'mentally
handicapped; local develop-
ment, including tourism; the
vitality of the school system;
attracting artisans and
craftsmen; and ' generally
making North Frontenac a
better place to live in. They
get some help from big
• government, but by and
large, big government 'tells
them that they know what is
right and leaves them alone
to get on with it. So they're
left to sink or swim more or
less on their own, and freed
of the weight of impersonal
bureaucracy, they're swim-
ming just fine. The air is
clean and sharp, they're,
never far from the elements,
and their priorities are right.
it was a privilege to meet
theni, and after just one day
back in the office, I knew
who's nuts.
Kennedy shooting
Shortly after Sew Robert
Kennedy learned of his vic-
tory in the California Demo-
cratic primary on June 5,
1968, he was shot in Los An-
geles; he died the following
day.
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