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That experience was another factor
in persuading Shamley, who now rides
the train between Glencoe and her
London office, that services like
employment counselling should be
available locally. She notes that
Fanshawe College, at least, has
responded to rural educational needs
by establishing satellite campuses in
smaller centres outside London.
When she was younger, Shamley
adds, mobile services were a fact of
life in rural Ontario. If grocery trucks
and Watkins salesmen could call right
at the farm, why can't other services
also visit rural communities?
To promote the "be -your -own -boss
van," Shamley has contacted the farm
and community papers, and forwarded
information letters to rural organ-
izations. She's also contacting fair
boards about bringing the van to their
events.
Anyone interested in having the
van visit their event can contact
Shamley at Women's Community
enterprises in London by calling 434-
0151 or FAX 519-434-4922.
After promoting small business
enterprises for so long, and often
without pay, Shamley is asked if she
doesn't sometimes feel like a voice
crying in the wilderness? "Yes, I do,
because after 10 years, I still see that
people need these services. And yet
I'm not sure that I've seen a lot of
changes in the way services are being
delivered to people, and that frustrates
me."
Even now, if reliable funding can't
be found soon, Women's Community
Enterprises is again threatened with
closure.
"Shamley couldn't work with
budding entrepreneurs if she
wasn't an optimist."
Still, Shamley couldn't work with
budding entrepreneurs if she wasn't an
optimist. By taking her resource
centre on the road, Shamley could
start a trend that will make a very big
difference to rural Ontario. The "be -
your -own -boss bus" may be an idea
whose time has come, in more ways
than one.0
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