Was it Norcom? It came and went pretty quickly.
2007-09-06T10:28:00.000-04:00
Was it Norcom? It came and went pretty quickly.

What's interesting to me is that when my father was young, pre WW II, he worked at a canning factory in Colborne, and there were a few of them around providing employment for lots of people.

Now, 65 years later, we have this current movement to eat only what is grown within 100 miles of us, and it seems strange to think we had all that years ago, but modernization and globalization took it all away.

Now we are realizing we have to get it all back again. How about re-opening all those wonderful cheese factories that were scattered all over our area before the big companies took them over and closed them all?

But are all these efforts doomed? Somehow whenever "consultants" and "community developers" are involved, nothing seems to go right, and they are the only ones who profit at all.

It's hard not to get the feeling that's all that was ever intended and the projects are just excuses to pay themselves.

Or am I being overly cynical again?
DJO

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