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We desperately pleaded for a means to take action but we were advised by the Township Solicitor that in the absence of a Municipal By-law it was a civil matter. In other words, it was up to the adjacent property owners to seek legal action on the basis that the wall cevalued or endangered their property. As I indicated, the wall did not appear overnight, but was con- structed over a prolonged period. Numerous directives were made by the Township, but were largely ignored if not outright protested, justified by " a man's home is his castle" attitude. This wall frustrated myself, my predecessors and now by suc- cessor. Ken, my friend, you are gone but not forgotten. Doug Baker 569 Yonge St. Midland, Ontario LAR 2C8 Northern Insights continued from page 5 described by the national media as potential "ghost towns", but they're still on the map, strug- gling, but alive, rallying together, and complaining quite effectively. Larger centres like Sault Ste. Marie, Sudbury, Thunder Bay and North Bay have managed to get the deed to some provincial gov- ernment departments, with new buildings and jobs to show for it. Southern civil servants had the opportunity to give up those awful traffic problems and real estate prices, and transfer to our version of the New Jerusalem. But some northerners were sur- prised to learn that most of those southerners turned down the chance. As a result, northerners got the chance to take the south- emers' jobs, running a word pro- cessor or being a desk jockey. Those southerners don't know what they're missing. Sure, they have to give up easy access to those long lineups for last-minute Blue Jay tickets at the Skydome. Instead of slow motion sightsee- ing of Lake Ontario from those elevated stretches of the Gardiner Expressway between 4 and 6 .p.m., they can take their time looking at the shore line of one of our 30,000 lakes while they bob for lake trout between grey gran- ite hills. While bobbing for lake trout, they can ask themselves, perhaps for the first time, whether God really intended anyone to spend four hours a day, five days a week, packed into a transporta- tion system carrying at least one million other people, going from home to work and back home again. We northerners have some vague notion of ourselves as hardy, independent, resourceful, and maybe even a little freer than those smog-bound asphalt types in the south. We are surrounded by the Great Canadian Shield. It separates us from those glass tow- ers and asphalt jungles. It defines our distinctiveness. But we're also making a life for. ourselves up here that isn't just cutting down trees, grinding up rocks, and shipping unfinished commodities on a rail line, or down the Great Lakes.' We're finding new ways to pay the bills, and feed the family. We north- erners come up with bright ideas everyday - and some of us have found ways to put those ideas into action. As northerners, we know there are other northerners like us Sas Sl ee ie ew innovative things with minimal resources, coping with a boom or a bust, and not necessarily going south with our briefcase to prove the idea to those smog-bound asphalt people. We've taken up the challenge a guy with a red tie named David Peterson threw out in the Sault in November of 1986: "The ideas and the initiative have to come from here. What you do not want is some made-in- Toronto solution to local prob- lems." Peterson was right. We don't want Toronto solutions. We have the right to make our own mis- takes, and find our own path-to fame and fortune. We also need to learn more about what other northerners are up to - over there, beyond that next big hill. Some group in White River may very well be trying to invent a wheel that someone else in Blind River tried three years ago, but the group in White River doesn't know there was a design problem when Blind River tried it, and when four of the new wheels were installed, they fell off the wagon. Or, there may very well be someone in Keewatin that has come up with a bright new con- cept in tourism - one that might also make sense in Kirkland Lake, if Kirkland Lake only knew about it. Northerners, let's learn about each other, warts and all. We've made the mistake of bricking our- selves in behind our own town walls, thinking we have to figure out everything on our own, because we've fooled ourselves into thinking we're "remote". We make distance work against us, when it doesn't have to. Geography is our ally, because it defines our distinctiveness from those southerners. But given today's communication technolo- gy, we're anything but "remote" from each other. We only have ourselves to blame for letting a little bit of rock and distance stand in the way. As we learn more about each other, we can come collectively closer to defining what it is we have here. Once we have our- selves in clearer focus, maybe the government bureaucrats and con- sultants responsible for those fancy tourist brochures will have no choice but put northern people in those brochures, too. After all, we're the ones making the north entvat 2¢ se