The Real Resource

From the Bridgetown Reader ( February 28th.) Page 9. ‘Letter to Warden and Council of the Municipality of Annapolis County’ from Nina Newington.

“Minister of Municipal Affairs, John Lohr recently sent a letter to all Wardens and Mayors ‘asking for you and your council to signal your support for greater resource development within our province by letter or press release.

This is a peculiar request.”

I agree with Nina. The real resources of Annapolis County are its citizens. We should be proud of our history, our relationship to the landscape, our educational programs.

Why do you think world class technology companies from California come to Lawrencetown to recruit new employees ?

Why do you think provinces with responsibility for the management of their landscape and natural resources come to recruit the next generation of employees ?

Why have other countries developed educational programs that follow the COGS model ?

The reason citizens move to rural Nova Scotia (including Annapolis County) is because of an appreciation of the creative opportunities for writers, thinkers, artists etc. This combined with access to the technologies of Geomatics, Remote Sensing and other landscape monitoring technologies is GOLD.

Let us not lose sight of the opportunity.

With three levels of government: federal, provincial, municipal it is far too easy to become entrapped in the bureaucratic process, at the expense of creative thinking.

Acknowledgements

Edward remains in Florida, with limited access to his home computer environment.