NIPIGON, Ont. (CP) - Residents of this picturesque paper mill town on the north shore of Lake Superior fondly recall a time when they had their choice of eight taxi drivers, four main street hotels and three grocery stores.
Now there's just one of each, all of them struggling to stay afloat as the town's young people leave in search of work and its elders retire from a workforce whittled to nothing by steep job losses.
But locals think they can reverse the trend - and their secret weapon is a 65-year-old children's book called "Paddle to the Sea."
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/23092006/2/national-sleepy-ontario-town-bets-future-park-based-kid-s.html
Posted by Dave at September 25, 2006 11:27 AM