A small town is...

Ruapehu Bulletin, Volume 12, Issue 577, 14 March 1995, Page 11

A small town is...

m A small town is where you don' t have to guess who your f enemies are. Your friends tell you. A small town is the only place on earth where people 1 past middle age are called by their first names when they ' saunter down the street. A small town is where everybody knows everybody else's car by sight and also where and when it goes. A small town is when you get the wrong number, you can talk for 15 minutes anyhow if you want to. A small town is where the ratio of good people to bad people is something like 100-1. A small town is where it is hard for anybody to walk to work for exercise becaiise it takes too long to stop and explain to people in cars who stop and toot and offer a ride. A small town is where city folks say there is nothing to do, but those who live there don't have enough nights in the week to make all the meetings and social functions. A small town is where everyone becomes a neighbour in case of need.

A small town is where businessmen struggle for survival against city stores and shopping centres. A small town is where those same businessmen dig deep many times to help with countless fund-raising projects,

like rodeos. A small town is where many teenagers say there' s nothing to do and then are surprised to learn that their big city peers are saying the same thing. A small town, when all is said and done, is a nice place in which to live. A small town knows all the news before it is published. They just get the local newspaper to see if the local paper gets it right!