August 2002
Challenges Face Rural
Volunteer Firefighters
Volunteer firefighters comprise 73 percent
of all US firefighters, which make them a key component in fighting
the two million fires reported each year in the US. With
an increase in fire department calls, volunteer personnel
are being forced to do more with less.
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Abandoned Gas Stations
Can Pump Local Economy
Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield had the scoop on
brownfields back in 1978 when they renovated a Vermont
gas station into an ice cream shop.
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Natural Disasters:
Can The Economy Weather
the Storm?
In early June 2002, Agriculture
Secretary Ann Veneman declared 32 counties in
Nebraska agricultural disasters. Because of high
winds, frost, hail, drought and unseasonably cold
spring temperatures over the past year, farmers
in these counties are eligible for emergency loans.
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Nevada District Produces
Profitable Results
Read the Digest interview with
Mary Lou Bentley,Executive Director of the Western Nevada
Development District.
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Can Renewable Energy
Energize Local Economies?
Rural areas are constantly searching
for economic development options that bring in jobs and
revenues and minimize the strain on the environment.
Renewable energy technologies can be an option.
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