KEEPING THE YOUTH

    Perkins County Health Services employ more people than any other organization in the county. It is here that I met with Carol Abduhl, the hospital administrator, Clliff Colglazier, one of the three physicians in town, Janet Lagler the Grant High School media assistant, yearbook advisor, and farm wife. They invited two students who were on the team, Chad Stritt and Megan Bounds. Chad plans to attend a technical institute in Kansas City and is interested in telecommunications. His father John was the lead technical person at the high school and very highly regarded by everyone in the MIRA cluster. Megan is interested in nursing. I ask them what will bring them back to Grant. They look at each other and then at me and say there probably won't be the kind of work in Grant for them to return. However, Dr. Colglazier, who was Megan's mentor during the MIRA project, paints a picture of Megan getting her training and finding a place on his staff in Grant. His father was the town doctor for fifty years, and after medical school Cliff returned to practice. I asked Janet and Cliff what kept them here. Janet replied, "I married a farmer and you can't move a farm. Besides people care about each other here." Cliff added, "It's a progressive community. There are a lot of people who have been here for years who are community minded." He is trying to recruit another physician for the town.


A LOOK BACK AT THE NEBRASKA CLUSTER

  AM Stations

  Anytown USA

  Keeping the Youth

  From Teleradiology to Senior Center Computers

  Youth Orientation

  EIII

  Realistic Expectations

  Forest of Antenna

  Prairie Visions

ONE YEAR EVALUATION

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