Sandy Landis is John Winnenberg's partner in Sunday Creek Associates, which has helped poor people with housing problems. There is very little credit for inexpensive homes in the $40,000 range. Landis said she had far less interest in computers than many of the others. "I used it for word processing, but I was never interested enough to have my world focused on the screen." A technician from ACEnet taught her on a reconditioned computer, and now she is familiar with email. However, she distrusts the computer for data storage and says she does not have time to worry about that and system crashes erasing valuable information. She seemed to have a carried a lot of information in her head as she described the positive and negative changes in that part of Perry County. "I think there is a growing sense of optimism. There is a new school, water supply, but no public transportation. There is less of a transient populations, and fewer poor people looking for cheap housing. Welfare reform has made people disappear from here. There are no jobs and little access to capital around here." John Winnenberg filled me in on the SPICYAM (The Southern Perry County Youth Arts & Media Center) activities, which are directed by Troy Mellott in nearby Shawnee. As a CSO John stayed apart from the team projects for a while and then got involved. He bought a copy machine that serves five different groups in the area. After cooking up the idea of SPICYAM with Ken Dobo, he watched it catch on with the youth in his town. SPICYAM serves at-risk kids and provides courses in video production and media literacy. ACEnet sponsors their modest web site. John said, "There is a lot of pressure on middle school kids from the street culture in Shawnee which is not that healthy. We are trying to break that cycle." He went on to explain that an activity that may be cool one year (video production) may not be the next. This presents a major challenge to youth workers seeking a balance between program continuity and fresh ideas.