I’ve sat in many a meeting over the past few years and heard the old, familiar lament. “There’s just no young people coming back to the farm/ranch/small town. Through my involvement with Colorado Farm Bureau, we’ve been working hard to put to gether a social outlet for young people interested in agriculture in our area. We set a date for our Supper Club shindig-Oct. 29 in Hugo at 6 p.m. at the fairgrounds. We’ll have food, babysitters and beer. It’s sure to be a good time.
I felt rather smug when I headed to the post office with 80 invitations this week. 80! Eighty young people, most from Lincoln County and all involved in agriculture! That’s huge.
I’m looking forward to having good news for the folks at future meetings who complain about the disapperaing young people. We’re here! You just can’t see us from the road.
October 20, 2011
Rachel Vermillion
2 responses to “Young people way out here”
JPlovesCOTTON
October 20th, 2011 at 17:22
I am sure you guys will have an awesome time! Wish I could be there.
tammythornton
January 3rd, 2012 at 18:07
Loooove the comment “We’re here you just can’t see us from the road.” I used to tell that to people when I waited tables at Punkin Center. They would stop stressed because they had just driven from Kit Carson and we were the first building that they had seen. One man put it so nicely “All we’ve seen since someplace called Wildhorse was an Antelope and even he looked lonely.” I told him if we wanted people to find us we wouldn’t choose to live out here.
Of course then we moved to Nevada and on our weekend (Monday and Tuesday I believe) we would go for drives out in the countryside, the Northeast corner of Nevada and even that part of Utah makes Lincoln County look almost urban.