Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Rural Summit Puts Focus On Advances In Key Areas

WASHINGTON In Bob Rogers' school district in Downstate Bluffs,students use computers and satellites to take Japanese, creativewriting and college-level calculus.

With health and supply problems looming, Delbert Mundt inDieterich helped organize a water cooperative to serve parts ofsouth-central Illinois.

These are some of the ways rural communities are trying to keeppace today, and their experiences will be examined Monday inEdwardsville at the Illinois portion of a national rural summit.

Agriculture Secretary Dan. Glickman and Rep. Dick Durbin(D-Ill.) are leading the Illinois conference - one of a series in theMidwest before Tuesday's meeting in Ames, …

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