An Ice Cream Maker’s Latest Recipe: Saving the Local School
By Ian Austen
Like hundreds of small towns in Ontario, Markdale got the bad news from the provincial government last year: Its elementary school would have to close, a victim of cost-cutting.
Then an unlikely savior came through: Chapman’s Ice Cream, a homegrown business that offered two million Canadian dollars to keep the town’s children in the local Beavercrest Community School rather than on buses to other places. If all works out, the offer will protect Markdale, population 1,400, from becoming another victim of rural depopulation — because without an elementary school, a town slowly withers.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/06/w...al-school.html
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