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| | Prairie towns die slowly in Canada |
 | | LAURA, Saskatchewan, October 26, 2003 -- CropChoice news --Washington Post 10/25/03: The town of Laura used to have a grain elevator, a bank, an elementary school, a livery barn, streetlights and sidewalks. |
 | | All along the highways of Saskatchewan, abandoned buildings lean against the prairie wind, which blows through the cracked windows of houses deserted by families who traded them for a few thousand dollars or for the cars in which they drove away. |
 | | In July, the population of Saskatchewan was 994,843, a drop from 1,134,000 the year before. |
| www.newfarm.org /international/gleanings/2003/october/prairie_towns_die.shtml (1173 words) |
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