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Show norsuillc Toon Pooling planned Town Meetings. Minersville will represent Beaver county in the current plan to offer this program to every county in the state. At the conclusion of the session booklets summarizing summariz-ing the accomplishments and stating ideas offered will be distributed to everyone who is in attendance. Mr. Sally Em -erick, a volunteer with the Town Meeting program, held a meeting this past Tuesday with Mayor Reuben Dotson, Mrs. Connie ChrisMarshall, Mrs.Woods, and Mrs. Karl Truman in attendance to pre -sent the program and to make plans for the Minersville Town Meeting. A Town Meeting will be held in Minersville on Thursday, January 12th, from 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. at Minersville Elementary School. This event will provide pro-vide residents with an opportunity oppor-tunity for getting community problems, needs and ambitions ambi-tions "right out front", for working together on finding solutions, and for planning for the future of the community. Although town meetings are as old as our country, the workshop format of Thursday's Thurs-day's meeting is new. It provides a setting in which all people can be heard, and an opportunity to examine the challenges and put together ideas for community improvement. im-provement. It is most effective ef-fective when all age groups and all interests attend and express their thoughts. The Town Meeting is sponsored spon-sored by the Town Meeting: Utah program in conjunction with local citizens. Town Meeting: Utah was developed by the Institute of Cultural Affairs, a not-for-profit research, training and and demonstration group concerned with getting people involved in their own communities. com-munities. Initiated as a Bicentennial program, Town Meetings have been held in over 2,-000 2,-000 communities across the nation. To date, nearly 20 Utah communities have held |