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Newspaper
Chetwynd The Echo
Location
Chetwynd, British Columbia, Canada
Date
May 21, 1990
Page
3
A poem recalls a British Columbia logger family from 1932 to modern times. A father and son work the forests from donkeys to power saws, with the elder passing the torch to the younger. The verse honors decades of hard labor, skill, and the eventual rest of the master logger.
Illiteracy seen as a major global issue with UN declaring 1990 International Literacy Year to push toward full literacy by 2000. In 1985 about 889 million adults 15+ were illiterate, 27.7 percent of world total, Asia 75 percent of illiteracy, Africa 18 percent.
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