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yeah. Mm hmm. Yeah, almost repaired retired community up that way. So just a lot of people are just hanging off getting by any way they can and, and the holy spirit. Yeah. And

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I had to get out. Mhm Well to my mind, it's the best of times and the worst of times here because there a lot more people out, a lot of campers, a lot of hikers and this was, I mean a

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lot of people that covered this area for a park and people sort of behave as if it were a park in the summer and in the spring and a lot more cars, a lot more people, a lot more dogs, a lot of motorcycles, a lot more

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police, but at the same time lots more sun, much prettier time to wake up in the morning with birds waking you up and flowers growing in the windows probably when people start coming out here on the bark trains and looking for a place to live. Little

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valleys like this, We're not going to be here anymore. They're going to have, they're gonna have houses in that little valley down there just like they've got walnut trees planted in there now and they're not really making any provision for any open land at all. And

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by the time it's, it's too late. You know, people are going to realize that the very reasons they moved out to suburbia in the first place are gone and so spring finds canyon with many of the same problems that bother the rest of us. The sound

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of jet airliners overhead smog and most of all the relentless pressures of civilization, pushing in from all sides. And if those pressures succeed in driving out barry, smith and some of the other nonconformists, they will have succeeded in making of Canyon what the establishment could not

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a community of conformists, Bill Hillmann, eyewitness News in Canyon.