Unwilling just to sit around and wait for someone to come along and help their families, several local former Cabletron workers decided to do something for themselves.

Tuesday, February 15, 2000

Unwilling just to sit around and wait for someone to come along and help their families, several local former Cabletron workers decided to do something for themselves.

Searching for information about services available to displaced workers, the group members pooled their knowledge and shared the secrets to getting through a layoff with each other.

Now, those workers are offering to help families who have been affected by the recent closure of Intermet-Ironton Iron.

What’s their top priority? It’s sharing information – about unemployment, about budgeting, about never quitting, about focusing on the positive.

The group’s message should not be lost this year as we struggle in the face of job losses and the impending opportunity of a state marketing plan.

Change will come if everyone’s committed to building a better Lawrence County future.

Change will come if everyone does their part together, concentrating on the good points of our community instead of the bad points.

That’s all it takes.

As they have already said, community unity is the key to rebuilding Ironton

And that unity starts within each of us.