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     instance, is something fishermen and farmers should be 
     
     able to do, and for a number of years, welding was one 
     
     of the most popular courses at Holland College, West 
     
     Prince Branch. Unfortunately, budget cuts considerably 
     
     reduced the variety of courses available today. On the other 
     
     hand, Holland College now offers several upgrading courses 
     
     for all ages in Tignish itself, and they seem well attended. 
     
    
   
   
    
     The story of the founding of Tignish Community 
     
     School has been told in the previous chapter. It too was 
     
     supported at this time by the Development Plan via the 
     
    
   
   
    
     Rural Development Council. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     One of the most useful and lasting projects of the 
     
     Development Plan was the setting up of Regional Service 
     
     Centres in several parts of the province. These were, in 
     
     effect, branch offices of various government departments 
     
     and services, whose new locations made them much more 
     
     accessible to the people of the area. In West Prince, the 
     
     Regional Services Centre was located in O’Leary. This was 
     
     still some distance from Tignish, being about twenty miles 
     
     to the southeast, but it was very much closer than 
     
     Charlottetown. It does not seem to have affected Ti gnish's 
     
     independence for the worse, but rather to have helped its 
     
     survival by providing a variety of useful services, such 
     
     as ”fieldmen" who would travel anywhere within the 
     
     area. The usefulness of the Services Centre was increased 
     
     in the early eighties when O’Leary ceased to be a long— 
     
     distance phone call away from Tignish. 
     
    
   
   
    
     In the eighties, the organized Acadians of Tignish 
     
     - that is, those who worked actively for an improvement