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Meet Don Ackerman
Don Ackerman is a legend in Ottawa County, OK and you haven’t known it. What he did has cost EPA millions of dollars and will cost even more in the decades to come. Those dollars all spent to protect our children from lead poisoning. The lead was found in school yards, parks and residential front and backyards, all being dug up and removed and replaced with clean lead-free soil. Don put this action into motion. We will be forever grateful and will continue to tell this story
Rebecca Jim
Apr 294 min read
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What Could Have Been
Random. I attended the Wild and Scenic Film Festival this weekend that was held at the Circle
Cinema in Tulsa, OK. After hauling bags packed with LEAD Agency schmuck in from the rain I
quickly began laying information out on the last available table. Handouts, flyers, a box of PINS,
newsletters and the print we are selling chances on for Gary & Kimie Calcagno who lost their
home in Stillwater to the fire recently. The first person to stop as I was laying things out looked
Rebecca Jim
Apr 213 min read
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Leaders Standing for Justice
All these years later, we are still waiting for it, for the cleanup you all deserve. The environment waits. The water waits...
Rebecca Jim
Apr 83 min read
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Meet Don Ackerman
Don Ackerman is a legend in Ottawa County, OK and you haven’t known it. What he did has cost EPA millions of dollars and will cost even more in the decades to come. Those dollars all spent to protect our children from lead poisoning. The lead was found in school yards, parks and residential front and backyards, all being dug up and removed and replaced with clean lead-free soil. Don put this action into motion. We will be forever grateful and will continue to tell this story
Rebecca Jim
Apr 294 min read
1
What Could Have Been
Random. I attended the Wild and Scenic Film Festival this weekend that was held at the Circle
Cinema in Tulsa, OK. After hauling bags packed with LEAD Agency schmuck in from the rain I
quickly began laying information out on the last available table. Handouts, flyers, a box of PINS,
newsletters and the print we are selling chances on for Gary & Kimie Calcagno who lost their
home in Stillwater to the fire recently. The first person to stop as I was laying things out looked
Rebecca Jim
Apr 213 min read
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Leaders Standing for Justice
All these years later, we are still waiting for it, for the cleanup you all deserve. The environment waits. The water waits...
Rebecca Jim
Apr 83 min read
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I'm Driving for Real
I grew up in west Texas. In a city where it took 6 driving hours to get to El Paso, 6 hours to Dallas. There in between those two large...
Rebecca Jim
Apr 13 min read
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The Great Conjunction
“Justice is calling people to action,”
Rebecca Jim
Feb 183 min read
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Having Humility
My parents made some life-long friends on a bus trip back to the Cherokee Homelands in the 1970’s. The trip took the group to see some of...
Rebecca Jim
Feb 63 min read
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You Did It
Let’s use your new found skills and ask DEQ to demand a public meeting on the efforts to protect us from the toxins that have been lying ben
Rebecca Jim
Jan 273 min read
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A Cold January Day
Carter will be remembered that he waged peace not war. And that he added solar panels to the White House and wore a sweater if the...
Rebecca Jim
Jan 123 min read
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My friend, too
The magic Jill created, I bet she did it for you, and I would imagine we will be telling “Jill” stories for years to come.
Rebecca Jim
Dec 27, 20244 min read
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Wood for the fire
We always heard that wood warms you 3 times, to cut it, stack it and then to finally burn it
Rebecca Jim
Dec 16, 20243 min read
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Matt Black Came
We will have all felt his intentions both visually as well as spiritually are true. His photographs stem from the enduring legacy of the Gre
Rebecca Jim
Dec 2, 20243 min read
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The Importance of Food
Our Community Garden went to sleep this year. LEAD Agency has had a garden in that spot ever since Scott Kreeger bought the property and...
Rebecca Jim
Nov 19, 20243 min read
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Boarding School Drop Out
Myself I am the product of a boarding school experience. What happened there put me on the road to become a school counselor.
Rebecca Jim
Nov 4, 20244 min read
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You Can’t Go Home Again
You can too go home again and when you get there you will be welcomed and will be asked if you would like to Go to water . Cherokees, l...
Rebecca Jim
Sep 23, 20243 min read
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Numbers Add Up
Thirty-five youth, 5 from 7 different tribes, tribes that claim harm from the success profitable mining brought to companies that gouged...
Rebecca Jim
Jun 17, 20243 min read
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Through the Bump Gate
A ”bump gate” is a drive-through gate used in rural areas to provide a barrier to livestock but does not require the driver to exit the...
Rebecca Jim
Jun 11, 20243 min read
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Dream – Dream - Dream
The year All I have to Do is Dream, the song by the Everly Brothers came out I was 9 years old and attending 4th grade at College...
Rebecca Jim
Jun 4, 20242 min read
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Clear Your Throat
Most creeks and rivers in the country have been exploited, used for profit, dammed for recreation or flood control and yet people claim...
Rebecca Jim
May 15, 20243 min read
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This Little Tick of Mine
The Black Angus cattle with the yellow ear tags have been looking at me. The image is of one of Louise Arnold’s oil paintings entitled...
Rebecca Jim
Apr 12, 20243 min read
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What if it Mattered?
I have been so very proud of your actions to write to FERC and let them know how you feel and tell them YOU DO NOT want to FLOOD! Your...
Rebecca Jim
Apr 9, 20243 min read
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