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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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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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Start with Trees
LEAD’s Community Garden went to sleep for the most part during the Pandemic. We didn’t gather volunteers, no Garden Parties, not a weekly...

Rebecca Jim
Mar 4, 20233 min read
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Designing a Rain Garden
A Rain Garden does NOT require the use of umbrellas! "A rain garden is a landscaped, shallow depression planted with native plants that...

Rebecca Jim
Oct 2, 20224 min read
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The Game
There are lots of comparisons to life itself being a "game." But the greatest example I am aware of is played in our area and was being...

Rebecca Jim
Aug 17, 20223 min read
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Generosity
"Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.”- Albert Camus There is much to be said about the generosity of...

Rebecca Jim
Mar 5, 20223 min read
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