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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
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
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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It will Kill You
Sometimes people say, “It will kill you,” and, hey, it doesn’t, won’t, hasn’t, so we tend to downplay the warning. I have been guilty of...
Rebecca Jim
Jul 5, 20233 min read
Something’s Wrong
Those words woke me at 4 this morning. I rose to find nothing wrong. The clarity of the voice bridged the chasm of the place between...
Rebecca Jim
Jun 29, 20233 min read
Flooded by Memories
I want to swim in Tar Creek ~ I want to fish in Tar Creek ~ I want to play in Tar Creek ~ Maybe someday Tar Creek is my creek ~~ EPA...
Rebecca Jim
Jun 5, 20233 min read
Another Big Week
I like to say it starts with water. But actually, it started in New Jersey. NEW JERSEY? Yes, the Picher Project was going to be...
Rebecca Jim
May 24, 20233 min read
I Drove Home
I drove home facing the sun again. All these years coming and going to work the Sun greets me each day and leads me home again. Tonight,...
Rebecca Jim
May 24, 20233 min read
I deferred
The image in my head is of the me standing up midst and among the rows of Waterkeepers and yelling the words that 20 years ago Earl...
Rebecca Jim
May 4, 20234 min read
Someone Cared
After all these years, the effort has worked. The Miami Police Department got the call, and they turned on their lights and approached...
Rebecca Jim
Apr 25, 20233 min read
Table Talk
The dining table Tony Booth donated to LEAD Agency has been with us since we moved into the ROCK House and later when we brought it to...
Rebecca Jim
Apr 25, 20233 min read
Start Dreaming
Without a dream, with no hope, with no plan for change, we will have no change. Billy Mills, began his Dreamstarter program on the 50th...
Rebecca Jim
Apr 5, 20233 min read
Actively Speaking
As an environmental activist, my life has focus on air, water and soil. Each are gifts from the Creator. All elements we need for...
Rebecca Jim
Jun 26, 20223 min read
Words
Not everyone can put together a book of poetry about a place. It takes time and relationships with the land, the water, the individuals...
Rebecca Jim
Apr 15, 20223 min read
Your Story
You, your words, your life experiences and your unique view of the place where you live are and have always mattered, but have too seldom...
Rebecca Jim
Apr 6, 20223 min read
Droning Good
Visiting scholars spent a couple of nights at LEAD Agency lately, both professors at the University of the Pacific, who were here for the...
Rebecca Jim
Jan 19, 20223 min read
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