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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 Great Conjunction
“Justice is calling people to action,”

Rebecca Jim
Feb 183 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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What You Don’t See
"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see." Henry David Thoreau Paul, Stephanie and I walked and knocked and talked...

Rebecca Jim
Feb 5, 20243 min read
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And Then You Win
We are left with questions. What will happen now? And when does NOW begin? What will the new normal be? Two important announcements were...

Rebecca Jim
Jan 23, 20244 min read
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Grandmas’ Letters
Morning came and I went looking for a letter one of my grandmothers had written me. It was easy. There in the closet on the shelf in the...

Rebecca Jim
Jul 24, 20233 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
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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
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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
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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
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I Come Back
Many years ago, my dad experienced a moment that occurred one afternoon in downtown Vinita. Two old Cherokee men were walking toward each...

Rebecca Jim
Mar 26, 20233 min read
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You Have a Right
2/12/2023 Channeling my thoughts with you, from my heart to yours. I am angry that YOU have been disrespected. People who made decisions...

Rebecca Jim
Feb 12, 20233 min read
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We All Dream
Life's most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others? Martin Luther King, Jr. had a dream. I had one too. His...

Rebecca Jim
Jan 19, 20233 min read
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No Body's Story
"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.” ― Charles Dickens Dickens' A Christmas Carol is read on Christmas...

Rebecca Jim
Dec 26, 20223 min read
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Off Duty
Jennifer Little, the gift LEAD Agency got for Christmas arrived early enough to capture the seasons of joy and the stark reality of our...

Rebecca Jim
Dec 11, 20224 min read
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It's Hard
I knew it would be hard. The questions on the Flood Survey need to be answered but the heartache and disgust of what past floods have...

Rebecca Jim
Nov 26, 20223 min read
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Survey Your Moment
What is LEAD Agency doing right now? We are deeply into surveys. The word survey can be both a noun and a verb, since a survey can be a...

Rebecca Jim
Nov 21, 20223 min read
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A Night Out
Red Dirt and Brownfields was not a place but a time. A Geography professor, a filmmaker, an author, a photographer and an activist met...

Rebecca Jim
Nov 21, 20223 min read
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Who Done It?
"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.” ― Maya Angelou This town has...

Rebecca Jim
Nov 21, 20224 min read
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The Bridge
"Action is the bridge between thoughts and reality" ~ Richie Norton I'd like there to be a future. Of course there will be a future,...

Rebecca Jim
Oct 31, 20223 min read
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Wednesday Morning
Together we have thought and pondered. We have tuned up our voices. And practiced believing our lives matter. There have been alignments...

Rebecca Jim
Oct 16, 20224 min read
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