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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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A Sense of Grace
It is a short walk, an historic walk across Harvard Square with the red brick dormitories saved for Freshmen which must each year ground...

Rebecca Jim
May 8, 20223 min read
A Sense of Grace
It is a short walk, an historic walk across Harvard Square with the red brick dormitories saved for Freshmen which must each year ground...

Rebecca Jim
May 8, 20223 min read
Imagine Ottawa County Remade
If you have ever been an educator, you know there is a joy seeing a student discover a thing, own it, claim it and then more deeply know...

Rebecca Jim
Mar 13, 20223 min read
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