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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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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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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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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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Bales of Hay
Since I became LEAD Agency's Tar Creekkeeper, recognized by the Waterkeeper Alliance for being her best advocate, I have struggled to get...

Rebecca Jim
Jul 24, 20223 min read
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Ground Glass
I recycle my glass. It hasn't been easy since the place in Vinita folded and quit taking any. We have all hoped Red Cedar or the City of...

Rebecca Jim
Jul 17, 20223 min read
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A Real Summer
It has begun. A real summer. Like the ones we remember, those hot and drier days that barely cool even deep in the night. These are the...

Rebecca Jim
Jul 17, 20223 min read
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Exposome
It isn’t a place or a brand new museum. You don’t go there to explore. Perhaps you might think of it as a way to explain us. Who we are,...

Rebecca Jim
Jul 17, 20223 min read
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The POTLUCK Society
“You cannot do kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.” --Ralph Waldo...

Rebecca Jim
Mar 19, 20223 min read
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Chemistry Ducts
“Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it." ― Albert Einstein It is an honor to have the...

Rebecca Jim
Feb 17, 20223 min read
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