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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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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


Matt Black Came
We will have all felt his intentions both visually as well as spiritually are true. His photographs stem from the enduring legacy of the Gre

Rebecca Jim
Dec 2, 20243 min read


Numbers Add Up
Thirty-five youth, 5 from 7 different tribes, tribes that claim harm from the success profitable mining brought to companies that gouged...

Rebecca Jim
Jun 17, 20243 min read


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


Eye Opening Report
Karman King began by going over the highlights of her resume, from being the aquatic toxicologist during the Exxon Valdez spill to her 35...

Rebecca Jim
Jan 5, 20243 min read


Summing up the Summit
EPA’s Region 6 2-Day Environmental Justice Summit was held by zoom and I was invited to present during the first afternoon session. All...

Rebecca Jim
Nov 24, 20233 min read


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
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
Home Grown
We raise our own. Tar Creek has been part of Nick Shepherd's life since before he could legally drive a car. He competed in high school...

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


Refugee
We have our own well known refugee and she is actually connected to two World Wars. The lead and zinc mined out just north of us we all...

Rebecca Jim
Apr 27, 20224 min read
The Last Tour
This week I got to show the wounds, the color of blood oozing out of the ground on each side of the road, streaming along the ditches,...

Rebecca Jim
Mar 5, 20224 min read
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