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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
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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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Boarding School Drop Out
Myself I am the product of a boarding school experience. What happened there put me on the road to become a school counselor.

Rebecca Jim
Nov 4, 20244 min read
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Bearing Witness
During the summer of 1964 Freedom Riders trained at Western University, which is now the white bricked portion of Miami University. It...

Rebecca Jim
Mar 5, 20244 min read
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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
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I Didn't Know To Ask
Monday morning brought me the opportunity to spend time with a group of women who spoke a language I had never heard spoken before that...

Rebecca Jim
Sep 25, 20223 min read
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Be Brave
In the privacy of your car there is a thing you can do. Drive down Main Street, like usual, but when you are alone in your car, slow down,...

Rebecca Jim
Aug 21, 20224 min read
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