The board wants the information so it can call for testing for any toxic materials that could migrate underground from the FMC property to school buildings.

The School Superintendent said the district needs the information to press the government and to ensure the safety of students.

The School Board last week approved hiring Dr. Rosalie Bertell to interpret all test findings.

How right you are Anon.! My friend Marion from IICPH in Toronto sent this along--Take a look at their Web site, Rosalie Bertell's info and that of Dr. Janette D. Sherman, MD.

"I think this is one of the best articles Suzanne Elston has written."  Marion

Hunter the Hero

by: Suzanne Elston

We've lost another one. Taken by an enemy we cannot see, at least not
face-to-face. This latest one was special in a way that many of us can only
imagine.  His name was Bob Hunter  eco-warrior extraordinaire, fellow
journalist and really nice guy.

In the week or two since Bob's death, there have been many stories about
his
life. About how he founded Greenpeace, changed how we view our relationship
with the planet. He re-defined activism, became an important author and
broadcaster. Despite all this, one of the things that I remember most about
Bob is that he never felt that he had done enough.

Sometimes when I'd get frustrated that a particular issue wasn¹t getting
enough media attention, I'd call Bob and say, "Hunter, you need to write
something about this!"

"You're right, you're right," he'd apologize. "I'll get on it right away."
And he would. Maybe not as quickly as I would have liked, but when he did,
he did it with such journalistic flair and passion that people listened.

Bob was an everyman. The Peter Gzowski of the eco-set. He was the guy next
door; the man who analyzed the news in his housecoat on television, and
made
you laugh along with him at the stupidity of life, politicians and
corporate
power.

It doesn¹t seem right somehow that the enemy he railed against for so much
of his life should strip Bob of his life. And yet the World Health
Organization estimates that at least 80 percent of all cancers are
environmentally related, so it's a pretty safe bet that Bob's death from
prostate cancer was connected, somehow, to the polluted world he fought so
hard to clean up.

Bob wasn't the first one, nor will he be the last. Rachel Carson, author of
the landmark book, "Silent Spring," and mother of the modern environmental
movement, died of breast cancer. Bella Abzug, feminist, cancer activist and
lady who liked to wear really big hats, was also taken by breast cancer. It
was Bella who said, "The fact is that Mother Earth is sick, and it's up to
each of us to get her well." I hear ya, Bella, but that's pretty hard to do
when the front line troops are dropping from cancer.

We're tired. We¹re tired of losing Bob Hunters. Tired of hearing that,
"Cancer can be beaten." We don't want to fight anymore; we want to end the
war. We don¹t want to defeat the enemy; but prevent the enemy from taking
up
arms in the first place. We have a pretty good handle on the major sources
of the stuff that's turning our cells against us, mutating into ravaging
internal hoards until, in the ultimate act of stupidity, they consume us
and
in the process kill themselves off.

That's a dumb enemy. Dumber still is that we continue to blame the victims
of this disease for their own demise. When someone is diagnosed with
cancer,
we immediately look to their lifestyle choices to establish blame, as if
they didn't have enough to worry about. Did they/do they smoke? Did they
eat
a lot of processed foods? Were they overweight? Did they work in the wrong
factory, live on the wrong side of the effluent pipe? Did they breastfeed?
Have children? Swim in the shallow end of the gene pool? As author Sandra
Steingraber wrote after so many of her own family members contracted
cancer,
"Cancer did not run in my family. It ran in my environment."

Which brings me nicely to a group of women who are doing something about
this whole cancer prevention thing. They are running to raise money, not
for
cancer treatment, but for the primary prevention of cancer. This isn't
another cancer run, where people wear nice little pink ribbons and drug
companies see millions of dollars being poured (again) into making more
drugs to fight cancer. This run, "The Second Annual Run, Walk & Roll for
Cancer Prevention", will put money toward finding out what's killing us in
the first place. Given that less than 5 percent of cancer research dollars
currently go to prevention, this run is an idea whose time has finally
come.
I think Hunter would have approved.

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Now, my note--How crazy is it for the American Cancer Society to hold the 'Relay for Life,' on the track behind school grounds where there is recorded radioactive measurements that are scientifically known to be disease causing? (8,000 CPM - 40,000 Gamma)-(See NAS, BEIRVII, EPA Reports, other) There is No Safe Exposure to Radiation, all science now says--but yet they have that event behind the school....?

That's right Anon. Should be all for only testing roofing tiles and sneakers. Much better science. Any negative post in this thread, considering the subject, is pretty creepy. Didn't you just recently run for an anonymous school board seat too? What sort of "results" would you be happiest with? None?

My standing grows with every one of these posts. Your's help to do this. Thank you.

Once again I thank the anonymous poster for pointing out the double entendre possibilities in the use of various languages.    Auteur Theory   THANK YOU for the compliment and may I light your cigar J,H,? -- Auteur is the French word for "author," but the word sounds a lot fancier if you put it ...www.selu.edu/kslu/auteurtheory.html

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