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Regent Kim Snyder receives roses and a gift card from Vice Regent Linda Fullerton on behalf of the Urbana Chapter for her digital work on the OSDAR State Conference and the upcoming NSDAR Continental Congress in Washington, DC.
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The Urbana Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution met via Zoom on April 19. Regent Snyder called the meeting to order and proceeded with the DAR opening ritual. The Pledge of Allegiance was read by Pat Detwiler, the American’s Creed was read by Becky Shultz and the Star Spangled Banner was read by Janet Ebert. Regent Snyder read the Preamble to the Constitution of the United States of America. Present for the meeting were 14 members and a prospective member.
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POLK COUNTY, Fla. â The leak at the Piney Point phosphogypsum stack in Manatee County has a lot of people asking if it could happen again elsewhere. There are 25 gypsum stacks that exist in Florida.
âThese massive piles of hazardous waste that sit in perpetuity on our landscape. They can be hundreds of acres wide, hundreds of feet tall. And they are made out of phosphogypsum, which is the radioactive waste that is created in making phosphoric acid, which is principally used in fertilizer,â explained Jaclyn Lopez, Florida Director of the Center for Biological Diversity.
San Diego Ambrosia, a perennial herb in the sunflower family
The San Diego County Board of Supervisors postponed a vote that would approve building a warehouse distribution center at Gillespie Field - which Amazon is expected to lease - in order to review the environmental studies.
But environmental advocates say the city of El Cajon has already relocated 23,000 federally endangered San Diego Ambrosia plants from the county-owned land. There s a problem here that we need to get to the bottom of, Frank Landis, Conservation Chair of the California Native Plant Society, told supervisors at the March 3rd meeting. [The Amazon warehouse land] is a non-aviation private land lease on county-owned property associated with Gillespie Field Airport.