Lead Affinity Group News Today

The Lead Affinity Group will be conducting community presentations this fall to raise awareness and education.

The alarm bells went off with this 2016 headline: “South Bend neighborhood has a higher rate of lead poisoning than Flint.” Lead is a toxic, human-produced metal that can be found in soil, paint, dust, water and, as the headline indicates, children, who can be exposed to this environmental hazard. Lead poisoning takes a terrible toll on people and communities, and “once exposed, never the same,” as the neurological and health impacts can be permanent. Yet, just as lead was p...