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Keeping one of northwest Pennsylvania’s greatest natural assets as pristine as can be relies on cooperation and goodwill from neighboring states and cities as well as Canada. Last week, during a press conference in Erie, Pa., 13 organizations released a blueprint designed to protect the Lake Erie Watershed in Pennsylvania from threats like plastics pollution, climate change, invasive species and surface runoff, among others.
“This Common Agenda is the product of several virtual meetings and multiple emails and phone conversations bringing together a diverse set of voices to identify threats to clean water in the Lake Erie watershed of Pennsylvania,” the study notes. “Partners worked together to determine the impacts of these threats on marginalized communities and to develop solutions that protect water quality while promoting a more equitable and sustainable future for Erie County (Pa.,) residents. Many partner organizations, several additi
Astrid Escobar
Every year, the U.S. Postal Service sponsors an event called Operation Santa where children write letters to Santa asking for things. Many get returned to the return address label so parents can fulfill their child’s desire.
However, there’s several that don’t. Those letters instead get forwarded to the Operation Santa organization where they are uploaded to a website for people around America to adopt.
One coach at the State University of New York at Fredonia, Astrid Escobar, got caught up in reading some of the devastating letters of last year and decided she wanted to help. Pairing up with marketing junior Melena DeBoe, whom she helped with getting an absentee ballot this year, the two started working on this project.
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Sunsets like these, captured by Ryan Champlin of Fredonia, could look different in turbines are able to land in Lake Erie waters.
Keeping Dunkirk and Western New York’s greatest natural asset as pristine as can be relies on cooperation and goodwill from neighboring states and cities as well as Canada. Last week, during a press conference in Erie, Pa., 13 organizations released a blueprint designed to protect the Lake Erie Watershed in Pennsylvania from threats like plastics pollution, climate change, invasive species and surface runoff, among others.
“This Common Agenda is the product of several virtual meetings and multiple emails and phone conversations bringing together a diverse set of voices to identify threats to clean water in the Lake Erie watershed of Pennsylvania,” the study notes. “Partners worked together to determine the impacts of these threats on marginalized communities and to develop solutions that protect water quality whil