Thank you, Friends!! Almost 200 of you came to our first public Friends of Lackawanna meeting last night to learn more about the proposed landfill expansion and find out how you can help
our efforts to stop it. We are moved and touched by
your motivating words of encouragement and support. It was an
inspiring night all around. It is clear that together we are making a
difference for our community! Thank you!
Times-Tribune, Scranton, PA
February, 13, 2015
Kyle Wind, Staff Writer
Excerpts
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It all started with a $10 bill.
On a fall night, a man pulled the cash out of his wallet and donated it
to a group that just told Dunmore Borough Council it created an
organization to fight Keystone Sanitary Landfill’s proposed expansion.
“That was our first donation, and it started us on this whirlwind trip
that we continue to take every day,” Dunmore resident Katharine Spanish
told a throng of about 150 people who came to the same room at the
Dunmore Community Center Thursday for a public meeting called by Friends
of Lackawanna.
The standing-room-only meeting was the
culmination of several months of grassroots organizing that core members
of Friends of Lackawanna ramped up over the last several weeks.
The group encouraged hundreds of people to send letters to the state
Department of Environment Protection to air concerns about the
expansion’s proposed size and fears about harms the environment, public
health and the region’s image.
http://thetimes-tribune.com/news/friends-of-lackawanna-increasingly-organized-in-opposition-to-landfill-expansion-1.1832483
