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A morning pancake breakfast opens the event hosted by the Bay Front Chamber of Commerce of Crockett, Hercules and Rodeo.Details: 510-741-7945 or www.bayfrontchamber.com.Gilman district art walkStroll the area around Gilman Street in Berkeley at the neighborhood’s annual Art Walk from noon to 5 p.m. Sept. 24.“The purpose of this event is to revitalize and strengthen the community of the Gilman District and to provide an opportunity for local artists to connect with art lovers.”The event will include music performances, food trucks, open studios and galleries. (East Bay Times)
Creek and then out into surrounding streams and lakes that provide drinking water to communities in the area.“Tar Creek runs through Picher, Cardin, Commerce and then hits Miami before it runs into the Neosho River and on into the Grand Lake,” said Rebecca Jim, an environmental advocate. “I am a member of the Cherokee nation and that lake is my drinking water.”The EPA designated the area as a Superfund site and tried for nearly a decade to clean up contamination after high levels of lead were found in the blood of local children. After several land cave-ins at heavily mined areas, many residents in Picher and several other towns moved out with assistance from the EPA.Jasmine Spearing-Bowen / News21Quapaw tribe Environmental Director Tim Kent holds some of the mining waste that litters the Picher, Okla., area. It contains lead and ot... (Oklahoma Watch)
It’s the Saint Paul Port Authority, of course.For the past 85 years, the Port Authority has overseen commerce on the Mighty Mississippi. Last year, over 6 million tons of commodities were shipped from St. Paul’s four ports. The Port is also responsible for cleaning brownfields and repurposing polluted land, developing 21 business centers, providing loans for energy-efficient capital projects and offering consulting services to Minnesota communities.In addition, the Port Authority has led the recent development of hallmark sporting and entertainment projects such as CHS Field in Lowertown, Treasure Island Center and Tria Rink in Downtown, and Allianz Field with surrounding property in the Midway.Simply put: The Saint Paul Port Authority is the economic development engine of our City.As commissioners, we’ll both miss our twice-a-month meetings with fellow board colleagues and receiving reports from superb Port Authority management and staff. But most of all, we’ll miss the excitement of experiencing, firsthand, the renaissance that is reoccurring in our Saintly City.Thank you, Mayors Randy Kelly and Chris Coleman, for giving a couple of East Siders a chance to be part of an organization that is truly making an impact in our city.It’s been a great ride! Let’s keep it going!Harry Melander and John RegalMelander is president of the Minnesota Building and Construction Trades Council. Regal is a director with Securian Financial Group. Both are former Port Authority chairs and commissioners whose terms expired last month. (TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press)
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Foundation, and a local chapter of the Sierra Club all applauded the county’s efforts, representatives of other organizations such as Valley Industry Commerce Association, BizFed, the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce, and the California Grocers Association spoke out against the idea, saying that there were too many misconceptions about polystyrene.Adena Tessler, a spokeswoman for the California Restaurant Association, asked the board to take into consideration what a proposed ban would mean to small family owned restaurants. “Family restaurants in L.A. County are currently struggling to adjust to the minimum wage hike,” she said, adding that new products out there won’t reduce landfill waste.Anne Nguyen, with the Dart Container Corporation, said the company hires 650 Californians and a ban would threaten employment. The company, she said wants to work to improve its products, but the alternatives to polystyrene can’t be recycled. AdvertisementPolystyrene, some who spoke out noted, is only recyclable if there is no food waste on it. Manhattan Beach Mayor David Lesser said family owned restaurants had adjusted fine and found alternatives when his city adopted a ban in 2013.“Nearly 90 percent of our merchants are in compliance,” David Lesser. “It’s viewed as a success.”Hahn said she wanted the feasibility study to include voices from business owners as well, but she has noticed the plastic waste along the coastal areas of her district.“ I have many beaches in the district I represent,” she said. “A lot of this (polystyrene) ends up in our beaches and threatens are beautiful ecosystems.”County departments are expected to present a feasibility study in 120 days.Kuehl also introduced a motion that members of the Board also passed that looks into whether all new construction, building additions or major roof replacements in the unincorporated areas of the county can use “cool roof” materials to help manage heat that is both absorbed inside the structures and in the atmosphere. The City of Los Angeles passed a similar ordinance in 2014. County departments will return with a report on cool roofs in 120 days. (LA Daily News)
