Public speaking
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My little man stood up tonight at a public meeting about the EPA's
proposal to clean up our contaminated river, and spoke from his heart.
After hearing ranchers and other land owners for and against the plan and
after listening to representatives from Atlantic Richfield and the Clark
Fork River Coalition, he stood up and said, (I wrote it down) This has
been a problem for 100 years. It's time to clean it up. I know it will
be an inconvenience to some of the ranchers, but we are not the last ones
who will live on this river. It's time to clean it up." I thought I was
going to cry, so I just bit my lip hard and wrote what he said in my
notebook, like I'd written all the other comments and blinked and blinked
away the tears. I'm such a moron.
He said after the meeting he was so hungry up there he almost said he
knew it would be a cookie for some of the ranchers ( they had cookies and
coffee on the back table) and how glad he was he hadn't said that.
He stayed and talked to the local EPA director after and asked questions
and was interviewed by a woman from the news paper and got to meet some
of the people from the Clark Fork River Coalition, who thanked him for
speaking out on behalf of the river. The local fish and wildlife
biologist was there and told him to come see him sometime and they'd talk
about making healthy river habitat for fish and other little critters.
When I asked if he'd like to stay longer he informed me that he had to
pee and the Simpsons were on and could we go home and get something to
eat.
Just the life of a ten year old.
Deb L
proposal to clean up our contaminated river, and spoke from his heart.
After hearing ranchers and other land owners for and against the plan and
after listening to representatives from Atlantic Richfield and the Clark
Fork River Coalition, he stood up and said, (I wrote it down) This has
been a problem for 100 years. It's time to clean it up. I know it will
be an inconvenience to some of the ranchers, but we are not the last ones
who will live on this river. It's time to clean it up." I thought I was
going to cry, so I just bit my lip hard and wrote what he said in my
notebook, like I'd written all the other comments and blinked and blinked
away the tears. I'm such a moron.
He said after the meeting he was so hungry up there he almost said he
knew it would be a cookie for some of the ranchers ( they had cookies and
coffee on the back table) and how glad he was he hadn't said that.
He stayed and talked to the local EPA director after and asked questions
and was interviewed by a woman from the news paper and got to meet some
of the people from the Clark Fork River Coalition, who thanked him for
speaking out on behalf of the river. The local fish and wildlife
biologist was there and told him to come see him sometime and they'd talk
about making healthy river habitat for fish and other little critters.
When I asked if he'd like to stay longer he informed me that he had to
pee and the Simpsons were on and could we go home and get something to
eat.
Just the life of a ten year old.
Deb L
Jocelyn Vilter
Deb,
I hope you're saving these posts somewhere for Dylan. He's going to love
reading them someday, and so will whoever is lucky enough to have him for a
spouse.
Jocelyn Vilter
I hope you're saving these posts somewhere for Dylan. He's going to love
reading them someday, and so will whoever is lucky enough to have him for a
spouse.
Jocelyn Vilter
> From: ddzimlew@...<snip>
> Reply-To: [email protected]
> Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 22:03:20 -0600
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [AlwaysLearning] Public speaking
>
> My little man stood up tonight at a public meeting about the EPA's
> proposal to clean up our contaminated river, and spoke from his heart.
> When I asked if he'd like to stay longer he informed me that he had to
> pee and the Simpsons were on and could we go home and get something to
> eat.
>
> Just the life of a ten year old.
>
> Deb L
[email protected]
> I hope you're saving these posts somewhere for Dylan. He's going toThank you Jocelyn, that's a nice idea. I hadn't thought of saving them,
> love
> reading them someday, and so will whoever is lucky enough to have
> him for a
> spouse.
but I did save the Poop movie titles and Star Wars Pants and now he's
saying very seriously "I find your lack of pants disturbing", every time
I wear a skirt. Perhaps it's time to shave the ol' legs, eh?
Deb L
[email protected]
In a message dated 9/18/02 1:25:15 AM Central Daylight Time,
[email protected] writes:
<< This has
been a problem for 100 years. It's time to clean it up. I know it will
be an inconvenience to some of the ranchers, but we are not the last ones
who will live on this river. It's time to clean it up." >>
Spot on Dylan!!!!!
Ren
[email protected] writes:
<< This has
been a problem for 100 years. It's time to clean it up. I know it will
be an inconvenience to some of the ranchers, but we are not the last ones
who will live on this river. It's time to clean it up." >>
Spot on Dylan!!!!!
Ren