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******* Please distribute widely ************ People's Health Commission - Sydney Tar Ponds Video, Talk, Silent Auction, Dinner and Workshop FASS Building, Dalhousie University, 3343 University Ave. Bruno Marchocchio, Mary Ruth MacLellan and others Sunday April 14th 3:00 pm - 8:00 pm The People's Health Commission is an effort to answer fundamental questions that no level of government has been willing to ask - questions such as - "What is the state of health of those people living closest to the Sydney Tar Ponds and the Coke Ovens site in the Muggah Creek Watershed?" To answer these questions the People’s Health Commission will be conducting a community health survey which aims to see how diseases and illnesses might be caused by local pollution, hazardous waste sites and other types of chemical contamination. Please come to this afternoon event to learn more about the Tar Ponds, the Health of Sydney residents and the People's Health Commission. There will also be the oppertunity to learn more about the Community Health Survey so that you are ready to help out with the survey this summer in Sydney. Dinner will be provided and there will also be a silent auction with exciting items up for the bidding. (All proceeds to the People's Health Commission.) Agenda: 3-5 pm Promoting Health in Sydney Video ‘Toxic Partners’, Bruno Marcocchio, Mary Ruth MacLellan and others. 3-6:45 pm Silent Auction 5-6 pm Dinner Free yummy local organic food. 6-8 pm Volunteer Training Want to help out with the People’s Health Commission Survey? Please come to this Volunteer Training Session. For more info: http://www.bethechange.ca/healthcommission jaangus@is2.dal.ca -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- SUST-MAR TIP: tell your friends how to join sust-mar! To join, just send "subscribe sust-mar" to majordomo@chebucto.ca CBC enviro news-briefs follow: -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- PROMINENT N.S. AUTHORS CALL FOR ARTS COUNCIL RETURN Writers George Elliott Clarke and Alistair MacLeod are among the latest artists to speak out, asking the Hamm government to restore the Nova Scotia Arts Council. FULL STORY http://novascotia.cbc.ca/template/servlet/View?filename=ns_arts020410 ODD ODOUR CLOSED NEW ROSS SCHOOL A school in New Ross is closed Wednesday after a strange smell was discovered on the second floor of the building. FULL STORY http://novascotia.cbc.ca/template/servlet/View?filename=ns_newross020410 SEWAGE PLAN VIOLATES HUMAN RIGHTS, SAYS GROUP More than 80 people packed into Halifax Regional Council's chambers Tuesday night, to protest a plan for a sewage treatment plant in the north end of the city. FULL STORY http://novascotia.cbc.ca/template/servlet/View?filename=ns_sewage020410 Copyright Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
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