While preparing to downsize and move, I found an old environmental folder I had pretty much given up finding. I small environmental group that I co founded along with folks like Poppy Batchelder, Kay Janky, Betty Kaul, Fran Minnick, Harry Vohs in Faribault in 1970 - 71 after the first Earth Day in 1970 . I had presented at the U of M Coffman Union about the dangers of 3, 4, 5 T and what the US was doing putting defoliant on South East Asia. Anyway, Local activist work to educate citizens about ecology and the natural systems. FACE-Q Faribault Area Committee for Environmental Quality...folks eventually ended up founding River Bend Nature Center -- Some of the papers we found :
Labeled "Jefferson" Tom Weaver 1971 being an environment spokesperson for FACE-Q in the fall 1970 through summer of 1971 at Jefferson Elementary School.
Labeled "McKinley" at the Faribault Elementary School, showing a gas mask to support clean air...Tom Weaver a sophomore medical student.
Above -Building on past notoriety as a basketball player the FACE-Q group had a fund raiser Feb 14, 1971 at Faribault Senior High - Below, FACE-Q members Fran Minnick and Harry Vohs at the recycling station south and west of the viaduct where we collected glass to recycle at Brockway Glass in Rosemount as an early awareness project.
Above Program for Fundraising Basketball Game sponsored by FACE-Q Feb 13, 1970 --with participants and volunteer acknowledgements below.
April 22, 1970, Introductory column that I wrote from my dorm room at the U of M - Centennial Hall
Column #2 in April 1970---17 columns in all were published through April 1971.
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