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2011 Showdown on the Yellow Dog Plains Part 3: From the mouths of children, inspirational montage YOOPERNEWSMAN 336 views Often it is the children who ask the most important questions (Marquette, MI) - Opponents of Kennecott Minerals and their subsidiaries have teamed with a legend in the bat...
2011 Showdown on the Yellow Dog Plains Part 2: Putting Mich. Lawmakers, Kennecott, Media on notice YOOPERNEWSMAN 143 views Opponents of sulfide "acid" mining in Michigan's Upper Peninsula held strategy meetings in mid-February to galvanize their single ideal: There is no place for destructive s...
2011 Showdown on the Yellow Dog Plains Part 1: Sulfide mining battle continues in U.P. of Michigan YOOPERNEWSMAN 423 views 2011 Showdown on the Yellow Dog Plains - The Fight Continues - Now is the Time to Stop Sulfide Mining Opponents of sulfide "acid" mining in Michigan's Upper Peninsula held...
Listen to Air Force One pilots, Sawyer controllers during President Obama's 2011 Marquette, MI trip YOOPERNEWSMAN 1,884 views Here's something you haven't heard from President Obama's visit to Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Listen to Air Force One pilots talk to air traffic controllers including at S...
Foxy Foxhound Flies: Cheeno Leaps Over Blizzard 2010 in northern Michigan YOOPERNEWSMAN 159 views Cheeno, our foxy foxhound, enjoyed himself during Blizzard 2010 in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. As two feet of snow fell in Negaunee, Michigan and 20-foot waves flew on L...
Blizzard 2010: Cheeno the Foxhound vs.Snowstorm in Michigan's Upper Peninsula YOOPERNEWSMAN 207 views On Sunday, December 12, 20120, a blizzard continued to rage after already dumping two feet on snow in Negaunee, Michigan. But that didn't deter Cheeno the Foxhound. We ad...
Shame: Administrators of Marquette Senior High School block talk involving danger of sulfide mines YOOPERNEWSMAN 539 views Marquette Senior High school administrators demanded that visiting environmental legend not talk about sulfide mining in the Upper Peninsula during talk with students, so L...
Love Canal Warrior Lois Gibbs: Michigan Sulfide Mines may pollute Lake Superior, leave moonscape YOOPERNEWSMAN 438 views "Mother of the Superfund" Lois Gibbs compared the Upper Peninsula future to infamous Love Canal disaster, during an Oct. 15, 2010 talk at Northern Michigan University (NMU)...
U.S. Forest Service & Zaagkii Project 2010: Keweenaw Bay Indian Community Native Plants Greenhouse YOOPERNEWSMAN 363 views Pollinator Protection and Native Plants Propagation thrived in 2010 thanks to the United States Forest Service, the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community (KBIC) and the Cedar Tree ...
June 3, 2010 Rally Michigan Capitol: Protest Ojibwa arrests at Eagle Rock by Kennecott Minerals YOOPERNEWSMAN 3,514 views Attend June 3, 2010 Stand for the Land Rally at Michigan Capitol to protest Ojibwa arrests, destruction of Yellow Dog Plains by Kennecott Minerals sulfide mine To protes...

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I'm a news reporter, writer and investigative journalist specializing in street news, plus Indigenous, civil rights and environment reporting.
From April-June 2009, promoted EarthKeeper Tree Project that planted 12,000 trees across northern Michigan.
Co-edited "Unafraid," second book by Author Joy Ibsen of Trout Creek, MI printed May 2009 based on her father's handwritten sermons she found in shoebox.
Zaagkii Project began its third & final summer in June 2010 by building solar-powered native plants greenhouse at KBIC.
Edited videos for nonprofit Celtic Christianity Today.
Began career 35 years ago as teenager in Augusta, GA after moving south during middle of high school.
I was co-coordinator of the 1986 original James Brown Appreciation Day in Augusta, GA, where the Godfather of Soul was always trashed by local media who didn't report anything positive about the music icon.
Mr. Terence Dicks was the other co-coordinator and most recently served as chair of the Augusta Human Relations Commission and serves on the Georgia Clients Council.
Mr. Brown taught us to "fight the good fight" by battling all forms of racism and evil while not uttering a bad word about those who try to block justice, respect, fairness and kindness to all.
As a child, I lived in the Harbert, Michigan home built by late poet Carl Sandburg, where the legendary author penned some of his greatest works including his Chicago works and Lincoln papers.
The four-story home had a sundeck on the top and a cool walk-in safe in the basement.
The neighborhood (Birchwood) has numerous cottages used for other purposes by Sandburg like the milk house where they milked goats.
My parents remodeled fourth floor of the home that stands atop the Lake Michigan sand dunes/bluffs.
They found items that belonged to Mr. Sandburg concealed in the walls including prescription bottles with his name, reading glasses, & a small, thin metal stamp with his name.
I've worked for dozens of newspapers and radio and TV stations in GA and MI.
I'm volunteer media advisor for several interfaith environmental projects involving Native Americans across Upper Peninsula of MI including the Turtle Island Project, The Zaagkii Project, the Interfaith Earth Healing Initiative, EarthKeeper Initiative and the Manoomin (Wild Rice) Project.
The Zaagkii Wings and Seeds Project restores bee and butterfly habitat to help pollination of plants following death of billions of bees.
Keweenaw Bay Indian Community youth & Marquette teens built butterfly houses, planted/distributed 26,000 native plants to help pollinators.
The Earth Healing Initiative assisted EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge.
EHI helped organize interfaith participation across eight states for the 100 plus recycling projects (April 2008) involving recycling millions of pounds of electronic waste & proper disposal of millions of pills/pharmaceuticals.
EPA goals were exceeded by 500%. Under an EPA grant, EHI provided free media services for the cities/groups/tribes including videos & press releases.
The EarthKeeper environment projects include an annual Earth Day Clean Sweep (2005-2007) at 24 free drop off sites across a 400 mile area of northern Michigan that collected over 370 tons of household hazardous waste.
The 2007 EarthKeeper Pharmaceutical Clean Sweep collected over one ton of drugs plus $5000,000 in narcotics in only three hours. Some 2,000 residents participated and many brought in pharmaceuticals for their family, friends and neighbors.
In 2006, 10,000 people dropped off over 320 tons of old/broken computers, cell phones and other electronic waste, all of which was recycled. In 2005, residents turned in 45 tons of household poisons and vehicle batteries.
The Manoomin (Wild Rice) Project teaches teens to respect nature & themselves by having American Indian guides escort them to remote lakes and streams in northern Michigan to plant/care for wild rice.
The teens test water quality to determine the best conditions for the once native grain to survive.
The Turtle Island Project was co-founded in July 2007 by Rev. Lynn Hubbard of Rock Point, AR (Ex. Dir. of the Navajo Lutheran Mission) and Rev. Dr. George Cairns of Chesterton, IN, United Church of Christ minister & research professor for the Chicago Theological Seminary.
TIP promotes respect for culture and heritage of indigenous peoples like American Indians.
TIP is a platform for American Indians to be heard unedited by whites .
Rev. Hubbard says whites don't have the knowledge or right to speak on behalf of Native Americans.
I specialize in civil rights, outdoor, environmental, cops and courts reporting thanks to my late mentor Jay Mann (Jan Tillman Hutchens), an investigative reporter in Augusta, who lived by the books "Illusions" & "Jonathon Livingston Seagull."
Love to fish, hunt, camp & skydive. Belong to Delta Chi national fraternity.
I was active in Junior Achievement, band played cornet.

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News Reporter, Journalist, Writer, Photographer

Companies

Numerous TV stations, radio stations, newspapers, and magazines in MI and GA, Earth Keeper, Manoomin Project, Cedar Tree Institute

Schools

Augusta University, Westside High School in Augusta, GA and River Valley High School in Sawyer, MI.

Interests

Fishing, Hunting, Camping, Boating, Skydiving, volunteering for important nonprofit environment and civil rights projects like the The Zaagkii Wings and Seeds Project, Interfaith Earth Healing Initiative, EarthKeeper Initiative, the Manoomin Project, Celtic Christianity Today and the Turtle Island Project.

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