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Article: LEGACY OF EARTH DAY ENDANGERED

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April 23, 1995
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THIS ELECTRONIC VERSION MAY DIFFER SLIGHTLY FROM THE PRINTED VERSION. Jim Gordon's column runs Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday. Call him at 881-3116.

I wasn't at Woodstock. Too bad. Missed a great party. And I don't remember the first Earth Day, April 22, 1970.

Maybe I slept through it. I don't see how I could have, though, since it was a Wednesday, the middle of the work week.

Wednesday or Saturday, it wouldn't have made much difference.

I wasn't doing much daytime sleeping in April 1970. I worked every day of the week, Monday through Friday as a caseworker for the Lake County Welfare Department and Saturday and Sunday as a driver for Calumet Cab in Whiting. A growing family on a civil ...

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