Friday, October 19, 2007

Ocean County = Rodney Dangerfield

Ocean County gets no respect. Hear me out on this: for decades various companies (and you know who you are) treated this county like a toxic waste dump. In fact, it WAS a toxic waste dump. Lord knows over the years what toxins leached into the soil and the water from those drums. Toxic soil from other parts of the state was dumped here. Did anybody care back then? Fast forward 50 years and you have cancer clusters. Abnormally high occurrences of childhood cancer happening in our backyard. Could it be they're related? Seems logical to me.
So what can you do about it? Blame the government and the companies and the crooked politicians. Clearly no one was sticking up for the children of Ocean County then. But that doesnt help a damn thing now. Who's going to stick up for the kids now? The only group of people I know of that let their actions do the talking is Ocean of Love. Stick up for the kids of Ocean County--the healthy ones, the ones who have cancer, and the ones who may get it in the future--by calling 877 HAWK 1057 and donating what you can. They're depending on us.

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