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Franklin County – Call to Regular Meeting March 21
LOCATION CHANGE: Call to 8th LDDCC Meeting Feb 29
Tri-City Democrats – Early Spring Fling Tri-City Democrats meeting!
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Legislation – Follow the progress of Bills and Initiatives of Interest in this linked chart.
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Election Committee – Maria Beltran Update
Women’s March – Help feminists get to DC
Indivisible – Trump said he’ll put Social Security cuts on the table. Believe him.
Faith Action Network – Important announcement from FAN
State Committee – Friday News and Action
More classes from the National Democratic Training Center
Democratic National Committee – Shirley Chisholm Collection
League of Women Voters – Legislative Newsletter March 13, 2024
Ag and Rural Caucus – What’s In The Biden Budget For You?
FUSE – What happened in the 2024 legislative session
4th CD – Two Shocking Truths Behind Election Spending: $10.2 Billion Estimated for 2024!
Dems 101 – Backward and Forward
Emerge – Celebrating International Women’s Day!
Invest in Washington – Good news, bad news this week
ACLU – We’ve got the playbook to stop Trump
Civic Action – Tapback: Going grrrrrrreat
Columbia Basin Badger Club – MEASURES OF RACE AND ETHNICITY IN TRI-CITIES
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BADGER FORUM Thursday, March 21 | Noon
MEASURES OF RACE AND ETHNICITY IN TRI-CITIES
Ag and Rural Caucus for March Policy Briefing
March Schedule Policy Briefing 6:30 pm Thursday 21 March Vermitreatment of Waste Water Russ Davis, Pres/CEO, Perca George Damov Sierra Smith https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85907982157?pwd=MU4vV3E3VGZ5VU02dnhvZjg2b3hKZz09 Paste link into browser to go to meeting. |
Worms defeat PCB’s! “This new permanent water filtering solution at our Walla Walla facility has been operating at full capacity for many weeks now, and the facility is compliant with their wastewater permit conditions within the time frame that was set by the city,” wrote Sacconi. (Refresco) An understatement. Refresco was facing plant closure for failure to meet City of Walla Walla effluent requirements. The problems were low pH and elevated PCB’s, “as much as 43 times the regulatory limit.” COVID gave them breathing room to June, 2022. They came into compliance May, 2022…after six million dollars of fixes, none of which worked. Worms kept Refresco in business in Walla Walla. Worms and ingenuity. Russ Davis provided both. Using BioFiltro technology developed in Chile, Russ engineered the solution that saved Refresco. Russ doing business as Organix and now as Perca has done proof of concept work with the Department of Corrections Penitentiary in Walla Walla and now is bidding on the DOC contract. These business references for vermifiltration are important because the whole idea is so implausible. And no one is better than Russ for telling the story. Join us next week. Learn possibilities and limitations. Ask about the variables. Don 13 March 2024 |
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