March to Protest Local Dumping
A political activist known for colorful protests against state legislators' controversial pay raise will lead a 15-mile march from Pottsville to Tamaqua on Monday, Aug. 28 to protest dumping of sludge and other waste on area communities.
Gene Stilp will set off from the steps of the Schuylkill County Courthouse in Pottsville at 10 a.m. and walk 15 miles to Tamaqua along Route 209. Coal Creek Ranch, a subsidiary of Reading Anthracite, recently announced plans to begin dumping Philadelphia sewage sludge on land near the highway between Tuscarora and Tamaqua.
Members of the Army for a Clean Environment, a local grassroots environmental group, will join Stilp as he passes through Middleport, Brockton, Mary-D and Tuscarora. The public is welcome to join Stilp along the way.
A resident of Middle Paxton Township in Dauphin County and a former candidate for lieutenant governor, Stilp was a leading figure in the fight to overturn last year's legislative pay raise, which lawmakers passed late at night without public notice or debate. Stilp filed suit against the raise and parked a 25-foot inflatable pig outside the offices of lawmakers who refused to return the ill-gotten money.
Among Stilp's targets was local state Rep. Dave Argall, who not only accepted the raise but as House Majority Whip played a key role in its passage. And though Argall joined his colleagues in voting to repeal the raise last November, he was among only a handful of lawmakers who did not return the money they collected. Instead, he donated his to charity.
Gene Stilp will set off from the steps of the Schuylkill County Courthouse in Pottsville at 10 a.m. and walk 15 miles to Tamaqua along Route 209. Coal Creek Ranch, a subsidiary of Reading Anthracite, recently announced plans to begin dumping Philadelphia sewage sludge on land near the highway between Tuscarora and Tamaqua.
Members of the Army for a Clean Environment, a local grassroots environmental group, will join Stilp as he passes through Middleport, Brockton, Mary-D and Tuscarora. The public is welcome to join Stilp along the way.
A resident of Middle Paxton Township in Dauphin County and a former candidate for lieutenant governor, Stilp was a leading figure in the fight to overturn last year's legislative pay raise, which lawmakers passed late at night without public notice or debate. Stilp filed suit against the raise and parked a 25-foot inflatable pig outside the offices of lawmakers who refused to return the ill-gotten money.
Among Stilp's targets was local state Rep. Dave Argall, who not only accepted the raise but as House Majority Whip played a key role in its passage. And though Argall joined his colleagues in voting to repeal the raise last November, he was among only a handful of lawmakers who did not return the money they collected. Instead, he donated his to charity.
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