Expo '74 + 50: the Unfinished Work Register

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Sat, Jun 22, 2024; 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM (Pacific)

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Protecting Coeur d'Alene Lake: one of the earth's most beautiful lakes and headwaters for the Spokane River, Coeur d'Alene Lake is also polluted. The lake is a tailings' pond for the Coeur d'Alene mining district -- with 60-80 million tons of toxic material on the lake bottom. To know the lake is to know its watershed: the great forest fire of 1910, massive logging, and mining's riches and wreckage. During the 1996 flood event, over a million pounds of lead flowed into Coeur d'Alene Lake and, some, into the Spokane River. In the decade after Expo '74, major battles erupted here over logging and mining pollution. We honor the Coeur d'Alene Tribe for leading the effort to protect their homeland and the lake. This event will focus on remedies for Coeur d'Alene Lake -- the unfinished work of Expo '74.

Carpool: meet at the parking lot for the Cedars Floating Restaurant, Blackwell Island, Coeur d'Alene.

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47.67838280,-116.80609600 John Osborn john@waterplanet.ws MM/DD/yyyy amOUuwqNAzpGSXwtHmnd12740

Organized By: Upper Columbia River Group

Location: Carpool: meet at the parking lot for the Cedars Floating Restaurant, Blackwell Island, Coeur d'Alene.

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Event Organizers:
John Osborn
   john@waterplanet.ws
   (509) 939-1290
Carolyn Leon
   lonestar4@aol.com
   (509) 230-2116

Protecting Coeur d'Alene Lake: one of the earth's most beautiful lakes and headwaters for the Spokane River, Coeur d'Alene Lake is also polluted. The lake is a tailings' pond for the Coeur d'Alene mining district -- with 60-80 million tons of toxic material on the lake bottom. To know the lake is to know its watershed: the great forest fire of 1910, massive logging, and mining's riches and wreckage. During the 1996 flood event, over a million pounds of lead flowed into Coeur d'Alene Lake and, some, into the Spokane River. In the decade after Expo '74, major battles erupted here over logging and mining pollution. We honor the Coeur d'Alene Tribe for leading the effort to protect their homeland and the lake. This event will focus on remedies for Coeur d'Alene Lake -- the unfinished work of Expo '74.

We believe –

That the human spirit itself must set its own limitations to achieve a beauty and order and the diversity that will fill the hearts of the children of the world with a new and happier vision of their destiny.

That from this City of Spokane there goes forth today to the world the message and challenge that the time of great environmental awakening is at hand.

All this we believe.

Delivered by Danny Kaye, May 4, 1974, before 85,000 people gathered at Spokane Falls. [William T. Youngs, The Fair and the Falls: Spokane’s Expo ’74, EWU Press, 1996

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