Community Member
Appearances
Dateline NBC
A Walk Through the Woods
Today was the first day that I've really been excited through this whole process. It was the most optimistic we've been. We've, you know, we got a face to the person. We're going to get him.
The Planet Reigate Podcast
59: Redhill’s tower block plans denied, spooky local Halloween stories… and more
Thank you.
The Planet Reigate Podcast
59: Redhill’s tower block plans denied, spooky local Halloween stories… and more
Thank you.
The Planet Reigate Podcast
59: Redhill’s tower block plans denied, spooky local Halloween stories… and more
I think the only compromise was the reduction from 19 floors to 15 floors. I think we all felt that 15 floors is too high. I think in the context of Princess Way it's too high. Marketfield Way is a separate area and Princess Way is historically lower and so we thought it was wrong.
The Planet Reigate Podcast
59: Redhill’s tower block plans denied, spooky local Halloween stories… and more
You accept that obviously a brownfield site is an ideal place to build houses. but I don't think it was an appropriate style. It wasn't right for the rest of the town because the height, and also it wasn't really, I think, respecting sort of the more traditional nature of the town. We felt that it was changing the character to something which was more impersonal.
The Planet Reigate Podcast
59: Redhill’s tower block plans denied, spooky local Halloween stories… and more
I think being in the middle of Redhill is, you know, it's a small, low-rise area,
The Planet Reigate Podcast
59: Redhill’s tower block plans denied, spooky local Halloween stories… and more
We agree that building on a brownfield site is a good thing to do.
The Planet Reigate Podcast
59: Redhill’s tower block plans denied, spooky local Halloween stories… and more
That site is a premium site. It could be designed better. and provide the homes that are needed.
The Planet Reigate Podcast
59: Redhill’s tower block plans denied, spooky local Halloween stories… and more
Yes, and I think we all recognise the need for affordable housing, and we need to be able to accommodate that for people in Redhill, and that's obviously a very important point. It didn't provide that. So I think anything in the future needs to consider that.
The Planet Reigate Podcast
59: Redhill’s tower block plans denied, spooky local Halloween stories… and more
I think there's a great community spirit. It has been amazing to see how many people have been so passionate about this and how many people in Redhill have very definite views about how they would like to see Redhill. They all want a better town. They like the people around them. They want to make the town successful and I think inspirational for the future.
The Planet Reigate Podcast
57: Your Harlequin 'drop-in' feedback, Betchworth’s Apple Day… and more
I thought it was wonderful that we've been given an opportunity to really participate in airing our views.
The Planet Reigate Podcast
57: Your Harlequin 'drop-in' feedback, Betchworth’s Apple Day… and more
But once again, will they be acted on?
The Planet Reigate Podcast
57: Your Harlequin 'drop-in' feedback, Betchworth’s Apple Day… and more
I detected a little bias in one of the last questions, question eight. It's slightly implied that the council wasn't necessarily feeling whole-hearted in maintaining and reintroducing the Harlequin.
The Planet Reigate Podcast
57: Your Harlequin 'drop-in' feedback, Betchworth’s Apple Day… and more
Although we have the light, which I feel appeals to family groups and a younger population, people the thing one misses so much with the harlequin was the entertainment or even intellectual stimulation from the outside rather than a cinema center with one bowling alley which was a great disappointment i thought we were going to have something like crawley
The Planet Reigate Podcast
57: Your Harlequin 'drop-in' feedback, Betchworth’s Apple Day… and more
It would really lift Redhill if the Harley Quinn was reinstated and supported.
The Planet Reigate Podcast
57: Your Harlequin 'drop-in' feedback, Betchworth’s Apple Day… and more
Years ago Alan Titchmarsh came and that was very interesting. It was something to think about you know it introduced a topic which would set the grey matter going.
The Rachel Maddow Show
Outrage and exposure halts Trump's plans for Social Security service cuts
My dad and I have experienced several generations of illnesses. My mother died of breast cancer. My sister was diagnosed with breast cancer and my grandmother died of breast cancer. And my fraternal grandmother died of pulmonary disease. and so on and so on, other family members, ovarian cancer. So we are directly affected in this community.
The Rachel Maddow Show
Outrage and exposure halts Trump's plans for Social Security service cuts
I've also had genetic testing for breast cancer, my mother, my sister, and myself, and all of them came back negative. Wow, so it's not a DNA. It's not a DNA, correct. It's environmental.
The Rachel Maddow Show
Outrage and exposure halts Trump's plans for Social Security service cuts
Wow. I have several family members that have died, passed away of cancer. Some of them are still living. One of my family members, she's on the list for heart transplant, two of them. One family member on the west bank of the river from Lucy in Edgard. He just had his lungs. He had a lung transplant about a year ago. My mother, she passed away. A lot of people going to dialysis centers.
The Rachel Maddow Show
Outrage and exposure halts Trump's plans for Social Security service cuts
A lot of people have brain cancer been high. Prostate cancer is high throughout the parish, not just on the west bank of the river. Chloroprene is in the whole parish.
The Rachel Maddow Show
Outrage and exposure halts Trump's plans for Social Security service cuts
I grew up on East 30th Street. I've lost everyone in my family because of it. And I'm the oldest living relative on my father's side at the age of 67 due to Dupont-Denka. Wow.
The Rachel Maddow Show
Outrage and exposure halts Trump's plans for Social Security service cuts
I remember growing up on East 30th Street. And you remember the days we could sleep with our windows open? Well, a lot of mornings we woke up with this awful smell in the house. We didn't know what it was. Oh, it was just a release from DuPont. We didn't know what chemical we were breathing while we were sleeping. It was in the bed sheet. It was in your closet, in the clothes in the closet.
The Rachel Maddow Show
Outrage and exposure halts Trump's plans for Social Security service cuts
My mom couldn't get it out the house if she aired the house out all day long. We smelled that all day long. We went to school with it on our uniforms.
The Rachel Maddow Show
Outrage and exposure halts Trump's plans for Social Security service cuts
Cancers.
The Rachel Maddow Show
Outrage and exposure halts Trump's plans for Social Security service cuts
Yes.
The Rachel Maddow Show
Outrage and exposure halts Trump's plans for Social Security service cuts
The five parish area that's called Cancer Alley, it is now 92% black. Wow. And it's got about 250 petrochemical plants in that one little 80-mile area of that river, the river between New Orleans and Baton Rouge. That's called Cancer Alley.
The Rachel Maddow Show
Outrage and exposure halts Trump's plans for Social Security service cuts
Well, I don't know. That's going to depend largely on the people here. If we let them have their way, they will kill us all. We will die here. We are now trying to regroup so we can find out exactly how we have to deal with this situation. What is obvious to us is the destruction. The government has now officially abandoned us, has officially thrown us to the wolves. That's what they've done.
The Rachel Maddow Show
Outrage and exposure halts Trump's plans for Social Security service cuts
We meant nothing then, and we mean nothing now.
The Rachel Maddow Show
Outrage and exposure halts Trump's plans for Social Security service cuts
I think Trump is doing exactly what Trump said he was going to do. And I don't think we have enough money here for him to care about what's going on with us. He cares about the wealthy people, the people that paid, I mean, the people that were elected to these positions that he put in place. And if there was some way that we can make money off environmental justice for him, he would prioritize it.
The Rachel Maddow Show
Outrage and exposure halts Trump's plans for Social Security service cuts
They do not care. It's about what they can make money off of. And they can't make money off of this.
The Rachel Maddow Show
Outrage and exposure halts Trump's plans for Social Security service cuts
And DEI has nothing to do with the facts and the fact that this company, Dinka, was actually breaking the law. They are guilty of breaking the Clean Air Act. They put us in jeopardy. We are burying family members every week. People are suffering 20 and 30 years before they pass. That's real. That's real. We live a life every day wondering what's going to happen at our next doctor's visit.
Under Yazoo Clay
Introducing: Under Yazoo Clay
When I hear them say, you know, we've done all we can do for the dead. It's time to do something for the living. We need that land. We just forgot they were buried out there. They didn't just forget it.
Under Yazoo Clay
Introducing: Under Yazoo Clay
They put him in an insane asylum. Our mom said he wasn't crazy, he was just starving.