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one after another testifying against the dump proposal
and calling for the permit revokation. A dozen local fire
companies had abetted the effort by announcing the
meeting through their communities on pubhc address
systems.
MAD and OUCH set the stage for the meeting with a 24-
hour prayer vigil, culminating with a speaker from the
Love Canal area. The DER fact-finding session began
shortly after the Love Canal guest had told her story
Stacy Marsh drove tne speaker the airport and
returned toward Sprmg Grove for theevemng meeting.
- Approaching the small rural town, she found herself
caught in a jam of traffic headed toward the school.
“I just sat there in the car and cried when I saw all those
people,” she smiles. “This was what we know we had to do
- get out the people - and they had come.”
Smce that public hearing, no DER decision on
Stabatrol’s right to the waste disposal permit has yet been
announced. MAD and OUCH have continued their efforts
to oppose the plans, and recently obtained lists of the
tentative customers and quantities of'waste expected in
the vaulting sites.
While the companies planning to vault the wastes insist
that local industry needs the disposal system in order to
keep the York manufacturing economy strong, the list of
customers mcludes large quantities of waste scheduled to
be hauled m from distant points in New York and New
Jersey.
The Lecrones, the Marshs and the Brennemans admit
that the battle is far from over.
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Lancaster Farming, Saturday, October 25,1980—C13
And one of the foremost concerns for these farm
mothers, they say, is not for themselves, but for their
children. For if the stress has been difficult for the adults,
who understand politics and bureaucrats, it’s been even
worse for the children. For many of them, normal family
life has been turned upside down by the time consumed in
the anti-dump activities.
“The kids play ‘the dump’ complete with someone
sneaking into the dump while the others spy on them, sort
of a version of ‘cowboys and Indians,” Stacy Marsh says.
“Our youngest, who’s three, even pleaded with me to get
off the phone for just a while.”
The Lecrone family has been similarly affected, Donna
agrees. She relates that her youngsters go running to the
window every time they hear a truck changing gears.
And, they don’t come bounding in from school, eager to
share the day’s news, like they once did.
“It’s gotten to the point where we can’t visualize what it
was like before ‘the dump’,” frowns Donna. “The kids
have even wondered why we can’t just sell out and move. I
really think they’re questioning what we’ve always taught
them about respecting authority, because it seems like the
authorities are harassing us now. What are they supposed
to believe in?”
Judy Brenneman believes that her youngsters un
derstand even better than she does what the long-range
implications of the tone chemical problem means for the
future, through their studies at school.
“They just don’t like it. Our son would like to someday
take over the farm; he already does most of the dairy herd
care. What will he have left if someone else’s wastes rum
the water or the land,” she ponders, motherly concern
showing in her eyes and raising a touch of anger m her
voice.
It’s doubtful that any of the farm families of these
peaceful valleys will ever look at things quite the same as
they did in “pre-dump” days. Their brush with
bureaucratic and regulatory red tape has left them highly
sensitive to controversial political issues.
“I’ll never be lax m participating in my local govern
ment,” Stacy Marsh insists. “I’ve met an awful lot of
people through this, and I feel like I’m getting to know
state government real well.”
But while this political awareness is now part of life for
women like Judy Brenneman, Stacy Marsh and Donna
Lecrone, at the same time, it’s robbed them of a
casualness and positive feeling about the future security
of their right to farm. Sociologists label this mushrooming
problem of outside pressures on the farm community as
“farm stress”.
Stacy Marsh recalled that this emotional wearing
surfaced briefly during the day when MAD picketed City
Hall. She and Donna, watching women casually strolling
the streets of York, looked at each other and asked: “Do
'you think we’ll ever be able to just simply go shopping
again?”
Progress sometimes extracts a high pnce for its
benefits. Farmers of North Codorus wonder whether it’s
worth the cost.
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