AWARDS FOR PARKS

Houston-Galveston Area Council presented its first “Best Practices in Parks and Natural Areas Honor Awards” at its board of directors meeting February 20.

DIANE WILSON SPEAKS ON MARCH 17

When Diane Wilson, fourth-generation shrimp- boat captain and mother of five, learned that she lived in the most polluted county in the United States; she launched a campaign against a multibillion-dollar corporation that was covering up spills, silencing workers, flouting the EPA, and dumping lethal chemicals into the bays along the Texas Gulf Coast.