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VOTING CAN BE A CLIMATE CHANGE ACTION – Greater La Conner’s Alix Foster exhorted students to register to vote once they turn 16 and to work to get candidates committed to climate change elected to state offices. She was one of a dozen spontaneous speakers at Friday’s Climate Strike in Mount Vernon. – Photo by Ken Stern
Elders carried signs reading “Wake Up, the House is on Fire.” One teen asked, “if your house was on fire, would you just sit there?” and another spoke of “the (melting) polar caps are our alarms; we need to stop the fire burning in our homes now” werer part of some 250 Skagetonians of all ages gathering at the Skagit County Courthouse Friday. Hope and despair for the future of the planet – and theirs and their children’s very uncertain futures – were voiced by teens, elders and a seven-year-old.
At least 50 teens participated, though Renada Alsilimy, the Mount Vernon High School se...
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