How You Can Help Fight the Concrete Batch Plant
Keeping the Knife River concrete batch plant away from our neighborhoods will truly require a community effort. We need your help. Here are some suggestions for what you can do.
Be informed
If you want to learn more about the concrete batch plant, a good place to start is our “News from the AGW / Friends of Central Vancouver alliance” blog. Start with the oldest posting (at the end), then read more recent ones to get a sense of AGW’s journey with the issue.
After that, our docs, links, and info page is a good next stop. There, you’ll find an events calendar, contact list, and a directory of online documents and web page links.
Talk about it
It’s very important to discuss the planned concrete batch plant with your neighbors and friends. The more people are aware of the problem, the more likely it is that someone will come forward with information or suggestions that will help us with our fight.
In these times, another good way to get the word out is to use social media. Describing our plight, sharing links and documents, and writing about your concerns is a great way to get other people interested.
Our community and your network of friends are both great resources. We just need to get the word out.
Attend public events
Solidarity matters, and your presence at public events, such as Clark County Council meetings, sends an important message to those who are making the decisions: Our community cares and will not be backing down. Join your friends and neighbors – many of them will be there.
Stay in contact
Do you have any ideas or information that might help us with our efforts? Feel free to let us know. Contact one of the FOCV executive committee members – their contact info is on the docs, links, and info page. If you don’t know any of them, start with Jan Kelly, one of the co-chairpersons; she’s very responsive and will either answer your email quickly or forward your message to the right person.
Tell us what you know
Everybody knows something that somebody else doesn’t. Please don’t assume that we’ve already gathered all the information. Your input is valuable and it may also be the only way we learn something that may help us win our fight.
Join our letter-writing campaigns
Enlisting the aid of people in influential positions is important. We’ve put together a letter-writing campaign that will help you let the movers-and-shakers know what is important to you. It’s vital that they know how important these issues are to us, and one of the best ways to do that is to have hundreds of letters arrive in their mail. Check out the “Letters to Legislators” packet for helpful hints, as well as relevant addresses.
Also important is letting people in Clark County know about the issue. One tried-and-true method is to write a letter for publication in a local newspaper, such as the Columbian. Check out the “Letters to the Editor” document for useful tips.
Amberglen Good Works is working in cooperation with the Friends of Central Vancouver to stop the planned construction of a concrete batch plant adjacent to the Mt. View Estates neighborhood, less than 3/4 mile from Amberglen. We urge all of our neighbors to help in any way possible. Please contact us by email at amberglengoodworks@gmail.com, or speak to a member of the AGW Steering Committee to find out what you can do.
— “This will destroy our community’s health. It will destroy the environment and the people will suffer.”