Love Canal residents Stephen U. Lester (far left) and Debbie Cerrillo collecting donations for the Love Canal Homeowners Association, June 1980

Cerrillo, Debbie

Lester, Stephen U.

Love Canal Homeowners Association

Public health--Citizen participation

Community activists

Fund raising

Hazardous waste sites

Love Canal Chemical Waste Landfill (Niagara Falls, N.Y.)

Three Love Canal activists including Stephen U. Lester (at far left) and Debbie Cerrillo (at right) are gathered in front of a brick building at night. Stepjhen U. Lester is wearing a "LOVE CANAL Another Product From HOOKER CHEMICAL" t-shirt and is holding a jug labeled "Donations – Don’t Dump LOVE CANAL PLEASE" with a red heart graphic. The person in the center wears a light-colored shirt and stands slightly behind the others. Debbie Cerrillo, on the right, smiling broadly, wears glasses and a dark floral shirt. The scene appears to document a grassroots fundraising or awareness event to support the Love Canal Homeowners Association activities addressing the Love Canal environmental crisis; photographed by Penelope D. Ploughman.

Ploughman, Penelope, 1955-

State University of New York at Buffalo. University Archives

State University of New York at Buffalo. University Libraries

1980-06

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