{"id":3018,"date":"2025-02-05T02:00:06","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T02:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=3018"},"modified":"2025-02-05T02:01:38","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T02:01:38","slug":"3018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=3018","title":{"rendered":"bringing sight to the world; and clean water to the village"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Continuing to catch up on January… I wrote a story about the local “VOSH Ohio.” The non-profit organization has collected over 4 million used eyeglasses over the past 30 years, or so. Volunteers work five days a week, cleaning them, sorting them by prescription, and storing them. What’s more, volunteer optometrists, and assistants, regularly go on Missions Trips all over the world to distribute the glasses to those in need. It’s a pretty phenomenal program, actually. One of the optometrists said that in Third World countries, often, blurry vision is simply a reality. But to see the look on someone’s face when they can see clearly again, is priceless… Covering a local village council meeting recently, the subject of water rates came up. There’s an ordinance to increase the rates. The village administrator said that the increase matches inflationary trends across the board. *The same village is undertaking a $6 million Water Plant Improvement Project. And the same village manager said that, as with many municipalities across the country, there is a need to update the equipment. What’s more, there is more of a focus on going to other levels of filtration, with issues like “forever chemicals” now being in the water, and so on. Note: National Geographic just did an article about micro-plastics being found in the human body at alarming rates now. Our administration would task the EPA on banning forever chemicals, plastics, artificial (and toxic) herbicides and pesticides… We would place a premium on being good environmental stewards, and using these pollutants, across the board, is being anything but good environmental stewards. Period. For our Environmental Position Paper…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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