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Monday, April 23,
Mexicans pull together to clean up
mountain in honor of Earth Day
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexicans
marked Earth Day by cleaning up a
mountain on the edge of Mexico City,
one of the world’s most polluted cities,
holding a parade and attending exhibits,
lectures and concerts on Sunday.
About 100 people, including many
children, braved a cloudy, chilly day on
Ajusco Mountain on the southern edge
of Mexico City to pick up paper, bottles,
old tires and other trash left by the thou
sands who use it for weekend outings.
Singer Emmanuel said in a television
interview from Ajusco that the moun
tain, La Marquesa and other parks
M.
lexico is among the
countries with the highest
rates of natural resource
depletion.
— Gabriel Quadri,
ecological adviser
around the capital were so full of trash
that he rejectee
capi
ted them when searching re
cently for the scene for a video.
A newspaper notice announcing the
cleanup outing recommended that any
one going “bring his own food and not
leave more trash at the place.”
A parade sponsored by the Group of
100, an artists and intellectuals’ environ
mental defense organization drew a
small crowd with several floats promot
ing conservation and taking aim at the
Laguna Verde nuclear power plant, a
17-year-old project still undergoing test
ing, and a proposed toxic waste dump in
Texcoco on the eastern edge of the city.
While Mexico City’s air contamination
KJver the past 30 years, the
country has lost 95 percent of
its tropical forests, largely for
socio-economic reasons.
— Notimex,
Mexican news agency
— ozone levels surpass the maximum ac
ceptable level almost daily — is the coun
try’s most publicized pollution probletj
ecological groups increasingly arn
nouncing widespread deforestation,
slaughter of marine turtles, water coj
lamination.
Gabriel Quadri, the Mexico Cit) g#
ernment’s ecological adviser, said!
ico was among the countries withi
highest rates of natural resource i
tion.
Over the past 30 years, the counj
has lost 95 percent of its tropical forejil
largely for socio-economic reasons, t
government news agency Notinin
quoted Quadri as saying.
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Men's
Garrett Jones
Women's
Allison Barritt
Men's Doubles
Garrett Jones
Todd Lackey
Ties men's record set in 1968!
Women's Doubles
Heather Hortman
Cynthia Bradstead
CoRec Doubles
Terry Trevino
Shelda Biondell
Men's
Michael Terzian
Women's
Kris Wilson
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Men's
Jody Zaruba
Women's
Kelly Yeary
Men's
Daniel Peveto & Harvey
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Women's
Kris Wilson
20 consecutive ties record!
Scott Roark
New record, with 46!
Men's A
Brian Lee
Men's B
Gary Webster
Men's C
Greg Myers
Women's A
Jackie Mullins
Women's C
Yi-Te Chu
Men's Open
Ching-Yun Wang
Women's Open
Lilian Tan
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