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July 14, 2010

Cooped Up"With renewed commitment from federal and state leaders, we may finally clean up the Chesapeake Bay - but only if citizens do their part."

"Kathy Phillips seems an unlikely adversary for the Eastern Shore's poultry-growing factory farms, an industry she calls "Big Chicken." She is 61 years old, an avid amateur surfer who moved to Ocean City for the waves in 1978. Phillips still bodyboards when she gets a break from her job as the Assateague Coastkeeper®, the local representative of the nationwide nonprofit Waterkeeper® Alliance. She is probably the only waterkeeper who's in the East Coast Surfing Hall of Fame."

 

Read the full article written by Heather Dewar of the Urbanite.

 

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