Jean Pederson:
What I plan to do is contact my representatives in Madison. We were told last night that there's a huge amount of money being held to address problems such as PFAS, and I would like to do anything and everything I can to join the coalition to get that money released, so that we can address this problem in space.

Murv Seymour:
Yeah, what else, Jean? Anything else you want to say?

Jean Pederson:
The only other thing I would say is, to all of the people who need to educate themselves, the handouts are wonderful that were given out to us, and the speakers, for the most part, were very informative. Educate yourself on this, because there's a lot of things I would not have known. For instance, PFAS — you do not absorb it through your skin, so taking a shower is not a problem. It's the ingestion of water that has PFAS in it. I just believe knowledge is power. And so, I would encourage anyone who has ever heard about PFAS — it's everywhere. It's not just in Rhinelander, Wisconsin. These were produced by man back in the '40s and '50s. They're chemical compounds that now have been found to be dangerous. They're in food wraps, they're in microwave popcorn bags — they are everywhere. Educate yourself on PFAS — you'll find that there are thousands of types of PFAS, and it's very important to know about them.

Murv Seymour:
Good stuff. Anything else, my friend?

Jean Pederson:
I would also encourage people to stay tuned, because I think that I'm all about root cause — what caused this problem? Once we know what caused this problem, we can prevent further damage. And maybe we can even enhance cleanup by knowing what the root cause, if we get a straight answer out of the people in our area who are most responsible for this.