Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Woman's death after chemical spill leads to search for answers

Woman's death after chemical spill leads to search for answers
http://www.sdnn.com/sandiego/2010-02-10/environment/womans-death-after-chemical-spill-leads-to-search-for-answers

"Hope Goodwin moved to Valley Center to retire with her mother, Joye, two decades ago.

Together, the two raised championship horses and Great Danes, grew dozens of organic fruits and vegetables and were about to go into the business of farming organic garlic and Sea-buckthorn.

It was a return to a life of farming but a break from Joye's previous life — a nurse for more than four decades, and founder of Children Having Children, a southeast San Diego non-profit that supports teen parents and works to prevent teen pregnancy.

But the Goodwins' lives would forever change on Nov. 16, 2006, when an EDCO garbage truck lifting a dumpster in their back yard ruptured a hydraulic line, spraying fluid on to the ground, into the air and across the property."

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