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THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
MONDAY AUGUST 20 2007
田中美紀 2015年1月14日
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Blue Planet Run relay members Brynn Harrington and Heiko Weiner recite information about safer drinking water during a baton handoff ceremony Saturday morning.The international relay's 20 participants take turns running 10-mile shifts during the three-month run.
Racing for cleaner water
>>> BLUE PLANET RUN
Globe-spanning relay runners pass baton in Lawrence
BY SARAH NEFF
sneff@kansan.com
The Blue Planet Run passed through Lawrence Saturday morning on its journey around the world to promote safe drinking water. Runners representing two of the run's four teams passed the baton at the Wells Overlook County Park entrance.
Brynn Harrington and Heiko Weiner, two of the 20 citizen runners participating in the event, made the exchange.
Harrington finished her 10-
mile leg as she passed the baton to
Weiner. They recited the message for the Run to remind the runners of their mission. Each runner will end up running at least 760 miles.
Weiner and Harrington are two of 20 citizen runners participating in the event. Weiner works in research and development for the Dow Chemical Company, which sponsors the run by funding all of the expenses for the runners. Harrington works for a nonprofit consulting firm in San Francisco.
conflict since World War II.
Harrington said she got involved because the race for safe drinking water could be won. She said the run wasn't about finding the solution; it was about funding the solution. She said that, unlike with other world issues such as AIDS and cancer, the technology to provide safe drinking water already existed.
He said he was walking near a lake that supplied water for his community just north of San Francisco when two runners passed in front of him. He said seeing the runners with the lake in the background inspired him.
Jin Zidell, founder of the Blue Planet Run, said he thought of the idea in December 2001.
Harrington said she had seen both sides during her run.
According to the World Health Organization, more than 1.1 billion people worldwide don't have access to safe drinking water. It also estimated that diarrhea killed more children in the past decade than all of the people who had died in armed
"I saw the contrast between the places that don't have safe drinking water and the places with the capacity to donate," Harrington said.
"At that moment the words 'run around the world for safe drinking water' flashed through my mind." Zidell said. "I have traveled a lot in the world, and I have seen a lot of situations. All those factors came together. It was an inspiration. I started educating myself about the issue and looking into what it would take to make it happen."
Zidell said so far the Blue Planet Run Foundation had funded 135 water projects providing safe drinking water for 100,000 people. The Foundation holds a run approximately every two years.
This year, the Run began on June 1, in New York City and will travel through 16 countries before ending back in New York City on Sept. 4. More information can be found at blueplanetrun.org.
LOS ANGELES — An illegal immigrant who sought sanctuary in a Chicago church for a year to avoid deportation and separation from her 8-year-old American son was arrested Sunday, the church's pastor said.
Edited by Matt Erickson
Elvira Arellano was arrested before 3 p.m. outside Our Lady Queen of Angels church on Los Angeles' historic Olvera Street where she was speaking to reporters, said the Rev. Walter Coleman, pastor of Alad伯塔 United Methodist Church in Chicago where she sought sanctuary.
Mother seeks refuge in California
IMMIGRATION
It was unclear what law enforcement agency had taken Arellano into custody.
Coleman said he was with Arellano when she was detained, but declined to provide other details.
BY PETER PRENGAMAN ASSOCIATED PRESS
A call to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement was not immediately returned.
"We're trying to determine her situation right now," he said.
The 32-year-old Arellano arrived in Los Angeles on Saturday, leaving her sanctuary for the first time in a
year to campaign for immigration reform.
Arellano has become a symbol of the struggles of illegal immigrant parents and a source of controversy. She said Saturday she was not afraid of being taken into custody by immigration agents.
"From the time I took sanctuary the possibility has existed that they arrest me in the place and time they want," she said in Spanish. "I only have two choices. I either go to my country, Mexico, or stay and keep fighting. I decided to stay and fight."
Arellano came to Washington state illegally in 1997. She was deported to Mexico shortly after, but returned and moved to Illinois in 2000, taking a job cleaning planes at O'Hare International Airport.
She was arrested in 2002 at O'Hare and later convicted of working under a false Social Security number. She was to surrender to authorities last August.
She sought refuge at the storefront church on Chicago's west side Aug. 15, 2006. She did not leave the church property until deciding to be driven to Los Angeles, Coleman said.
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