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Name: Greg Peterson

Age: 49

Gender: Male

Relation: Taken

About Me: I am a news reporter, writer and investigative journalist specializing in street news, plus
civil rights and environment reporting Began my career over 30 years ago as a young teenager
in Augusta, GA after moving south during the middle of high school. I was co-coordinator of
the 1986 original James Brown Appreciation Day in Augusta, GA, where the Godfather of Soul was
always trashed by the local media who found no reasons to print or report anything positive
about the music icon. Mr. Terence Dicks was the other co-coordinator and most recently
served as chair of the Augusta Human Relations Commission and still a member of the Georgia
Clients Council. Mr. Brown taught us to \\\"fight the good fight\\\" by battling all forms
of racism and evil while not uttering a bad word about those who try to block justice, respect,
fairness and kindness to all. As a child, I also lived in the Harbert, Michigan home built
by late poet Carl Sandburg - where the legendary authored penned some of his greatest works
including his Chicago works and Lincoln papers. The huge home had a sundeck on the top and a
cool walk-in safe in the basement. The neighborhood - called Birchwood - has numerous cottages
used for other purposes by the Sandburgs including the milk house where they milked
goats. When my parents remodeled the fourth floor of the home that stands atop the Lake
Michigan sand dunes/bluffs - they found items that belonged to Mr. Sandburg concealed in the
walls including prescription bottles (with name), reading glasses, and a small, thin metal
stamp with his name. I have worked for dozens of newspapers and radio and TV stations in GA
and MI. I am the volunteer media advisor for several large environmental projects across
Upper Peninsula of MI including the Earth Keeper Initiative, the Manoomin Project and the
Turtle Island Project. The group has many environmental projects including an annual Earth
Day Clean Sweep at two dozen free drop off sites across a 400 mile area of northern Michigan
that has collected over 370 tons of household hazardous waste since 2005 (total collection
time: 9 hours or 3 hours each year). The 2007 Earth Keeper Pharmaceutical Clean Sweep
collected over one ton of drugs plus $5000,000 in narcotics in only three hours. Some 2,000
residents participated and many brought in pharmaceuticals for their family, friends and
neighbors. In 2006, some 10,000 people dropped off over 320 tons of old/broken computers,
cell phones and other electronic waste, all of which was recycled. In 2005, residents turned in
45 tons of household poisons and vehicle batteries. In 2007, over one ton of pharmaceuticals
and $500,000 in narcotics was turned in by more than 2,000 people at 19 sites - plus personal
care products likes shampoos, perfumes etc. The Manoomin (Wild Rice) Project teaches at-risk
teens (just sentenced in juvenile court) to respect nature and themselves by having American
Indian guides escort them to very remote lakes and streams in northern Michigan to plant and
care for wild rice. The teens conduct water quality and other tests to determine the best
conditions for the once native grain to survive. The newly formed Turtle Island project was
founded by Rev. Lynn Hubbard in Munising, Michigan. Environment projects are being planned
as well as regional and national conferences on respecting the culture and heritage of
indigenous peoples aka First Nation peoples (American Indians). Rev. Hubbard is providing a
platform for American Indians to be heard - unedited by whites. - whom Rev. Hubbard says
don’t have the knowledge or right to speak on behalf of Native Americans. I have always
specialized in civil rights, outdoor, environmental, cops and courts reporting thanks to my
late mentor Jay Mann (Jan Tillman Hutchens), an investigative reporter in Augusta, who lived by
the books \\\"Illusions\\\" and \\\"Jonathon Livingston Seagull.\\\" I love to fish, hunt,
camp and skydive. A member of the Delta Chi national fraternity, I was very active in student
projects through my schools years from Junior Achievement, to all forms of band (played cornet)
to cross country, track, and football (I wasn’t very good).

Website: http://www.TurtleIslandProject.org

Hometown: The World

Current City: Negaunee, Michigan

Current Zip: 49866

Country: United States