Photographs taken by Harry Skull Jr.

 

Remarks at the 100th Anniversary of the Boundary Waters Treaty

 

Hillary Rodham Clinton

Secretary of State

Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada

 

13 June, 2009

 

Good morning. What a glorious day, and it’s an absolute delight for me to be here on this occasion. I take any excuse I can to get back to come back to New York, and to celebrate this commemoration with all of you and to have an opportunity to spend time with my Canadian counterpart, Minister Cannon, is indeed a privilege.

 

I just want to recognize the significance of this extraordinary moment in time. The friendship between the people of the United States and Canada is the strongest in the world. There is no border that is longer and more peaceful; there is no greater trade between two nations. There are so many values that we share in common, and today we celebrate a treaty that helped to make this friendship possible 100 years ago.

 

The people who understood the significance of our relationship and the beauty of our natural surroundings were far-sighted and visionary. And the Boundary Water Treaty of 1909 made official something that people on both sides of the border have known for generations: that the rivers, the lakes, streams, the watersheds along our boundary do not belong to one nation or the other, but to both of us. And we are therefore called to be good stewards in the care of these precious resources. These waterways sustain some of Canada’s and America’s greatest cities. They foster travel and trade, they provide drinking water to families across the continent, and, of course, they offer some of the most beautiful vistas in all of creation.

 

Even as countries elsewhere in the past and today clash over natural resources, Canada and the United States have worked to remain peaceful partners in sharing these waters and caring for their long-term health. Now, when we’ve had differences, which all friends do, and even families, for that matter, we have worked that through. The International Joint Commission created by the Treaty has helped us to resolve our differences quickly and fairly.

 

The treaty has also established a sense of cooperation along the border. Other than comments about which side of the border has a better view – (laughter) – it’s something that we hear but don’t accept. It is so wonderfully easy to travel between our two countries, except for today, when we blocked the traffic on the bridge. I’m glad I’m no longer an elected official. (Laughter.) And I think when we look to the extraordinary relationship that we have between our two countries, I know how much traffic goes across this bridge – not just carrying goods as part of our trade relation, and not just visits by tourists, but residents on both sides who have children who play hockey on one side, who work on the other side, who have a summer home on one side. There is so much traffic that brings us together on a literally minute-by-minute basis. In fact, 300,000 people cross the border every single day to spend some time in the country next door. And they don’t have to pass through a military checkpoint to do so. Our border reflects our trust in one another.

 

Now, to properly celebrate the 100 successful years of this treaty, we have to do more than honor the past. We have to recommit ourselves to strengthening this partnership and find new ways to work together to solve common problems. As we look at this alliance that exists between the United States and Canada, it is stunning. $1.6 billion in goods flows across this border every single day. Many of our industries actually work hand-in-hand, supporting millions of jobs in both countries. We have the world’s largest energy trade relationship. Our power grids work together seamlessly, most of the time. We collaborate closely on citizen safety and defense. Our soldiers are serving shoulder-to-shoulder in Afghanistan. And we share a commitment to promoting democracy, good governance, and human rights worldwide. So our comprehensive alliance in the 21st century will move us even closer together as we collaborate to improve conditions not only in our own countries, but across the world.

 

One area where we must join forces in is protecting our environment, especially our shared waters. Article IV of the Boundary Waters Treaty prohibited pollution by either country, which made this treaty one of the world’s first environmental agreements. By 1972, our nations took another step toward protecting these waters with the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, which lays out the goals and guidelines for restoring and protecting the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the Great Lakes Basin.

 

The Great Lakes-St. River system is a treasure. It contains one-fifth of the world’s fresh surface water. It provides millions of people with safe drinking water every day. So it’s crucial that we honor the terms of the Great Lakes Agreement as it stands today, but we also have to update it to reflect new knowledge, new technology, and, unfortunately, new threats.

 

The Agreement was last amended in 1987 and since then, new invasive species have appeared in our lakes, new worrisome chemicals have emerged from our industrial processes, our knowledge of the ecology of the region and how to protect it has grown considerably. In its current form, the Great Lakes Agreement does not sufficiently address the needs of our shared ecosystem.

 

So I’m pleased to announce that Canada and the United States have agreed to update the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement. (Applause.) We look forward to working closely with state, provincial, and local governments throughout Canada, as well as other stakeholders, in the coming months to produce an agreement that reflects our best knowledge and our unshakable commitment to preserving this vital natural resource.

 

Now, as we work together on this, we must also strengthen our response to other environmental threats, especially climate change, one of the most urgent problems facing our world which endangers our world’s water sources, the safety of coastal regions, the future of agriculture and health, and the stability of communities everywhere. It is a paramount threat, and it demands effective and bold action, which can only be achieved through partnership.

 

The Canadian-American border is such a precious reflection of our great relationship, and it reminds us that although we may salute different flags, hear beautifully sung different anthems, our nations grew from the same land and the same ideals. It falls to us as it falls to every generation to strengthen that partnership and friendship. We look forward to many more years of working with you to achieve our common goal, and many more days of celebrating accomplishments like we do today in a beautiful, wondrous creation that God has given us to preserve and maintain.

 

Thank you all very much.

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American actress Dorothy Malone (1925–2018) was a sultry, dreamy-eyed beauty. She started in Frank Sinatra musicals during the 1940s. She won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her sultry role in Written on the Wind (1956). Best known by the public for her starring role as Constance MacKenzie on Peyton Place (1964-1968). Her final role was as Sharon Stone's friend in Basic Instinct (1992).

 

Dorothy Eloise Maloney was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1925. She was one of five children born to an accountant father. Two older sisters died of polio. A younger brother later was killed by lightning while on a Dallas golf course. When she was a child, her family moved to Dallas, Texas. Attending Ursuline Convent and Highland Park High School, Dorothy was the 'School Favorite' and won several awards for swimming and horseback riding. She modelled for Neiman Marcus following graduation, she studied at Southern Methodist University with the intent of becoming a nurse, but a role in the college play Starbound happened to catch the eye of an RKO talent scout and she was offered a Hollywood contract. At age 18, Dorothy Maloney made her film debut in Gildersleeve on Broadway (Gordon Douglas, 1943). The lovely brunette continued as an RKO starlet in the Frank Sinatra musicals Higher and Higher (Tim Whelan, 1943) and Step Lively (Tim Whelan, 1944), and a couple of the Falcon mysteries. She had a showier role in Show Business (Edwin L. Marin, 1944) with Eddie Cantor. RKO lost interest, however, after the two-year contract was up. Warner Bros. offered the actress a contract. As Dorothy Malone, she played a seductive book clerk in the Bogart/Bacall classic The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks, 1946). Critics and audiences took notice and she got more visible roles in Two Guys from Texas (David Butler, 1948), South of St. Louis (Ray Enright, 1949) and Colorado Territory (Raoul Walsh, 1949). Despite this positive movement, Warner Bros. did not extend Dorothy's contract in 1949 and she returned to her family in Dallas and a steadier job with an insurance agency.

 

Dorothy Malone decided to recommit to her acting career and move to New York to study at the American Theater Wing. In between her studies, she worked for TV and appeared in B movies like Saddle Legion (Lesley Selander, 1951) and The Bushwhackers (Rod Amateau, 1951). Producer Hal Wallis called her back to Hollywood to appear in Scared Stiff (George Marshall, 1953) starring the comedy duo of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. She also appeared with the duo in the musical-comedy Artists and Models (Frank Tashlin, 1955) as the love interest of Martin's character. After 11 years of mostly roles as loving sweethearts and wives, the brunette actress decided she needed to gamble on her career instead of playing it safe. She fired her agent, hired a publicist, dyed her hair blonde and sought a new image. First off was as a sister to Doris Day in Young at Heart (Gordon Douglas, 1954), a musical remake of Four Daughters (Michael Curtiz, 1938). The platinum blonde seemed to emphasize her overt and sensual beauty and she garnered even better attention when she appeared in the war pic Battle Cry (Raoul Walsh, 1955), in which she shared love scenes with heartthrob Tab Hunter. She continued the momentum with the Westerns Five Guns West ( Roger Corman, 1955) and Tall Man Riding (Lesley Selander, 1955) starring Randolph Scott, but not with melodramatic romantic dud Sincerely Yours (Gordon Douglas, 1955) which tried to sell to the audiences a heterosexual Liberace. She signed with Universal and won the scenery-chewing role of Marylee Hadley in the soap opera Written on the Wind (Douglas Sirk, 1956) in which she played an alcoholic nymphomaniac who tries to steal Rock Hudson from his wife, Lauren Bacall. Gary Brumburgh at IMDb: "She won a supporting Oscar for her splendidly tramp, boozed-up Southern belle which was highlighted by her writhing mambo dance." The Tarnished Angels (Douglas Sirk, 1957), which reunited Malone with Hudson faltered, and Quantez (Harry Keller, 1957) with Fred MacMurray was just another run-of-the-mill western. In Man of a Thousand Faces (Joseph Pevney, 1957) she played the unsympathetic first wife of James Cagney's Lon Chaney Sr, Then she appeared as alcoholic actress Diana Barrymore in the biographic melodrama Too Much, Too Soon (Art Napoleon, 1958) opposite Errol Flynn. At age 35, she married playboy actor Jacques Bergerac, Ginger Rogers' ex-husband, in 1959. A baby daughter, Mimi, was born the following year. Fewer film offers, which included Warlock (Edward Dmytryk, 1959) starring Richard Widmark, and The Last Voyage (Andrew L. Stone, 1960) with Robert Stack, came her way as Dorothy focused more on family life. A second daughter, Diane, was born in 1962.

 

Dorothy Malone's turbulent marriage ended in 1964 in a divorce and a bitter custody battle with Dorothy eventually winning primary custody. It took the small screen to rejuvenate her career in the mid-1960s when she earned top billing of TV's first prime time soap opera Peyton Place (1964). Dorothy starred as long-suffering Constance MacKenzie, the bookshop operator who harboured a dark secret about the birth of her daughter Allison, played by the 19-year-old Mia Farrow. The series was a smash hit. The run wasn't entirely happy however. Doctors discovered blood clots on her lungs which required major surgery and she almost died. Lola Albright filled in until she was able to return. Just as bad, her the significance of her role dwindled with time and 20th Century-Fox finally wrote her and co-star Tim O'Connor off the show in 1968. Dorothy filed a breach of contract lawsuit which ended in an out-of-court settlement. She would later return to the role in the TV movies Murder in Peyton Place (Bruce Kessler, 1977) and Peyton Place: The Next Generation (Larry Elikann, 1985). Her life on- and off-camera did not improve. Dorothy's second marriage to stockbroker Robert Tomarkin in 1969 would last only three months, and a third to businessman Charles Huston Bell managed about three years. Now-matronly roles in the films Winter Kills (William Richert, 1979), Off Your Rocker (Morley Markson, Larry Pall, 1982), The Being (Jackie Kong, 1983) and the Spanish-British horror film Descanse en piezas/Rest in Pieces (José Ramón Larraz, 1987), were few and far between a few TV-movies, did nothing to advance her. Malone returned and settled for good back in Dallas, returning to Hollywood only on occasion. Her last film was the popular thriller Basic Instinct (Paul Verhoeven, 1992) as a friend to Sharon Stone, a mother convicted of murdering her family. Dorothy Malone died it a nursing facility in Dallas at the age of 92. Gary Brumburgh at IMDb: "She will be remembered as one of those Hollywood stars who proved she had the talent but somehow got the short end of the stick when it came to quality films offered."

 

Source: Gary Brumburgh (IMDb), The Guardian, Wikipedia and IMDb.

Photographs taken by Harry Skull Jr.

 

Remarks at the 100th Anniversary of the Boundary Waters Treaty

 

Hillary Rodham Clinton

Secretary of State

Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada

 

13 June, 2009

 

Good morning. What a glorious day, and it’s an absolute delight for me to be here on this occasion. I take any excuse I can to get back to come back to New York, and to celebrate this commemoration with all of you and to have an opportunity to spend time with my Canadian counterpart, Minister Cannon, is indeed a privilege.

 

I just want to recognize the significance of this extraordinary moment in time. The friendship between the people of the United States and Canada is the strongest in the world. There is no border that is longer and more peaceful; there is no greater trade between two nations. There are so many values that we share in common, and today we celebrate a treaty that helped to make this friendship possible 100 years ago.

 

The people who understood the significance of our relationship and the beauty of our natural surroundings were far-sighted and visionary. And the Boundary Water Treaty of 1909 made official something that people on both sides of the border have known for generations: that the rivers, the lakes, streams, the watersheds along our boundary do not belong to one nation or the other, but to both of us. And we are therefore called to be good stewards in the care of these precious resources. These waterways sustain some of Canada’s and America’s greatest cities. They foster travel and trade, they provide drinking water to families across the continent, and, of course, they offer some of the most beautiful vistas in all of creation.

 

Even as countries elsewhere in the past and today clash over natural resources, Canada and the United States have worked to remain peaceful partners in sharing these waters and caring for their long-term health. Now, when we’ve had differences, which all friends do, and even families, for that matter, we have worked that through. The International Joint Commission created by the Treaty has helped us to resolve our differences quickly and fairly.

 

The treaty has also established a sense of cooperation along the border. Other than comments about which side of the border has a better view – (laughter) – it’s something that we hear but don’t accept. It is so wonderfully easy to travel between our two countries, except for today, when we blocked the traffic on the bridge. I’m glad I’m no longer an elected official. (Laughter.) And I think when we look to the extraordinary relationship that we have between our two countries, I know how much traffic goes across this bridge – not just carrying goods as part of our trade relation, and not just visits by tourists, but residents on both sides who have children who play hockey on one side, who work on the other side, who have a summer home on one side. There is so much traffic that brings us together on a literally minute-by-minute basis. In fact, 300,000 people cross the border every single day to spend some time in the country next door. And they don’t have to pass through a military checkpoint to do so. Our border reflects our trust in one another.

 

Now, to properly celebrate the 100 successful years of this treaty, we have to do more than honor the past. We have to recommit ourselves to strengthening this partnership and find new ways to work together to solve common problems. As we look at this alliance that exists between the United States and Canada, it is stunning. $1.6 billion in goods flows across this border every single day. Many of our industries actually work hand-in-hand, supporting millions of jobs in both countries. We have the world’s largest energy trade relationship. Our power grids work together seamlessly, most of the time. We collaborate closely on citizen safety and defense. Our soldiers are serving shoulder-to-shoulder in Afghanistan. And we share a commitment to promoting democracy, good governance, and human rights worldwide. So our comprehensive alliance in the 21st century will move us even closer together as we collaborate to improve conditions not only in our own countries, but across the world.

 

One area where we must join forces in is protecting our environment, especially our shared waters. Article IV of the Boundary Waters Treaty prohibited pollution by either country, which made this treaty one of the world’s first environmental agreements. By 1972, our nations took another step toward protecting these waters with the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, which lays out the goals and guidelines for restoring and protecting the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the Great Lakes Basin.

 

The Great Lakes-St. River system is a treasure. It contains one-fifth of the world’s fresh surface water. It provides millions of people with safe drinking water every day. So it’s crucial that we honor the terms of the Great Lakes Agreement as it stands today, but we also have to update it to reflect new knowledge, new technology, and, unfortunately, new threats.

 

The Agreement was last amended in 1987 and since then, new invasive species have appeared in our lakes, new worrisome chemicals have emerged from our industrial processes, our knowledge of the ecology of the region and how to protect it has grown considerably. In its current form, the Great Lakes Agreement does not sufficiently address the needs of our shared ecosystem.

 

So I’m pleased to announce that Canada and the United States have agreed to update the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement. (Applause.) We look forward to working closely with state, provincial, and local governments throughout Canada, as well as other stakeholders, in the coming months to produce an agreement that reflects our best knowledge and our unshakable commitment to preserving this vital natural resource.

 

Now, as we work together on this, we must also strengthen our response to other environmental threats, especially climate change, one of the most urgent problems facing our world which endangers our world’s water sources, the safety of coastal regions, the future of agriculture and health, and the stability of communities everywhere. It is a paramount threat, and it demands effective and bold action, which can only be achieved through partnership.

 

The Canadian-American border is such a precious reflection of our great relationship, and it reminds us that although we may salute different flags, hear beautifully sung different anthems, our nations grew from the same land and the same ideals. It falls to us as it falls to every generation to strengthen that partnership and friendship. We look forward to many more years of working with you to achieve our common goal, and many more days of celebrating accomplishments like we do today in a beautiful, wondrous creation that God has given us to preserve and maintain.

 

Thank you all very much.

Photographs taken by Harry Skull Jr.

 

Remarks at the 100th Anniversary of the Boundary Waters Treaty

 

Hillary Rodham Clinton

Secretary of State

Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada

 

13 June, 2009

 

Good morning. What a glorious day, and it’s an absolute delight for me to be here on this occasion. I take any excuse I can to get back to come back to New York, and to celebrate this commemoration with all of you and to have an opportunity to spend time with my Canadian counterpart, Minister Cannon, is indeed a privilege.

 

I just want to recognize the significance of this extraordinary moment in time. The friendship between the people of the United States and Canada is the strongest in the world. There is no border that is longer and more peaceful; there is no greater trade between two nations. There are so many values that we share in common, and today we celebrate a treaty that helped to make this friendship possible 100 years ago.

 

The people who understood the significance of our relationship and the beauty of our natural surroundings were far-sighted and visionary. And the Boundary Water Treaty of 1909 made official something that people on both sides of the border have known for generations: that the rivers, the lakes, streams, the watersheds along our boundary do not belong to one nation or the other, but to both of us. And we are therefore called to be good stewards in the care of these precious resources. These waterways sustain some of Canada’s and America’s greatest cities. They foster travel and trade, they provide drinking water to families across the continent, and, of course, they offer some of the most beautiful vistas in all of creation.

 

Even as countries elsewhere in the past and today clash over natural resources, Canada and the United States have worked to remain peaceful partners in sharing these waters and caring for their long-term health. Now, when we’ve had differences, which all friends do, and even families, for that matter, we have worked that through. The International Joint Commission created by the Treaty has helped us to resolve our differences quickly and fairly.

 

The treaty has also established a sense of cooperation along the border. Other than comments about which side of the border has a better view – (laughter) – it’s something that we hear but don’t accept. It is so wonderfully easy to travel between our two countries, except for today, when we blocked the traffic on the bridge. I’m glad I’m no longer an elected official. (Laughter.) And I think when we look to the extraordinary relationship that we have between our two countries, I know how much traffic goes across this bridge – not just carrying goods as part of our trade relation, and not just visits by tourists, but residents on both sides who have children who play hockey on one side, who work on the other side, who have a summer home on one side. There is so much traffic that brings us together on a literally minute-by-minute basis. In fact, 300,000 people cross the border every single day to spend some time in the country next door. And they don’t have to pass through a military checkpoint to do so. Our border reflects our trust in one another.

 

Now, to properly celebrate the 100 successful years of this treaty, we have to do more than honor the past. We have to recommit ourselves to strengthening this partnership and find new ways to work together to solve common problems. As we look at this alliance that exists between the United States and Canada, it is stunning. $1.6 billion in goods flows across this border every single day. Many of our industries actually work hand-in-hand, supporting millions of jobs in both countries. We have the world’s largest energy trade relationship. Our power grids work together seamlessly, most of the time. We collaborate closely on citizen safety and defense. Our soldiers are serving shoulder-to-shoulder in Afghanistan. And we share a commitment to promoting democracy, good governance, and human rights worldwide. So our comprehensive alliance in the 21st century will move us even closer together as we collaborate to improve conditions not only in our own countries, but across the world.

 

One area where we must join forces in is protecting our environment, especially our shared waters. Article IV of the Boundary Waters Treaty prohibited pollution by either country, which made this treaty one of the world’s first environmental agreements. By 1972, our nations took another step toward protecting these waters with the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, which lays out the goals and guidelines for restoring and protecting the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the Great Lakes Basin.

 

The Great Lakes-St. River system is a treasure. It contains one-fifth of the world’s fresh surface water. It provides millions of people with safe drinking water every day. So it’s crucial that we honor the terms of the Great Lakes Agreement as it stands today, but we also have to update it to reflect new knowledge, new technology, and, unfortunately, new threats.

 

The Agreement was last amended in 1987 and since then, new invasive species have appeared in our lakes, new worrisome chemicals have emerged from our industrial processes, our knowledge of the ecology of the region and how to protect it has grown considerably. In its current form, the Great Lakes Agreement does not sufficiently address the needs of our shared ecosystem.

 

So I’m pleased to announce that Canada and the United States have agreed to update the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement. (Applause.) We look forward to working closely with state, provincial, and local governments throughout Canada, as well as other stakeholders, in the coming months to produce an agreement that reflects our best knowledge and our unshakable commitment to preserving this vital natural resource.

 

Now, as we work together on this, we must also strengthen our response to other environmental threats, especially climate change, one of the most urgent problems facing our world which endangers our world’s water sources, the safety of coastal regions, the future of agriculture and health, and the stability of communities everywhere. It is a paramount threat, and it demands effective and bold action, which can only be achieved through partnership.

 

The Canadian-American border is such a precious reflection of our great relationship, and it reminds us that although we may salute different flags, hear beautifully sung different anthems, our nations grew from the same land and the same ideals. It falls to us as it falls to every generation to strengthen that partnership and friendship. We look forward to many more years of working with you to achieve our common goal, and many more days of celebrating accomplishments like we do today in a beautiful, wondrous creation that God has given us to preserve and maintain.

 

Thank you all very much.

Photographs taken by Harry Skull Jr.

 

Remarks at the 100th Anniversary of the Boundary Waters Treaty

 

Hillary Rodham Clinton

Secretary of State

Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada

 

13 June, 2009

 

Good morning. What a glorious day, and it’s an absolute delight for me to be here on this occasion. I take any excuse I can to get back to come back to New York, and to celebrate this commemoration with all of you and to have an opportunity to spend time with my Canadian counterpart, Minister Cannon, is indeed a privilege.

 

I just want to recognize the significance of this extraordinary moment in time. The friendship between the people of the United States and Canada is the strongest in the world. There is no border that is longer and more peaceful; there is no greater trade between two nations. There are so many values that we share in common, and today we celebrate a treaty that helped to make this friendship possible 100 years ago.

 

The people who understood the significance of our relationship and the beauty of our natural surroundings were far-sighted and visionary. And the Boundary Water Treaty of 1909 made official something that people on both sides of the border have known for generations: that the rivers, the lakes, streams, the watersheds along our boundary do not belong to one nation or the other, but to both of us. And we are therefore called to be good stewards in the care of these precious resources. These waterways sustain some of Canada’s and America’s greatest cities. They foster travel and trade, they provide drinking water to families across the continent, and, of course, they offer some of the most beautiful vistas in all of creation.

 

Even as countries elsewhere in the past and today clash over natural resources, Canada and the United States have worked to remain peaceful partners in sharing these waters and caring for their long-term health. Now, when we’ve had differences, which all friends do, and even families, for that matter, we have worked that through. The International Joint Commission created by the Treaty has helped us to resolve our differences quickly and fairly.

 

The treaty has also established a sense of cooperation along the border. Other than comments about which side of the border has a better view – (laughter) – it’s something that we hear but don’t accept. It is so wonderfully easy to travel between our two countries, except for today, when we blocked the traffic on the bridge. I’m glad I’m no longer an elected official. (Laughter.) And I think when we look to the extraordinary relationship that we have between our two countries, I know how much traffic goes across this bridge – not just carrying goods as part of our trade relation, and not just visits by tourists, but residents on both sides who have children who play hockey on one side, who work on the other side, who have a summer home on one side. There is so much traffic that brings us together on a literally minute-by-minute basis. In fact, 300,000 people cross the border every single day to spend some time in the country next door. And they don’t have to pass through a military checkpoint to do so. Our border reflects our trust in one another.

 

Now, to properly celebrate the 100 successful years of this treaty, we have to do more than honor the past. We have to recommit ourselves to strengthening this partnership and find new ways to work together to solve common problems. As we look at this alliance that exists between the United States and Canada, it is stunning. $1.6 billion in goods flows across this border every single day. Many of our industries actually work hand-in-hand, supporting millions of jobs in both countries. We have the world’s largest energy trade relationship. Our power grids work together seamlessly, most of the time. We collaborate closely on citizen safety and defense. Our soldiers are serving shoulder-to-shoulder in Afghanistan. And we share a commitment to promoting democracy, good governance, and human rights worldwide. So our comprehensive alliance in the 21st century will move us even closer together as we collaborate to improve conditions not only in our own countries, but across the world.

 

One area where we must join forces in is protecting our environment, especially our shared waters. Article IV of the Boundary Waters Treaty prohibited pollution by either country, which made this treaty one of the world’s first environmental agreements. By 1972, our nations took another step toward protecting these waters with the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, which lays out the goals and guidelines for restoring and protecting the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the Great Lakes Basin.

 

The Great Lakes-St. River system is a treasure. It contains one-fifth of the world’s fresh surface water. It provides millions of people with safe drinking water every day. So it’s crucial that we honor the terms of the Great Lakes Agreement as it stands today, but we also have to update it to reflect new knowledge, new technology, and, unfortunately, new threats.

 

The Agreement was last amended in 1987 and since then, new invasive species have appeared in our lakes, new worrisome chemicals have emerged from our industrial processes, our knowledge of the ecology of the region and how to protect it has grown considerably. In its current form, the Great Lakes Agreement does not sufficiently address the needs of our shared ecosystem.

 

So I’m pleased to announce that Canada and the United States have agreed to update the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement. (Applause.) We look forward to working closely with state, provincial, and local governments throughout Canada, as well as other stakeholders, in the coming months to produce an agreement that reflects our best knowledge and our unshakable commitment to preserving this vital natural resource.

 

Now, as we work together on this, we must also strengthen our response to other environmental threats, especially climate change, one of the most urgent problems facing our world which endangers our world’s water sources, the safety of coastal regions, the future of agriculture and health, and the stability of communities everywhere. It is a paramount threat, and it demands effective and bold action, which can only be achieved through partnership.

 

The Canadian-American border is such a precious reflection of our great relationship, and it reminds us that although we may salute different flags, hear beautifully sung different anthems, our nations grew from the same land and the same ideals. It falls to us as it falls to every generation to strengthen that partnership and friendship. We look forward to many more years of working with you to achieve our common goal, and many more days of celebrating accomplishments like we do today in a beautiful, wondrous creation that God has given us to preserve and maintain.

 

Thank you all very much.

The U.S. Mission in Uganda is once again sponsoring a series of World AIDS Day events from November 17 to December 18 across Uganda. All Ugandans are invited to participate. These large community events will include a quiz show with the theme “Everybody wins when we know the facts about HIV and AIDS.” The events are part of the U.S. Mission’s ongoing commitment to working in partnership with Ugandans to defeat HIV and AIDS.

 

The traveling “Everybody Wins!” quiz show first goes to Kasese and Kabale on November 17 and 19. Members of the community will be contestants and could win valuable prizes like free cell phones, MTN airtime cards, Total gas cookers, and aluminum water containers. 1,000 members of each community will take home a free World AIDS Day shirt. Everyone will learn the facts about HIV and AIDS that they can use to keep themselves, and their families, healthier. In addition, U.S. Peace Corps volunteers will lead Life Skills workshops for young people.

 

The “Everybody Wins!” quiz show then travels to Mityana for World AIDS Day on December 1. U.S. Ambassador Jerry P. Lanier will lead this event, highlighting the U.S. commitment to Uganda’s future. From there, the event travels to Arua and Soroti on December 8 and 11, then Hoima and Masindi on December 16 and 18.

 

Corporate sponsors of the seven events include MTN, Total, and Coca-cola. The U.S. Mission will again partner with The AIDS Support Organization (TASO) and local district leaders and other civil society organizations in each area. The events will reach an estimated audience of over 37,000 people from all age groups and walks of life.

 

The U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) is perhaps the largest overseas commitment in health ever made by the United States. The U.S. is committed to support Ugandans in their fight against HIV and AIDS. On World AIDS Day 2010, the American people recommit themselves to the fight.

 

On September 8, 2020, DAV honored its extraordinary founder, Cincinnatian Judge Robert S. Marx for his advocacy and commitment to the care of disabled veterans. At a somber wreath laying ceremony at his grave in Walnut Hills Cemetery, a part of the Jewish Cemeteries of Greater Cincinnati, representatives from DAV's National HQ and DAV Department of Ohio gathered to pay tribute and recommit their dedication to his legacy.

Photographs taken by Harry Skull Jr.

 

Remarks at the 100th Anniversary of the Boundary Waters Treaty

 

Hillary Rodham Clinton

Secretary of State

Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada

 

13 June, 2009

 

Good morning. What a glorious day, and it’s an absolute delight for me to be here on this occasion. I take any excuse I can to get back to come back to New York, and to celebrate this commemoration with all of you and to have an opportunity to spend time with my Canadian counterpart, Minister Cannon, is indeed a privilege.

 

I just want to recognize the significance of this extraordinary moment in time. The friendship between the people of the United States and Canada is the strongest in the world. There is no border that is longer and more peaceful; there is no greater trade between two nations. There are so many values that we share in common, and today we celebrate a treaty that helped to make this friendship possible 100 years ago.

 

The people who understood the significance of our relationship and the beauty of our natural surroundings were far-sighted and visionary. And the Boundary Water Treaty of 1909 made official something that people on both sides of the border have known for generations: that the rivers, the lakes, streams, the watersheds along our boundary do not belong to one nation or the other, but to both of us. And we are therefore called to be good stewards in the care of these precious resources. These waterways sustain some of Canada’s and America’s greatest cities. They foster travel and trade, they provide drinking water to families across the continent, and, of course, they offer some of the most beautiful vistas in all of creation.

 

Even as countries elsewhere in the past and today clash over natural resources, Canada and the United States have worked to remain peaceful partners in sharing these waters and caring for their long-term health. Now, when we’ve had differences, which all friends do, and even families, for that matter, we have worked that through. The International Joint Commission created by the Treaty has helped us to resolve our differences quickly and fairly.

 

The treaty has also established a sense of cooperation along the border. Other than comments about which side of the border has a better view – (laughter) – it’s something that we hear but don’t accept. It is so wonderfully easy to travel between our two countries, except for today, when we blocked the traffic on the bridge. I’m glad I’m no longer an elected official. (Laughter.) And I think when we look to the extraordinary relationship that we have between our two countries, I know how much traffic goes across this bridge – not just carrying goods as part of our trade relation, and not just visits by tourists, but residents on both sides who have children who play hockey on one side, who work on the other side, who have a summer home on one side. There is so much traffic that brings us together on a literally minute-by-minute basis. In fact, 300,000 people cross the border every single day to spend some time in the country next door. And they don’t have to pass through a military checkpoint to do so. Our border reflects our trust in one another.

 

Now, to properly celebrate the 100 successful years of this treaty, we have to do more than honor the past. We have to recommit ourselves to strengthening this partnership and find new ways to work together to solve common problems. As we look at this alliance that exists between the United States and Canada, it is stunning. $1.6 billion in goods flows across this border every single day. Many of our industries actually work hand-in-hand, supporting millions of jobs in both countries. We have the world’s largest energy trade relationship. Our power grids work together seamlessly, most of the time. We collaborate closely on citizen safety and defense. Our soldiers are serving shoulder-to-shoulder in Afghanistan. And we share a commitment to promoting democracy, good governance, and human rights worldwide. So our comprehensive alliance in the 21st century will move us even closer together as we collaborate to improve conditions not only in our own countries, but across the world.

 

One area where we must join forces in is protecting our environment, especially our shared waters. Article IV of the Boundary Waters Treaty prohibited pollution by either country, which made this treaty one of the world’s first environmental agreements. By 1972, our nations took another step toward protecting these waters with the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, which lays out the goals and guidelines for restoring and protecting the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the Great Lakes Basin.

 

The Great Lakes-St. River system is a treasure. It contains one-fifth of the world’s fresh surface water. It provides millions of people with safe drinking water every day. So it’s crucial that we honor the terms of the Great Lakes Agreement as it stands today, but we also have to update it to reflect new knowledge, new technology, and, unfortunately, new threats.

 

The Agreement was last amended in 1987 and since then, new invasive species have appeared in our lakes, new worrisome chemicals have emerged from our industrial processes, our knowledge of the ecology of the region and how to protect it has grown considerably. In its current form, the Great Lakes Agreement does not sufficiently address the needs of our shared ecosystem.

 

So I’m pleased to announce that Canada and the United States have agreed to update the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement. (Applause.) We look forward to working closely with state, provincial, and local governments throughout Canada, as well as other stakeholders, in the coming months to produce an agreement that reflects our best knowledge and our unshakable commitment to preserving this vital natural resource.

 

Now, as we work together on this, we must also strengthen our response to other environmental threats, especially climate change, one of the most urgent problems facing our world which endangers our world’s water sources, the safety of coastal regions, the future of agriculture and health, and the stability of communities everywhere. It is a paramount threat, and it demands effective and bold action, which can only be achieved through partnership.

 

The Canadian-American border is such a precious reflection of our great relationship, and it reminds us that although we may salute different flags, hear beautifully sung different anthems, our nations grew from the same land and the same ideals. It falls to us as it falls to every generation to strengthen that partnership and friendship. We look forward to many more years of working with you to achieve our common goal, and many more days of celebrating accomplishments like we do today in a beautiful, wondrous creation that God has given us to preserve and maintain.

 

Thank you all very much.

Photographs taken by Harry Skull Jr.

 

Remarks at the 100th Anniversary of the Boundary Waters Treaty

 

Hillary Rodham Clinton

Secretary of State

Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada

 

13 June, 2009

 

Good morning. What a glorious day, and it’s an absolute delight for me to be here on this occasion. I take any excuse I can to get back to come back to New York, and to celebrate this commemoration with all of you and to have an opportunity to spend time with my Canadian counterpart, Minister Cannon, is indeed a privilege.

 

I just want to recognize the significance of this extraordinary moment in time. The friendship between the people of the United States and Canada is the strongest in the world. There is no border that is longer and more peaceful; there is no greater trade between two nations. There are so many values that we share in common, and today we celebrate a treaty that helped to make this friendship possible 100 years ago.

 

The people who understood the significance of our relationship and the beauty of our natural surroundings were far-sighted and visionary. And the Boundary Water Treaty of 1909 made official something that people on both sides of the border have known for generations: that the rivers, the lakes, streams, the watersheds along our boundary do not belong to one nation or the other, but to both of us. And we are therefore called to be good stewards in the care of these precious resources. These waterways sustain some of Canada’s and America’s greatest cities. They foster travel and trade, they provide drinking water to families across the continent, and, of course, they offer some of the most beautiful vistas in all of creation.

 

Even as countries elsewhere in the past and today clash over natural resources, Canada and the United States have worked to remain peaceful partners in sharing these waters and caring for their long-term health. Now, when we’ve had differences, which all friends do, and even families, for that matter, we have worked that through. The International Joint Commission created by the Treaty has helped us to resolve our differences quickly and fairly.

 

The treaty has also established a sense of cooperation along the border. Other than comments about which side of the border has a better view – (laughter) – it’s something that we hear but don’t accept. It is so wonderfully easy to travel between our two countries, except for today, when we blocked the traffic on the bridge. I’m glad I’m no longer an elected official. (Laughter.) And I think when we look to the extraordinary relationship that we have between our two countries, I know how much traffic goes across this bridge – not just carrying goods as part of our trade relation, and not just visits by tourists, but residents on both sides who have children who play hockey on one side, who work on the other side, who have a summer home on one side. There is so much traffic that brings us together on a literally minute-by-minute basis. In fact, 300,000 people cross the border every single day to spend some time in the country next door. And they don’t have to pass through a military checkpoint to do so. Our border reflects our trust in one another.

 

Now, to properly celebrate the 100 successful years of this treaty, we have to do more than honor the past. We have to recommit ourselves to strengthening this partnership and find new ways to work together to solve common problems. As we look at this alliance that exists between the United States and Canada, it is stunning. $1.6 billion in goods flows across this border every single day. Many of our industries actually work hand-in-hand, supporting millions of jobs in both countries. We have the world’s largest energy trade relationship. Our power grids work together seamlessly, most of the time. We collaborate closely on citizen safety and defense. Our soldiers are serving shoulder-to-shoulder in Afghanistan. And we share a commitment to promoting democracy, good governance, and human rights worldwide. So our comprehensive alliance in the 21st century will move us even closer together as we collaborate to improve conditions not only in our own countries, but across the world.

 

One area where we must join forces in is protecting our environment, especially our shared waters. Article IV of the Boundary Waters Treaty prohibited pollution by either country, which made this treaty one of the world’s first environmental agreements. By 1972, our nations took another step toward protecting these waters with the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, which lays out the goals and guidelines for restoring and protecting the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the Great Lakes Basin.

 

The Great Lakes-St. River system is a treasure. It contains one-fifth of the world’s fresh surface water. It provides millions of people with safe drinking water every day. So it’s crucial that we honor the terms of the Great Lakes Agreement as it stands today, but we also have to update it to reflect new knowledge, new technology, and, unfortunately, new threats.

 

The Agreement was last amended in 1987 and since then, new invasive species have appeared in our lakes, new worrisome chemicals have emerged from our industrial processes, our knowledge of the ecology of the region and how to protect it has grown considerably. In its current form, the Great Lakes Agreement does not sufficiently address the needs of our shared ecosystem.

 

So I’m pleased to announce that Canada and the United States have agreed to update the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement. (Applause.) We look forward to working closely with state, provincial, and local governments throughout Canada, as well as other stakeholders, in the coming months to produce an agreement that reflects our best knowledge and our unshakable commitment to preserving this vital natural resource.

 

Now, as we work together on this, we must also strengthen our response to other environmental threats, especially climate change, one of the most urgent problems facing our world which endangers our world’s water sources, the safety of coastal regions, the future of agriculture and health, and the stability of communities everywhere. It is a paramount threat, and it demands effective and bold action, which can only be achieved through partnership.

 

The Canadian-American border is such a precious reflection of our great relationship, and it reminds us that although we may salute different flags, hear beautifully sung different anthems, our nations grew from the same land and the same ideals. It falls to us as it falls to every generation to strengthen that partnership and friendship. We look forward to many more years of working with you to achieve our common goal, and many more days of celebrating accomplishments like we do today in a beautiful, wondrous creation that God has given us to preserve and maintain.

 

Thank you all very much.

High School students Taryn Clary, Annie Grayer, and Brittany Wattley from Rye Country Day School volunteered for National Public Lands Day last year at the Jay Property, in Rye, NY by pulling out invasive plant species like mugwort, thistles and multiflora roses. Their efforts were in response to President Obama's call to action to safeguard our favorite American parks. They will be rallying again this summer and fall.

 

The Jay Property was the original home of Founding Father John Jay and has been designated a National Historic Landmark. This is the place that Jay returned home to to celebrate the end of the Revolutionary War thanks to the Treaty he negotiated with fellow Founding Fathers Ben Franklin and John Adams. Its landscape dates thousands of years back to Paleo-Indian times and includes the oldest man- managed meadow in New York State. It is open to the public and is currently the setting for an exhibit by the Jay Heritage Center on the Jay Family and their role in the abolition of slavery. Learn more about this NY State park at nysparks.com/historic-sites/39/details.aspx

  

See President Obama's proclamation from last year.

 

The White House

 

Office of the Press Secretary

 

September 22, 2011

Presidential Proclamation -- National Public Lands Day

National Public Lands Day, 2011

 

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By the President of the United States of America

 

A Proclamation

 

At the dawn of the 20th century, President Theodore Roosevelt embarked on a tour of the American West that forever changed our Nation's relationship with the outdoors. His visits to Yellowstone, Yosemite, the Grand Canyon, and other natural wonders instilled in him a commitment to conservation, and they motivated him to designate millions of acres of protected land. Today, our public lands system is a model of conservation and an important resource for clean energy, grazing, and recreation ‑‑ vital economic engines in both rural and urban communities.

 

On National Public Lands Day, we take time to appreciate our parks, national forests, wildlife refuges, and other public spaces, and we recommit to protecting and restoring them for future generations. This year, thousands of dedicated volunteers will continue a proud American tradition by conserving and restoring our public lands with local projects across our Nation. Americans will restore hiking trails, remove invasive plant species, clean lakes, and pick up litter in city parks. Through their service, families and children will find opportunities for outdoor activity on the millions of acres of national forests, parks, and trails.

 

To maintain our environmental heritage and build a responsive conservation and recreation agenda, my Administration launched the America's Great Outdoors Initiative last year. We met with thousands of Americans in listening sessions across our country, and compiled the results of this national conversation in the report, America's Great Outdoors: A Promise to Future Generations. To act on these findings, we are undertaking projects in collaboration with State, local, and tribal governments to responsibly steward the lands that belong to all Americans. First Lady Michelle Obama also joined in support of getting Americans outside when the Let's Move! initiative, in coordination with the Department of the Interior, launched Let's Move Outside! to help families exercise in the great outdoors.

 

Countless Americans have experienced the same awe and wonder that President Roosevelt felt on his westward journey. By joining in this legacy of conservation, Americans young and old protect not only our lands, but also the promise that future generations will be able to carry forward the spirit of adventure that lies at the heart of our Nation.

 

NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim September 24, 2011, as National Public Lands Day. I encourage all Americans to participate in a day of public service for our lands.

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty‑second day of September, in the year of our Lord two thousand eleven, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-sixth.

   

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Remarks at the 100th Anniversary of the Boundary Waters Treaty

 

Hillary Rodham Clinton

Secretary of State

Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada

 

13 June, 2009

 

Good morning. What a glorious day, and it’s an absolute delight for me to be here on this occasion. I take any excuse I can to get back to come back to New York, and to celebrate this commemoration with all of you and to have an opportunity to spend time with my Canadian counterpart, Minister Cannon, is indeed a privilege.

 

I just want to recognize the significance of this extraordinary moment in time. The friendship between the people of the United States and Canada is the strongest in the world. There is no border that is longer and more peaceful; there is no greater trade between two nations. There are so many values that we share in common, and today we celebrate a treaty that helped to make this friendship possible 100 years ago.

 

The people who understood the significance of our relationship and the beauty of our natural surroundings were far-sighted and visionary. And the Boundary Water Treaty of 1909 made official something that people on both sides of the border have known for generations: that the rivers, the lakes, streams, the watersheds along our boundary do not belong to one nation or the other, but to both of us. And we are therefore called to be good stewards in the care of these precious resources. These waterways sustain some of Canada’s and America’s greatest cities. They foster travel and trade, they provide drinking water to families across the continent, and, of course, they offer some of the most beautiful vistas in all of creation.

 

Even as countries elsewhere in the past and today clash over natural resources, Canada and the United States have worked to remain peaceful partners in sharing these waters and caring for their long-term health. Now, when we’ve had differences, which all friends do, and even families, for that matter, we have worked that through. The International Joint Commission created by the Treaty has helped us to resolve our differences quickly and fairly.

 

The treaty has also established a sense of cooperation along the border. Other than comments about which side of the border has a better view – (laughter) – it’s something that we hear but don’t accept. It is so wonderfully easy to travel between our two countries, except for today, when we blocked the traffic on the bridge. I’m glad I’m no longer an elected official. (Laughter.) And I think when we look to the extraordinary relationship that we have between our two countries, I know how much traffic goes across this bridge – not just carrying goods as part of our trade relation, and not just visits by tourists, but residents on both sides who have children who play hockey on one side, who work on the other side, who have a summer home on one side. There is so much traffic that brings us together on a literally minute-by-minute basis. In fact, 300,000 people cross the border every single day to spend some time in the country next door. And they don’t have to pass through a military checkpoint to do so. Our border reflects our trust in one another.

 

Now, to properly celebrate the 100 successful years of this treaty, we have to do more than honor the past. We have to recommit ourselves to strengthening this partnership and find new ways to work together to solve common problems. As we look at this alliance that exists between the United States and Canada, it is stunning. $1.6 billion in goods flows across this border every single day. Many of our industries actually work hand-in-hand, supporting millions of jobs in both countries. We have the world’s largest energy trade relationship. Our power grids work together seamlessly, most of the time. We collaborate closely on citizen safety and defense. Our soldiers are serving shoulder-to-shoulder in Afghanistan. And we share a commitment to promoting democracy, good governance, and human rights worldwide. So our comprehensive alliance in the 21st century will move us even closer together as we collaborate to improve conditions not only in our own countries, but across the world.

 

One area where we must join forces in is protecting our environment, especially our shared waters. Article IV of the Boundary Waters Treaty prohibited pollution by either country, which made this treaty one of the world’s first environmental agreements. By 1972, our nations took another step toward protecting these waters with the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, which lays out the goals and guidelines for restoring and protecting the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the Great Lakes Basin.

 

The Great Lakes-St. River system is a treasure. It contains one-fifth of the world’s fresh surface water. It provides millions of people with safe drinking water every day. So it’s crucial that we honor the terms of the Great Lakes Agreement as it stands today, but we also have to update it to reflect new knowledge, new technology, and, unfortunately, new threats.

 

The Agreement was last amended in 1987 and since then, new invasive species have appeared in our lakes, new worrisome chemicals have emerged from our industrial processes, our knowledge of the ecology of the region and how to protect it has grown considerably. In its current form, the Great Lakes Agreement does not sufficiently address the needs of our shared ecosystem.

 

So I’m pleased to announce that Canada and the United States have agreed to update the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement. (Applause.) We look forward to working closely with state, provincial, and local governments throughout Canada, as well as other stakeholders, in the coming months to produce an agreement that reflects our best knowledge and our unshakable commitment to preserving this vital natural resource.

 

Now, as we work together on this, we must also strengthen our response to other environmental threats, especially climate change, one of the most urgent problems facing our world which endangers our world’s water sources, the safety of coastal regions, the future of agriculture and health, and the stability of communities everywhere. It is a paramount threat, and it demands effective and bold action, which can only be achieved through partnership.

 

The Canadian-American border is such a precious reflection of our great relationship, and it reminds us that although we may salute different flags, hear beautifully sung different anthems, our nations grew from the same land and the same ideals. It falls to us as it falls to every generation to strengthen that partnership and friendship. We look forward to many more years of working with you to achieve our common goal, and many more days of celebrating accomplishments like we do today in a beautiful, wondrous creation that God has given us to preserve and maintain.

 

Thank you all very much.

The U.S. Mission in Uganda is once again sponsoring a series of World AIDS Day events from November 17 to December 18 across Uganda. All Ugandans are invited to participate. These large community events will include a quiz show with the theme “Everybody wins when we know the facts about HIV and AIDS.” The events are part of the U.S. Mission’s ongoing commitment to working in partnership with Ugandans to defeat HIV and AIDS.

 

The traveling “Everybody Wins!” quiz show first goes to Kasese and Kabale on November 17 and 19. Members of the community will be contestants and could win valuable prizes like free cell phones, MTN airtime cards, Total gas cookers, and aluminum water containers. 1,000 members of each community will take home a free World AIDS Day shirt. Everyone will learn the facts about HIV and AIDS that they can use to keep themselves, and their families, healthier. In addition, U.S. Peace Corps volunteers will lead Life Skills workshops for young people.

 

The “Everybody Wins!” quiz show then travels to Mityana for World AIDS Day on December 1. U.S. Ambassador Jerry P. Lanier will lead this event, highlighting the U.S. commitment to Uganda’s future. From there, the event travels to Arua and Soroti on December 8 and 11, then Hoima and Masindi on December 16 and 18.

 

Corporate sponsors of the seven events include MTN, Total, and Coca-cola. The U.S. Mission will again partner with The AIDS Support Organization (TASO) and local district leaders and other civil society organizations in each area. The events will reach an estimated audience of over 37,000 people from all age groups and walks of life.

 

The U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) is perhaps the largest overseas commitment in health ever made by the United States. The U.S. is committed to support Ugandans in their fight against HIV and AIDS. On World AIDS Day 2010, the American people recommit themselves to the fight.

 

WASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security recognizes the 15 year anniversary of the start of its mission with a celebration event at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, D.C., March 1, 2018. Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen was joined by Vice President Mike Pence and former Secretaries Tom Ridge, Michael Chertoff, John Kelly, and former acting Secretary Elaine Duke, as well as past and present DHS employees and leadership. The event was an opportunity to celebrate the momentous anniversary and recommit to DHS’s mission to safeguard the American people. Official DHS photo by Jetta Disco.

Photographs taken by Harry Skull Jr.

 

Remarks at the 100th Anniversary of the Boundary Waters Treaty

 

Hillary Rodham Clinton

Secretary of State

Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada

 

13 June, 2009

 

Good morning. What a glorious day, and it’s an absolute delight for me to be here on this occasion. I take any excuse I can to get back to come back to New York, and to celebrate this commemoration with all of you and to have an opportunity to spend time with my Canadian counterpart, Minister Cannon, is indeed a privilege.

 

I just want to recognize the significance of this extraordinary moment in time. The friendship between the people of the United States and Canada is the strongest in the world. There is no border that is longer and more peaceful; there is no greater trade between two nations. There are so many values that we share in common, and today we celebrate a treaty that helped to make this friendship possible 100 years ago.

 

The people who understood the significance of our relationship and the beauty of our natural surroundings were far-sighted and visionary. And the Boundary Water Treaty of 1909 made official something that people on both sides of the border have known for generations: that the rivers, the lakes, streams, the watersheds along our boundary do not belong to one nation or the other, but to both of us. And we are therefore called to be good stewards in the care of these precious resources. These waterways sustain some of Canada’s and America’s greatest cities. They foster travel and trade, they provide drinking water to families across the continent, and, of course, they offer some of the most beautiful vistas in all of creation.

 

Even as countries elsewhere in the past and today clash over natural resources, Canada and the United States have worked to remain peaceful partners in sharing these waters and caring for their long-term health. Now, when we’ve had differences, which all friends do, and even families, for that matter, we have worked that through. The International Joint Commission created by the Treaty has helped us to resolve our differences quickly and fairly.

 

The treaty has also established a sense of cooperation along the border. Other than comments about which side of the border has a better view – (laughter) – it’s something that we hear but don’t accept. It is so wonderfully easy to travel between our two countries, except for today, when we blocked the traffic on the bridge. I’m glad I’m no longer an elected official. (Laughter.) And I think when we look to the extraordinary relationship that we have between our two countries, I know how much traffic goes across this bridge – not just carrying goods as part of our trade relation, and not just visits by tourists, but residents on both sides who have children who play hockey on one side, who work on the other side, who have a summer home on one side. There is so much traffic that brings us together on a literally minute-by-minute basis. In fact, 300,000 people cross the border every single day to spend some time in the country next door. And they don’t have to pass through a military checkpoint to do so. Our border reflects our trust in one another.

 

Now, to properly celebrate the 100 successful years of this treaty, we have to do more than honor the past. We have to recommit ourselves to strengthening this partnership and find new ways to work together to solve common problems. As we look at this alliance that exists between the United States and Canada, it is stunning. $1.6 billion in goods flows across this border every single day. Many of our industries actually work hand-in-hand, supporting millions of jobs in both countries. We have the world’s largest energy trade relationship. Our power grids work together seamlessly, most of the time. We collaborate closely on citizen safety and defense. Our soldiers are serving shoulder-to-shoulder in Afghanistan. And we share a commitment to promoting democracy, good governance, and human rights worldwide. So our comprehensive alliance in the 21st century will move us even closer together as we collaborate to improve conditions not only in our own countries, but across the world.

 

One area where we must join forces in is protecting our environment, especially our shared waters. Article IV of the Boundary Waters Treaty prohibited pollution by either country, which made this treaty one of the world’s first environmental agreements. By 1972, our nations took another step toward protecting these waters with the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, which lays out the goals and guidelines for restoring and protecting the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the Great Lakes Basin.

 

The Great Lakes-St. River system is a treasure. It contains one-fifth of the world’s fresh surface water. It provides millions of people with safe drinking water every day. So it’s crucial that we honor the terms of the Great Lakes Agreement as it stands today, but we also have to update it to reflect new knowledge, new technology, and, unfortunately, new threats.

 

The Agreement was last amended in 1987 and since then, new invasive species have appeared in our lakes, new worrisome chemicals have emerged from our industrial processes, our knowledge of the ecology of the region and how to protect it has grown considerably. In its current form, the Great Lakes Agreement does not sufficiently address the needs of our shared ecosystem.

 

So I’m pleased to announce that Canada and the United States have agreed to update the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement. (Applause.) We look forward to working closely with state, provincial, and local governments throughout Canada, as well as other stakeholders, in the coming months to produce an agreement that reflects our best knowledge and our unshakable commitment to preserving this vital natural resource.

 

Now, as we work together on this, we must also strengthen our response to other environmental threats, especially climate change, one of the most urgent problems facing our world which endangers our world’s water sources, the safety of coastal regions, the future of agriculture and health, and the stability of communities everywhere. It is a paramount threat, and it demands effective and bold action, which can only be achieved through partnership.

 

The Canadian-American border is such a precious reflection of our great relationship, and it reminds us that although we may salute different flags, hear beautifully sung different anthems, our nations grew from the same land and the same ideals. It falls to us as it falls to every generation to strengthen that partnership and friendship. We look forward to many more years of working with you to achieve our common goal, and many more days of celebrating accomplishments like we do today in a beautiful, wondrous creation that God has given us to preserve and maintain.

 

Thank you all very much.

Celebrated every year on 1st December, the World AIDS Day (WAD) is the moment of the year where millions of people come together across the globe to commemorate people who lost their lives to HIV, applaud progress made in responding to the epidemic and recommit to ending the epidemic. This year, The World AIDS Campaign's Global Steering Committee has selected the theme, “Hands up for HIV Prevention,” for 2016 WAD. This annual theme is about reducing new HIV infections, discrimination and AIDS related deaths to zero through equal access to HIV prevention, testing, treatment and care. The 2016 WAD is celebrated under the theme of “Get up all against HIV/AIDS - Still there”.

 

The theme was celebrated with Nkombo Island community members and youth.

 

The objective of the campaign were:

 

Empowering youth, with a focus on girls and young women, to prevent unwanted and early pregnancy, as one of the causes of new HIV infections.

 

To advocate for the availability of youth friendly services at the island.

 

To empower the community in general on prevention of HIV new infections, Gender Based Violence (GBV) and human trafficking.

High School students from Rye Country Day School volunteered for National Public Lands Day at the Jay Property, in Rye, NY by pulling out invasive plant species like mugwort, thistles and multiflora roses. Their efforts were in response to President Obama's call to action to safeguard our favorite American parks.

 

The Jay Property was the original home of Founding Father John Jay and has been designated a National Historic Landmark. This is the place that Jay returned home to to celebrate the end of the Revolutionary War thanks to the Treaty he negotiated with fellow Founding Fathers Ben Franklin and John Adams. Its landscape dates thousands of years back to Paleo-Indian times and includes the oldest man- managed meadow in New York State. It is open to the public and is currently the setting for an exhibit by the Jay Heritage Center on the Jay Family and their role in the abolition of slavery.

  

See President Obama's proclamation:

 

The White House

 

Office of the Press Secretary

 

For Immediate Release September 22, 2011

Presidential Proclamation -- National Public Lands Day

National Public Lands Day, 2011

 

- - - - - - -

 

By the President of the United States of America

 

A Proclamation

 

At the dawn of the 20th century, President Theodore Roosevelt embarked on a tour of the American West that forever changed our Nation's relationship with the outdoors. His visits to Yellowstone, Yosemite, the Grand Canyon, and other natural wonders instilled in him a commitment to conservation, and they motivated him to designate millions of acres of protected land. Today, our public lands system is a model of conservation and an important resource for clean energy, grazing, and recreation ‑‑ vital economic engines in both rural and urban communities.

 

On National Public Lands Day, we take time to appreciate our parks, national forests, wildlife refuges, and other public spaces, and we recommit to protecting and restoring them for future generations. This year, thousands of dedicated volunteers will continue a proud American tradition by conserving and restoring our public lands with local projects across our Nation. Americans will restore hiking trails, remove invasive plant species, clean lakes, and pick up litter in city parks. Through their service, families and children will find opportunities for outdoor activity on the millions of acres of national forests, parks, and trails.

 

To maintain our environmental heritage and build a responsive conservation and recreation agenda, my Administration launched the America's Great Outdoors Initiative last year. We met with thousands of Americans in listening sessions across our country, and compiled the results of this national conversation in the report, America's Great Outdoors: A Promise to Future Generations. To act on these findings, we are undertaking projects in collaboration with State, local, and tribal governments to responsibly steward the lands that belong to all Americans. First Lady Michelle Obama also joined in support of getting Americans outside when the Let's Move! initiative, in coordination with the Department of the Interior, launched Let's Move Outside! to help families exercise in the great outdoors.

 

Countless Americans have experienced the same awe and wonder that President Roosevelt felt on his westward journey. By joining in this legacy of conservation, Americans young and old protect not only our lands, but also the promise that future generations will be able to carry forward the spirit of adventure that lies at the heart of our Nation.

 

NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim September 24, 2011, as National Public Lands Day. I encourage all Americans to participate in a day of public service for our lands.

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty‑second day of September, in the year of our Lord two thousand eleven, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-sixth.

   

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Email: jayheritagecenter@gmail.com

www.jayheritagecenter.org

  

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A National Historic Landmark since 1993

Member of the African American Heritage Trail of Westchester County since 2004

Member of the Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area since 2009

On NY State's Path Through History (2013)

GOVERNOR TOMBLIN CELEBRATES ONE-YEAR

ANNIVERSARY OF 844-HELP4WV CALL LINE

 

Call center has received more than 5,000 calls for help

around substance abuse, mental health

 

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (September 9, 2016) - Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin today joined state and local officials at the 844-HELP4WV call line headquarters in Charleston to commemorate the one-year anniversary of West Virginia's first statewide 24-hour substance abuse call line, and highlight the state's progress in the fight against substance abuse.

 

"I am proud of the work we've done and the progress we've made together to help those struggling with addiction, especially through the HELP4WV call line," said. Gov. Tomblin. "As we mark the one year anniversary of the help line, we also look ahead to the challenges that remain - and recommit ourselves to helping more West Virginians overcome addiction."

 

In the year since Gov. Tomblin launched the call line, more than 5,200 calls have been received. Of those, 2,250 were individuals seeking help, all of whom were connected to at least one resource to begin or continue treatment. The help line was a recommendation of Gov. Tomblin's community-driven regional substance abuse task forces, which are set to hold their 20th round of meetings this fall.

 

The call line is administered through a collaborative partnership between the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources (DHHR) and First Choice Health Systems, whose employees are professionally certified and trained to engage callers in conversation. They work on a one-on-one basis to determine the best steps moving forward for each individual.

 

No callers are placed on hold and can be immediately connected with treatment staff to help determine the most appropriate treatment option. Follow-up phone calls are placed after the first appointment, the first month, and the first three months to help patients stay on track and have access to any additional clinical information or resources on community-based programs and local support groups.

 

Snapshot of Substance Abuse Resources & Programs in West Virginia

 

The 844-HELP4WV call line is available 24 hours a day, seven days per week and accepts phone calls and text messages. The website - www.help4wv.com - includes a live online chat application.

Substance abuse prevention services are provided in all 55 counties in West Virginia. More than 130 crisis detoxification beds in residential treatment facilities exist across the state with more sites under development. An additional 118 beds are designated for short-term, postpartum, youth and long-term treatment. Nearly 700 beds are available to those seeking help and support at peer and provider recovery homes and facilities.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently announced $53 million in funding for 44 states to combat opioid abuse. West Virginia is set to receive support in its efforts to prevent overdoses and strengthen drug misuse prevention, among other initiatives.

Today, the National Governor's Association invited West Virginia to attend a learning lab, State Strategies for Reducing Overdose and Deaths from Heroin and Illicit Fentanyl. A team will attend workshops focusing on innovative policies and programs and best practices to increase access to substance abuse treatment and improve timeliness of overdoes reporting and response.

The West Virginia Division of Corrections offers programs focused on combatting substance abuse in the state's prisons and jails. Nine Residential Substance Abuse Treatment (RSAT) units in correctional centers across the state provide six-month to one-year courses of inpatient treatment with a total reach of 491 inmates. The RSAT model has been expanded to regional facilities.

Through a pilot program overseen by the DHHR, medication assisted treatment is available for paroling or discharging inmates who have completed substance abuse programs and show motivation for continuing treatment. As of June, 29 inmates had received this treatment before leaving their facility. This pilot program has been expanded through legislation passed this year and has begun development in regional jails.

Both prisons and jails offer outpatient substance abuse counseling programs, including 12-step peer-to-peer programs and a 39-session program focusing on addiction education, transitional skills for recovery and relapse prevention.

 

Photos available for media use. All photos should be attributed “Photo courtesy of Office of the Governor.”

GOVERNOR TOMBLIN CELEBRATES ONE-YEAR

ANNIVERSARY OF 844-HELP4WV CALL LINE

 

Call center has received more than 5,000 calls for help

around substance abuse, mental health

 

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (September 9, 2016) - Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin today joined state and local officials at the 844-HELP4WV call line headquarters in Charleston to commemorate the one-year anniversary of West Virginia's first statewide 24-hour substance abuse call line, and highlight the state's progress in the fight against substance abuse.

 

"I am proud of the work we've done and the progress we've made together to help those struggling with addiction, especially through the HELP4WV call line," said. Gov. Tomblin. "As we mark the one year anniversary of the help line, we also look ahead to the challenges that remain - and recommit ourselves to helping more West Virginians overcome addiction."

 

In the year since Gov. Tomblin launched the call line, more than 5,200 calls have been received. Of those, 2,250 were individuals seeking help, all of whom were connected to at least one resource to begin or continue treatment. The help line was a recommendation of Gov. Tomblin's community-driven regional substance abuse task forces, which are set to hold their 20th round of meetings this fall.

 

The call line is administered through a collaborative partnership between the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources (DHHR) and First Choice Health Systems, whose employees are professionally certified and trained to engage callers in conversation. They work on a one-on-one basis to determine the best steps moving forward for each individual.

 

No callers are placed on hold and can be immediately connected with treatment staff to help determine the most appropriate treatment option. Follow-up phone calls are placed after the first appointment, the first month, and the first three months to help patients stay on track and have access to any additional clinical information or resources on community-based programs and local support groups.

 

Snapshot of Substance Abuse Resources & Programs in West Virginia

 

The 844-HELP4WV call line is available 24 hours a day, seven days per week and accepts phone calls and text messages. The website - www.help4wv.com - includes a live online chat application.

Substance abuse prevention services are provided in all 55 counties in West Virginia. More than 130 crisis detoxification beds in residential treatment facilities exist across the state with more sites under development. An additional 118 beds are designated for short-term, postpartum, youth and long-term treatment. Nearly 700 beds are available to those seeking help and support at peer and provider recovery homes and facilities.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently announced $53 million in funding for 44 states to combat opioid abuse. West Virginia is set to receive support in its efforts to prevent overdoses and strengthen drug misuse prevention, among other initiatives.

Today, the National Governor's Association invited West Virginia to attend a learning lab, State Strategies for Reducing Overdose and Deaths from Heroin and Illicit Fentanyl. A team will attend workshops focusing on innovative policies and programs and best practices to increase access to substance abuse treatment and improve timeliness of overdoes reporting and response.

The West Virginia Division of Corrections offers programs focused on combatting substance abuse in the state's prisons and jails. Nine Residential Substance Abuse Treatment (RSAT) units in correctional centers across the state provide six-month to one-year courses of inpatient treatment with a total reach of 491 inmates. The RSAT model has been expanded to regional facilities.

Through a pilot program overseen by the DHHR, medication assisted treatment is available for paroling or discharging inmates who have completed substance abuse programs and show motivation for continuing treatment. As of June, 29 inmates had received this treatment before leaving their facility. This pilot program has been expanded through legislation passed this year and has begun development in regional jails.

Both prisons and jails offer outpatient substance abuse counseling programs, including 12-step peer-to-peer programs and a 39-session program focusing on addiction education, transitional skills for recovery and relapse prevention.

 

Photos available for media use. All photos should be attributed “Photo courtesy of Office of the Governor.”

High School students Taryn Clary, Annie Grayer and Brittany Wattley from Rye Country Day School volunteered for National Public Lands Day at the Jay Property, in Rye, NY by pulling out invasive plant species like mugwort, thistles and multiflora roses. Their efforts were in response to President Obama's call to action to safeguard our favorite American parks.

 

The Jay Property was the original home of Founding Father John Jay and has been designated a National Historic Landmark. This is the place that Jay returned home to to celebrate the end of the Revolutionary War thanks to the Treaty he negotiated with fellow Founding Fathers Ben Franklin and John Adams. Its landscape dates thousands of years back to Paleo-Indian times and includes the oldest man- managed meadow in New York State. It is open to the public and is currently the setting for an exhibit by the Jay Heritage Center on the Jay Family and their role in the abolition of slavery.

  

See President Obama's proclamation:

 

The White House

 

Office of the Press Secretary

 

For Immediate Release September 22, 2011

Presidential Proclamation -- National Public Lands Day

National Public Lands Day, 2011

 

- - - - - - -

 

By the President of the United States of America

 

A Proclamation

 

At the dawn of the 20th century, President Theodore Roosevelt embarked on a tour of the American West that forever changed our Nation's relationship with the outdoors. His visits to Yellowstone, Yosemite, the Grand Canyon, and other natural wonders instilled in him a commitment to conservation, and they motivated him to designate millions of acres of protected land. Today, our public lands system is a model of conservation and an important resource for clean energy, grazing, and recreation ‑‑ vital economic engines in both rural and urban communities.

 

On National Public Lands Day, we take time to appreciate our parks, national forests, wildlife refuges, and other public spaces, and we recommit to protecting and restoring them for future generations. This year, thousands of dedicated volunteers will continue a proud American tradition by conserving and restoring our public lands with local projects across our Nation. Americans will restore hiking trails, remove invasive plant species, clean lakes, and pick up litter in city parks. Through their service, families and children will find opportunities for outdoor activity on the millions of acres of national forests, parks, and trails.

 

To maintain our environmental heritage and build a responsive conservation and recreation agenda, my Administration launched the America's Great Outdoors Initiative last year. We met with thousands of Americans in listening sessions across our country, and compiled the results of this national conversation in the report, America's Great Outdoors: A Promise to Future Generations. To act on these findings, we are undertaking projects in collaboration with State, local, and tribal governments to responsibly steward the lands that belong to all Americans. First Lady Michelle Obama also joined in support of getting Americans outside when the Let's Move! initiative, in coordination with the Department of the Interior, launched Let's Move Outside! to help families exercise in the great outdoors.

 

Countless Americans have experienced the same awe and wonder that President Roosevelt felt on his westward journey. By joining in this legacy of conservation, Americans young and old protect not only our lands, but also the promise that future generations will be able to carry forward the spirit of adventure that lies at the heart of our Nation.

 

NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim September 24, 2011, as National Public Lands Day. I encourage all Americans to participate in a day of public service for our lands.

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty‑second day of September, in the year of our Lord two thousand eleven, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-sixth.

   

Jay Heritage Center

210 Boston Post Road

Rye, NY 10580

(914) 698-9275

Email: jayheritagecenter@gmail.com

www.jayheritagecenter.org

  

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A National Historic Landmark since 1993

Member of the African American Heritage Trail of Westchester County since 2004

Member of the Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area since 2009

On NY State's Path Through History (2013)

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Brgy 27 Bayanihan Landmarks, Common house plants and Roadside Stampsize Flower Garden

 

People on the Go at Sunrises, Sunsets and Breaking Dawn. The Many Faces of Life in the Ever Changing Plant and Flower World. Ang pamilyang pinoy mahilig manumtanom palibot sa ilang balay masiyudad man o Countryside House and Lot. Potted common houseplants and Stampsize Flower Garden maybe seen in yards or as interior decor sulod ug gawas sa panimalay. Nipa Hut sa kabus o Barungbarong sa poorest of the poor ug Mansion; ang matag kapamilya mogahin ug oras pag-atiman ni-ini kada-adlaw. -wilfredosrb@83.

 

THROWBACK PHOTOS to Pre covid-19 Pandemic Time

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PANDEMIC

STAY HOME. People on self Quarantine, Grow Common HousePlants in pots, others and Roadside Stampsize Flower Garden during this stressful time; "Pinapawisansan ka na, May Income Pa!" Support our Government and share Enhanced Community Quarantine implementing guidelines contra COVID-19 2020

 

Across the range of diverse experiences and traditions that have been written into our Nation's story, family has remained a steadfast and common foundation. Every day, families offer comfort and support to one another with enduring and unconditional love and they contribute to their communities and our country. During National Family Week, we uplift and honor the families that give so much to forge a brighter future for themselves and for America.... As we reminisce on warm memories and share in the joy and love family can provide, let us also pledge to lift up our loved ones and recommit to the family bonds that have strengthened the fabric of our Nation. ~Barack Obama, 2015 November 23rd, quoted from The White House Office of the Press Secretary

  

GOVERNOR TOMBLIN CELEBRATES ONE-YEAR

ANNIVERSARY OF 844-HELP4WV CALL LINE

 

Call center has received more than 5,000 calls for help

around substance abuse, mental health

 

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (September 9, 2016) - Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin today joined state and local officials at the 844-HELP4WV call line headquarters in Charleston to commemorate the one-year anniversary of West Virginia's first statewide 24-hour substance abuse call line, and highlight the state's progress in the fight against substance abuse.

 

"I am proud of the work we've done and the progress we've made together to help those struggling with addiction, especially through the HELP4WV call line," said. Gov. Tomblin. "As we mark the one year anniversary of the help line, we also look ahead to the challenges that remain - and recommit ourselves to helping more West Virginians overcome addiction."

 

In the year since Gov. Tomblin launched the call line, more than 5,200 calls have been received. Of those, 2,250 were individuals seeking help, all of whom were connected to at least one resource to begin or continue treatment. The help line was a recommendation of Gov. Tomblin's community-driven regional substance abuse task forces, which are set to hold their 20th round of meetings this fall.

 

The call line is administered through a collaborative partnership between the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources (DHHR) and First Choice Health Systems, whose employees are professionally certified and trained to engage callers in conversation. They work on a one-on-one basis to determine the best steps moving forward for each individual.

 

No callers are placed on hold and can be immediately connected with treatment staff to help determine the most appropriate treatment option. Follow-up phone calls are placed after the first appointment, the first month, and the first three months to help patients stay on track and have access to any additional clinical information or resources on community-based programs and local support groups.

 

Snapshot of Substance Abuse Resources & Programs in West Virginia

 

The 844-HELP4WV call line is available 24 hours a day, seven days per week and accepts phone calls and text messages. The website - www.help4wv.com - includes a live online chat application.

Substance abuse prevention services are provided in all 55 counties in West Virginia. More than 130 crisis detoxification beds in residential treatment facilities exist across the state with more sites under development. An additional 118 beds are designated for short-term, postpartum, youth and long-term treatment. Nearly 700 beds are available to those seeking help and support at peer and provider recovery homes and facilities.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently announced $53 million in funding for 44 states to combat opioid abuse. West Virginia is set to receive support in its efforts to prevent overdoses and strengthen drug misuse prevention, among other initiatives.

Today, the National Governor's Association invited West Virginia to attend a learning lab, State Strategies for Reducing Overdose and Deaths from Heroin and Illicit Fentanyl. A team will attend workshops focusing on innovative policies and programs and best practices to increase access to substance abuse treatment and improve timeliness of overdoes reporting and response.

The West Virginia Division of Corrections offers programs focused on combatting substance abuse in the state's prisons and jails. Nine Residential Substance Abuse Treatment (RSAT) units in correctional centers across the state provide six-month to one-year courses of inpatient treatment with a total reach of 491 inmates. The RSAT model has been expanded to regional facilities.

Through a pilot program overseen by the DHHR, medication assisted treatment is available for paroling or discharging inmates who have completed substance abuse programs and show motivation for continuing treatment. As of June, 29 inmates had received this treatment before leaving their facility. This pilot program has been expanded through legislation passed this year and has begun development in regional jails.

Both prisons and jails offer outpatient substance abuse counseling programs, including 12-step peer-to-peer programs and a 39-session program focusing on addiction education, transitional skills for recovery and relapse prevention.

 

Photos available for media use. All photos should be attributed “Photo courtesy of Office of the Governor.”

Statement by Canada’s Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, Deborah A. Lyons on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women

   

November 25, 2013

Kabul, Afghanistan

 

“Today we commemorate the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.

 

This is an occasion to reiterate our commitment to ending gender-based violence and to lend our voices to change the pervasive culture of violence against women and girls that permeates all parts of the globe. Living free from violence is a fundamental human right. Yet, it is estimated that one in three women will be subject to violence in her lifetime. Violence is not only a devastating act in itself, but it is also an obstacle to the achievement of equality, development and peace. Canada is committed to ending all forms of violence against women, both at home and abroad. In Afghanistan, Canada has supported protection measures, health services, education and awareness initiatives to respond to and eliminate violence. Today, at the beginning of the 16 Days Campaign, we recommit our efforts to protect women and girls from violence and achieve their right to live freely.”

 

Déclaration de l’ambassadrice du Canada auprès de la République islamique d’Afghanistan, Mme Deborah A. Lyons, à l’occasion de la Journée internationale pour l’élimination de la violence à l’égard des femmes

 

Le 25 novembre 2013

Kaboul, Afghanistan

 

« Nous soulignons aujourd’hui la Journée internationale pour l’élimination de la violence à l’égard des femmes. Il s’agit d’une excellente occasion de réitérer notre détermination à mettre fin à la violence fondée sur le sexe et d’unir nos voix en vue de susciter un changement dans la culture de violence à l’égard des femmes et des filles qui demeure bien ancrée encore partout dans le monde. Vivre à l’abri de la violence constitue un droit de la personne fondamental. Malgré tout, environ une femme sur trois fera l’objet de violence au cours de sa vie. La violence constitue non seulement un geste dévastateur en soi, mais aussi un obstacle à l’égalité, au développement et à la paix. Le Canada est résolu à mettre fin à toutes les formes de violence à l’égard des femmes au Canada et à l’étranger. En Afghanistan, le Canada a appuyé des mesures de protection, des services de santé et d’éducation ainsi que des initiatives de sensibilisation visant à intervenir face à la violence et à l’éliminer. Aujourd’hui, alors que s’amorce une campagne de sensibilisation de 16 jours, nous réaffirmons notre volonté de continuer à protéger les femmes et les filles de la violence afin de leur permettre de profiter pleinement de leur droit de vivre librement. »

The U.S. Mission in Uganda is once again sponsoring a series of World AIDS Day events from November 17 to December 18 across Uganda. All Ugandans are invited to participate. These large community events will include a quiz show with the theme “Everybody wins when we know the facts about HIV and AIDS.” The events are part of the U.S. Mission’s ongoing commitment to working in partnership with Ugandans to defeat HIV and AIDS.

 

The traveling “Everybody Wins!” quiz show first goes to Kasese and Kabale on November 17 and 19. Members of the community will be contestants and could win valuable prizes like free cell phones, MTN airtime cards, Total gas cookers, and aluminum water containers. 1,000 members of each community will take home a free World AIDS Day shirt. Everyone will learn the facts about HIV and AIDS that they can use to keep themselves, and their families, healthier. In addition, U.S. Peace Corps volunteers will lead Life Skills workshops for young people.

 

The “Everybody Wins!” quiz show then travels to Mityana for World AIDS Day on December 1. U.S. Ambassador Jerry P. Lanier will lead this event, highlighting the U.S. commitment to Uganda’s future. From there, the event travels to Arua and Soroti on December 8 and 11, then Hoima and Masindi on December 16 and 18.

 

Corporate sponsors of the seven events include MTN, Total, and Coca-cola. The U.S. Mission will again partner with The AIDS Support Organization (TASO) and local district leaders and other civil society organizations in each area. The events will reach an estimated audience of over 37,000 people from all age groups and walks of life.

 

The U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) is perhaps the largest overseas commitment in health ever made by the United States. The U.S. is committed to support Ugandans in their fight against HIV and AIDS. On World AIDS Day 2010, the American people recommit themselves to the fight.

 

GOVERNOR TOMBLIN CELEBRATES ONE-YEAR

ANNIVERSARY OF 844-HELP4WV CALL LINE

 

Call center has received more than 5,000 calls for help

around substance abuse, mental health

 

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (September 9, 2016) - Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin today joined state and local officials at the 844-HELP4WV call line headquarters in Charleston to commemorate the one-year anniversary of West Virginia's first statewide 24-hour substance abuse call line, and highlight the state's progress in the fight against substance abuse.

 

"I am proud of the work we've done and the progress we've made together to help those struggling with addiction, especially through the HELP4WV call line," said. Gov. Tomblin. "As we mark the one year anniversary of the help line, we also look ahead to the challenges that remain - and recommit ourselves to helping more West Virginians overcome addiction."

 

In the year since Gov. Tomblin launched the call line, more than 5,200 calls have been received. Of those, 2,250 were individuals seeking help, all of whom were connected to at least one resource to begin or continue treatment. The help line was a recommendation of Gov. Tomblin's community-driven regional substance abuse task forces, which are set to hold their 20th round of meetings this fall.

 

The call line is administered through a collaborative partnership between the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources (DHHR) and First Choice Health Systems, whose employees are professionally certified and trained to engage callers in conversation. They work on a one-on-one basis to determine the best steps moving forward for each individual.

 

No callers are placed on hold and can be immediately connected with treatment staff to help determine the most appropriate treatment option. Follow-up phone calls are placed after the first appointment, the first month, and the first three months to help patients stay on track and have access to any additional clinical information or resources on community-based programs and local support groups.

 

Snapshot of Substance Abuse Resources & Programs in West Virginia

 

The 844-HELP4WV call line is available 24 hours a day, seven days per week and accepts phone calls and text messages. The website - www.help4wv.com - includes a live online chat application.

Substance abuse prevention services are provided in all 55 counties in West Virginia. More than 130 crisis detoxification beds in residential treatment facilities exist across the state with more sites under development. An additional 118 beds are designated for short-term, postpartum, youth and long-term treatment. Nearly 700 beds are available to those seeking help and support at peer and provider recovery homes and facilities.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently announced $53 million in funding for 44 states to combat opioid abuse. West Virginia is set to receive support in its efforts to prevent overdoses and strengthen drug misuse prevention, among other initiatives.

Today, the National Governor's Association invited West Virginia to attend a learning lab, State Strategies for Reducing Overdose and Deaths from Heroin and Illicit Fentanyl. A team will attend workshops focusing on innovative policies and programs and best practices to increase access to substance abuse treatment and improve timeliness of overdoes reporting and response.

The West Virginia Division of Corrections offers programs focused on combatting substance abuse in the state's prisons and jails. Nine Residential Substance Abuse Treatment (RSAT) units in correctional centers across the state provide six-month to one-year courses of inpatient treatment with a total reach of 491 inmates. The RSAT model has been expanded to regional facilities.

Through a pilot program overseen by the DHHR, medication assisted treatment is available for paroling or discharging inmates who have completed substance abuse programs and show motivation for continuing treatment. As of June, 29 inmates had received this treatment before leaving their facility. This pilot program has been expanded through legislation passed this year and has begun development in regional jails.

Both prisons and jails offer outpatient substance abuse counseling programs, including 12-step peer-to-peer programs and a 39-session program focusing on addiction education, transitional skills for recovery and relapse prevention.

 

Photos available for media use. All photos should be attributed “Photo courtesy of Office of the Governor.”

GOVERNOR TOMBLIN CELEBRATES ONE-YEAR

ANNIVERSARY OF 844-HELP4WV CALL LINE

 

Call center has received more than 5,000 calls for help

around substance abuse, mental health

 

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (September 9, 2016) - Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin today joined state and local officials at the 844-HELP4WV call line headquarters in Charleston to commemorate the one-year anniversary of West Virginia's first statewide 24-hour substance abuse call line, and highlight the state's progress in the fight against substance abuse.

 

"I am proud of the work we've done and the progress we've made together to help those struggling with addiction, especially through the HELP4WV call line," said. Gov. Tomblin. "As we mark the one year anniversary of the help line, we also look ahead to the challenges that remain - and recommit ourselves to helping more West Virginians overcome addiction."

 

In the year since Gov. Tomblin launched the call line, more than 5,200 calls have been received. Of those, 2,250 were individuals seeking help, all of whom were connected to at least one resource to begin or continue treatment. The help line was a recommendation of Gov. Tomblin's community-driven regional substance abuse task forces, which are set to hold their 20th round of meetings this fall.

 

The call line is administered through a collaborative partnership between the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources (DHHR) and First Choice Health Systems, whose employees are professionally certified and trained to engage callers in conversation. They work on a one-on-one basis to determine the best steps moving forward for each individual.

 

No callers are placed on hold and can be immediately connected with treatment staff to help determine the most appropriate treatment option. Follow-up phone calls are placed after the first appointment, the first month, and the first three months to help patients stay on track and have access to any additional clinical information or resources on community-based programs and local support groups.

 

Snapshot of Substance Abuse Resources & Programs in West Virginia

 

The 844-HELP4WV call line is available 24 hours a day, seven days per week and accepts phone calls and text messages. The website - www.help4wv.com - includes a live online chat application.

Substance abuse prevention services are provided in all 55 counties in West Virginia. More than 130 crisis detoxification beds in residential treatment facilities exist across the state with more sites under development. An additional 118 beds are designated for short-term, postpartum, youth and long-term treatment. Nearly 700 beds are available to those seeking help and support at peer and provider recovery homes and facilities.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently announced $53 million in funding for 44 states to combat opioid abuse. West Virginia is set to receive support in its efforts to prevent overdoses and strengthen drug misuse prevention, among other initiatives.

Today, the National Governor's Association invited West Virginia to attend a learning lab, State Strategies for Reducing Overdose and Deaths from Heroin and Illicit Fentanyl. A team will attend workshops focusing on innovative policies and programs and best practices to increase access to substance abuse treatment and improve timeliness of overdoes reporting and response.

The West Virginia Division of Corrections offers programs focused on combatting substance abuse in the state's prisons and jails. Nine Residential Substance Abuse Treatment (RSAT) units in correctional centers across the state provide six-month to one-year courses of inpatient treatment with a total reach of 491 inmates. The RSAT model has been expanded to regional facilities.

Through a pilot program overseen by the DHHR, medication assisted treatment is available for paroling or discharging inmates who have completed substance abuse programs and show motivation for continuing treatment. As of June, 29 inmates had received this treatment before leaving their facility. This pilot program has been expanded through legislation passed this year and has begun development in regional jails.

Both prisons and jails offer outpatient substance abuse counseling programs, including 12-step peer-to-peer programs and a 39-session program focusing on addiction education, transitional skills for recovery and relapse prevention.

 

Photos available for media use. All photos should be attributed “Photo courtesy of Office of the Governor.”

WASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security recognizes the 15 year anniversary of the start of its mission with a celebration event at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, D.C., March 1, 2018. Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen was joined by Vice President Mike Pence and former Secretaries Tom Ridge, Michael Chertoff, John Kelly, and former acting Secretary Elaine Duke, as well as past and present DHS employees and leadership. The event was an opportunity to celebrate the momentous anniversary and recommit to DHS’s mission to safeguard the American people. Official DHS photo by Jetta Disco.

Why did Ukraine do such a stupid thing, after bombing the Crimea bridge?

 

www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/russia-pauses-grain-deal-aft...

 

Russia pauses grain deal after Ukraine strikes warships in Crimea

 

Russia suspended its participation in the U.N.-brokered deal that allowed Ukraine to export its grain and other agricultural products from Black Sea ports after claiming that Kyiv used the corridor to attack Kremlin ships, reigniting concerns about global food insecurity.

 

The Russian military accused Ukrainian forces of using drones to attack “military and civilian” ships near Sevastopol in Crimea in the early hours of Saturday, claiming that the strikes were carried out “with the participation of British experts.”

 

The Russian Foreign Ministry said separately that because of the attack it would “no longer guarantee the safety of civilian dry cargo ships participating in the Black Sea Grain Initiative and will suspend its implementation from today for an indefinite period.”

 

Britain responded to the drone attacks accusation by saying that Russia was making “false claims of an epic scale.” Ukraine did not officially claim responsibility for the attacks.

 

A video that emerged on Ukrainian Telegram channels on Saturday showed a naval drone targeting what appeared to be the Russian Admiral Makarov frigate. The Makarov had reportedly replaced the flagship of the Russian navy’s Black Sea fleet, Moskva, which sank in April after Ukrainian forces hit it with Neptune anti-ship missiles. The Washington Post was not able to independently verify the authenticity of this video.

 

The Russian Defense Ministry said the drone attacks were largely repelled, and only one minesweeper sustained minor damage.

 

Moscow and Kyiv signed the grain deal in July, opening up Ukrainian Black Sea ports for exports, which had been halted after Russia invaded the country on Feb. 24.

 

Turkey played a key role in brokering the deal, as it has close ties with Russia and Ukraine and has sought to raise its diplomatic profile to mediate the talks between warring sides.

 

As part of the deal, Ukrainian pilots guided ships through the port, which Ukraine mined earlier in the war to prevent Russia from capturing key ports like Odessa.

 

Then the ships were given safe passage by the Russian military to sail to Turkey, which organized teams with experts from all involved parties to inspect the vessels before they set off to their destinations. Ships going into Ukraine were also inspected for weapons, a condition Moscow set to ensure the grain corridor is not used to supply Western arms to Ukraine.

 

More than 8 million tons of grain were exported from Ukraine as part of the deal that saw global food prices go down, according to the United Nations.

 

“It is vital that all parties refrain from any action that would imperil the Black Sea Grain Initiative which is a critical humanitarian effort that is clearly having a positive impact on access to food for millions of people around the world,” Stéphane Dujarric, spokesman for U.N. Secretary General António Guterres, said in a statement.

 

Negotiations over an extension of the deal were strained even before the ship attacks, as Moscow has indicated it may back out of the deal after repeated complaints about its implementation.

 

In September, Russian President Vladimir Putin floated the idea of limiting the deal, saying that the goods went to the European Union rather than to poor countries experiencing dire food shortages.

 

Erdogan echoed Putin’s complaints, adding that he wants to see Russian grain exported too.

 

“The fact that grain shipments are going to the countries that implement these sanctions [against Moscow] disturbs Mr. Putin. We also want grain shipments to start from Russia,” Erdogan said at a news conference. “The grain that comes as part of this grain deal unfortunately goes to rich countries, not to poor countries.”

 

After the explosion on the strategic bridge linking Crimea with mainland Russia in early October, Putin speculated that the grain corridor might have been used by Ukrainian special services to attack the highly symbolic gateway. If proven, he suggested, it would jeopardize the agreement.

 

Putin blames Kyiv for attack on strategic Crimea bridge

 

Later in October, Gennady Gatilov, Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva, said that ships under the Russian flag weren’t accepted in European ports due to sanctions and lamented difficulties in obtaining insurance and financing for Russian grain and fertilizer shipments.

 

Ukraine, in turn, accused Moscow of not fully implementing the deal. In one of his nightly addresses last week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that Russia was “deliberately delaying the passage of ships,” creating an artificial backlog of more than 150 vessels.

 

Zelensky said the situation with Ukraine’s food exports was becoming “more and more tense” and that Moscow was “doing everything to slow down” the process.

 

“I believe that with these actions, Russia is deliberately inciting the food crisis so that it becomes as acute as it was in the first half of this year,” Zelensky said.

 

Last week, Ukraine also accused Russia of blocking the full implementation of the deal, saying that the Ukrainian ports have recently been working at 25-30 percent of their capacity.

 

“Russia is deliberately blocking the full realization of the Grain Initiative,” the country’s infrastructure ministry said at the time.

 

In a Saturday tweet, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said that Moscow was using a “false pretext” to stop Ukraine from exporting its grain and other agricultural products.

 

“We have warned of Russia’s plans to ruin the Black Sea Grain Initiative,” Kuleba wrote. He also called on the world community to “demand Russia to stop its hunger games and recommit to its obligations.”

 

The head of the Ukrainian presidential administration, Andriy Yermak, said that Moscow was engaged in “blackmail” using food products, energy, and nuclear materials, which he described as “primitive.”

 

www.cnbc.com/2022/10/29/russia-halts-participation-in-the...

 

Russia halts participation in the Black Sea Grain Initiative, the UN-backed deal that reopened Ukraine’s ports to feed countries around the world

 

▪ Moscow suspended its participation in the Black Sea Grain Initiative in a retaliatory move for what it says were Kyiv-ordered attacks on Russian vessels.

▪ The Black Sea Grain Initiative, a U.N.-backed deal brokered in July, eased Russia’s naval blockade and saw the reopening of three key Ukrainian ports.

▪ Nearly 400 ships carrying a total of 9 million metric tons have departed Ukraine’s ports.

▪ Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said Russia was using the attack as a “false pretext” for blocking the “grain corridor which ensures food security for millions of people.”

 

WASHINGTON – Moscow suspended its participation in the Black Sea Grain Initiative, an agreement brokered earlier this year that reopened Ukrainian ports for agricultural product export.

 

Russia’s Ministry of Defense said on Saturday that it would halt participation, citing retaliation for Kyiv’s “act of terrorism” against Russian warships. Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that Ukrainian armed forces launched “massive air and sea strikes using unmanned aerial vehicles against ships and infrastructure of the Russian Black Sea Fleet at the naval base in Sevastopol.”

 

Russia also said British operators helped Ukraine’s military carry out the predawn attack, adding that at least 15 drones were involved.

 

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said Russia was using the attack as a “false pretext” for blocking the “grain corridor which ensures food security for millions of people.”

 

“We have warned of Russia’s plans to ruin the Black Sea Grain Initiative,” Kuleba wrote in a tweet. “I call on all states to demand Russia to stop its hunger games and recommit to its obligations.”

 

Before the war, Ukraine and Russia accounted for almost a quarter of global grain exports until those shipments came to a severe halt for nearly six months.

 

Ukraine is typically the world’s top producer and exporter of sunflower meal, oil and seed, according to the United States Department of Agriculture. Ukraine is also the world’s seventh-largest wheat producer.

 

The Black Sea Grain Initiative, a United Nations-backed deal brokered in July, eased Russia’s naval blockade and saw the reopening of three key Ukrainian ports. The first vessel left Ukraine’s port of Odesa on Aug. 1 carrying more than 26,000 metric tons of corn. Since then, nearly 400 ships carrying a total of 9 million metric tons have departed Ukraine’s ports.

 

Of the 40 countries receiving Ukrainian foodstuffs from the initiative, Spain has accepted the majority of agricultural products totaling 1.8 million metric tons.

 

Representatives from Ukraine, Russia, the U.N. and Turkey held negotiations to create the sea corridor in Istanbul earlier this year and signed the landmark deal in July. The agreement, which is set to expire next month, has helped address the mounting food crisis triggered, in part, by Russia’s war on its ex-Soviet neighbor.

 

The U.N. said in a statement that they are in touch with Russian authorities on the matter.

 

“It is vital that all parties refrain from any action that would imperil the Black Sea Grain Initiative which is a critical humanitarian effort that is clearly having a positive impact on access to food for millions of people around the world,” wrote Stephane Dujarric, spokesman for the U.N. Secretary-General, in a statement.

 

Russia’s foreign ministry said that it delivered relevant instructions to the Joint Coordination Center in Istanbul, which oversees the export of agricultural products from Ukraine.

WASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security recognizes the 15 year anniversary of the start of its mission with a celebration event at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, D.C., March 1, 2018. Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen was joined by Vice President Mike Pence and former Secretaries Tom Ridge, Michael Chertoff, John Kelly, and former acting Secretary Elaine Duke, as well as past and present DHS employees and leadership. The event was an opportunity to celebrate the momentous anniversary and recommit to DHS’s mission to safeguard the American people. Official DHS photo by Jetta Disco.

WASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security recognizes the 15 year anniversary of the start of its mission with a celebration event at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, D.C., March 1, 2018. Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen was joined by Vice President Mike Pence and former Secretaries Tom Ridge, Michael Chertoff, John Kelly, and former acting Secretary Elaine Duke, as well as past and present DHS employees and leadership. The event was an opportunity to celebrate the momentous anniversary and recommit to DHS’s mission to safeguard the American people. Official DHS photo by Jetta Disco.

Photographs taken by Harry Skull Jr.

 

Remarks at the 100th Anniversary of the Boundary Waters Treaty

 

Hillary Rodham Clinton

Secretary of State

Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada

 

13 June, 2009

 

Good morning. What a glorious day, and it’s an absolute delight for me to be here on this occasion. I take any excuse I can to get back to come back to New York, and to celebrate this commemoration with all of you and to have an opportunity to spend time with my Canadian counterpart, Minister Cannon, is indeed a privilege.

 

I just want to recognize the significance of this extraordinary moment in time. The friendship between the people of the United States and Canada is the strongest in the world. There is no border that is longer and more peaceful; there is no greater trade between two nations. There are so many values that we share in common, and today we celebrate a treaty that helped to make this friendship possible 100 years ago.

 

The people who understood the significance of our relationship and the beauty of our natural surroundings were far-sighted and visionary. And the Boundary Water Treaty of 1909 made official something that people on both sides of the border have known for generations: that the rivers, the lakes, streams, the watersheds along our boundary do not belong to one nation or the other, but to both of us. And we are therefore called to be good stewards in the care of these precious resources. These waterways sustain some of Canada’s and America’s greatest cities. They foster travel and trade, they provide drinking water to families across the continent, and, of course, they offer some of the most beautiful vistas in all of creation.

 

Even as countries elsewhere in the past and today clash over natural resources, Canada and the United States have worked to remain peaceful partners in sharing these waters and caring for their long-term health. Now, when we’ve had differences, which all friends do, and even families, for that matter, we have worked that through. The International Joint Commission created by the Treaty has helped us to resolve our differences quickly and fairly.

 

The treaty has also established a sense of cooperation along the border. Other than comments about which side of the border has a better view – (laughter) – it’s something that we hear but don’t accept. It is so wonderfully easy to travel between our two countries, except for today, when we blocked the traffic on the bridge. I’m glad I’m no longer an elected official. (Laughter.) And I think when we look to the extraordinary relationship that we have between our two countries, I know how much traffic goes across this bridge – not just carrying goods as part of our trade relation, and not just visits by tourists, but residents on both sides who have children who play hockey on one side, who work on the other side, who have a summer home on one side. There is so much traffic that brings us together on a literally minute-by-minute basis. In fact, 300,000 people cross the border every single day to spend some time in the country next door. And they don’t have to pass through a military checkpoint to do so. Our border reflects our trust in one another.

 

Now, to properly celebrate the 100 successful years of this treaty, we have to do more than honor the past. We have to recommit ourselves to strengthening this partnership and find new ways to work together to solve common problems. As we look at this alliance that exists between the United States and Canada, it is stunning. $1.6 billion in goods flows across this border every single day. Many of our industries actually work hand-in-hand, supporting millions of jobs in both countries. We have the world’s largest energy trade relationship. Our power grids work together seamlessly, most of the time. We collaborate closely on citizen safety and defense. Our soldiers are serving shoulder-to-shoulder in Afghanistan. And we share a commitment to promoting democracy, good governance, and human rights worldwide. So our comprehensive alliance in the 21st century will move us even closer together as we collaborate to improve conditions not only in our own countries, but across the world.

 

One area where we must join forces in is protecting our environment, especially our shared waters. Article IV of the Boundary Waters Treaty prohibited pollution by either country, which made this treaty one of the world’s first environmental agreements. By 1972, our nations took another step toward protecting these waters with the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, which lays out the goals and guidelines for restoring and protecting the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the Great Lakes Basin.

 

The Great Lakes-St. River system is a treasure. It contains one-fifth of the world’s fresh surface water. It provides millions of people with safe drinking water every day. So it’s crucial that we honor the terms of the Great Lakes Agreement as it stands today, but we also have to update it to reflect new knowledge, new technology, and, unfortunately, new threats.

 

The Agreement was last amended in 1987 and since then, new invasive species have appeared in our lakes, new worrisome chemicals have emerged from our industrial processes, our knowledge of the ecology of the region and how to protect it has grown considerably. In its current form, the Great Lakes Agreement does not sufficiently address the needs of our shared ecosystem.

 

So I’m pleased to announce that Canada and the United States have agreed to update the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement. (Applause.) We look forward to working closely with state, provincial, and local governments throughout Canada, as well as other stakeholders, in the coming months to produce an agreement that reflects our best knowledge and our unshakable commitment to preserving this vital natural resource.

 

Now, as we work together on this, we must also strengthen our response to other environmental threats, especially climate change, one of the most urgent problems facing our world which endangers our world’s water sources, the safety of coastal regions, the future of agriculture and health, and the stability of communities everywhere. It is a paramount threat, and it demands effective and bold action, which can only be achieved through partnership.

 

The Canadian-American border is such a precious reflection of our great relationship, and it reminds us that although we may salute different flags, hear beautifully sung different anthems, our nations grew from the same land and the same ideals. It falls to us as it falls to every generation to strengthen that partnership and friendship. We look forward to many more years of working with you to achieve our common goal, and many more days of celebrating accomplishments like we do today in a beautiful, wondrous creation that God has given us to preserve and maintain.

 

Thank you all very much.

GOVERNOR TOMBLIN CELEBRATES ONE-YEAR

ANNIVERSARY OF 844-HELP4WV CALL LINE

 

Call center has received more than 5,000 calls for help

around substance abuse, mental health

 

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (September 9, 2016) - Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin today joined state and local officials at the 844-HELP4WV call line headquarters in Charleston to commemorate the one-year anniversary of West Virginia's first statewide 24-hour substance abuse call line, and highlight the state's progress in the fight against substance abuse.

 

"I am proud of the work we've done and the progress we've made together to help those struggling with addiction, especially through the HELP4WV call line," said. Gov. Tomblin. "As we mark the one year anniversary of the help line, we also look ahead to the challenges that remain - and recommit ourselves to helping more West Virginians overcome addiction."

 

In the year since Gov. Tomblin launched the call line, more than 5,200 calls have been received. Of those, 2,250 were individuals seeking help, all of whom were connected to at least one resource to begin or continue treatment. The help line was a recommendation of Gov. Tomblin's community-driven regional substance abuse task forces, which are set to hold their 20th round of meetings this fall.

 

The call line is administered through a collaborative partnership between the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources (DHHR) and First Choice Health Systems, whose employees are professionally certified and trained to engage callers in conversation. They work on a one-on-one basis to determine the best steps moving forward for each individual.

 

No callers are placed on hold and can be immediately connected with treatment staff to help determine the most appropriate treatment option. Follow-up phone calls are placed after the first appointment, the first month, and the first three months to help patients stay on track and have access to any additional clinical information or resources on community-based programs and local support groups.

 

Snapshot of Substance Abuse Resources & Programs in West Virginia

 

The 844-HELP4WV call line is available 24 hours a day, seven days per week and accepts phone calls and text messages. The website - www.help4wv.com - includes a live online chat application.

Substance abuse prevention services are provided in all 55 counties in West Virginia. More than 130 crisis detoxification beds in residential treatment facilities exist across the state with more sites under development. An additional 118 beds are designated for short-term, postpartum, youth and long-term treatment. Nearly 700 beds are available to those seeking help and support at peer and provider recovery homes and facilities.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently announced $53 million in funding for 44 states to combat opioid abuse. West Virginia is set to receive support in its efforts to prevent overdoses and strengthen drug misuse prevention, among other initiatives.

Today, the National Governor's Association invited West Virginia to attend a learning lab, State Strategies for Reducing Overdose and Deaths from Heroin and Illicit Fentanyl. A team will attend workshops focusing on innovative policies and programs and best practices to increase access to substance abuse treatment and improve timeliness of overdoes reporting and response.

The West Virginia Division of Corrections offers programs focused on combatting substance abuse in the state's prisons and jails. Nine Residential Substance Abuse Treatment (RSAT) units in correctional centers across the state provide six-month to one-year courses of inpatient treatment with a total reach of 491 inmates. The RSAT model has been expanded to regional facilities.

Through a pilot program overseen by the DHHR, medication assisted treatment is available for paroling or discharging inmates who have completed substance abuse programs and show motivation for continuing treatment. As of June, 29 inmates had received this treatment before leaving their facility. This pilot program has been expanded through legislation passed this year and has begun development in regional jails.

Both prisons and jails offer outpatient substance abuse counseling programs, including 12-step peer-to-peer programs and a 39-session program focusing on addiction education, transitional skills for recovery and relapse prevention.

 

Photos available for media use. All photos should be attributed “Photo courtesy of Office of the Governor.”

GOVERNOR TOMBLIN CELEBRATES ONE-YEAR

ANNIVERSARY OF 844-HELP4WV CALL LINE

 

Call center has received more than 5,000 calls for help

around substance abuse, mental health

 

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (September 9, 2016) - Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin today joined state and local officials at the 844-HELP4WV call line headquarters in Charleston to commemorate the one-year anniversary of West Virginia's first statewide 24-hour substance abuse call line, and highlight the state's progress in the fight against substance abuse.

 

"I am proud of the work we've done and the progress we've made together to help those struggling with addiction, especially through the HELP4WV call line," said. Gov. Tomblin. "As we mark the one year anniversary of the help line, we also look ahead to the challenges that remain - and recommit ourselves to helping more West Virginians overcome addiction."

 

In the year since Gov. Tomblin launched the call line, more than 5,200 calls have been received. Of those, 2,250 were individuals seeking help, all of whom were connected to at least one resource to begin or continue treatment. The help line was a recommendation of Gov. Tomblin's community-driven regional substance abuse task forces, which are set to hold their 20th round of meetings this fall.

 

The call line is administered through a collaborative partnership between the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources (DHHR) and First Choice Health Systems, whose employees are professionally certified and trained to engage callers in conversation. They work on a one-on-one basis to determine the best steps moving forward for each individual.

 

No callers are placed on hold and can be immediately connected with treatment staff to help determine the most appropriate treatment option. Follow-up phone calls are placed after the first appointment, the first month, and the first three months to help patients stay on track and have access to any additional clinical information or resources on community-based programs and local support groups.

 

Snapshot of Substance Abuse Resources & Programs in West Virginia

 

The 844-HELP4WV call line is available 24 hours a day, seven days per week and accepts phone calls and text messages. The website - www.help4wv.com - includes a live online chat application.

Substance abuse prevention services are provided in all 55 counties in West Virginia. More than 130 crisis detoxification beds in residential treatment facilities exist across the state with more sites under development. An additional 118 beds are designated for short-term, postpartum, youth and long-term treatment. Nearly 700 beds are available to those seeking help and support at peer and provider recovery homes and facilities.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently announced $53 million in funding for 44 states to combat opioid abuse. West Virginia is set to receive support in its efforts to prevent overdoses and strengthen drug misuse prevention, among other initiatives.

Today, the National Governor's Association invited West Virginia to attend a learning lab, State Strategies for Reducing Overdose and Deaths from Heroin and Illicit Fentanyl. A team will attend workshops focusing on innovative policies and programs and best practices to increase access to substance abuse treatment and improve timeliness of overdoes reporting and response.

The West Virginia Division of Corrections offers programs focused on combatting substance abuse in the state's prisons and jails. Nine Residential Substance Abuse Treatment (RSAT) units in correctional centers across the state provide six-month to one-year courses of inpatient treatment with a total reach of 491 inmates. The RSAT model has been expanded to regional facilities.

Through a pilot program overseen by the DHHR, medication assisted treatment is available for paroling or discharging inmates who have completed substance abuse programs and show motivation for continuing treatment. As of June, 29 inmates had received this treatment before leaving their facility. This pilot program has been expanded through legislation passed this year and has begun development in regional jails.

Both prisons and jails offer outpatient substance abuse counseling programs, including 12-step peer-to-peer programs and a 39-session program focusing on addiction education, transitional skills for recovery and relapse prevention.

 

Photos available for media use. All photos should be attributed “Photo courtesy of Office of the Governor.”

GOVERNOR TOMBLIN CELEBRATES ONE-YEAR

ANNIVERSARY OF 844-HELP4WV CALL LINE

 

Call center has received more than 5,000 calls for help

around substance abuse, mental health

 

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (September 9, 2016) - Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin today joined state and local officials at the 844-HELP4WV call line headquarters in Charleston to commemorate the one-year anniversary of West Virginia's first statewide 24-hour substance abuse call line, and highlight the state's progress in the fight against substance abuse.

 

"I am proud of the work we've done and the progress we've made together to help those struggling with addiction, especially through the HELP4WV call line," said. Gov. Tomblin. "As we mark the one year anniversary of the help line, we also look ahead to the challenges that remain - and recommit ourselves to helping more West Virginians overcome addiction."

 

In the year since Gov. Tomblin launched the call line, more than 5,200 calls have been received. Of those, 2,250 were individuals seeking help, all of whom were connected to at least one resource to begin or continue treatment. The help line was a recommendation of Gov. Tomblin's community-driven regional substance abuse task forces, which are set to hold their 20th round of meetings this fall.

 

The call line is administered through a collaborative partnership between the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources (DHHR) and First Choice Health Systems, whose employees are professionally certified and trained to engage callers in conversation. They work on a one-on-one basis to determine the best steps moving forward for each individual.

 

No callers are placed on hold and can be immediately connected with treatment staff to help determine the most appropriate treatment option. Follow-up phone calls are placed after the first appointment, the first month, and the first three months to help patients stay on track and have access to any additional clinical information or resources on community-based programs and local support groups.

 

Snapshot of Substance Abuse Resources & Programs in West Virginia

 

The 844-HELP4WV call line is available 24 hours a day, seven days per week and accepts phone calls and text messages. The website - www.help4wv.com - includes a live online chat application.

Substance abuse prevention services are provided in all 55 counties in West Virginia. More than 130 crisis detoxification beds in residential treatment facilities exist across the state with more sites under development. An additional 118 beds are designated for short-term, postpartum, youth and long-term treatment. Nearly 700 beds are available to those seeking help and support at peer and provider recovery homes and facilities.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently announced $53 million in funding for 44 states to combat opioid abuse. West Virginia is set to receive support in its efforts to prevent overdoses and strengthen drug misuse prevention, among other initiatives.

Today, the National Governor's Association invited West Virginia to attend a learning lab, State Strategies for Reducing Overdose and Deaths from Heroin and Illicit Fentanyl. A team will attend workshops focusing on innovative policies and programs and best practices to increase access to substance abuse treatment and improve timeliness of overdoes reporting and response.

The West Virginia Division of Corrections offers programs focused on combatting substance abuse in the state's prisons and jails. Nine Residential Substance Abuse Treatment (RSAT) units in correctional centers across the state provide six-month to one-year courses of inpatient treatment with a total reach of 491 inmates. The RSAT model has been expanded to regional facilities.

Through a pilot program overseen by the DHHR, medication assisted treatment is available for paroling or discharging inmates who have completed substance abuse programs and show motivation for continuing treatment. As of June, 29 inmates had received this treatment before leaving their facility. This pilot program has been expanded through legislation passed this year and has begun development in regional jails.

Both prisons and jails offer outpatient substance abuse counseling programs, including 12-step peer-to-peer programs and a 39-session program focusing on addiction education, transitional skills for recovery and relapse prevention.

 

Photos available for media use. All photos should be attributed “Photo courtesy of Office of the Governor.”

GOVERNOR TOMBLIN CELEBRATES ONE-YEAR

ANNIVERSARY OF 844-HELP4WV CALL LINE

 

Call center has received more than 5,000 calls for help

around substance abuse, mental health

 

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (September 9, 2016) - Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin today joined state and local officials at the 844-HELP4WV call line headquarters in Charleston to commemorate the one-year anniversary of West Virginia's first statewide 24-hour substance abuse call line, and highlight the state's progress in the fight against substance abuse.

 

"I am proud of the work we've done and the progress we've made together to help those struggling with addiction, especially through the HELP4WV call line," said. Gov. Tomblin. "As we mark the one year anniversary of the help line, we also look ahead to the challenges that remain - and recommit ourselves to helping more West Virginians overcome addiction."

 

In the year since Gov. Tomblin launched the call line, more than 5,200 calls have been received. Of those, 2,250 were individuals seeking help, all of whom were connected to at least one resource to begin or continue treatment. The help line was a recommendation of Gov. Tomblin's community-driven regional substance abuse task forces, which are set to hold their 20th round of meetings this fall.

 

The call line is administered through a collaborative partnership between the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources (DHHR) and First Choice Health Systems, whose employees are professionally certified and trained to engage callers in conversation. They work on a one-on-one basis to determine the best steps moving forward for each individual.

 

No callers are placed on hold and can be immediately connected with treatment staff to help determine the most appropriate treatment option. Follow-up phone calls are placed after the first appointment, the first month, and the first three months to help patients stay on track and have access to any additional clinical information or resources on community-based programs and local support groups.

 

Snapshot of Substance Abuse Resources & Programs in West Virginia

 

The 844-HELP4WV call line is available 24 hours a day, seven days per week and accepts phone calls and text messages. The website - www.help4wv.com - includes a live online chat application.

Substance abuse prevention services are provided in all 55 counties in West Virginia. More than 130 crisis detoxification beds in residential treatment facilities exist across the state with more sites under development. An additional 118 beds are designated for short-term, postpartum, youth and long-term treatment. Nearly 700 beds are available to those seeking help and support at peer and provider recovery homes and facilities.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently announced $53 million in funding for 44 states to combat opioid abuse. West Virginia is set to receive support in its efforts to prevent overdoses and strengthen drug misuse prevention, among other initiatives.

Today, the National Governor's Association invited West Virginia to attend a learning lab, State Strategies for Reducing Overdose and Deaths from Heroin and Illicit Fentanyl. A team will attend workshops focusing on innovative policies and programs and best practices to increase access to substance abuse treatment and improve timeliness of overdoes reporting and response.

The West Virginia Division of Corrections offers programs focused on combatting substance abuse in the state's prisons and jails. Nine Residential Substance Abuse Treatment (RSAT) units in correctional centers across the state provide six-month to one-year courses of inpatient treatment with a total reach of 491 inmates. The RSAT model has been expanded to regional facilities.

Through a pilot program overseen by the DHHR, medication assisted treatment is available for paroling or discharging inmates who have completed substance abuse programs and show motivation for continuing treatment. As of June, 29 inmates had received this treatment before leaving their facility. This pilot program has been expanded through legislation passed this year and has begun development in regional jails.

Both prisons and jails offer outpatient substance abuse counseling programs, including 12-step peer-to-peer programs and a 39-session program focusing on addiction education, transitional skills for recovery and relapse prevention.

 

Photos available for media use. All photos should be attributed “Photo courtesy of Office of the Governor.”

WASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security recognizes the 15 year anniversary of the start of its mission with a celebration event at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, D.C., March 1, 2018. Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen was joined by Vice President Mike Pence and former Secretaries Tom Ridge, Michael Chertoff, John Kelly, and former acting Secretary Elaine Duke, as well as past and present DHS employees and leadership. The event was an opportunity to celebrate the momentous anniversary and recommit to DHS’s mission to safeguard the American people. Official DHS photo by Jetta Disco.

GOVERNOR TOMBLIN CELEBRATES ONE-YEAR

ANNIVERSARY OF 844-HELP4WV CALL LINE

 

Call center has received more than 5,000 calls for help

around substance abuse, mental health

 

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (September 9, 2016) - Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin today joined state and local officials at the 844-HELP4WV call line headquarters in Charleston to commemorate the one-year anniversary of West Virginia's first statewide 24-hour substance abuse call line, and highlight the state's progress in the fight against substance abuse.

 

"I am proud of the work we've done and the progress we've made together to help those struggling with addiction, especially through the HELP4WV call line," said. Gov. Tomblin. "As we mark the one year anniversary of the help line, we also look ahead to the challenges that remain - and recommit ourselves to helping more West Virginians overcome addiction."

 

In the year since Gov. Tomblin launched the call line, more than 5,200 calls have been received. Of those, 2,250 were individuals seeking help, all of whom were connected to at least one resource to begin or continue treatment. The help line was a recommendation of Gov. Tomblin's community-driven regional substance abuse task forces, which are set to hold their 20th round of meetings this fall.

 

The call line is administered through a collaborative partnership between the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources (DHHR) and First Choice Health Systems, whose employees are professionally certified and trained to engage callers in conversation. They work on a one-on-one basis to determine the best steps moving forward for each individual.

 

No callers are placed on hold and can be immediately connected with treatment staff to help determine the most appropriate treatment option. Follow-up phone calls are placed after the first appointment, the first month, and the first three months to help patients stay on track and have access to any additional clinical information or resources on community-based programs and local support groups.

 

Snapshot of Substance Abuse Resources & Programs in West Virginia

 

The 844-HELP4WV call line is available 24 hours a day, seven days per week and accepts phone calls and text messages. The website - www.help4wv.com - includes a live online chat application.

Substance abuse prevention services are provided in all 55 counties in West Virginia. More than 130 crisis detoxification beds in residential treatment facilities exist across the state with more sites under development. An additional 118 beds are designated for short-term, postpartum, youth and long-term treatment. Nearly 700 beds are available to those seeking help and support at peer and provider recovery homes and facilities.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently announced $53 million in funding for 44 states to combat opioid abuse. West Virginia is set to receive support in its efforts to prevent overdoses and strengthen drug misuse prevention, among other initiatives.

Today, the National Governor's Association invited West Virginia to attend a learning lab, State Strategies for Reducing Overdose and Deaths from Heroin and Illicit Fentanyl. A team will attend workshops focusing on innovative policies and programs and best practices to increase access to substance abuse treatment and improve timeliness of overdoes reporting and response.

The West Virginia Division of Corrections offers programs focused on combatting substance abuse in the state's prisons and jails. Nine Residential Substance Abuse Treatment (RSAT) units in correctional centers across the state provide six-month to one-year courses of inpatient treatment with a total reach of 491 inmates. The RSAT model has been expanded to regional facilities.

Through a pilot program overseen by the DHHR, medication assisted treatment is available for paroling or discharging inmates who have completed substance abuse programs and show motivation for continuing treatment. As of June, 29 inmates had received this treatment before leaving their facility. This pilot program has been expanded through legislation passed this year and has begun development in regional jails.

Both prisons and jails offer outpatient substance abuse counseling programs, including 12-step peer-to-peer programs and a 39-session program focusing on addiction education, transitional skills for recovery and relapse prevention.

 

Photos available for media use. All photos should be attributed “Photo courtesy of Office of the Governor.”

WASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security recognizes the 15 year anniversary of the start of its mission with a celebration event at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, D.C., March 1, 2018. Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen was joined by Vice President Mike Pence and former Secretaries Tom Ridge, Michael Chertoff, John Kelly, and former acting Secretary Elaine Duke, as well as past and present DHS employees and leadership. The event was an opportunity to celebrate the momentous anniversary and recommit to DHS’s mission to safeguard the American people. Official DHS photo by Jetta Disco.

WASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security recognizes the 15 year anniversary of the start of its mission with a celebration event at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, D.C., March 1, 2018. Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen was joined by Vice President Mike Pence and former Secretaries Tom Ridge, Michael Chertoff, John Kelly, and former acting Secretary Elaine Duke, as well as past and present DHS employees and leadership. The event was an opportunity to celebrate the momentous anniversary and recommit to DHS’s mission to safeguard the American people. Official DHS photo by Jetta Disco.

High School students from Rye Country Day School volunteered for National Public Lands Day at the Jay Property, in Rye, NY by pulling out invasive plant species like mugwort, thistles and multiflora roses. Their efforts were in response to President Obama's call to action to safeguard our favorite American parks.

 

The Jay Property was the original home of Founding Father John Jay and has been designated a National Historic Landmark. Its landscape dates thousands of years back to Paleo-Indian times and includes the oldest man- managed meadow in New York State. It is open to the public and is currently the setting for an exhibit by the Jay Heritage Center on the Jay Family and their role in the abolition of slavery.

  

See President Obama's proclamation:

 

The White House

 

Office of the Press Secretary

 

For Immediate Release September 22, 2011

Presidential Proclamation -- National Public Lands Day

National Public Lands Day, 2011

 

- - - - - - -

 

By the President of the United States of America

 

A Proclamation

 

At the dawn of the 20th century, President Theodore Roosevelt embarked on a tour of the American West that forever changed our Nation's relationship with the outdoors. His visits to Yellowstone, Yosemite, the Grand Canyon, and other natural wonders instilled in him a commitment to conservation, and they motivated him to designate millions of acres of protected land. Today, our public lands system is a model of conservation and an important resource for clean energy, grazing, and recreation ‑‑ vital economic engines in both rural and urban communities.

 

On National Public Lands Day, we take time to appreciate our parks, national forests, wildlife refuges, and other public spaces, and we recommit to protecting and restoring them for future generations. This year, thousands of dedicated volunteers will continue a proud American tradition by conserving and restoring our public lands with local projects across our Nation. Americans will restore hiking trails, remove invasive plant species, clean lakes, and pick up litter in city parks. Through their service, families and children will find opportunities for outdoor activity on the millions of acres of national forests, parks, and trails.

 

To maintain our environmental heritage and build a responsive conservation and recreation agenda, my Administration launched the America's Great Outdoors Initiative last year. We met with thousands of Americans in listening sessions across our country, and compiled the results of this national conversation in the report, America's Great Outdoors: A Promise to Future Generations. To act on these findings, we are undertaking projects in collaboration with State, local, and tribal governments to responsibly steward the lands that belong to all Americans. First Lady Michelle Obama also joined in support of getting Americans outside when the Let's Move! initiative, in coordination with the Department of the Interior, launched Let's Move Outside! to help families exercise in the great outdoors.

 

Countless Americans have experienced the same awe and wonder that President Roosevelt felt on his westward journey. By joining in this legacy of conservation, Americans young and old protect not only our lands, but also the promise that future generations will be able to carry forward the spirit of adventure that lies at the heart of our Nation.

 

NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim September 24, 2011, as National Public Lands Day. I encourage all Americans to participate in a day of public service for our lands.

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty‑second day of September, in the year of our Lord two thousand eleven, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-sixth.

  

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“I pledge my Government’s full commitment to the accelerated implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action and to the realization of the gender equality goals of empowerment in the 2030 Agenda. More specifically, I recommit to support ongoing initiatives to increase representation of women in governance and decision-making at all levels. For this, we have commenced extensive nation-wide consultations to explore measures to encourage women’s participation in politics. We commit to strengthen targeted programmes for economic empowerment of women. This is critical to address the persistent burden of poverty on women and effectively remove inequality in economic structures and policies. We commit to enhance investment in programmes that ensure equal access to the critical areas of education and training and healthcare for women. We commit to render full support to agencies and civil society organizations that combat violence against women and girls and we commit to promote programmes and policies that strengthen the role of women in the management of natural resources and in the safeguarding of our environment.”

 

World leaders convene at the United Nations on 27 September 2015 for the “Global Leaders’ Meeting on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment: A Commitment to Action” to personally commit to ending discrimination against women by 2030 and announce concrete and measurable actions to kick-start rapid change in their countries.

 

Read More: www.unwomen.org/en/news/stories/2015/9/press-release-glob...

 

Read every country's committment from the event: beijing20.unwomen.org/en/step-it-up/commitments

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GOVERNOR TOMBLIN CELEBRATES ONE-YEAR

ANNIVERSARY OF 844-HELP4WV CALL LINE

 

Call center has received more than 5,000 calls for help

around substance abuse, mental health

 

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (September 9, 2016) - Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin today joined state and local officials at the 844-HELP4WV call line headquarters in Charleston to commemorate the one-year anniversary of West Virginia's first statewide 24-hour substance abuse call line, and highlight the state's progress in the fight against substance abuse.

 

"I am proud of the work we've done and the progress we've made together to help those struggling with addiction, especially through the HELP4WV call line," said. Gov. Tomblin. "As we mark the one year anniversary of the help line, we also look ahead to the challenges that remain - and recommit ourselves to helping more West Virginians overcome addiction."

 

In the year since Gov. Tomblin launched the call line, more than 5,200 calls have been received. Of those, 2,250 were individuals seeking help, all of whom were connected to at least one resource to begin or continue treatment. The help line was a recommendation of Gov. Tomblin's community-driven regional substance abuse task forces, which are set to hold their 20th round of meetings this fall.

 

The call line is administered through a collaborative partnership between the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources (DHHR) and First Choice Health Systems, whose employees are professionally certified and trained to engage callers in conversation. They work on a one-on-one basis to determine the best steps moving forward for each individual.

 

No callers are placed on hold and can be immediately connected with treatment staff to help determine the most appropriate treatment option. Follow-up phone calls are placed after the first appointment, the first month, and the first three months to help patients stay on track and have access to any additional clinical information or resources on community-based programs and local support groups.

 

Snapshot of Substance Abuse Resources & Programs in West Virginia

 

The 844-HELP4WV call line is available 24 hours a day, seven days per week and accepts phone calls and text messages. The website - www.help4wv.com - includes a live online chat application.

Substance abuse prevention services are provided in all 55 counties in West Virginia. More than 130 crisis detoxification beds in residential treatment facilities exist across the state with more sites under development. An additional 118 beds are designated for short-term, postpartum, youth and long-term treatment. Nearly 700 beds are available to those seeking help and support at peer and provider recovery homes and facilities.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently announced $53 million in funding for 44 states to combat opioid abuse. West Virginia is set to receive support in its efforts to prevent overdoses and strengthen drug misuse prevention, among other initiatives.

Today, the National Governor's Association invited West Virginia to attend a learning lab, State Strategies for Reducing Overdose and Deaths from Heroin and Illicit Fentanyl. A team will attend workshops focusing on innovative policies and programs and best practices to increase access to substance abuse treatment and improve timeliness of overdoes reporting and response.

The West Virginia Division of Corrections offers programs focused on combatting substance abuse in the state's prisons and jails. Nine Residential Substance Abuse Treatment (RSAT) units in correctional centers across the state provide six-month to one-year courses of inpatient treatment with a total reach of 491 inmates. The RSAT model has been expanded to regional facilities.

Through a pilot program overseen by the DHHR, medication assisted treatment is available for paroling or discharging inmates who have completed substance abuse programs and show motivation for continuing treatment. As of June, 29 inmates had received this treatment before leaving their facility. This pilot program has been expanded through legislation passed this year and has begun development in regional jails.

Both prisons and jails offer outpatient substance abuse counseling programs, including 12-step peer-to-peer programs and a 39-session program focusing on addiction education, transitional skills for recovery and relapse prevention.

 

Photos available for media use. All photos should be attributed “Photo courtesy of Office of the Governor.”

WASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security recognizes the 15 year anniversary of the start of its mission with a celebration event at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington, D.C., March 1, 2018. Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen was joined by Vice President Mike Pence and former Secretaries Tom Ridge, Michael Chertoff, John Kelly, and former acting Secretary Elaine Duke, as well as past and present DHS employees and leadership. The event was an opportunity to celebrate the momentous anniversary and recommit to DHS’s mission to safeguard the American people. Official DHS photo by Jetta Disco.

GOVERNOR TOMBLIN CELEBRATES ONE-YEAR

ANNIVERSARY OF 844-HELP4WV CALL LINE

 

Call center has received more than 5,000 calls for help

around substance abuse, mental health

 

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (September 9, 2016) - Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin today joined state and local officials at the 844-HELP4WV call line headquarters in Charleston to commemorate the one-year anniversary of West Virginia's first statewide 24-hour substance abuse call line, and highlight the state's progress in the fight against substance abuse.

 

"I am proud of the work we've done and the progress we've made together to help those struggling with addiction, especially through the HELP4WV call line," said. Gov. Tomblin. "As we mark the one year anniversary of the help line, we also look ahead to the challenges that remain - and recommit ourselves to helping more West Virginians overcome addiction."

 

In the year since Gov. Tomblin launched the call line, more than 5,200 calls have been received. Of those, 2,250 were individuals seeking help, all of whom were connected to at least one resource to begin or continue treatment. The help line was a recommendation of Gov. Tomblin's community-driven regional substance abuse task forces, which are set to hold their 20th round of meetings this fall.

 

The call line is administered through a collaborative partnership between the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources (DHHR) and First Choice Health Systems, whose employees are professionally certified and trained to engage callers in conversation. They work on a one-on-one basis to determine the best steps moving forward for each individual.

 

No callers are placed on hold and can be immediately connected with treatment staff to help determine the most appropriate treatment option. Follow-up phone calls are placed after the first appointment, the first month, and the first three months to help patients stay on track and have access to any additional clinical information or resources on community-based programs and local support groups.

 

Snapshot of Substance Abuse Resources & Programs in West Virginia

 

The 844-HELP4WV call line is available 24 hours a day, seven days per week and accepts phone calls and text messages. The website - www.help4wv.com - includes a live online chat application.

Substance abuse prevention services are provided in all 55 counties in West Virginia. More than 130 crisis detoxification beds in residential treatment facilities exist across the state with more sites under development. An additional 118 beds are designated for short-term, postpartum, youth and long-term treatment. Nearly 700 beds are available to those seeking help and support at peer and provider recovery homes and facilities.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently announced $53 million in funding for 44 states to combat opioid abuse. West Virginia is set to receive support in its efforts to prevent overdoses and strengthen drug misuse prevention, among other initiatives.

Today, the National Governor's Association invited West Virginia to attend a learning lab, State Strategies for Reducing Overdose and Deaths from Heroin and Illicit Fentanyl. A team will attend workshops focusing on innovative policies and programs and best practices to increase access to substance abuse treatment and improve timeliness of overdoes reporting and response.

The West Virginia Division of Corrections offers programs focused on combatting substance abuse in the state's prisons and jails. Nine Residential Substance Abuse Treatment (RSAT) units in correctional centers across the state provide six-month to one-year courses of inpatient treatment with a total reach of 491 inmates. The RSAT model has been expanded to regional facilities.

Through a pilot program overseen by the DHHR, medication assisted treatment is available for paroling or discharging inmates who have completed substance abuse programs and show motivation for continuing treatment. As of June, 29 inmates had received this treatment before leaving their facility. This pilot program has been expanded through legislation passed this year and has begun development in regional jails.

Both prisons and jails offer outpatient substance abuse counseling programs, including 12-step peer-to-peer programs and a 39-session program focusing on addiction education, transitional skills for recovery and relapse prevention.

 

Photos available for media use. All photos should be attributed “Photo courtesy of Office of the Governor.”

Yugoslavian postcard by ZK, no. 3904. Publicity still for Man of a Thousand Faces (Joseph Pevney, 1957).

 

American actress Dorothy Malone (1925–2018) was a sultry, dreamy-eyed beauty. She started in Frank Sinatra musicals during the 1940s. She won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her sultry role in Written on the Wind (1956). Best known by the public for her starring role as Constance MacKenzie on Peyton Place (1964-1968). Her final role was as Sharon Stone's friend in Basic Instinct (1992).

 

Dorothy Eloise Maloney was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1925. She was one of five children born to an accountant father. Two older sisters died of polio. A younger brother later was killed by lightning while on a Dallas golf course. When she was a child, her family moved to Dallas, Texas. Attending Ursuline Convent and Highland Park High School, Dorothy was the 'School Favorite' and won several awards for swimming and horseback riding. She modelled for Neiman Marcus[ Following graduation, she studied at Southern Methodist University with the intent of becoming a nurse, but a role in the college play Starbound happened to catch the eye of an RKO talent scout and she was offered a Hollywood contract. At age 18, Dorothy Maloney made her film debut in Gildersleeve on Broadway (Gordon Douglas, 1943). The lovely brunette continued as an RKO starlet in the Frank Sinatra musicals Higher and Higher (Tim Whelan, 1943) and Step Lively (Tim Whelan, 1944), and a couple of the Falcon mysteries. She had a showier role in Show Business (Edwin L. Marin, 1944) with Eddie Cantor. RKO lost interest, however, after the two-year contract was up. Warner Bros. offered the actress a contract. As Dorothy Malone, she played a seductive book clerk in the Bogart/Bacall classic The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks, 1946). Critics and audiences took notice and she got more visible roles in Two Guys from Texas (David Butler, 1948), South of St. Louis (Ray Enright, 1949) and Colorado Territory (Raoul Walsh, 1949). Despite this positive movement, Warner Bros. did not extend Dorothy's contract in 1949 and she returned to her family in Dallas and a steadier job with an insurance agency.

 

Dorothy Malone decided to recommit to her acting career and move to New York to study at the American Theater Wing. In between her studies, she worked for TV and appeared in B movies like Saddle Legion (Lesley Selander, 1951) and The Bushwhackers (Rod Amateau, 1951). Producer Hal Wallis called her back to Hollywood to appear in Scared Stiff (George Marshall, 1953) starring the comedy duo of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis. She also appeared with the duo in the musical-comedy Artists and Models (Frank Tashlin, 1955) as the love interest of Martin's character. After 11 years of mostly roles as loving sweethearts and wives, the brunette actress decided she needed to gamble on her career instead of playing it safe. She fired her agent, hired a publicist, dyed her hair blonde and sought a new image. First off was as a sister to Doris Day in Young at Heart (Gordon Douglas, 1954), a musical remake of Four Daughters (Michael Curtiz, 1938). The platinum blonde seemed to emphasize her overt and sensual beauty and she garnered even better attention when she appeared in the war pic Battle Cry (Raoul Walsh, 1955), in which she shared love scenes with heartthrob Tab Hunter. She continued the momentum with the Westerns Five Guns West ( Roger Corman, 1955) and Tall Man Riding (Lesley Selander, 1955) starring Randolph Scott, but not with melodramatic romantic dud Sincerely Yours (Gordon Douglas, 1955) which tried to sell to the audiences a heterosexual Liberace. She signed with Universal and won the scenery-chewing role of Marylee Hadley in the soap opera Written on the Wind (Douglas Sirk, 1956) in which she played an alcoholic nymphomaniac who tries to steal Rock Hudson from his wife, Lauren Bacall. Gary Brumburgh at IMDb: "She won a supporting Oscar for her splendidly tramp, boozed-up Southern belle which was highlighted by her writhing mambo dance." The Tarnished Angels (Douglas Sirk, 1957), which reunited Malone with Hudson faltered, and Quantez (Harry Keller, 1957) with Fred MacMurray was just another run-of-the-mill western. In Man of a Thousand Faces (Joseph Pevney, 1957) she played the unsympathetic first wife of James Cagney's Lon Chaney Sr, Then she appeared as alcoholic actress Diana Barrymore in the biographic melodrama Too Much, Too Soon (Art Napoleon, 1958) opposite Errol Flynn. At age 35, she married playboy actor Jacques Bergerac, Ginger Rogers' ex-husband, in 1959. A baby daughter, Mimi, was born the following year. Fewer film offers, which included Warlock (Edward Dmytryk, 1959) starring Richard Widmark, and The Last Voyage (Andrew L. Stone, 1960) with Robert Stack, came her way as Dorothy focused more on family life. A second daughter, Diane, was born in 1962.

 

Dorothy Malone's turbulent marriage ended in 1964 in a divorce and a bitter custody battle with Dorothy eventually winning primary custody. It took the small screen to rejuvenate her career in the mid-1960s when she earned top billing for TV's first prime-time soap opera Peyton Place (1964). Dorothy starred as long-suffering Constance MacKenzie, the bookshop operator who harboured a dark secret about the birth of her daughter Allison, played by the 19-year-old Mia Farrow. The series was a smash hit. The run wasn't entirely happy, however. Doctors discovered blood clots in her lungs which required major surgery and she almost died. Lola Albright filled in until she was able to return. Just as bad, the significance of her role dwindled with time and 20th Century Fox finally wrote her and co-star Tim O'Connor off the show in 1968. Dorothy filed a breach of contract lawsuit which ended in an out-of-court settlement. She would later return to the role in the TV movies Murder in Peyton Place (Bruce Kessler, 1977) and Peyton Place: The Next Generation (Larry Elikann, 1985). Her life on- and off-camera did not improve. Dorothy's second marriage to stockbroker Robert Tomarkin in 1969 would last only three months, and a third to businessman Charles Huston Bell managed about three years. Now-matronly roles in the films Winter Kills (William Richert, 1979), Off Your Rocker (Morley Markson, Larry Pall, 1982), The Being (Jackie Kong, 1983) and the Spanish-British horror film Descanse en piezas/Rest in Pieces (José Ramón Larraz, 1987), were few and far between a few TV-movies, did nothing to advance her. Malone returned and settled for good back in Dallas, returning to Hollywood only on occasion. Her last film was the popular thriller Basic Instinct (Paul Verhoeven, 1992) as a friend to Sharon Stone, a mother convicted of murdering her family. Dorothy Malone died it a nursing facility in Dallas at the age of 92. Gary Brumburgh at IMDb: "She will be remembered as one of those Hollywood stars who proved she had the talent but somehow got the short end of the stick when it came to quality films offered."

 

Source: Gary Brumburgh (IMDb), The Guardian, Wikipedia and IMDb.

 

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GOVERNOR TOMBLIN CELEBRATES ONE-YEAR

ANNIVERSARY OF 844-HELP4WV CALL LINE

 

Call center has received more than 5,000 calls for help

around substance abuse, mental health

 

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (September 9, 2016) - Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin today joined state and local officials at the 844-HELP4WV call line headquarters in Charleston to commemorate the one-year anniversary of West Virginia's first statewide 24-hour substance abuse call line, and highlight the state's progress in the fight against substance abuse.

 

"I am proud of the work we've done and the progress we've made together to help those struggling with addiction, especially through the HELP4WV call line," said. Gov. Tomblin. "As we mark the one year anniversary of the help line, we also look ahead to the challenges that remain - and recommit ourselves to helping more West Virginians overcome addiction."

 

In the year since Gov. Tomblin launched the call line, more than 5,200 calls have been received. Of those, 2,250 were individuals seeking help, all of whom were connected to at least one resource to begin or continue treatment. The help line was a recommendation of Gov. Tomblin's community-driven regional substance abuse task forces, which are set to hold their 20th round of meetings this fall.

 

The call line is administered through a collaborative partnership between the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources (DHHR) and First Choice Health Systems, whose employees are professionally certified and trained to engage callers in conversation. They work on a one-on-one basis to determine the best steps moving forward for each individual.

 

No callers are placed on hold and can be immediately connected with treatment staff to help determine the most appropriate treatment option. Follow-up phone calls are placed after the first appointment, the first month, and the first three months to help patients stay on track and have access to any additional clinical information or resources on community-based programs and local support groups.

 

Snapshot of Substance Abuse Resources & Programs in West Virginia

 

The 844-HELP4WV call line is available 24 hours a day, seven days per week and accepts phone calls and text messages. The website - www.help4wv.com - includes a live online chat application.

Substance abuse prevention services are provided in all 55 counties in West Virginia. More than 130 crisis detoxification beds in residential treatment facilities exist across the state with more sites under development. An additional 118 beds are designated for short-term, postpartum, youth and long-term treatment. Nearly 700 beds are available to those seeking help and support at peer and provider recovery homes and facilities.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently announced $53 million in funding for 44 states to combat opioid abuse. West Virginia is set to receive support in its efforts to prevent overdoses and strengthen drug misuse prevention, among other initiatives.

Today, the National Governor's Association invited West Virginia to attend a learning lab, State Strategies for Reducing Overdose and Deaths from Heroin and Illicit Fentanyl. A team will attend workshops focusing on innovative policies and programs and best practices to increase access to substance abuse treatment and improve timeliness of overdoes reporting and response.

The West Virginia Division of Corrections offers programs focused on combatting substance abuse in the state's prisons and jails. Nine Residential Substance Abuse Treatment (RSAT) units in correctional centers across the state provide six-month to one-year courses of inpatient treatment with a total reach of 491 inmates. The RSAT model has been expanded to regional facilities.

Through a pilot program overseen by the DHHR, medication assisted treatment is available for paroling or discharging inmates who have completed substance abuse programs and show motivation for continuing treatment. As of June, 29 inmates had received this treatment before leaving their facility. This pilot program has been expanded through legislation passed this year and has begun development in regional jails.

Both prisons and jails offer outpatient substance abuse counseling programs, including 12-step peer-to-peer programs and a 39-session program focusing on addiction education, transitional skills for recovery and relapse prevention.

 

Photos available for media use. All photos should be attributed “Photo courtesy of Office of the Governor.”

Photographs taken by Harry Skull Jr.

 

Remarks at the 100th Anniversary of the Boundary Waters Treaty

 

Hillary Rodham Clinton

Secretary of State

Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada

 

13 June, 2009

 

Good morning. What a glorious day, and it’s an absolute delight for me to be here on this occasion. I take any excuse I can to get back to come back to New York, and to celebrate this commemoration with all of you and to have an opportunity to spend time with my Canadian counterpart, Minister Cannon, is indeed a privilege.

 

I just want to recognize the significance of this extraordinary moment in time. The friendship between the people of the United States and Canada is the strongest in the world. There is no border that is longer and more peaceful; there is no greater trade between two nations. There are so many values that we share in common, and today we celebrate a treaty that helped to make this friendship possible 100 years ago.

 

The people who understood the significance of our relationship and the beauty of our natural surroundings were far-sighted and visionary. And the Boundary Water Treaty of 1909 made official something that people on both sides of the border have known for generations: that the rivers, the lakes, streams, the watersheds along our boundary do not belong to one nation or the other, but to both of us. And we are therefore called to be good stewards in the care of these precious resources. These waterways sustain some of Canada’s and America’s greatest cities. They foster travel and trade, they provide drinking water to families across the continent, and, of course, they offer some of the most beautiful vistas in all of creation.

 

Even as countries elsewhere in the past and today clash over natural resources, Canada and the United States have worked to remain peaceful partners in sharing these waters and caring for their long-term health. Now, when we’ve had differences, which all friends do, and even families, for that matter, we have worked that through. The International Joint Commission created by the Treaty has helped us to resolve our differences quickly and fairly.

 

The treaty has also established a sense of cooperation along the border. Other than comments about which side of the border has a better view – (laughter) – it’s something that we hear but don’t accept. It is so wonderfully easy to travel between our two countries, except for today, when we blocked the traffic on the bridge. I’m glad I’m no longer an elected official. (Laughter.) And I think when we look to the extraordinary relationship that we have between our two countries, I know how much traffic goes across this bridge – not just carrying goods as part of our trade relation, and not just visits by tourists, but residents on both sides who have children who play hockey on one side, who work on the other side, who have a summer home on one side. There is so much traffic that brings us together on a literally minute-by-minute basis. In fact, 300,000 people cross the border every single day to spend some time in the country next door. And they don’t have to pass through a military checkpoint to do so. Our border reflects our trust in one another.

 

Now, to properly celebrate the 100 successful years of this treaty, we have to do more than honor the past. We have to recommit ourselves to strengthening this partnership and find new ways to work together to solve common problems. As we look at this alliance that exists between the United States and Canada, it is stunning. $1.6 billion in goods flows across this border every single day. Many of our industries actually work hand-in-hand, supporting millions of jobs in both countries. We have the world’s largest energy trade relationship. Our power grids work together seamlessly, most of the time. We collaborate closely on citizen safety and defense. Our soldiers are serving shoulder-to-shoulder in Afghanistan. And we share a commitment to promoting democracy, good governance, and human rights worldwide. So our comprehensive alliance in the 21st century will move us even closer together as we collaborate to improve conditions not only in our own countries, but across the world.

 

One area where we must join forces in is protecting our environment, especially our shared waters. Article IV of the Boundary Waters Treaty prohibited pollution by either country, which made this treaty one of the world’s first environmental agreements. By 1972, our nations took another step toward protecting these waters with the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, which lays out the goals and guidelines for restoring and protecting the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the Great Lakes Basin.

 

The Great Lakes-St. River system is a treasure. It contains one-fifth of the world’s fresh surface water. It provides millions of people with safe drinking water every day. So it’s crucial that we honor the terms of the Great Lakes Agreement as it stands today, but we also have to update it to reflect new knowledge, new technology, and, unfortunately, new threats.

 

The Agreement was last amended in 1987 and since then, new invasive species have appeared in our lakes, new worrisome chemicals have emerged from our industrial processes, our knowledge of the ecology of the region and how to protect it has grown considerably. In its current form, the Great Lakes Agreement does not sufficiently address the needs of our shared ecosystem.

 

So I’m pleased to announce that Canada and the United States have agreed to update the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement. (Applause.) We look forward to working closely with state, provincial, and local governments throughout Canada, as well as other stakeholders, in the coming months to produce an agreement that reflects our best knowledge and our unshakable commitment to preserving this vital natural resource.

 

Now, as we work together on this, we must also strengthen our response to other environmental threats, especially climate change, one of the most urgent problems facing our world which endangers our world’s water sources, the safety of coastal regions, the future of agriculture and health, and the stability of communities everywhere. It is a paramount threat, and it demands effective and bold action, which can only be achieved through partnership.

 

The Canadian-American border is such a precious reflection of our great relationship, and it reminds us that although we may salute different flags, hear beautifully sung different anthems, our nations grew from the same land and the same ideals. It falls to us as it falls to every generation to strengthen that partnership and friendship. We look forward to many more years of working with you to achieve our common goal, and many more days of celebrating accomplishments like we do today in a beautiful, wondrous creation that God has given us to preserve and maintain.

 

Thank you all very much.

GOVERNOR TOMBLIN CELEBRATES ONE-YEAR

ANNIVERSARY OF 844-HELP4WV CALL LINE

 

Call center has received more than 5,000 calls for help

around substance abuse, mental health

 

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (September 9, 2016) - Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin today joined state and local officials at the 844-HELP4WV call line headquarters in Charleston to commemorate the one-year anniversary of West Virginia's first statewide 24-hour substance abuse call line, and highlight the state's progress in the fight against substance abuse.

 

"I am proud of the work we've done and the progress we've made together to help those struggling with addiction, especially through the HELP4WV call line," said. Gov. Tomblin. "As we mark the one year anniversary of the help line, we also look ahead to the challenges that remain - and recommit ourselves to helping more West Virginians overcome addiction."

 

In the year since Gov. Tomblin launched the call line, more than 5,200 calls have been received. Of those, 2,250 were individuals seeking help, all of whom were connected to at least one resource to begin or continue treatment. The help line was a recommendation of Gov. Tomblin's community-driven regional substance abuse task forces, which are set to hold their 20th round of meetings this fall.

 

The call line is administered through a collaborative partnership between the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources (DHHR) and First Choice Health Systems, whose employees are professionally certified and trained to engage callers in conversation. They work on a one-on-one basis to determine the best steps moving forward for each individual.

 

No callers are placed on hold and can be immediately connected with treatment staff to help determine the most appropriate treatment option. Follow-up phone calls are placed after the first appointment, the first month, and the first three months to help patients stay on track and have access to any additional clinical information or resources on community-based programs and local support groups.

 

Snapshot of Substance Abuse Resources & Programs in West Virginia

 

The 844-HELP4WV call line is available 24 hours a day, seven days per week and accepts phone calls and text messages. The website - www.help4wv.com - includes a live online chat application.

Substance abuse prevention services are provided in all 55 counties in West Virginia. More than 130 crisis detoxification beds in residential treatment facilities exist across the state with more sites under development. An additional 118 beds are designated for short-term, postpartum, youth and long-term treatment. Nearly 700 beds are available to those seeking help and support at peer and provider recovery homes and facilities.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently announced $53 million in funding for 44 states to combat opioid abuse. West Virginia is set to receive support in its efforts to prevent overdoses and strengthen drug misuse prevention, among other initiatives.

Today, the National Governor's Association invited West Virginia to attend a learning lab, State Strategies for Reducing Overdose and Deaths from Heroin and Illicit Fentanyl. A team will attend workshops focusing on innovative policies and programs and best practices to increase access to substance abuse treatment and improve timeliness of overdoes reporting and response.

The West Virginia Division of Corrections offers programs focused on combatting substance abuse in the state's prisons and jails. Nine Residential Substance Abuse Treatment (RSAT) units in correctional centers across the state provide six-month to one-year courses of inpatient treatment with a total reach of 491 inmates. The RSAT model has been expanded to regional facilities.

Through a pilot program overseen by the DHHR, medication assisted treatment is available for paroling or discharging inmates who have completed substance abuse programs and show motivation for continuing treatment. As of June, 29 inmates had received this treatment before leaving their facility. This pilot program has been expanded through legislation passed this year and has begun development in regional jails.

Both prisons and jails offer outpatient substance abuse counseling programs, including 12-step peer-to-peer programs and a 39-session program focusing on addiction education, transitional skills for recovery and relapse prevention.

 

Photos available for media use. All photos should be attributed “Photo courtesy of Office of the Governor.”

Photographs taken by Harry Skull Jr.

 

Remarks at the 100th Anniversary of the Boundary Waters Treaty

 

Hillary Rodham Clinton

Secretary of State

Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada

 

13 June, 2009

 

Good morning. What a glorious day, and it’s an absolute delight for me to be here on this occasion. I take any excuse I can to get back to come back to New York, and to celebrate this commemoration with all of you and to have an opportunity to spend time with my Canadian counterpart, Minister Cannon, is indeed a privilege.

 

I just want to recognize the significance of this extraordinary moment in time. The friendship between the people of the United States and Canada is the strongest in the world. There is no border that is longer and more peaceful; there is no greater trade between two nations. There are so many values that we share in common, and today we celebrate a treaty that helped to make this friendship possible 100 years ago.

 

The people who understood the significance of our relationship and the beauty of our natural surroundings were far-sighted and visionary. And the Boundary Water Treaty of 1909 made official something that people on both sides of the border have known for generations: that the rivers, the lakes, streams, the watersheds along our boundary do not belong to one nation or the other, but to both of us. And we are therefore called to be good stewards in the care of these precious resources. These waterways sustain some of Canada’s and America’s greatest cities. They foster travel and trade, they provide drinking water to families across the continent, and, of course, they offer some of the most beautiful vistas in all of creation.

 

Even as countries elsewhere in the past and today clash over natural resources, Canada and the United States have worked to remain peaceful partners in sharing these waters and caring for their long-term health. Now, when we’ve had differences, which all friends do, and even families, for that matter, we have worked that through. The International Joint Commission created by the Treaty has helped us to resolve our differences quickly and fairly.

 

The treaty has also established a sense of cooperation along the border. Other than comments about which side of the border has a better view – (laughter) – it’s something that we hear but don’t accept. It is so wonderfully easy to travel between our two countries, except for today, when we blocked the traffic on the bridge. I’m glad I’m no longer an elected official. (Laughter.) And I think when we look to the extraordinary relationship that we have between our two countries, I know how much traffic goes across this bridge – not just carrying goods as part of our trade relation, and not just visits by tourists, but residents on both sides who have children who play hockey on one side, who work on the other side, who have a summer home on one side. There is so much traffic that brings us together on a literally minute-by-minute basis. In fact, 300,000 people cross the border every single day to spend some time in the country next door. And they don’t have to pass through a military checkpoint to do so. Our border reflects our trust in one another.

 

Now, to properly celebrate the 100 successful years of this treaty, we have to do more than honor the past. We have to recommit ourselves to strengthening this partnership and find new ways to work together to solve common problems. As we look at this alliance that exists between the United States and Canada, it is stunning. $1.6 billion in goods flows across this border every single day. Many of our industries actually work hand-in-hand, supporting millions of jobs in both countries. We have the world’s largest energy trade relationship. Our power grids work together seamlessly, most of the time. We collaborate closely on citizen safety and defense. Our soldiers are serving shoulder-to-shoulder in Afghanistan. And we share a commitment to promoting democracy, good governance, and human rights worldwide. So our comprehensive alliance in the 21st century will move us even closer together as we collaborate to improve conditions not only in our own countries, but across the world.

 

One area where we must join forces in is protecting our environment, especially our shared waters. Article IV of the Boundary Waters Treaty prohibited pollution by either country, which made this treaty one of the world’s first environmental agreements. By 1972, our nations took another step toward protecting these waters with the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, which lays out the goals and guidelines for restoring and protecting the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the Great Lakes Basin.

 

The Great Lakes-St. River system is a treasure. It contains one-fifth of the world’s fresh surface water. It provides millions of people with safe drinking water every day. So it’s crucial that we honor the terms of the Great Lakes Agreement as it stands today, but we also have to update it to reflect new knowledge, new technology, and, unfortunately, new threats.

 

The Agreement was last amended in 1987 and since then, new invasive species have appeared in our lakes, new worrisome chemicals have emerged from our industrial processes, our knowledge of the ecology of the region and how to protect it has grown considerably. In its current form, the Great Lakes Agreement does not sufficiently address the needs of our shared ecosystem.

 

So I’m pleased to announce that Canada and the United States have agreed to update the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement. (Applause.) We look forward to working closely with state, provincial, and local governments throughout Canada, as well as other stakeholders, in the coming months to produce an agreement that reflects our best knowledge and our unshakable commitment to preserving this vital natural resource.

 

Now, as we work together on this, we must also strengthen our response to other environmental threats, especially climate change, one of the most urgent problems facing our world which endangers our world’s water sources, the safety of coastal regions, the future of agriculture and health, and the stability of communities everywhere. It is a paramount threat, and it demands effective and bold action, which can only be achieved through partnership.

 

The Canadian-American border is such a precious reflection of our great relationship, and it reminds us that although we may salute different flags, hear beautifully sung different anthems, our nations grew from the same land and the same ideals. It falls to us as it falls to every generation to strengthen that partnership and friendship. We look forward to many more years of working with you to achieve our common goal, and many more days of celebrating accomplishments like we do today in a beautiful, wondrous creation that God has given us to preserve and maintain.

 

Thank you all very much.