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State News Release - Sept 04, 2002 |
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| Delaware Green Party Green Party of Delaware Nominates Winkler for Sussex County 20th Senatorial District State Senate Seat. |
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For Immediate Release William J. (Bill) Winkler, Sr., a nine year resident and business owner in eastern Sussex County, Delaware, has filed for candidacy in the 20th Senatorial District seat, as a member of the Green Party of Delaware. Winkler is owner of the TreasureQuest Shoppe in Ocean View, founder of the Delaware Marine Archaeological Society, and a graduate of the University of Hawaii with a B.A. in Biology and two years of graduate study in a non-degree program in biological oceanography. Winkler has been self-employed in retail and real estate maintenance for more than 20 years, while volunteering efforts toward a cleaner, safer environment for both of those decades. In 1972/73, Winkler served as vice-president of Island Air in Honolulu before transferring to Miami with Western Airlines, later working for the Arvida Corporation in Boca Raton, Florida. He was also appointed commissioner at the Hillsboro Inlet by Broward County, Florida (one of five commissioners responsible for the sand by-pass operation). His interests in environmental protection led him to become a marketing representative for the submerged barrier reef company American Coastal Engineering of Palm Beach, in the early 1990's, which brought him to Delaware in 1993. Winkler is well known throughout lower Delaware for his environmental and public health concerns. Winkler reported illegal dredging in 1994, live artillery on Bethany Beach in 1998, a toxic Red Tide in the ocean in August 2000, documented hundreds of microscopic slides on video tape in 2001 while volunteering as an Inland Bays plankton researcher and water tester, and discovered a previously unknown plankton species. Dr. James Powlik, author of the best seller "Sea Change", wrote a non-fiction novel titled "Deadly Tide" about Winkler's quest to prove the existence of the Red Tide "against all odds". Issues most important to Winkler are those that affect public health and safety such as: Smart Growth in maintaining the environment while maintaining economic growth. Winkler says, "Our quality of life in lower Delaware has digressed exponentially with development that has grown beyond existing infrastructure. He contends that sewage treatment efforts that were supposed to help clean up the inland bays have gone primarily to new developments, while failing septic systems continue to pollute the bay with nutrients and potentially debilitating diseases. Winkler noted that according to EPA investigator Jeff Lapp, five or six developments in eastern Sussex County have filled wetlands illegally. Mr. Lapp said one developer filled 25 acres illegally. "Very little has been done by the EPA to enforce the mitigation which requires 'double' the creation of wetlands is completed by the developers," says Winkler. "Roads built to State specifications with sidewalks, street lighting and bike paths wide enough to be used safely, sewer and water are more important to existing residents than a new development," Winkler maintains. Winkler is not asking for donations for his campaign. Instead, he asks those who believe he will protect the
Constitution of the United States and of Delaware and will work diligently until the area's quality of life
improves, to talk to their friends and neighbors and show them this press
release. For an email copy that can be forwarded to friends, neighbors and family in the 20th Senatorial District, request a copy at
treasurequestshoppe@earthlink.net. |
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State News Release - Sept 04, 2002 |
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