(GOLDEN, ROCKY FLATS, Colo., April 19, 2005) Waste Programs Organization Workers gathered in front of the containers for a group photo out in front of building #440. The final TRUPACT-II shipment left building #440 this morning. The semi hauling three ...
(JEFFERSON CO., Colo., Apr. 29, 1978) A protester in a skeleton mask lends a harsh note to an otherwise mild-mannered demostration Saturday at the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant. About 5,000 persons gathered to demand the plant's conversion to peace...
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(Arvada, Colo., October 8, 2004) Wally Gulden and his wife, Connie, relax with their Shih Tzu, Tinkerbelle, in their home in Arvada Friday. Wally Gulden was diagnosed with lymphoma cancer while working at Rocky Flats 10 years ago. Congress finally ...
10/9/04 - P. 4A;
(DENVER, Colo., January 5, 2005) Jon Lipsky, ex-FBI agent, brown sportcoat, wipes his brow often as he stood and talked to the media in the 3rd floor press room at the capitol this morning to present allegations of enviornmental crimes that took place ...
(from left) Cora Tafoya (cq), Michelle Dobrovolny (cq) and Mark Dobrovolny (cq) pose for a portrait on April 25th, 2007. Michelle (at center), takes a daily dosage of over 50 pills, consisting of Vicodin, Celebrex, Nexium, Ultram, Amitriptyline/Paxil,...
0349 Douglas DelForge, 46, of Northglen, worked at Rocky Flats for 24 years as a chemical operator and has an A-Typical Meningiona brain tumor, joins a rally with the American Steel workers Union during a National Institute for Occupational Safety and ...
02/15/2008 - P. 26NEWS;
088 The family of former Rocky Flats occupational safety engineer, Charlie Wolf, widow, Kathy Wolf (cq), center, and daughters, Stephanie Wolf (cq), bottom right, Charlotte Wolf (cq), top center, Amber Cain (cq), bottom left, embraces her daughter, and...
49 year-old Laura Schultz (cq) worked at Rocky Flats for 12 years. She suffers of Renal Carcinoma, Cervical Cancer. Her husband, Jeff Schultz (cq), recently discovered 4 nodules in his lungs, and a lump in his thyroid. He worked at the facility for sev...
49 year-old Walter Mike Mobley (cq) worked at Rocky Flats for 12 years as a carpenter. Doctors found a tumor behind his stomach which was removed following several chemotherapy sessions and finally becoming cancer free three years ago. Rocky Flats wor...
54 year-old Diane M. Jensen (cq) poses for a portrait before a decision is made at the Radiation Board meeting. She worked at Rocky Flats for 22 years, and came down with breast cancer. She beat the cancer and years later found a growth in her thyroid....
60 year-old Judy Padilla (cq) worked at Rocky Flats for 22 years as a metallurgical operator, sheet metal technician and a radiological control technician. She fell ill with breast cancer, and had her right breast removed. Rocky Flats workers made thei...
61 year-old Mary Burke (cq) poses for a portrait before a decision is made at the Radiation Board meeting. She worked at Rocky Flats for 23 years, and came down with breast cancer. She beat the cancer and years later found a tumor in her stomach, one t...
68 year-old Frances Samora (cq) holds a sign with the names of her family members, friends and other co-workers who have died or fell ill as a result to toxic exposures at Rocky Flats, as she participates in a rally that convened outside of the Departm...
75 year-old George Tutt (cq) a former uranium miner sits in his house in Shiprock, New Mexico as his 28 year-old son Davis Tutt (cq) sits in the kitchen table. He started working in the uranium mines since he was 16 years-old. Today, he suffers from a ...
07/19/2008 - P. 1NEWS;
82 year-old Robert Carlson (cq) worked at Rocky Flats for 27 years. He suffered of colon cancer, and had 2 feet of his colon removed, as well as 2 feet of intestines, following a year-long treatment of chemotheraphy. He worked as an experimental operat...
As a Rocky Flats employee for 21 years Steven Weber (cq) says he saw his share of waste and corporate greed by Kaiser-Hill who oversaw the federally-funded cleanup of the former nuclear site near Boulder. He says the management ordered workers to throw...
Barry Gilbert (cq) from Aurora, worked at Rocky Flats for 22 years. He recently underwent surgery for brain tumors. He joined hundreds of former Rocky Flats workers and spouses of former Rocky Flats workers at the Arvada Center Monday evening, November...
Charlie Wolf, a 49 year-old former Occupational safety engineer worked at Rocky Flats for many years. He was diagnosed with brain cancer in 2002, and beat the odds by surviving six years when he was only given 6 months to live. His brain tumors went in...
CODER107 - Jennifer Thompson, the spokesperson for the Rocky Flats workers, left, comforts Nila Adkins, whose husband, Danny Adkins, died from cancer in September 2003 after working for Rocky Flats for 21 years, after they watched the Radiation Advisor...
A photo of Kay Barker (cq), and her husband Lawrence Barker, in 1994, just before he died of colon cancer after working at Rocky Flats for twenty-eight years. (JUDY DEHAAS/ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS) **Kay Barker (cq)
DLM6507 Kae Williams breaks into tears as she recollects her husband Don Gabel's death in 1980 and what she and her kids went through in the years that followed. Don Gabel, who worked in building 771 at Rocky Flats for almost 10 years, died in 1980 fr...
For five years, former Rocky Flats worker E. Levi Samora Jr. was denied compensation meant for sick nuclear weapons workers, even though he had a diagnosis of a bomb-related illness, from Rocky Flats doctors. Early in the compensation program, chronic ...
Valerie Thielen (cq), from Arvada, Michelle Dobrovolny (cq), from Arvada, and Dennis Romero (cq), from Thornton, all former workers at Rocky Flats, cry as the the Radiation Advisory Board voted 6 to 4 to not grandfather in the years they worked at the ...
George Barrie (cq) looks out the window of his double-semi trailer home in Craig Colorado. He worked in Rocky Flats, dealing with top-secret materials at this atomic weapon complex northwest of Denver. Doctors say he developed a pre-cancerous stomach...
07/21/2008 - P. 10SPECIAL;
James Turner (cq), age 63, is a former Rocky Flats worker with chronic beryllium disease. After years of being at the front of the dispute for workers compensation, he finally got awarded a sum of money in relation to his beryllium disease. He poses fo...
Jim Stone (cq), 82, won a multimilliondollar federal whistleblower lawsuit against Rockwell, the one-time operators of the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant, in 1999 but has collected none of it due to extended appeals, including a recently filed appea...
Kay Parker (cq) lost her husband to cancer, after fell ill from allegedly working at the Rocky Flats facility. She came to support his late husband's co-workers, as Rocky Flats employees made their last plea for help before Radiation Board, to determin...
Mary An Rupp (cq), the wife of Martin Rupp, a former Rocky Flats employee, weeps after the Board decided against the possibility to grandfather the former Rocky Flats employees into an aid program for those affected with cancer. Her husband died of lun...
5/4/07 - P. 4NEWS;
PHOTO BY CHRISTOPHER TOMLINSON--Loa Richards at her home in Grand Junction with a photo of her late husband Warren Richards who worked at Rocky Flats and died of stomach cancer at age 51.Sent as LOA RICHARDS 1.
Frank Steinbach (cq) from Lakewood, (front center, in the plaid shirt, with cane and hat) joins hundreds of former Rocky Flats workers and spouses of former Rocky Flats workers fill a banquet room at the Arvada Center Monday evening, November 7, 2005, ...
