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First Place
Brian Plonka
The Spokesman-Review
"Living and Dying in Libby"

 

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Cloie Boardner watches her grandfather pound a cross into the ground at the Libby Cemetery prior to a memorial service for asbestos victims. Cloie's grandmother died of asbestosis and both her parents have lung abnormalities. It was also discovered that the soil at her elementary school was heavily contaminated with vermiculite. Cloie won't know her fate from exposure for several more decades.
 
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