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Last Man Bids Toxic Town Adieu

By John D. Sutter
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CNN
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PICHER, Okla. (June 30) -- Wearing powder blue pants and a plaid fedora, 84-year-old Orval "Hoppy" Ray arrived fashionably late to a celebration in Picher, Oklahoma, a vacated mining town at the center of one of the nation's largest and most polluted toxic-waste sites.
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2009-06-30 13:37:44

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Wearing powder blue pants and a plaid fedora, 84-year-old Orval Hoppy Ray arrived fashionably late to a celebration in Picher, Oklahoma, a vacated mining town at the center of one of the nation\'s largest and most polluted toxic-waste sites.