Interview with Sharon Ball, January 12, 2007

Partial Transcript: Okay, this is Dale Johnson with PRIDE, we're at the Corbin Middle School.

Segment Synopsis: Ball discusses her childhood, including her home, recreational activities, parents' occupations, and solid waste and refuse disposal.

Keywords: Air conditioning; Bicycles; Careers; Fathers; Garbage; Heating; Homes; Houses; Jobs; Mothers; Occupations; Parents; Personal Responsibility in a Desirable Environment (PRIDE); Plumbers; Roller skates; Sewers; Swimming; Trash

Subjects: Childhood; Corbin (Ky.); Dwellings; Employment--Kentucky; Families.; Knox County (Ky.); Louisville (Ky.); Plumbing.; Recreation; Refuse and refuse disposal.; Sewerage.

Partial Transcript: What do you feel needs to be done for a cleaner and safer environment in your community?

Segment Synopsis: Ball discusses ways to improve the environment, especially recycling. Ball also discusses different ways she's seen recycled items used.

Keywords: Curbside pickup; Mulch; Recycling collection; Styrofoam

Subjects: Environmental protection; Environmentalism; Knox County (Ky.); Recycling (Waste, etc.); Recycling centers; Refuse and refuse disposal.; Tires

Partial Transcript: How have you been involved in PRIDE?

Segment Synopsis: Ball discusses her involvement with PRIDE and her school's PRIDE club. Ball also discusses her school's methods of refuse disposal.

Keywords: PRIDE clubs; Personal Responsibility in a Desirable Environment (PRIDE); School cleanups; Styrofoam

Subjects: Corbin (Ky.); Elementary schools; Environmental protection; Environmentalism; Litter (Trash); Middle schools; Recycling (Waste, etc.); Refuse and refuse disposal.; Roadside litter; Teachers

Partial Transcript: Um, where did you get your household water, and was it good water?

Segment Synopsis: Ball discusses where she gets her household water now and where she got it when she was young. Ball also talks about the importance of PRIDE's septic system grant program.

Keywords: Personal Responsibility in a Desirable Environment (PRIDE); Septic systems; Straight pipes

Subjects: Cumberland River (Ky. and Tenn.); Environmental protection; Environmentalism; Grants and funding; Plumbing.; Refuse and refuse disposal.; Sewerage.; Water; Water quality.

Partial Transcript: Do you think Corbin--I mean, PRIDE has improved Corbin's environment?

Segment Synopsis: Ball discusses PRIDE's role in improving the environment. Ball also discusses the popularity of her school's PRIDE club and the projects they do.

Keywords: Clean streams; PRIDE clubs; Personal Responsibility in a Desirable Environment (PRIDE); Presentations; Recycling (Waste, etc.)

Subjects: Children; Corbin (Ky.); Environmental education.; Environmental protection; Environmentalism; Students

Partial Transcript: Do you think PRIDE should extend farther in places that they don't have PRIDE?

Segment Synopsis: Ball discusses her hopes that her students will continue being involved with PRIDE. Ball also discusses the clean streams program.

Keywords: Clean streams; PRIDE clubs; Personal Responsibility in a Desirable Environment (PRIDE); Recycling (Waste, etc.)

Subjects: Children; Environmental education.; Environmental protection; Environmentalism; Recycling centers; Students; Teachers; Water quality.

Partial Transcript: Do you think that, if you like, had a bill like, you get a ticket if you litter, do you think like the $500 littering fine is a good thing?

Segment Synopsis: Ball discusses the need for greater law enforcement for littering. Ball also discusses the amount of garbage created at her school and the amount of people involved with PRIDE at her school.

Keywords: Fines; Garbage; Personal Responsibility in a Desirable Environment (PRIDE); Styrofoam

Subjects: Children; Environmental law.; Environmental protection; Environmentalism; Law enforcement; Litter (Trash); Pollution.; Refuse and refuse disposal.

Partial Transcript: Do the kids at South, do they like litter around the school and on the playground and stuff or...

Segment Synopsis: Ball discusses litter cleanups at her school and what the punishment would be if someone was caught littering.

Keywords: Campus cleanups; Personal Responsibility in a Desirable Environment (PRIDE)

Subjects: Children; Environmental law.; Environmental protection; Environmentalism; Law enforcement; Litter (Trash); Pollution.; Punishment; Refuse and refuse disposal.; Schools; Students

Partial Transcript: And, uh, do you think the middle school's involved enough in PRIDE?

Segment Synopsis: Ball discusses the middle and high schools' involvement in PRIDE. Ball discusses the greenhouse and the wetland built by the middle school.

Keywords: Clean streams; Personal Responsibility in a Desirable Environment (PRIDE); Recycling (Waste, etc.)

Subjects: Children; Environmental protection; Environmentalism; Greenhouses; High schools; Middle schools; Plants; Schools; Students; Wetlands

Partial Transcript: Do you think that the younger children like Central should be--have some part in PRIDE, even though they're young?

Segment Synopsis: Ball discusses the importance of getting young children involved in PRIDE.

Keywords: Personal Responsibility in a Desirable Environment (PRIDE); Young children

Subjects: Children; Environmental education.; Environmental protection; Environmentalism; Water

Partial Transcript: How, exactly, did you get introduced to PRIDE?

Segment Synopsis: Ball discusses how she first got involved with PRIDE and what her first impression of the program was.

Keywords: Clean streams; Personal Responsibility in a Desirable Environment (PRIDE)

Subjects: Children; Environmental protection; Environmentalism; Union College (Barbourville, Ky.)

Partial Transcript: What do you believe would have happened to, um, Corbin, if PRIDE hadn't come in?

Segment Synopsis: Ball discusses the effect of PRIDE on Corbin, animals, and herself.

Keywords: Personal Responsibility in a Desirable Environment (PRIDE); Straight pipes

Subjects: Animals; Corbin (Ky.); Environmental protection; Environmentalism; Litter (Trash); Plumbing.; Sewerage.; Water--Pollution

Partial Transcript: Um, have you littered and then not thought about it but then later thought about it and regretted it?

Segment Synopsis: Ball discusses her family's littering habits and ways of informing people about PRIDE.

Keywords: Children; Husbands; Parents; Personal Responsibility in a Desirable Environment (PRIDE); Spouses; Students

Subjects: Environmental education.; Environmental protection; Environmentalism; Litter (Trash); Pollution.; Publicity; Refuse and refuse disposal.

Partial Transcript: When you were younger, um, to now, what difference have you seen in the state of Kentucky in the environment?

Segment Synopsis: Ball discusses the increase in pollution since she was young and the issue of straight pipes. Ball also discusses her parents, and Hal Rogers' contribution to PRIDE.

Keywords: Fathers; Hal Rogers; Mothers; Parents; Rogers, Hal; Straight pipes

Subjects: Environmental protection; Environmentalism; Kentucky River (Ky.); Plumbing.; Pollution.; Refuse and refuse disposal.; Rogers, Harold Dallas, 1937-; Rogers, Harold, 1937-; Sewerage.; Water--Pollution