Tina Giuliano is KGUN 9's Northside reporter. Send your story ideas to Tina at [email protected].
TUCSON, Ariz. — With the crunch of the gravel underneath her feet, Gabrielle Cardenas walks on the trail near her grandma's house. With the sky clear and a slight breeze flowing through the palo verde trees, she takes in the view that she's seen her entire life.
"I've lived in Tucson my whole life, but my family has been here for the past four generations," she said."Where my great grandparents lived was in the Mission Manor neighborhood.""In the 1970s and '80s, they discovered that there were pollutants taking place there that impacted the community," she said."He was diagnosed with leukemia at the age of 3," she said.
It's lead her to be a passionate advocate for the environment, even speaking at a panel at the Newman Center with the Diocese of Tucson's Bishop Edward Weisenburger on March 18.Last October, Pope Francis released the Laudate Deum, a document that called on people to take care of the poor and the environment.Just a few months after the Laudate Deum was released, Weisenburger went with other bishops and religious to the White House.
"He or she must do what they can do," Weisenburger said."At St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, their school has extensive solar implementation. St. John the Evanglist on the south side of Tucson has solar panels everywhere.""we need to cast out fear which makes us strong and loving and we will respond this crisis of ecology," he said.Tina Giuliano is a reporter for KGUN 9. She is a native Arizonan and grew up in Scottsdale.
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