Radium Girls

Tribal officials say the $725 million project by the North Fork Rancheria of Mono Indians of California, managed by Station Casinos, is expected to create more than 1,500 local jobs.

And in this week's regional happenings, Golden Chain Theatre continues Radium Girls through November 1.

Yosemite Lakes Community Church hosts a free Dr. Seuss-themed Harvest Hullabaloo on Friday, October 30 from 5 to 8 p.m. Oakhurst Kiwanis will hold a Halloween trunk retreat on October 31 from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Fairfield Inn on Highway 41, and another trunk retreat is planned that night from 6 to 9 p.m. in the parking lot next to AutoZone in Oakhurst.

In sports, Mariposa County high school football bounced back from its dinner loss with a 19-7 win over Stone Ridge Christian on October 23, a result that moved the Grizzlies ahead of SRC in the Southern League standings.

And I'm Getting ready to be done with it.

And then the only other thing I was going to know is that I've been listening to a book about the radium girls from the 20s.

I don't know if you know much about this, but it's like... a group of of women who were using radium to paint on like clock faces and things like that so that it would glow in the dark obviously that's a radioactive substance and so they had a bunch of issues but the book is really interesting because it kind of goes into the company's you know, tale as old as time, like the company knew it was dangerous to some degree and still encouraged these women to lip point, which meant that they like put it in their mouths and dipped it in the paint to keep it like super precise and to paint.

And then, you know, of course, proceeded to try to like cover that up.

Because they had radiation poisoning.

So they don't have any energy to, like, go fight this in court.

Or, like... figure out even what the cause of it was their their focus was just on feeling better so i like that part of the book is like all the people who helped along the way it's called radium girls the radium girls yeah i think the uh author is like i want to say like something more m-o-o-r-e let's see if i can find it

Not the guy who wrote Bowling for Columbine.

And we got to get all cranked up with energy.

They just removed my radium video off of Instagram about me debunking Eben Meyers and the Radium Girls.

And I would wonder why that would be.

So that's another funny one.

Their names were Grace Fryer, Catherine Schaub, Quinta MacDonald, Albina Larisse, and Edna Hussman.

History would eventually fold women like them into one collective name, the Radium Girls.

And it's a powerful name, but there wasn't one Radium Girl.

There were individual women.

May lived to be 107 years old.

Her story is a reminder of something important.

The radium girls weren't one medical outcome.

Exposure differed and bodies differed.

And I do want to acknowledge Matt, Juliana, and Enzo, who sent this in.

And they actually sent us the Radium Girls story, which you did earlier this year.

And they said they'd like to listen to our show on the way to school.

So I hope you enjoy this one.