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This Louisa County town of about 400 people doesn’t have that kind of money, so city leaders are looking for help.

Mayor Jerry Kirk told the Louisa County Board of Supervisors on Wednesday that the city would like to buy the property as a site for a new city hall and library, but can’t move forward until the remains of...

... 7.30 Report - 23/03/2006: Mundines hometown copes with asbestos legacy ABC Home Radio Television News …More Subjects Home Archive About Us Letters Australian Broadcasting Corporation 7.30 Report TV PROGRAM TRANSCRIPT LOCATION: http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2006/s1599481.htm Broadcast: 23/03/2006 Mundine's hometown copes with asbestos legacyReporter: Matt Peacock KERRY O'BRIEN: It's likely to pull the biggest crowd in Australia's boxing history - the much-anticipated contest between 'The Man' and 'The Green Machine', Anthony Mundine and Danny Green.

The fight was to have been held next month, but a back strain injury has forced Green to postpone it four weeks.

Already though, Anthony Mundine had organised his own unique bush training regime back in his home country of Baryulgil, a tiny Aboriginal settlement in NSW, north-west of Grafton.

Baryulgil is also the site of James Hardie's notorious asbestos mine, whose poisonous legacy has blighted the otherwise fiercely independent community.

Former asbestos miners and their families this week briefed a Sydney QC to pursue a compensation claim against Hardie following a meeting in the township at the weekend.

Matt Peacock's just returned from Baryulgil with this report on the asbestos tragedy and a rare glimpse of Anthony Mundine in his home country.

MATT PEACOCK: A boxing ring under the gum trees.

It's an exotic setting for a champion fighter preparing for his next title bout.

But around here, Antony 'The Man'...

... thedailytimes.com - ALCOA asbestos suit dismissed - Employee moves forward with appeal ALCOA asbestos suit dismissed - Employee moves forward with appeal 2006-03-23 by Darren Dunlap of The Daily Times Staff A Blount County judge dismissed a $20 million asbestos lawsuit against ALCOA Inc.

Wednesday.

Blount County resident Doug Satterfield filed suit against the company alleging secondary exposure to asbestos resulted in the death of his daughter, Amanda N.

Satterfield.

The family sought $10 million in compensatory and $10 million in punitive damages.

Blount County Circuit Court Judge W.

Dale Young issued the opinion.

Amanda N.

Satterfield initially filed the suit on Dec.

8, 2003, against Breeding Insulation Co.

Inc.

of Nashville and ALCOA.

She alleged her father, who first started working at ALCOA in 1973, was exposed to asbestos at work and brought it home on his clothes, which resulted in her contracting mesothelioma, a rare cancer.

He works at ALCOA's Tennessee Operations.

``Amanda Satterfield was exposed to harmful asbestos dust and fibers from the day of her birth from her father's use of asbestos products and inadvertent introduction of dust and fibers in their home and personal environments,'' according to her lawsuit.

The issue of secondary exposure of asbestos products caught the attention of the Tennessee Chamber of Commerce and Industry, which spoke in support of ALCOA at a hearing for the company's motion on Jan.

30, 2006, in Blount County Circui...