Environmental

Baseball Fields Sprayed, Host Youth Games 30 Minutes Later

MAINE–(ENEWSPF)–May 12, 2012.

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With Keep off the Grass Sign evident in the foreground, a baseball game takes place Wednesday evening at 5 p.m. on a field that had been treated with synthetic toxic weed killers at approximately 4:30 p.m. (Sandy Syburg photo)

With the Keep off the Grass Sign evident in the foreground, a baseball game takes place Wednesday evening at 5 p.m. on a field that had been treated with synthetic toxic weed killers at approximately 4:30 p.m. (Sandy Syburg photo)

It happens, undoubtedly, often and everywhere. Poisons are sprayed to kill weeds on sports fields, the warning signs are posted . . . and the signs are ignored.

Rarely, though, do we…

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