MAINE–(ENEWSPF)–September 28, 2011. Anyone concerned with pesticide spraying should take note: PROTESTS DO WORK.
For further evidence, turn to Highland Park, Ill., where 25 emails and 600-plus signatures on a petition caught the attention of local officials who ultimately killed a plan to spray public parks with synthetic weed killers: http://highlandpark.suntimes.com/news/7810266-418/park-district-backs-off-pesticide-use.html.
The issue in the community was that, after voting to go “organic” on the parks three years ago, the fields started producing more…
