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RESIDENTS in North Vancouver’s Schoo! District 44 are
becoming increasingly disturbed over the district’s current
maintenance policy of spraying school playing fields with
herbicides.

The issue surfaced earlier this
week when residents near North
. Vancouver District’s Plymouth
oa Elementary School discovered

toe signs posted near the school’s all- herbicide spraying weed-control

ue, weather playing field warning of a program in progress.

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Said Brixham Road resident
Shirley Sykes: ‘‘There was no
neighborhood notification done
about it. I’m concerned that tittle
kids playing in the area can’t read
the signs, or older kids who see the
signs will ignore them. It just
bothers me that in this day and age
this kind of spraying is still going
on.””

According to her husband, Russ

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Sykes, signs posted indicated the
gravel playing field was sprayed
early Tuesday, July 18:

The annual herbicide spraying
program, which involves the ap-
plication of simazine or the
glyphosate Roundup, encompasses
32 school sites within North Van-
couver’s School District 44.

According to Ed Bodnar,
District 44’s director of buildings

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and grounds, the district has had
an annual herbicide weed control
program in piace for the past de-
cade.

Ministry of Environment
Pesticide Control Branch literature
describes simazine as a triazine
compound that works through the
roots of a plant to inhibit

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