9 - Friday,-December 18; 1987: ~ North Shore News-

Man jailed for B&E

|
Doug Collins

A 26-YEAR-OLD Port Coquitlam
man was sentenced Wednesday in
North Vancouver provincial court
to a jail term of two years less a
day after hie pleaded guilty to a
charge of break and ester,

Darren Michael Yoner was orig-
inally charged in connection with a
Sept. 29 incident in which a West
Fourth Street address in North
Vancouver was burglarized.

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SAYING A rational word in favor of pesticides or her-
bicides is a bit like saying that not all Germans were
Nazis. True believers do not want to know. All the same,
those chemicals have their uses and without them the
world would be a much poorer place.

irritations that were reported,

other explanations for the symp-
toms were more plausible, he

wrote in his eight-page analysis.
Stomach flu was prevalent at the
time and it was ‘‘hard to imagine |
a chemical exposure so irritating |

gi
It is also true that they can be
dangerous. 1 would not put a
spot of 2,4D in my gin to liven it
up a bit. Some East Indians in
‘the Fraser Valley did once take to
drinking ‘pesticide, with predic-
tably unhappy results. But you
can’t control everyone’s bad

habits

+

a news report out of Kitimat ac-
cording to which a bunch of kids
and a couple of adults had been
sprayed with Roundup. With the
result, it was stated, that they
vomited, and had nosebleeds,

hives and headaches.
It was.also reported that the
Skeena Health Unit

was in-

“While Roundup may have been responsible for
the skin and eye irritations that were reported,
other explanations for the symptoms were more
plausible, he wrote in this eight-page analysis.”

We 3 are » back on 1 the subject ¢ of

the BC Rail’s desire to spray its
_ Vight-of-way through West Van
.with Roundup, a-herbicide con-

taining glysophate. And if you _

» have followed our exciting story

so far you will know that Citizens .

Against Pesticide - Spraying.

; (CAPS) i is opposed to such spray-
ing

You will

also know that

. although there has been a lot of:-
con- mo

“publicity about residents’
cerns, only a few local people
“appeared at the recent En--

., vironmental Appeal Board hear--.
« of the ...

Fs ing to back their case.

CAPS does claim to have 1,000"

signatures from people who don’t
‘want a dose of Roundup. near
_ their back fences. But’ getting
: Signatures against herbicides and
‘pesticides is even easier than get-
ting teenagers to attend a rock
concert. What matters is whether
anyone is about to be poisoned.
When I first got on. to this
story, I felt like doing some sign-
. ing myself. For what did I see but

for ali your fiowers.

vestigating the
David. Bowering heads that unit
so, seeing no follow-up, I ob-
tained his findings.. :

He did a certain amount of-
" backing and filling, (Doctors are

like editorial writers, you know.
On the one hand this, on the
other hand that.) But the essence
of his inquiry was that there was
no evidence that herbicide was
responsible for the complaints.

He stated firmly:- “Roundup’ s”
toxicity to mammals is extremely
low and extrapolation: . to
humans suggests that many litres
solution could be in-~
gested without lethal effect.”

And again: ‘‘While there is no
reason to doubt the reality of the
reported symptoms, I have found
little or no evidence for the
assumption that Roundup was
the cause for most of them or
that this incident could accurately

. be described as herbicide poison-

ing.”
While Roundup may have been
responsible for the skin and eye

Simply the Best

incident, Dr.

. that
‘poisoning or ‘previously
- unreported Roundup toxicity has

to the nasal mucosa that it would
cause bleeding without pain or
and these

respiratory irritation ...
were not reported.’”

Of seven patients who had
reported ‘‘exposure,’’
hospitalized and no fab testing

none were

was felt to be necessar; for them.
The only physical
reported by one physician was a

mild non-specific dermatitis of

the forehead in the case of an
adult.

Dr. Bowering's most interest- |

ing comment was philosophical
rather than medical.

‘This incident, like many
other environmental issues, tends
to have a polarizing effect on
people. Information is often used
as ammunition rather than to in-
form.”’ (My italics.)

“Kitimat Council,’’ he con- |

cluded, ‘should clarify publicly

no proof of herbicide

emerged from ‘this
Despite that,
mended that no

incident.”

“involuntary”

* human exposure to herbicides or

pesticides’ should be permitted;
meaning that spraying should not
' take place without warning.
-Thought you’d like to know all
that. Also that I have no share in
Roundup. I do have a son who

works for BC Rail, but that’s no ©
reason for me to ignore this sub- .

ject. Thank you.
** %

For those who care: J will be
signing copies of The Best and
Worst of Doug Collins tomor-
row, Saturday; at Eaton’s Park
Royal; between 2 p.m. and 4
p.m. :

1804:Lonsdale 987-9351

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