(What
Helliker and the California Department of Pesticide Regulation should take
care of instead of threatening Fairfax)
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It is getting worse not better. Out here in Temecula, the parks are covered with pesticides
and weed killer. Matt was not able to finish with his baseball team due to the
continuation of the City's use of chemicals.....They were provided with the
deadly effects, from Dr. Platt at Loma Linda,
that these chemicals could have on Matt and told me that they were within
the law with their applications. On top of that they are using reclaimed water
loaded with chemicals on the fields, what a soup.......
In Menifee and Murrieta, new homes are being built on
Sludge fields contaminated with toxic chemicals and heavy metals......not to
mention the wood treatment of the new housing materials.
In French Valley they are putting schools on top of sludge
fields, not to mention new homes....
Riverside County is the biggest toxic Soup hole I have ever
seen...Are there any groups who want to clean house down here.....I know for a
fact that Temecula doesn't want any attention on this problem..We have monthly
meetings regarding these issues and the time has come to reach out to any pro
active groups out there..... Our Group name is CATE citizens against toxic
exposure....We invite anyone out there to HELP.......We are a group of MAMA
BEARS who can be very vocal and aggressive...We need STATE WIDE exposure to
these issues.
In Indian Wells, Palm Desert, the ball playing fields have
an average of 2-6 Microwave towers on the fields where the children play,,,,,
Little League fields, parks and schools are the war zones
of our children....There is worse contamination of these places where our
children spend their day, then the MIDDLE EAST.
Who is our real enemy SADDAM or the EPA. I should know,
CHRISSY
IS DEAD.
Update on the $132,000, judgment on Matt age 10, now 13
from STANLEY PEST CONTROL., BK was entered last month....what a price on such a
young child....
THESE people are EVIL.....
God Bless,
Janine Matelko CMG022@aol.com
Today our son's elementary school in San Jacinto, Ca. is
again ignoring the laws of "The Healthy Schools Act of 2000".
They have sprayed pesticides on campus with no regard to safety of the
kids. Last Wednesday, 9-11 (oddly
enough) they sprayed and should have given 72 hours notice as the law requires.
We found out they had sprayed because our child has autism and is
extremely sensitive to toxins. Our
son was very irritable, crying, screaming and hyperactive.
On Friday, 9-13, we received a phone call from his teacher telling us to
pick up our son because he was so irritable.
That night we found a notice in our son's backpack saying they were going
to be spraying, however no date as to when. Our son has had a reaction to pesticides in the past and we
have a doctor’s note saying he should not be exposed.
We know the law requires the schools to post a notice 24 hours before a
spraying and 72 hours notice in writing. The
school posted the notices the day of the spraying and it was not in a visible
spot. My wife went to the school to
find out who was responsible for contacting the parents.
The receptionist said it was the maintenance department’s job.
She asked for a copy of the form that was originally filled out at the
school on 8-6-02. The form clearly
states the form is to be kept at the *school* and the *school* will notify the
parents 72 hours before application. We
then wrote the principal informing her of this problem and how it affected our
son. We never got a response to the
letter or even an apology. This
morning, as we were getting ready to take our son to school, we received a
message informing us that they were in the process of spraying.
So we received notification 1 hour before school was to start (and
probably the only parents who *did* get notified). I went to the school and there was only one small sign posted
(1 out of the 4 possible entrances into the school) and it was posted with
today’s date (not posted 24 hours like they’re supposed to by law).
The posted note was 5”x 4" and was posted on a door that is open
most of the time with all of the traffic in the morning – so even that one
sign was probably not noticed by the majority of parents.
Pesticides are horrible to the health of everyone, especially children.
Can you comment on how to best fight this?
Sincerely,
Michael and Robin Dooley
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