Kaua`i Newspaper Supports Pesticide Legislation
The Garden Island newspaper published an editorial this morning supporting Senate Bill 3170, which establishes pesticide-free buffer zones around schools. The article cites five incidences over the past few years in which students at Waimea Canyon Middle School complained of illness that was allegedly due to pesticide spraying.
“It would benefit our children, teachers and parents to know that the school where they all converge is a safe environment,” the newspaper said.
The editorial concludes with a request to “Keep Bill 3170 alive during the 2008 session.”
To read the entire editorial, click here.