Following is a photograph (the owner of which shall remain
anonymous) depicting what happens to beautiful gardens (planted at our expense)
when the City of Woodstock gets a hold of some pesticides. The Foliage Free sign
was actually created and planted on location by the author of the photo, using a
Pesticide Free sign available through the Green Earth Campaign. As for the
garden it used to contain beautiful flowers and shrubbery surrounded by a sea of
green green grass. We hope the trees will survive, but only time will tell.
Thank you for spending our money on flowers and then poisoning us. Obviously the
City must have realized it's inability to care for green spaces and henceforth
can see no other way to maintain the Pittock Reservoir than to lease it
away!
SOMETIMES THE GRASS IS GREENER ON THE OTHER
SIDE...BUT NOT HERE.
For a few weeks now, we've been trying to figure out
what happened on the corner of Vansittart and Dundas streets to kill all the
grass? Everyday I look across the street from my shop and see this barren
patch of land.
Early in June someone came around and sprayed
something....perhaps an ex-foliant, or something that just killed all the
grass. We cannot be sure exactly what they sprayed, but one thing for sure
is...they've killed everything aside from a few large ornamental trees.
So...that brings me to the question of should there be a
ban on the usage of this stuff as it is obvious not even the city staff who
sprayed are competent to handle this poisonous stuff! Or should there be
strict licsencing measures?
I am told that we have strict rules regarding this
stuff, but there is no oversight. So just how good is a rule, when there is no
one looking to see if the rule is being kept?
I would think that if the city cannot supervise what
they are sending these people out to do, then the city should just stop using
whatever it is they used to kill the grass. And as well, perhaps the city
should identify what chemical they used on that area...instead of letting the
community assume the worse. I have yet to see anyone from the parks department
come out and examine this area. Obviously, they must not know what happened,
or they do not want to know what happened there.
James Bender
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