SAY "NO" TO ARTIFICIAL TURF...

Here's a report on this issue by NBC News...

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/how-safe-artificial-turf-your-child-plays-n220166

And the Washington Post...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/early-lead/wp/2014/10/09/is-there-a-link-between-artificial-turf-and-cancer-in-soccer-goalies/

And Forbes...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/bobcook/2014/10/20/should-parents-worry-synthetic-turf-fields-will-give-their-children-cancer/

And the Huffington Post...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/maria-rodale/3-dangers-of-artificial-t_b_1661499.html


And here's a note from our friend Nell Hergenrather...

I do hope you can write a letter and inspire others to do so as well. Even though I feel like the meeting went well, there were crumb turf lobbyists in the room and I am told they will continue to push their product on the board and the Director of Maintenance.

We need to have twice as many people showing up March 4th and have 50-100 more letters from the community to the board. This project will impact the Laguna hugely as the Analy fields are literally on the edge of our “preserved” and endangered wetlands. The Laguna flows into the Russian River watershed and anyone who is involved overseeing them should be very concerned as well, that the 4 million dollar upgrades have no environmental impact reports. The Director of Maintenance applied and received some kind of waiver. Meaning that she doesn’t have to do an environmental impact report.

Nell

Write to:

kmcdonald.do@wscuhsd.k12.ca.us

dlandry.do@wscuhsd.k12.ca.us