No-Spray Kudos

[ Letter to the Editor, SBN-P, from Estelle Foster, Executive director, Pesticide Awareness, and Alternative Coalition, September 3, 2006 ]

Kudos to council for decrying Naled use


Thanks to Mayor Marty Blum and Council members Iya Falcone, Helene Schneider, Brian Barnwell, Roger Horton, Grant House and Das Williams.

This is to convey profound appreciation from a grateful community. Everywhere we go, and all the e-mails and phone calls, we are met with the collective esteem in which their community holds them.

Their strong leadership stance on the issue of the use of the toxic pesticide Naled in our communities is exemplary.

Personally, I am so proud of our mayor and council for the important letter they wrote asking that the Naled applications be stopped, and the use of safer methods be employed.

We thank them again for their strong stand in the protection of their community.

Estelle Foster, Executive director,


Santa Barbara News-Press