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...Lawsuits have driven smokers out of the workplace to protect non-smokers.

Intelligence at the lower levels of government, at least in some jurisdictions, finally forced Ontario to adopt non-smoking laws province-wide, which are about to come into effect.

All of Ireland is already there!

Now the parallel battle has moved to pesticides.

The latest local skirmish took place around Oak Lake, just south of Stirling, where concerned residents forced backward politicians to examine the evidence and pass a bylaw banning the use of cosmetic pesticides in that part of Quinte West.

This is quite an accomplishment considering QW is one of the last stubborn holdouts in the no-smoking wars.

When Councillor Sally Freeman said, “Oak Lake needs protecting.

There is poison going into the lake which causes harm.

We need to get a bylaw as soon as possible.” the illustrious Mayor Bob Campney retorted, “Peanut butter is deadly to some people, but it is still on the market.

Why is that any different?

”… well, there it is, dare I say, “In a nutshell.”For the record: “On November 18, Canada’s Supreme Court rejected an appeal of Toronto’s pesticide law by pesticide manufacturers, who charged that it illegally duplicated existing legislation.

Toronto’s ban, passed in 2003, forbids the so-called cosmetic use of pesticides and lays out fines for scofflaws.“The court action reinforces the idea that local governm...

... Reid’s son, Jeff Reid, died in June 2004 from bronchial avular carcinoma, a terminal form of He was 36 years old.

“More people die from “He started playing music when he was three,” recalls Velna Reid.

“His grandfather taught him to play the violin.

Jeff, who grew up in Clarksville and attended Atholton High School, was discovered with his band at The Horse You Came In On, a bar in Fells Point.

“I’m looking at his gold record now,” said his mom in a phone interview, referring to the album, “Now You See Inside,” recorded in 2001.

Jeff was diagnosed after a skiing accident.

An x-ray revealed that the cancer had already destroyed one lung.

The lung was removed.

“We had him for three years, then it spread to the other lung,” said Velna.

Jeff Reid died in his Ellicott City home.

In November 2004, Velna Reid put together a benefit concert and raised $30,000 for St.

Agnes Hospital’s new Not she’s at it again.

A second benefit concert will be held Sunday, April 9 at Cricketts California Inn in Laurel featuring the Kelly Bell Band, Jimmie Davies from Jimmies C...

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261-0205.

AA, Alateen and Al-Anon - 861-2620.

AARP - General information or information about local chapters.

819-1902.

AARP Foundation Senior Employment Service - Work training program that helps mature job seekers.

355-3600.

AARP Widowed Persons Service - for widowed people working through their grief.

288-3017, ext.

34.

AARP Widowed Persons Service of Richmond Inc.

- 288-4474.

AARP Widowed Persons Service - 1 p.m., each Thursday, Fairmount United Methodist Church, 12 Bayard Road (Laburnum).

AARP Widowed Persons Service - 2 and 7 p.m.

each Tuesday; 2 p.m.

each Thursday; every other Saturday at 2:30 at Woody Funeral Home, 1771 Parham Road.

288-3013.

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