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Effort to ban gas-powered leaf blowers in Saanich

Effort to ban gas-powered leaf blowers in Saanich

Saanich environmentalist and community organizer Teale Phelps Bondaroff has been working on a campaign petitioning the Saanich Council to ban gas-powered leaf blowers, to create a recycling program to deal with obsolete landscaping machinery, and to regulate use of electric leaf blowers to ensure compliance with the Saanich noise suppression bylaw.

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Action Alert: Protect our Wild Spaces

Action Alert: Protect our Wild Spaces

In July 2020, the Vancouver Park Board Commissioners approved the designation of 22 parks, including the quiet more secluded old grove of trees at Kits Beach and the Vanier Park Duck Pond, as legal drinking zones.

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