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Businessman ou
to stop vandals

TERRACE — Four cases of
vandalism in three weeks has
caused a local businessman to
issue a reward.

_ Petrocan~ petroleum bulk
dealer John Tymoschuk said the
$100° offer for information
leading to the charging and con-
viction of the vandals is the one
step he can think of to stop the
attacks.

**You put a lot of effort into
making your place look
beautiful and this is what hap-
pens,”’ said Tymoschuk last
week after somebody in a small
vehicle tore gouges in a newly-
planted Jawn.

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Previously, a vehicle was used
to create other gouges, foot-
prints were found in new grass
and several cedar planters with
flowers were stolen.

“What the heck is a guy sup-
posed to do? It’s just
sickening,’”? said Tymoschuk.

The dealership is new to Keith
Ave, and Tymoschuk said land-.
scaping the outside is a way of
making it look more attractive. & ; ‘

““Petrocan built the plant, BULK PETROLEUM dealer John Tymoschuk is offering a $100
and it’s up to the local dealer to reward far information on recent vandalism at his business. ‘Gouges .
do what he wants outside the caused by tire tracks is the fourth vandalism attack in the past three»
fence,’’ he said. weeks,

Expert back spraying
with Vision herbicide

TERRACE — There’s a lot of slovent, was a weak carcinogen “‘falls way, way below levels
misinformation being used in which could cause liver and regulatory bodies consider to be

the debate over herbicide use to. nasal tract tumours. However, essentially zero,”” he added.
rid unwanted weed growth, says he said that occurred “‘only = While he agreed the original

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an American expert. when it’s given by mouth. When decision to approve Vision had

Frank Dost, a toxicology it’s. (inhaled) it doesn’t do been based on test results from ff .
specialist at the University of — that.”’ a labratory which had later been . TOLL FREE
Oregon, made the comment Like water, when the dioxane shown to have been falsifying § ; . 1-800-772-1128
during a recent presentation to dried it was no longer on the _ its figures, Dost said all the tests . . pol™
local forests ministry personnel. vegetation but in the air and relating to Round-up/Vision . : ' of 4631 Keith Ave..

He said this is particularly therefore the risk, even for in- had subsequently been redone : ‘
true with Vision, the product dividuals doing the spraying, and the results validated, ; : _, 885° 4984
name. for a chemical used by the - -_ : ‘
ministry: and forest companies -
to kill: brush competition on
reforested sites. (Vision was for-
mally known as Round-up.)

Although sometimes describ-
ed by opponents as highly toxic,
Dost said there was no scientific
evidence to support that claim.

“It (Vision) comes off with
the same irritant potential as
baby shampoo,” said Dost of
tests with human volunteers.

Maintaining the chemicals us-
ed had no long term effects, he
pointed out they did not
magnify in the food chain or ac-
cumuiate in biological systems
or the environment.

Dost noted Vision was made
up. of: three components:
glyphosate, a surfactant and a
very small amount of a con-
taminant. He said micro-
organisms in the soil quickly
broke down the glyphosate so
that, depending on conditions
‘at the spray site, it was at half
strength within 10-30 days.
~ Concerns about the surfac-
tant — an inert material that en-
sures the liquid spreads across
the surface of the leaf — were
also unfounded, Not only did it
break down faster than
glyphosate, but it was also
“essentially identical to the sur-
factant used in common sham-
poos and dishwashing
detergent.”’.

Dost conceded the final com-
ponent, known as 1,4 dioxane
anda very common industrial

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