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I think they solved the too much butthurt being involved. sled thing. I’m not sure why the dog thing They want Round-Up gone. That’s is such an issue. Are so many kids getting pretty much a good idea anywhere. They mauled in parks that we need to eliminate especially want clean tot plays zones. I all dogs? Is it that some people don’t pick guess since pregnant moms and kids are up the s#!t, literally? Honestly, I don’t more susceptible to the long-term effects know, I’m just wondering out loud because of these agents, that also makes sense. it makes very little common sense to me. They want spraying plans posted online I think we should ban people from so people know when to avoid certain parks. In all the years I’ve gone to parks parks. Makes sense to me. And they I can think of a handful of times that I’ve want an integrated pest management encountered colossal ass-hats ruining program developed. Probably the most parks: drunk, littering, speeding through work of the three, but surely doable. I in cars, and damaging property. But I have don’t see anywhere that it’s calling for yet to meet a dog I thought was going eliminating all pesticides or herbicides. to go for my jugular. I’m not saying it’s Just the really nasty ones. Probably the not possible, it just seems so far from a most effective ones, but think about “real” problem that banning dogs from all it. If something is going to do a super parks looks like a massive overreaction. great job of killing the living hell out of The word is that Dubuque is every bug in a park, do you really think supposed to be some kind of beacon you’re going to be immune from the for sustainability in America. I think we effects of that stuff? Especially if you’re have plaques somewhere. Maybe a sash say, 5 years old and the idea of rolling and crown. I don’t know. I wasn’t at the in the grass is still appealing to you. christening. But I see efforts to remove I don’t know what it costs but I am Roundup, Glyphosate, 2,4-D and other told Cedar Falls saved thousands of chemicals from public spaces getting dollars when they made similar changes. stonewalled. These are chemicals that I don’t know how much more work it is. are known human developmental toxins, So go ahead and point fingers at me and hormone disruptors, and cancer-causing tell me I’m just stirring things up without chemicals. I fully understand that it might knowing what I’m talking about. I guess I be hard to completely remove them. It will just fit right into the conversation. It just certainly make things more difficult for the seems like getting a little bit of this done city services who have to control weeds right now, before blooming things bloom, and pests if they don’t use fast and easy is a really doable thing. And maybe even chemicals to keep these things in check, another feather in our sustainability but there must be a happy medium. cap. Without doing anything, I don’t Can we not at least get pesticides out know how we can really strut around of tot lot areas ASAP? Or pick a few parks with our sustainability sash and crown and make those tot-lot areas free-zones on and not look like total hypocrites. from these proven health problems? Choosing, as a community, to be a Why does it even need to go to meetings sustainable community was not a lazy and worked into a phased approach? choice we made. It was choosing the Can’t we just start this park season road less traveled. Things are harder. immediately with a few parks and just Things take more time. But you see not start spraying at all there? If people the benefits in the payoff at the end. are really worried about the chemicals, Are we waffling now on that pledge? maybe they can get signs made that And if we’re not, what’s taking so long? say. “Hey, this park is not as weed-free Is this rocket science. No, it’s climate as the other park, but it also won’t make science, which as we all know, is basically your kids sick or give you cancer.” voodoo. Note I didn’t even mention Yeah, I know. I’m not being very global climate change or nothin’ until politically correct about it and there now. This particular fight really isn’t are surely things to consider that I’m about that. And besides, with only 97% not talking about, but sometimes it’s of climate change research supporting infuriating how people, especially the climate change theory, the verdict government, can so adeptly drag their is still clearly out on that one. feet to stay the hand of progress. Ugh. Why even try? n DUBUQUE365.COM ISSUE #260 MARCH 10–MARCH 23, 2016 365INK MAGAZINE INKUBAtor 3 EVENTS PECHAKUCHA VOL. 3 THURSDAY, MARCH 10 @ 7 PM THE SmOKESTACK (62 E 7TH ST) Every story is unique. Come hear local network, and show their work in stories from passionate people. Presenters public. It has turned into a massive share their stories using 20 slides and a celebration, with events happening in limit of 20 seconds per slide. Dubuque hundreds of cities around the world. organizers strive to curate presenters who This event is free and open to can share an eclectic variety of stories. the public, with food and drink PechaKucha (meaning chit-chat) available to purchase. View previous Night is an international project that presentations, sign up for the next started in Japan in 2003. It started as PechaKucha night, and learn more at a way for young designers to meet, pechakucha.org/cities/dubuque. n CLARKE UNIVERSITY MACKIN-MAILANDER FEATURED LECTURE KOHL CRECELIUS LECTURE EMPLOYMENT AND EMPOWERMENT FOR THOSE IN NEED SUNDAY, MARCH 13 @ 1 PM CLARKE UNIVERSITY ROBERT AND RUTH KEHL CENTER (1550 CLARKE DR) Kohl Crecelius is the CEO of Krochet Kids” by their local newspaper in Kids, Intl., a non-profit company that Spokane, Wash., he and two friends sells hats and other goods in Peru began selling hats in their hometown and Uganda. Based out of California, for a little spending money. KKi employs more than 100 people in Inspired by one friend’s summer northern Uganda and have recently trip to Uganda during college, the started a new program in Peru. Now trio decided to teach the simple skill spanning three continents, their work of crocheting to displaced Ugandan connects the producer with the customer women. Today, through this simple skill, through a hand-signed label that the women can provide for their families, accompanies every product. His mission and ultimately, through micro-financing has always been to create business opportunities enabled by KKi, they while also doing good in the world. can gain economic independence. Crecelius’ older brother taught him General admission tickets how to crochet in high school, and are $10 and can be purchased at soon, he began teaching his friends clarke.edu/artsatclarke or by to make hats.