Letter: Let the grass grow; regulate pesticides instead

To the Editor-

I am writing as a resident of the Village of Park Ridge, which has also become more ordinance prone regarding neighborhood improvement in recent years. There are, understandably, issues such as health and safety that need to be addressed.

However, as part of a larger community of world citizens, it’s past time that we think beyond aesthetics and begin to legislate in support of our environment. In that pursuit, we would legislate against the use of fertilizers and pesticides that contaminate our water supply and sicken our children.

Perhaps as citizens of this larger neighborhood, we might even envisage an ordinance that required this property to grow milkweed, which in turn would help save the 10 percent of North American Monarch butterflies remaining.

That, in turn, might save our honey bees (now considered extinct in the wild in the U.K.) that might save our great grand children’s food supply!

As communities, I continue to be hopeful that we can see the bigger picture if only to consider allowing the lovely “no” mow grass (now available) to be grown in Stevens Point and Park Ridge.

Nancy Whitmire
Park Ridge

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