My post, Nightly News on NBC at 6:30 PM proved to be a very popular story on Lebo Citizens. We're all concerned about the eerie coincidence which University of Washington women's soccer coach Amy Griffin noticed with young people who play on artificial turf and the increase of cancer.
There is a Commission Meeting tonight at the Municipal Building (across from Sesame Inn) at 8:00 PM in the Commission Chamber. President Kristen Linfante will not be attending tonight's meeting, so if you would like to take five minutes and express your concerns to the remaining commissioners, manager, and solicitor, you should not be harassed, insulted, or interrupted.
I have sent emails to the commissioners and school board members about the report on NBC, as well as the original article published a month before the NBC report, and only heard from Commissioner Fraasch. I did not get any response from the remaining commissioners, school board members, solicitors, manager or superintendent.
Please make time to either write to the commission (commission@mtlebanon.org) or come to tonight's meeting and voice your concerns about artificial turf. Please.
10 comments:
On the municipal cable channel there is an announcement of a scheduled SAB meeting on Nov. 6th.
Convenient that if falls AFTER the November 4th election!!!
World Class Athletes are against playing on artificial turf. A world class toxicologist who is also a resident told Mt Lebanon it wasn't a good idea.
What else is left to say? These Mt Lebanon sports people have lost their minds and they don't care if they bring the whole town down with them.
There's really no decision to be made here...if there's even the smallest smidgeon of doubt about the safety of turf, ML should not be even considering using it.
it's all about money... little johnny or janey wont get his/her soccer scholarship is he or she is just playing on a crummy grass field..
I wasn't able to attend tonight's meeting. I'm sorry to miss this one since Kristen won't be there. I will be missing the next one too because i will be working.
If anyone happens to read this and goes to the meeting tonight with nothing to say, how about asking about the status of the turf project?
Thanks.
Elaine
Most parents are so traumatized when their child/adolescent develops cancer that they don't even consider whether the artificial turf they were playing sports on played a role. I would know because I know a parent whose child developed cancer and she was a very serious soccer player. I asked the parent fearfully, "Was s/he a goalie?", and the parent said "no". I had to tell the parent about the turf concerns; s/he had no clue. It might not just be the health of goalies that are impacted by artificial turf.
So obviously, the doubters will say, "how do you know it was turf that caused the teen's cancer?". I don't know for sure -- very few people actually know what caused their cancer.
I do know s/he was a very, very serious soccer player that spent considerable time on artificial turf fields locally. I know that it developed late in high school and blossomed when s/he was a freshman in college.
It's not worth the risk. Cancer has forever consequences. A rainy day doesn't.
Well, at least the lawyers are ready for the fallout from playing on artificial turf:
http://www.forthepeople.com/class-action-lawyers/synthetic-turf
I understand that they are ready to start construction as soon as the permit is issued. Who cares about cancer and soccer players, right?
The pro-deer killing people were there in full force, while pedestrians continue to get hit by cars.
The commission is freakin' nuts.
Elaine
This is so stupid! For all of the attorneys involved in the turf mess, liability is the biggest issue! Do they not think that , if 2-5 kids that develop some form of cancer, there would not be a class action lawsuit against the school district and the municipality? Someone is asleep at the switch, including the Muni Solicitor! People need to wake up!! A class action lawsuit could be filed as a contingent lawsuit! Wake up people!
The lawsuit should name the commissioners and SAB members as individuals not the municipality. Let them pay for their own transgressions.
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