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==Ban on Pesticides==

==Ban on Pesticides==

In 1991, as the president of the CARE party (Citizens Active for Respect for the Environment), the local environmental group, he slated and led the campaigns of three individuals who won election.  On the first day in office in April 1991 they banned pesticides in the parks of Oak Park.  For years a group of women in town had been writing letters and giving speeches to ban pesticides, to no avail.  Dr. Golden knew the only way to achieve this was to get control of the park board, which he did.  The ban remains in effect to this day!  Before the ban, dogs had died of ingesting pesticides and kids who had crawled in the grass were developing intestinal problems. 

In 1991, as the president of the CARE party (Citizens Active for Respect for the Environment), the local environmental group, he slated and led the campaigns of three individuals who won election.  On the first day in office in April 1991 they banned pesticides in the parks of Oak Park.  For years a group of women in town had been writing letters and giving speeches to ban pesticides, to no avail.  Dr. Golden knew the only way to achieve this was to get control of the park board, which he did.  The ban remains in effect to this day!  Before the ban, dogs had died of ingesting pesticides and kids who had crawled in the grass were developing intestinal problems.

 

Over a period of years, Dr. Golden wrote letters and spoke to the various elected boards in Oak Park about the need to save trees by combining newsletters.  As a result of his efforts, the library and the grammar school district combined their newsletters with that of the municipal government.

==Tree Activism==

==Tree Activism==