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==Ban on Pesticides==

==Ban on Pesticides==

===Ban Put in Place===

===Ban Put in Place===

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.  Dr. Golden wrote about organizing school kids to pick the weeds instead, which received widespread accolades in the local presss.<ref>Linden, Eric (1991), “’Dandelion Dig’ idea blooming,” ''Wednesday Journal of Oak Park and River Forest'', May 29, p. 7</ref>

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.  Dr. Golden wrote about organizing school kids to pick the weeds instead, which received widespread accolades in the local press.<ref>Linden, Eric (1991), “’Dandelion Dig’ idea blooming,” ''Wednesday Journal of Oak Park and River Forest'', May 29, p. 7</ref>

===Weed Picking and Green Committee===

===Weed Picking and Green Committee===