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Time to ban leaf blowers

Editor,

I am once again writing the editor to complain deeply about the overuse of leaf blowers in White Rock/South Surrey.

I’m sure I’m not the only one that has had their fill of listening to these loud, polluting gas machines on a daily basis. Not one day goes by that isn’t filled with the loud and annoying sound that these machines make.

I really thought that B.C. cared about the environment more than this.

To constantly bombard us with this noise and pollution is beyond my thinking.

Every condo complex has a landscaping company that comes on a weekly basis and continues to use these machines on a regular weekly basis, doing nothing more than blowing a few leftover leaves, dirt and dust around.

Even in the summer, trying to sit and relax on your balcony, you are continually disrupted by the loud annoyance of these machines. I really believe the time has come to ban the leaf blowers, except for a quick fall clean-up.

There is no need to keep using these machines.

Other cities have managed to ban them, and seem to be doing fine without them.

Michele Nesbitt, White Rock