Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Tobacco use is now banned from pools, parks, athletic fields, ballfields, tennis and basketball courts — and everywhere else children play on borough-owned properties
Smokers and chewing tobacco addicts — it's now illegal to feed your addiction anywhere that children play in Lansdale Borough. If you do, you will be ejected from the area. With a unanimous vote last week, Lansdale Borough Council snuffed out tobacco use with a tobacco ban at pools, athletic fields, ballfields, tennis courts, basketball courts — and everywhere else that children play on borough-owned properties. Signs will soon be posted designating such places as tobacco-free zones under Penn State Cooperative Extension and Pennsylvania Department of Health's Southeastern Pennsylvania Tobacco Control Project's "Young Lungs at Play" campaign. Violaters who do not comply with the law will be ejected from the specific play area. Repeated …
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Lansdale Parks and Recreation Committee recommended a tobacco ban for those areas in the borough where children play on a daily basis
If Lansdale Borough Council next week approves a recommendation from the parks and recreation committee last Wednesday, tobacco use will be banned from pools, parks, athletic fields, ballfields, tennis and basketball courts — and everywhere else children play on borough-owned properties. If approved by council, signs would be posted to designate such places as tobacco-free zones. Violaters who do not comply with the law will be ejected from the specific play area. Repeated violations will result in a fine from Lansdale Borough Police. Borough Manager Timi Kirchner said the tobacco ban would be an awareness and education program to prevent tobacco use where young lungs are at play. Signs would be provided free of charge by the state under …
Friday, September 7, 2012
Borough Manager Timi Kirchner suggested the parks and recreation committee move forward in recommending a smoking ban at places where young children play in Lansdale. A boroughwide smoking ban - that's more complicated
By next month, the Lansdale Parks and Recreation Committee is expected to make a recommendation to borough council to snuff out tobacco products at playgrounds, pools, and anywhere else where young children congregate for activities. A boroughwide smoking ban - one proffered last month by council Vice President Paul Clemente - is much more complicated and will take more time. What the borough wants to avoid is the bad that can come in doing good — the backlash from smokers who have a legal right to use tobacco products. Or, as borough Manager Timi Kirchner put it Wednesday night to the parks and recreation and administration and finance committees, unintended consequences. "You intend to do good and it creates a lot of other problems," …
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7:50 pm on Thursday, December 6, 2012
Aha! Yes, finally something good that can come from the Wood Vine Connector! Once that's complete, there'll be no reason for cars to be on Main between Broad and Wood - no car zone here we come! :-) more ›