Opinion
Letters to the Editor Readers make noise about leaf blowers, praise the AT&T HQ’s looks and cite some football fundamentals
Raking sounds good, they write, and better for the environment.
Second-grade students Jumoke Henry (left) and Jamyah Anderson raked leaves to be used for compost inside the teaching garden at the Meadows Elementary School.(
ROSE BACA - neighborsgo staff photographer)
Sounding off on leaf blowers .
Re: ‘Rake, don’t blow Leaf blowers efficiently destroy important patches of nature along with our calm,’ by Peter Bahouth, Friday Opinion.
Great idea. Instead of firing up a gas-using, polluting leaf blower to remove leaves from the sidewalk that a broom could do just as efficiently without any pollution, use the old-fashioned broom.
Shut off the leaf blowers and restore peace to suburbia
Leaves are not trash, and the leaf blowers create noise and air pollution.
By Peter Bahouth
My very first job was raking leaves in the fall. It was a good way to make a little money without leaving the neighborhood. The weather was cool, the leaves were trippy colors, and people were out and about before the coming semi-hibernation of winter. It was a beautiful season of red, orange and yellow, quiet but for the sound of kids jumping into huge piles of leaves.
Now, the simple and efficient rake has been replaced by the daily intrusion of loud and polluting gas-powered leaf blowers designed to blast away any leaf that dares land on a lawn. The mind-rattling racket of these machines has made being outside, working and going to school remotely, listening to someone or something, even thinking, nearly impossible.