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Mad dash Future cycling stars show their stuff during the children’s races at the Russ Hay’s/ Accent Inns Grand Prix in downtown Victoria Sunday. Hundreds of racers competed in events from elite men and women to young children. For an additional photo, please turn to page A13. Kevin Laird/Victoria News
City urged to ban fireworks North Park residents say practice impacts families, animals and the environment Kendra Wong Victoria News
Some North Park residents hope to put a stop to the use of fireworks in the city and are calling for a ban on the popular incendiary devices that they say are having huge impacts on their families. Jenny Farkas, who has lived in
the North Park neighbourhood for more than a decade, says it’s like a war zone when fireworks are lit off at the Royal Athletic Park, two blocks from her home. “City hall doesn’t understand the impact in a dense urban neighbourhood of exploding gunpowder. The city isn’t thinking of the implications for children, dogs
and people that don’t like loud noises,” she says, adding that her dog goes into “absolute distress” when they go off. “It feels like gun fire is going off at the Royal Athletic Park.” Farkas’ ban on fireworks was renewed after finding out that the Victoria HarbourCats have increased their use of fireworks from two to four times this season. “Our neighbourhood is dealing with the fall out in terms of noise. It’s just one of those things where
it’s the straw that breaks the camels back,” says Ian Abbott, also a North Park resident who lives about two blocks away from the park. “When the noise and the disturbance is falling on the same people over and over again, there’s a breaking point. You don’t understand the noise until you’re living in it.” He says several times in the past two summers his two-and-a-halfyear-old child has woke up crying
and screaming because fireworks have gone off at the park late at night. Farkas believes it’s about replacing fireworks with another form of entertainment. PLEASE SEE: Laser show, Page A2
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