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Protest: Wean Maine off BPA
BY BETH BROGAN
Times Record Staff
BRUNSWICK
Children, parents and advocates for children’s and
women’s health gathered
around a 20-foot-tall inflatable
baby bottle Wednesday afternoon to call attention to the
chemical Bisphenol A (BPA),
which activists say is toxic and
the cause of multiple ailments.
Organized by the Alliance
for a Clean and Healthy Maine,
the event was designed to generate support for federal legislation designed to place tighter
restrictions on the chemical.
In April 2008, Maine passed
the Kid Safe Products Act,
establishing the country’s first
comprehensive policy requiring safer chemicals in products to which children could
be exposed.
The legislation requires
adoption of a list of priority
chemicals by January 2010
and requires manufacturers
to disclose which products
contain the chemicals. It also
allows the state to ban the
sale of items containing those
chemicals if children are
exposed and safer alter natives are available.
The Alliance for a Clean
and Healthy Maine advocates
for adding BPA to that priority list, and hopes to convince
retailers not to carry products containing the chemical.
They also hope a 33-year-old
federal Toxic Substances Control Act will be modified and
more rigorously enforced to
prevent such chemicals from
harming children.
“Science has already
proved that thousands of
chemicals are dangerous,”
Sarah Standiford, director of
the Maine Women’s Lobby
and the spokeswoman for
Wednesday’s gathering, said
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CHILDREN who joined parents, grandparents and childcare providers Wednesday on
the Br unswick Mall for a
protest against the sale of
products containing Bisphenol A, frolic near the 20-foot
inflatable baby bottle used to
draw attention to their cause.
in a statement. “Yet the (Environmental Protection Agency) has only required 200
to be tested and it has ultimately restricted the use of
only five. This is an appalling
record.”
On Wednesday, the group
gathered across Maine Street
from Rite-Aid. Standiford
said that although Rite Aid
purports not to sell items containing BPA, a representative
of the alliance had just purchased a Gerber Graduates
“sippy cup” containing BPA
minutes before.
The company’s statement
“is a great indication that
retailers are taking action,”
Standiford said, but added
that a federal policy similar
to that in Maine is necessary.
The Maine Women’s Lobby
— along with Family Planning of Maine, Planned Parenthood and other advocacy
groups — have joined the
Alliance for a Clean and
Healthy Maine in this effort
— Standiford said, because
they recognize the impact of
Bisphenol A on women’s
reproductive health, including fertility, breast cancer and
the potential for early puberty in young girls.
Bettie Kettell of Durham, a
nurse, mother and grandmother, said she lear ned
about Bisphenol A five years
ago when she was diagnosed
with breast cancer.
“Bisphenol A could have
been one of the causes,” Kettell
said Wednesday on the Mall.
A year later, Kettell said,
her grandchild was born, and
clear plastic baby bottles were
recommended to feed him —
bottles, she said, that contained Bisphenol A.
“I personally cringed every
time I fed the child,” she said.
“They’re having their second
child now and they know they
have to get new bottles.”
Kettell said she’s careful
now not to microwave food in
plastic containers.
Lori Bozeman of Little
Sprouts
Daycare
in
Brunswick brought a fleet of
preschoolers to the event,
along with a sign warning of
the dangers of Bisphenol A.
“Our motto is ‘sprouting
the future with happy kids,’”
Bozeman said. “But before we
can have happy kids, we have
to have healthy kids.”
Cambria Smith, 4, and her
parents joined Bozeman on
Wednesday.
“When Cambria was born,
we didn’t know about it,” said
her father, Stephen Smith.
“Now, with a new baby, all our
bottles are glass.”
“Maine made tremendous
strides last year,” Standiford
said, “but Maine children
won’t see the results until (the
law) is fully implemented.”
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A CAR uses the new Burnett Bridge in Freeport on Wednesday.
New bridge opens
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FREEPORT
Just in time for summer,
the Burnett Road Bridge has
opened to traffic.
The project — which voters
agreed to pay for in November
after two previous referendum
rejections — cost $285,000 in
addition to some signage and
engineering costs, for total
sum of less than $300,000,
according to Town Engineer
Albert Presgraves.
Presgraves said CPM Constructors of Freeport finished
the bridge on June 1, allowing
a full connection through
Wolfe’s Neck Farm between
Wolfes Neck and Lower Flying Point roads.
“From folks who live in the
area, they’re delighted,”
Town Manager Dale Olmstead said about the bridge’s
completion. “It looks fantastic. The company that did the
work did a fantastic job.”
Residents lost their wooden
bridge in February 2008 when
the Maine Department of
Transportation closed it
because of continued deterio-
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BRUNSWICK — A rear-end
collision near the intersection of Bath and Old Bath
roads Tuesday afternoon sent
a Bath woman to the hospital
with minor injuries.
Lucy Holland, 25, of Bath,
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Adventist Medical Center
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after the 2002 Pontiac she was
driving was hit by a 2002
Chevrolet driven by Jacob
Blake, 19, of Brunswick, just
before 4 p.m. Tuesday,
Brunswick Police Cmdr. Marc
Hagan said Wednesday.
Holland was treated and
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his passenger, 19-year-old
Dustin Graham, was injured.
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BATH — Bath City Arborist
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ration. Last fall, some residents constructed a walking
bridge, but residents didn’t
secure a full, one-lane roadworthy replacement until
they voted 3,025 to 1,745 in a
November referendum to
fund bridge replacement.
With the bridge now open
to traffic, some residents have
raised concerns that a platform projecting from the side
of the bridge could be interpreted as an invitation to
jump from the bridge, an act
expressly forbidden by signs
but historically ignored.
Olmstead said the platform
serves for maintenance and
inspections, not jumping.
Railings around the platform
make it no easier leap from
than any other part of the
bridge, and signs prohibit
jumping from any part of the
structure, he said.
At noon Wednesday, low
tide would have discouraged
any would-be jumpers at the
bridge. Local traffic passed
single file over the bridge,
where clammers harvesting
the flats had parked a half
dozen trucks.
BRUNSWICK — In response
to requests from Brunswick
town councilors and residents,
paper copies of materials provided to councilors prior to
council meetings will now be
available for public viewing at
the reference desk at Curtis
Memorial Library.
Packets will be available by
the Thursday prior to a council meeting, according to
Town Clerk Fran Smith.
The council agenda and
additional materials also are
available at the town Web site at
www.brunswickme.org/agendasminutes.htm.
Open house honors
library’s expansion
HARPSWELL — Cundy’s
Harbor Library will host an
open house from 7 p.m. to 9
p.m. June 25.
“Last year, realizing the
need for more space and bathroom facilities, the library’s
directors called on the community for support and set
about raising funds for a new
addition,” a release from the
library states. “The response
was generous, and the addition is now reality. Book space
has been doubled and there is
a sunny community meeting
room and children’s space
looking out on the harbor.”
A short ceremony at 7:15
p.m. will be followed by music
and light refreshments.