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                                                <p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #f18c35;"><span style="font-family: Arial Black,Gadget,sans-serif;" class="pt16">JULY 2012 NEWS AND EVENT<strong>S</strong></span></span></p>
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                                                <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;" class="pt14"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-family: Arial Black,Gadget,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14pt;" class="pt14"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">July is Park and Recreation Month</span></strong></span></span></span></strong></span></span></p>
                                                <p>A natural park is a healthy park! Grab a Frisbee, picnic basket, and your family and head to one of Chicago&rsquo;s many public parks this month. The Chicago Park District has eliminated the use of chemicals to control weeds in close to 90% of its parks. Safer Pest Control Project works with park districts across the country to help reduce their use of toxic lawn and landscape chemicals and to highlight their efforts to provide healthier and safer spaces for residents to enjoy. For more information about this campaign, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.spcpweb.org/factsheets/NaturalParkHealthyPark.pdf" title="spcpweb">click here</a>.</p>
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                                                <p><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="font-family: Arial Black,Gadget,sans-serif;">Lawn Care in a Drought - Advice from Executive Director, Rachel Rosenberg</span></span></strong></span></p>
                                                <p>I haven&rsquo;t mowed my lawn in three weeks. In times of stress, like the drought we are currently experiencing, it is okay to let your lawn go dormant. During this period it is important to change your lawn care practices to ensure your grass comes back green and healthy. If you continue to mow each week, you will weaken the roots and make your lawn vulnerable to grub damage. Instead, let your grass grow to a few inches. Also, lawns can go without water for about three to four weeks so remember that it is okay to stop watering your lawn. After that, it is recommended that you water your lawn at least one inch once a week in order to keep its root and crown system healthy.</p>
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                                                <p>This and more advice from Rachel Rosenberg was featured in the article &quot;Dealing with the Drought,&quot; which appeared in the July 8th issue of the Chicago Tribune. Click <a target="_blank" href="http://bit.ly/dealingwiththedrought">here</a> to read it.</p>
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                                                <p><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial,Helvetica;"><strong><span style="text-decoration: underline; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial Black,Gadget,sans-serif;">Healthy Homes and Safer Pest Control Project</span></span></strong></span></p>
                                                <p>In June, Safer Pest Control Project&rsquo;s Executive Director Rachel Rosenberg and Associate Director Ruth Kerzee attended the Green and Healthy Homes Initiative&rsquo;s Executive Leadership Institute here in Chicago. The event was a great opportunity to meet with colleagues and government representatives from across the country who advocate for healthy homes. Attendees represented organizations from San Antonio, Buffalo, Jackson, Salt Lake City, and Cleveland among others. We are already exploring ways to share our unique set of resources on Integrated Pest Management with these groups.</p>
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                                                <p>More on healthy homes: We just received a grant from the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.nchh.org/" title="nchh">National Center for Healthy Housing</a>. Safer Pest Control Project is one of five grassroots advocacy organizations nationally recognized this year for our critical work to improve the environmental health conditions and habitability of affordable housing in Chicago. Under this grant, we will continue our work to help Chicago develop model policies and best practices that promote Integrated Pest Management for bed bug control. We hope that these policies can inform the numerous other municipalities facing this problem. We will also provide technical assistance to the City of Chicago to improve its current bed bug tracking and mapping efforts.</p>
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                                                <p><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span class="pt14"><strong>Upcoming Events</strong></span></span></span></p>
                                                <p>Our&nbsp;<strong>Ladybug Bash</strong> is on <strong>Thursday, October 18, 2012!</strong> This event has a new venue this year, the Ravenswood Event Center. Thank you to our new sponsors, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.ravenswoodeventcenter.com/" title="ravenswoodeventcenter">Ravenswood Event Center</a> and <a target="_blank" href="http://www.hayesproperties.com/" title="hayesproperties">Hayes Properties</a>, for making this possible. This annual benefit for Safer Pest Control Project will feature craft beer, delicious wine, local and organic food, a green auction, and more.&nbsp;</p>
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                                                <p>We are currently looking for donations of goods and services for our auction.&nbsp; If you&rsquo;re interested, please email Kristin at <a target="_blank" href="mailto:kweiss@spcpweb.org" title="mailto:kweiss@spcpweb">kweiss@spcpweb.org</a>.</p>
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