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Article: MOSQUITO-CONTROL PLAN SHOULD BE ABLE TO PASS A ROUTINE EVALUATION.(CHESAPEAKE CLIPPER)
- Article from:
- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- July 11, 1999
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Byline: Tony Stein
There was a piece in the paper the other day written by a man who had spent summers as a biologist for the Western Branch Mosquito Control Commission. He talks about the good people who work hard at the sometimes very difficult and unpleasant job of mosquito control. He says critics of Chesapeake's mosquito-control system have cast a cloud over these people.
No so. What the criticism has done is question an overall system, not the individuals who work in that system. There are five separate mosquito-control commissions in the city. They spend more on mosquito control than Norfolk, Portsmouth, Virginia Beach and Suffolk combined.
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