pioneer park

Sitting around smoky campfires is fine every once in awhile but in campgrounds not backyards.

N2L 2A8 I live in Waterloo. Why would Waterloo and Kitchener not decide to ban this smoky nuisance at the same time since we are joined?

Kitchener backyards need to go smoke-free like just like the ones in Waterloo and Cambridge. What is all this smoke doing to the health of the people of Kitchener?

Waterloo

N2M 1Y7 Public Health has issued a statement about this smoke. Kitchener has environmental policies to live up to. Let's hope that next summer is finally enjoyable for the rest of us.

N2P2G9

doon

N2P 1P7

I don't have any fires right next to house now but the air still smells smoky a lot of the time. I end up shutting my windows and can't use my yard.

I don't have any fires right next to house now but the air still smells smoky a lot of the time. I end up shutting my windows and can't use my yard.

Kitchener residents deserve air that is not smoky and disgusting too much of the time.

waterloo

Kitchener council is responsible for clean water and clean air. Those asthma figures for Kitchener are way higher than the average for Canada.

Why did Kitchener not get these fires banned along with Waterloo? We need to find out if Kitchener council members all have them.

These smoky campfires aren't healthy for anyone even the ones stupid enough to be sitting right around them every night.

I would like to see a strict permit system like Cambridge.

Please keep this petition going. Please ask all of your friends to sign.

We live in a city not a campground. This smoke is a health hazard and the asthma figures for Kitchener are a worry. How else is our health being ruined?

N2C 1G4 Too many nights of closing of windows and getting headaches from the stinking smoke.

Waterloo and Cambridge have banned backyard bonfires. 2013 should be the year that the rest of the citizens of Kitchener can start enjoying their summers instead of wishing it would end.

So many kids have asthma. Is this not Public Health's job to get these fires banned?

doon

N2J 1R1 Why would Waterloo and Kitchener not ban these smoky fires at the same time?

Public health and pollution prevention should be the priority. Backyard campfires were always a terrible idea.

It does not make sense to allow 5 hours of smoke pollution in backyards every day. People are going to get sick if they aren't already there.

doon

Neighbourhood air smells very smoky and polluted too much of the time. These backyard campfires should be banned to improve air quality. This is a public health issue.

N2B 2H9

N2C 2L7

N2E4B3 Ban these ridiculous health hazard campfires now. Kitchener is a city not a campground.

N2H 6R7

N2L2A8

I would vote for a permit system like the one Cambridge has had for a long time already.

Backyard campfires do not belong in a city this size. Public health should recommend a ban.