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Airhamregion.com • • THE CANADIAN STATESMAN ♦ February 22,2006 ♦ Page 3 iPaint fumes still cause concern nir quality tests show levels are acceptable CLARINGTON - A little bit of paint has caused a lot of headaches at the Dr. Ross Tilley Public School in Bowmanville. Since returning from the Christmas holidays, some teachers and students have complained of a variety of symptoms, symptoms, including nausea, headaches and stinging eyes. The symptoms, they said, were a result of the paint fumes coming from the parts of the school that were painted over the break using an oil-based product. product. In a letter sént home to parents following following the incident, school principal Peigi Murdoch-Morris placed the blame on warmer outdoor temperatures, which heated up the paint and increased the fumes throughout the school. Correction Re: 'Taxpayer worried about Total Hockey', Hockey', Letters, Feb. 17 A letter published in our Feb. 17 issue incorrectly stated the MacFarlane Hockey -museum was purchased from the Big Apple restaurant at Colbome on Hwy. 401; It was actually purchased from Brian MacFarlane. The Statesman regrets the error. Get Wetland Stop tickets OSHAWA - Friends of the Second Marsh will be holding their annual Wetland Wetland Stomp Dinner Dance and Auction on Feb. 25, to raise funds for a Great Lakes Wetlands Centre. This year's Wetland Stomp will be held at the Jubilee Pavilion at 55 Lakev- iew Park Ave., in Oshawa, The fun gets underway at 6 p.m. with dinner at 7 p.m. Individual tickets are $75 and'business and'business car advertisements in the program are $50. For information of to order tickets contact Marilyn Cole.at 905-723-5459. The Durham Region Health Department Department investigated the problem and conclude conclude air quality standards at the school were acceptable. "The standards they were using were well beyond acceptable standards for air quality," said Jacques Perrault, manager of environmental environmental health with the health department, School Trustee Nancy Coffin says she is aware of only two parents parents whose children children had experienced experienced symptoms. symptoms. "Parents could keep them home and homework could be provided," she said, noting that at no point was the paint toxic. The issue, she said, was sensitivity. "Hopefully parents would have kept Nancy Coffin them home if there was a sensitivity," she said. But some teachers experienced a level of symptoms that resulted in lost time at work. According to the Ministry of Labour, 30 staff members complained of symptoms symptoms and a total'of 16 lost time from work as a result. Ministry spokeswoman Belinda Sutton Sutton said that the ministry is continuing its investigation, but they have made a number of recommendations to the school board, including an order to develop and implement written measures measures and procedures for painting in the workplace. The board is to train workers workers on those measures and procedures. Meanwhile, the Kawartha Pine Ridge District School Board hired Colder Associates, an independent consulting group from Whitby, to conduct an air quality test. The results, which are published on the board's website, show that air quality at the school is acceptable. acceptable. The company measured the Total Volatile Organic Compounds (TVOCs), which are a common ingredient in building materials such as paints. "None of the individual compounds delected were found to be at concentrations concentrations which would be expected to impact the health of building occupants," occupants," the report stated. 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