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Shuswap history in pictures: Bug spray

Photo from June 16, 1982 Eagle Valley News
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Just another day in the swamp for Jeff Moore, left, and Mark Hohmann, the two mosquito control officers working for the Waterworks District this summer on the Mosquito Control program. On Jeff’s back is the motorized sprayer which is used to apply the larvicide to stagnant water areas. Photo courtesy of the Sicamous and District Museum and Historical Society’s archived June 16, 1982 edition of Eagle Valley News.

The caption of this photo reads: Just another day in the swamp for Jeff Moore, left, and Mark Hohmann, the two mosquito control officers working for the Waterworks District this summer on the Mosquito Control program. On Jeff’s back is the motorized sprayer which is used to apply the larvicide to stagnant water areas.

Photo courtesy of the Sicamous and District Museum and Historical Society’s archived June 16, 1982 edition of Eagle Valley News.

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