How a Celebration Utilizing One Million Balloons Quickly Became a Disaster

An Ontario Man Wrote an Angry Letter

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In November 1986, an Ontario man named P. Allen Woodliffe sent a letter to “The Plain Dealer” to discuss what he had seen. “A short time ago, I was walking along the east beach of one of the special natural areas in Ontario-Rondeau Provincial Park. I was greatly dismayed, however, when I saw balloons along the shore – not just one or two but many. In an average 200-yard stretch along the east beach, I counted 140 balloons,” he explained.

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