David Snow

David Snow didn't even want lawn darts when he went shopping last April. He wanted a volleyball set, but all the department store had was volleyball in a combo pack with two other games. Fine. He took it. The darts would stay in the box.

As quests go, the one Thousand Oaks garden designer David Snow embarked on is a doozy. For six months, Snow has devoted himself to saving the reputation of America's most beloved butterfly by getting the world's largest maker of pesticides to change its ways. Specifically, Snow wants Ortho to change the labels on its "Bug-B-Gon" and "Flower, Fruit and Vegetable Insect Killer" so they no longer feature images of the striking monarch butterfly caterpillar under the ominous vow, "guaranteed results.

David Snow, the Riverside father who has spent the last 18 months running a one-man campaign against the lawn dart--the metal-tipped toy that killed his young daughter--won another victory Friday when Congress passed legislation to ban the sale of the toy. The vote was a largely symbolic triumph. In response to Snow's persistent campaign of letter writing and trips to Congress, the Consumer Product Safety Commission voted to ban the toy last May.

David Snow, the Riverside father who has spent the last 18 months running a one-man campaign against the lawn dart--the metal-tipped toy that killed his young daughter--won another victory Friday when Congress passed legislation to ban the sale of the toy. The vote was a largely symbolic triumph. In response to Snow's persistent campaign of letter writing and trips to Congress, the Consumer Product Safety Commission voted to ban the toy last May.

As quests go, the one Thousand Oaks garden designer David Snow embarked on is a doozy. For six months, Snow has devoted himself to saving the reputation of America's most beloved butterfly by getting the world's largest maker of pesticides to change its ways. Specifically, Snow wants Ortho to change the labels on its "Bug-B-Gon" and "Flower, Fruit and Vegetable Insect Killer" so they no longer feature images of the striking monarch butterfly caterpillar under the ominous vow, "guaranteed results.

We start off with Rose McGowan as a young Cora, a miller's daughter, who is humiliated in the town when a visiting princess trips her. Cora was made to apologize by the king, but her eyes burned with vengeance. Henry and Neal are piloting Hook's ship as they return from New York with a dying Mr. Gold. Gold doesn't look well, as Emma notes. "The poison racing towards my heart will have that effect," says Mr. Gold.  At least it hasn't dulled his wit. A high-tech Regina uses a wiretap to hear that the group is returning from New York.  Cora, calling the speaker "an enchanted box," seems to not believe that she is wicked.

Hats off to David Snow who crusaded tirelessly for a year for safety after his daughter was killed by a lawn dart (Part I, May 26). At last the federal Consumer Product Safety Commission has been persuaded to ban all lawn darts capable of causing skull punctures. Let's enforce the ban immediately. We don't want more children maimed or killed. JEAN MICHENER NICHOLSON Altadena

An archeological team began the first of several exploratory digs on the Santa Fe Plaza last week in the heart of the nation's oldest capital city. Within hours, volunteer diggers were unearthing interesting shards of pottery, including a button-size chip of blue and white Mexican majolica clay used in pottery since the 17th Century. Excavation leader David Snow said diggers could find older plaza levels, Indian artifacts and evidence of frontier life.

David Snow didn't even want lawn darts when he went shopping last April. He wanted a volleyball set, but all the department store had was volleyball in a combo pack with two other games. Fine. He took it. The darts would stay in the box.

Exsqueeze me? Heidi Robinson, head of media relations at Def American Records, explains the label's attempt to assuage the concerns of its female employees on the hiring of Mike Bone ("Controversial Record Exec Hired by Def," July 21): "(Management) made sure that everybody here who had a problem with it had the opportunity to speak with Mike directly to get the truth out. . . . They were told that Mike was always just a phone call away and his door is always open and anybody is more than welcome to sit down and talk with him about it and get it all squared away."

Regarding the suit filed against Civic Arts Plaza donor Charles Probst: What the Thousand Oaks Alliance for the Arts failed to understand is that Mr. Probst plays by the Golden Rule. He has the gold, so he makes the rules. Now I can only wait for "60 Minutes" to come to town, but with our luck, it will probably only make Hard Copy. DAVID H. SNOW Thousand Oaks