The effects of lead poisoning are irreversible, city leaders said.
“Particularly to a young person, the cognitive delays and other bad things that happen when you become lead poisoned can never be reversed,” Mayor Wade Kapszukiewicz said at a news conference.
The mayor, U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D., Toledo), and community stakeholders clapped and cheered Thursday as a $7 million U.S. Department of Housing Development grant was announced to support the new City of Toledo Lead-Based Paint Program…