Order aimed at childhood obesity criticized by beverage industry, county residentsHoward County Executive Ken Ulman on Tuesday banned the sale of high-sugar drinks such as soda in parks, libraries and other county properties and at county-sponsored events — hoping again to make the county a progressive model. At left, 9.6 tons of white sand, representing the amount of sugar students at Burleigh Manor would consume in a year if each drank one 12-ounce soda per day, are dumped in the school's parking lot.