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Here's the press release I sent to local papers:
I have already heard from a reporter from our big daily, asking to be kept up to date on what happens with the group.
For Immeadiate Release:
Newly forming group wants to spread the message: Chickens are great neighbors!
Seeks to make pet chickens legal in Westerville.
Keeping small flocks of pet chickens in backyards has become a full-fledged
phenomena. Mainstream media like the New York Times and Wall Street Journal, and
personalities such as Martha Stewart have chronicled the trend. A group is now
forming to make sure the Westerville area knows that chickens make fascinating
pets, can be great neighbors and that keeping them should be legal.
Those interested in getting chickens, or those who have been keeping them
secretly and who want to get their hobby made legal, are invited to an
organizational meeting of the Westerville Area Chicken Keepers Society (WACKS)
on Thursday, May 5th at 7:30 PM. The meeting will be held at Tim Hortons,772
South State Street, Westerville Ohio.
The purpose of the meeting is to gauge support for an effort to change the
regulations in Westerville to specifically class small flocks of chickens as
pets and make them legal in all areas of the city where the keeping of other
kinds of pets are currently legal.
Inquiries can be directed to the groups Email address:
[email protected]
The group has also established a Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/pages/W
esterville-Area-Chicken-Keepers-Society/163820710340409
A blog has also been established:
http://westervilleacks.blogspot.com/
Any BYCer who is local should join up, send emails and spread the. Westerville is a very square sort of community-getting the rules changed will be an uphill fight!
I have already heard from a reporter from our big daily, asking to be kept up to date on what happens with the group.
For Immeadiate Release:
Newly forming group wants to spread the message: Chickens are great neighbors!
Seeks to make pet chickens legal in Westerville.
Keeping small flocks of pet chickens in backyards has become a full-fledged
phenomena. Mainstream media like the New York Times and Wall Street Journal, and
personalities such as Martha Stewart have chronicled the trend. A group is now
forming to make sure the Westerville area knows that chickens make fascinating
pets, can be great neighbors and that keeping them should be legal.
Those interested in getting chickens, or those who have been keeping them
secretly and who want to get their hobby made legal, are invited to an
organizational meeting of the Westerville Area Chicken Keepers Society (WACKS)
on Thursday, May 5th at 7:30 PM. The meeting will be held at Tim Hortons,772
South State Street, Westerville Ohio.
The purpose of the meeting is to gauge support for an effort to change the
regulations in Westerville to specifically class small flocks of chickens as
pets and make them legal in all areas of the city where the keeping of other
kinds of pets are currently legal.
Inquiries can be directed to the groups Email address:
[email protected]
The group has also established a Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/pages/W
esterville-Area-Chicken-Keepers-Society/163820710340409
A blog has also been established:
http://westervilleacks.blogspot.com/
Any BYCer who is local should join up, send emails and spread the. Westerville is a very square sort of community-getting the rules changed will be an uphill fight!
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