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Mayor Shuts Down Little Girls' Produce Stand

Posted by: Tim Halbur

22 August 2008 - 1:00pm

Katie and Sabrina Lewis of Clayton, CA have inadvertently gotten tied up in a political mess of zoning and commercial uses by selling produce from their family garden at a stand in front of their house.

"Two young East Bay girls are trying to find out if you really can fight city hall. The youngsters are battling to get their produce stand back after the city of Clayton shut them down.

The mayor himself is getting involved in this issue; he says the produce stand, operated by two young sisters, had to be shut down because of public safety and a zoning ordinance. But members of the Lewis family say - we have just begun to fight."

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Full Story: Young girls fight produce stand closure
Source: ABC7, August 20, 2008
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