Via Fox News;
A woman in a Pennsylvania town is faced with being fined 600 bucks a day if she continues to feed needy children free lunches;
“Angela saw it as a way to contribute to the community in a positive way,” Anne Ayella, a member of the archdiocese, said. “There was nothing in it for her.”
Prattis laughed and said, “I don’t make a dime.”
Prattis lived in the township for three years. She reportedly distributes the meals to the 60 or so children at a gazebo on her property during the summer months, when children are home from school.
The Delaware County Times reports that another resident alerted the council about the distribution a few weeks ago. The council investigated and ruled that the practice is not permitted without a variance, the paper reported.
“You have houses here, the roofs are falling in, and they could be focused on a lot of more serious issues than me feeding children,” she said.
Chester Township, which has a per capita income of $19,000 a year, says Prattis lives in a residential zone, hence handing out food to children is not allowed. The township says she needs to go before a zoning board to ask for a variance, which would cost her up to $1,000 in administrative fees.
“I don’t think it’s my responsibility to go to her to say, ‘why don’t you come to talk to me to see if there’s something that we can do to help your program,’” William Pisarek, the Chester Township business manager, said.
That’s your job doofus…to help the people who put you in office. It is your responsibility. What an idiot!
Prattis told The Delaware County Times that she is not going to stop feeding the children in the area.
Good for her. We need more people like her in our communities that are willing to step up and help others in need. This is the way Americans used to do for each other before government got involved.
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Had to link to this a couple of times, Mr G. This one bothered me in a couple of different ways.
Good find, though: yet another one that I missed the first time around.