In a cash-strapped, drug and crime-ridden city, the first thing you want to get rid of is a community garden. Right? Harrisburg City Council President Wanda Williams apparently thought so. On the order of Williams, and with zero warning, Harrisburg City Public Works Department bulldozers turned under a community garden plot in the Harrisburg neighborhood [...]
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Harrisburg Unapologetic about Garden Removal
by Laura Mathews · September 25, 2012
Harrisburg City Council President angrily and personally attacks Green Urban Initiative members during the city council meeting held September 25, 2012. No one asked Wanda Williams why she had the authority to unilaterally order the removal of the GUI garden.