ACTION REQUEST-NC Beekeeper facing jail time

Please read the story below and if you could take 3 minutes to call the Louisburg NC town hall and speak to Mrs. Patterson and express

"that you believe they should grant Pat Walker a waiver/variance/special permit because keeping bee's is beneficial to everyone and essential to our environment and that bee's will be there in nature regardless."

Please call
919-496-3406

I just spoke with Mrs. Patterson of Town Hall on the phone and she was very nice and glad I called. Please tweet, facebook, email, call anyone you know and ask them to call. One small thing like this can really impact things as a whole.

Read the full story below (I heard about it on the radio)

http://www.wxii12.com/r/30453354/detail.html


LOUISBURG, N.C. -- A Louisburg woman is facing possible jail time over a local ordinance that she feels is unfair and unconstitutional.

WRAL-TV reported that Pat Walker is scheduled to face a judge Tuesday to determine whether she will go to jail for 20 days and be forced to give up her beehives.

Walker said her family started keeping honeybees last March. After two months, the family received a letter from Louisburg police telling them they were violating a town ordinance saying hives have to be at least 75 feet from a neighbor's property line.

Louisburg Councilman Boyd Sturges said the ordinance doesn't restrict most homeowners from keeping bees, but he couldn't estimate the percentage of homes that would be allowed to keep bees and still abide by the 75-feet rule.

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