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Sally Gearhart: Good for Modesto for standing up to homeless

Re “Council hears concerns from La Loma residents” (Page A1, Aug. 7): I want to commend the courage of John and Margaret Kalal, Modesto’s chief of police and other Modesto citizens who took a stand to clean up the parks and contend with the tyranny of criminals and drug abusers. We are pulling for the efforts to make Modesto’s parks the place we remember so fondly.

Sally Gearhart, Walnut Creek

This story was originally published August 20, 2015 at 6:48 PM with the headline "Sally Gearhart: Good for Modesto for standing up to homeless."

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