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		<title>Urban Hens 101 Class, Spring 2013 Schedule</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 19:17:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reblogged from Magic City Hens: March 11 Monday - 6:30-8:30PM – at Rocky March 16 Saturday 10AM-noon – at ZooMontana March 28 Thursday 6:30-8:30PM – at Rocky March 30 Saturday 10AM-noon – at ZooMontana April 13 Saturday 10 AM-noon– at Forever Families April 27 Saturday 10AM-noon – at ZooMontana May 11 Saturday 9AM-11AM Early Bird [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=billingsbackyardhens.wordpress.com&#038;blog=22581595&#038;post=623&#038;subd=billingsbackyardhens&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Urban Hens Now Acknowledged as Legitimate Residents</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Nov 2012 02:31:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://billingsgazette.com/news/local/government-and-politics/billings-city-council-action-aims-to-spruce-up-abandoned-buildings/article_38c4894a-20c3-5464-afeb-4455270b0348.html Pardon our delay in the Big News; urban henkeeping has become a legitimate occupation for Billings residents. The Council okayed the vote 6-4 with Hanel, Cimmino, Pitman and Astle voting Nay. Effective 10/10/12, residents can obtain a Chicken Permit from the city at a cost of $25 per year. Specific limitations will apply. The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=billingsbackyardhens.wordpress.com&#038;blog=22581595&#038;post=614&#038;subd=billingsbackyardhens&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Final Vote Tonight 9/10/12</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Sep 2012 19:50:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you can make it, tonight would be a super time to attend a City Council meeting! The Council will give a final vote on the urban hen ordinances tonight, 9/10/12 at the 6:30PM meeting in Council chambers. We&#8217;re pretty close to the top of the agenda so it shouldn&#8217;t be a late night for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=billingsbackyardhens.wordpress.com&#038;blog=22581595&#038;post=611&#038;subd=billingsbackyardhens&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Note of Thanks</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2012 14:10:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the past 16 months, we have asked hen supporters to write to the Mayor and City Council regarding your support of urban hens in Billings. Now we&#8217;re going to ask something slightly different. Will you consider writing a brief note of appreciation for this vote? The Council/Mayor have had to wade through months of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=billingsbackyardhens.wordpress.com&#038;blog=22581595&#038;post=609&#038;subd=billingsbackyardhens&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Way to go, City Council &amp; Mayor!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Aug 2012 03:17:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This sixteen-month process is drawing to a successful conclusion! Tonight the City Council voted 6-4 in favor of zoning changes to specifically allow urban hens in Billings. They followed up that win by voting 9-1 in support of a new urban hen ordinance allowing up to 6 hens kept in clean, predator-proof housing, an annual [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=billingsbackyardhens.wordpress.com&#038;blog=22581595&#038;post=607&#038;subd=billingsbackyardhens&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>BIG Vote Tonight 8/27/12!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2012 15:22:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://billingsgazette.com/news/local/government-and-politics/city-council-meeting-could-be-a-long-one/article_cee2ee01-ffb7-5529-b684-39042e2f96fb.html  Tonight is the first public reading of the new ordinance. We know we have said that before, however, we&#8217;re pretty sure this time that it hasn&#8217;t derailed. The City Council meeting is at 6:30PM on 8/27/12 at Council chambers, 210 N 27th Street downtown. We need you there to stand in support of this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=billingsbackyardhens.wordpress.com&#038;blog=22581595&#038;post=605&#038;subd=billingsbackyardhens&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Monday 8/27/12 &#8211; First Reading New Ordinance!</title>
		<link>http://billingsbackyardhens.wordpress.com/2012/08/23/monday-82712-first-reading-new-ordinance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2012 20:03:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This process has been fraught with delays and frustrations, but&#8230; we are now set to have the official first reading of the new urban hen ordinance on Monday night, 8/27/12 at 6:30PM at City Council chambers (210 N 27th Street, Billings). The council can vote this forward or vote it down. We UTTERLY and ABSOLUTELY [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=billingsbackyardhens.wordpress.com&#038;blog=22581595&#038;post=603&#038;subd=billingsbackyardhens&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Monday 8/6/12</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Aug 2012 20:48:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tonight at 5:30PM the City Council will hear the reading of the Urban Hen ordinance from Animal Control, Billings Police Department. There will be 2 readings of the ordinance, tonight is the first. Public may comment for 1 minute. Obviously, the anti-hen folks will be there&#8230; this is late notice, but if you can make [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=billingsbackyardhens.wordpress.com&#038;blog=22581595&#038;post=599&#038;subd=billingsbackyardhens&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Time is NOW!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jul 2012 20:22:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK Billings, the city website just posted Monday&#8217;s City Council agenda &#8211; and the first public reading/comment period for urban hens is on the top of the agenda. We need you and your resident pro-hen friends to BE THERE!!! 6:30PM Monday 7/23/12 City Council Chambers 220 North 27th Street, 2nd floor We know that it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=billingsbackyardhens.wordpress.com&#038;blog=22581595&#038;post=597&#038;subd=billingsbackyardhens&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Close, But Not Here Yet!!</title>
		<link>http://billingsbackyardhens.wordpress.com/2012/06/04/its-close-but-not-here-yet/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2012 19:13:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s an updated schedule!! The city staff is going to present TWO ordinances to the Council&#8230; the ordinance that the Council requested (based on Missoula/Fort Collins good ordinances), and the complicated, untried and excessively controlling ordinance that city staff had put together (requiring 20&#8242; easement from property lines, pre-permit inspections despite the fact that Animal Control [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=billingsbackyardhens.wordpress.com&#038;blog=22581595&#038;post=594&#038;subd=billingsbackyardhens&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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