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City Pulse, 1/4 pg, June 20 & 27PUBLIC NOTICES CITY OF LANSING SUMMARY OF ADOPTED ORDINANCE #1179 LANSING CITY COUNCIL ADOPTED AN ORDINANCE ON MONDAY, JUNE 11, 2012, TO AMEND SECTION 1020.06 OF THE LANSING CODIFIED ORDINANCES BY EXTENDING ITS EFFECTIVENESS BEYOND JULY 30, 2012 AND REQUIRING COMPLIANCE WITHIN 16 HOURS OF RECEIPT OF NOTICE. EFFECTIVE DATE: UPON PUBLICATION NOTICE: THE FULL TEXT OF THIS ORDINANCE IS AVAILABLE FOR REVIEW AT THE OFFICE OF THE CITY CLERK, 9TH FLOOR, CITY HALL, LANSING, MICHIGAN. A COPY OF THE FULL TEXT OF THIS ORDINANCE MAY BE OBTAINED FROM THE CITY CLERK, 9TH FLOOR, CITY HALL, LANSING MICHIGAN AT A FEE DETERMINED BY CITY COUNCIL. Chris Swope, Lansing City Clerk City Pulse • June 20, 2012 www.lansingcitypulse.com 5 news & opinion name vagina doesn’t make them sud- denly appear. Believe me, if they did, high school would have been very Pubic different for me.” Eyesore With so much energy turned toward the issue, Eve Ensler, playwright of the famous debate production, “The Vagina of the week Monologues,” decided to come With eyes on the November elec- to Lansing and help the female tion cycle, thousands of women legislators of Michigan put on a gather at the Capitol to protest performance of their own. censorship and heavy-handed “I’m beyond excited,” said Maggie abortion legislation; female poli- Martin, a Michigan State University ticians read from “The Vagina arts and humanities major, before the Monologues” show. “I was involved with the MSU production of ‘The Vagina Monologues’ You’ve never seen the word in one and it changed my life. The show speaks area so much in your life, let alone at the to the issue of not saying ‘vagina,’ foot of the Capitol steps. how fear of the word is damag- Property: Westbound Michigan Avenue sidewalk, Vagina. ing and how embracing the East Lansing Signs and chants echoed the word word is actually very Owner: City of East Lansing across the front lawn of the Capitol in empowering.” downtown Lansing on Monday night. The fear and Owner says: Non-motorized plan grades quality Several thousand people showed up stigma surrounding with “E,” but bike lanes are in the future to support Rep. Lisa Brown, D-West the word is used to Architecture critic Amanda Harrell-Seyburn says: Bloomfield, and Rep. Barb Byrum, make bad decisions Sam Inglot/City Pulse Social activities at the sidewalk level are vital to D-Onondaga, after they were banned on women’s behalf, Jess Klein, 27, a program coordinator at the Women’s a community and can be directly proportional from speaking on the House floor last Martin said. Resource Center at Eastern Michigan University in to the health of the physical infrastructure. week for a day because they said “vagina” The situation Ypsilanti, attended Monday’s rally. “The event was incredibly Cafes, markets, food carts, musicians or simply and “vasectomy,” respectively.