For Immeadiate Release:

Newly forming group wants to spread the message: Chickens are great neighbors!

Seeks to make pet chickens legal in Westerville

　

Keeping small flocks of pet chickens in backyards has become a full-fledged phenomena. Mainstream media like the New York Times and Wall Street Journal, and personalities such as Martha Stewart have chronicled the trend. A group is now forming to make sure the Westerville area knows that chickens make fascinating pets, can be great neighbors and that keeping them should be legal.
Those interested in getting chickens, or those who have been keeping them ‘secretly’ and who want to get their hobby made legal, are invited to an organizational meeting of the Westerville Area Chicken Keepers Society (WACKS) on Thursday, May 5^th at 7:30 PM. The meeting will be held at Tim Horton’s,772 South State Street, Westerville Ohio.
The purpose of the meeting is to gauge support for an effort to change the regulations in Westerville to specifically class small flocks of chickens as pets and make them legal in all areas of the city where the keeping of other kinds of pets are currently legal.
Inquiries can be directed to the group’s Email address:
The group has also established a Facebook page westervilleacks@rocketmail.com .https://www.facebook.com/pages/Westerville-Area-Chicken-Keepers-Society/163820710340409