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 | | On Monday evening, July 14, 2003 the Burlington City Council voted unanimously to pass a resolution that would prohibit circuses with elephants, big cats, bears and non-human primates from appearing in city-owned facilities like Memorial Auditorium and Leddy Park Arena. |
 | | The resolution stipulated that circuses which receive an endorsement from the Humane Society of the United States would be exempt and permitted to operate--this provision was included as an incentive for circuses to "clean up their act"; it also exempted dogs, horses and other domesticated animals from its strictures. |
 | | We would also like to encourage you to thank the members of the Burlington City Council (and especially the co-sponsors of the resolution, Russell Ellis, Ellie Blais and Joan Shannon) for their vision on this issue. |
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