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Code Exception

In a recent adventure to a local
restaurant i.e., "Expresso" I found
it very distasteful—not the food,
but the idea that the management
would not allow my friend and me
into his restaurant. The reason we
were rejected was "no dogs
allowed." The dog in this instance
was neither my friend nor myself,
but my seeing eye dog.

In this land of "Virginia
Gentlemen and academic scholars it
appears that the public is very
ignorant to the fact that under the
public health law, seeing eye dogs
may accompany their master in
"any food establishment."

To be rejected in the manner
that we were was not only rude,
but thoughtless, and just one more
example of the treatment we have
been receiving throughout the
community.

David Toporek
Grad. School, Special Ed.

—Ed.)