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Article: Village mayor: Stop putering about Golf carts bring controversy
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- The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL
- Article date:
- June 20, 2003
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MANSFIELD - You might call it the great golf cart controversy in
the town without a golf course.
Mayor Steve Gaines wants golf carts off village streets because
it's the law and because he fears children using the golf carts might
get hurt. Fellow trustee and police commissioner Dan Harper has
similar concerns.
Not everyone agrees and that's par for the course in this town of
1,000, about seven miles from the nearest course in nearby Farmer
City.
"We have had a problem with kids using them late at night without
lights," said Gaines. "I'm afraid some kid will get hurt or hurt
somebody else."
What started last summer has become "a bigger problem this summer"
with children as young as nine ...