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Article: Meal sweetens ties after councilman stereotypes Simla
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- The Gazette
- Article date:
- March 19, 2004
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SIMLA - Colorado Springs City Councilman Tom Gallagher, who
disparaged the rural town of Simla with an offhand comment about its
weeds, sat at a table in a Simla cafe Thursday morning and prepared
to eat a large helping of crow.
Instead, Gallagher got a ham-and-cheese omelet and a side of toast
and potatoes, paid for by Simla Mayor Lester Berry.
"I understand how these things happen," said Berry, sitting next
to Gallagher at a table at the Country Corner Cafe. "This is a good
chance for us to get together. I have a lot of respect for Tom coming
out here. He's a busy man."
The meeting was to mend fences between the large city in the west
and the tiny town to the east.
The brouhaha began ...