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    Short North businesses complain about panhandlers

    The Dispatch wrote Business owners on High St. complain

    Saturday, January 26, 2008

    BY MARK FERENCHIK

    The Short North Business Association hired two people in December and dressed them in red vests to greet visitors to the bustling area, hand out visitor’s guides and discourage panhandlers.

    The greeters left after the holidays. But the panhandlers?

    “They’re back,” said Tim Wagner of the Short North Special Improvement District. About five regulars hang out in the city parking lots along N. High Street.

    Merchants are tired of it.

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