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Pardon us! Hunger protest outside Tony’s Market

Aubrey Shomo is staging a one-week hunger protest right outside Tony's Market at 950 Broadway -- but she doesn't have a beef with Tony's. Rather, she wants to get the attention of Mark Noel, clemency director for the State of Colorado, whose office is right above Tony's. Since she has...
By Patricia CalhounMay 3, 2011
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Aubrey Shomo is staging a one-week hunger protest right outside Tony’s Market at 950 Broadway — but she doesn’t have a beef with Tony’s. Rather, she wants to get the attention of Mark Noel, clemency director for the State of Colorado, whose office is right above Tony’s.

Since she has all the required permits to pitch her tent on Broadway for a week, Tony’s has decided to welcome her as a neighbor — even if she won’t be shopping in the store. (She’s on a hunger strike, after all.) “I just want her to have a peaceful protest,” says store manager Stuart Stevenson.

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Patricia Calhoun is editor-in-chief of Westword, the alt-weekly she co-founded in September 1977. She’s been inducted into the Colorado Press Association Hall of Fame, the Association of Alternative Newsmedia Hall of Fame and the Colorado Restaurant Association Hall of Fame. She’s also received dozens of local, state and national awards for writing, including first place for feature writing and first place for column writing with the Society of Professional Journalists. Patricia is a weekly commentator on Colorado Inside Out, PBS 12’s public affairs roundtable, which has won two Emmys.

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