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Council widens 'pizza-free' zones near school

May 16, 2005

Seattle Post-Intelligencer: About 20 students were already lined up yesterday across the street from Cleveland High School in Seattle when Eugene Barbu pulled up in a blue van marked simply "Hot Pizza."

Soon, from the back of the van, he was handing out personal-sized pizzas, cheese bread sticks and cans of sodas.

Barbu says he's just trying to get by. Critics say he and a handful of vendors who sell pizza and other snacks near schools from vans and trucks are not only undermining school officials' efforts to get kids to eat better, but also threatening the jobs of cafeteria workers.

Citing the growing girth of Seattle's schoolchildren, City Council members voted yesterday to bar all kinds of mobile vendors from within 1,000 feet of schools.

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