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Chicken coop tour raises scratch for needy

July 25, 2009 By The Associated Press  RACHEL PRITCHETT (Kitsap Sun)

BAINBRIDGE ISLAND, Wash. (AP) — So this is what the recession has come to — a tour of chicken coops on Bainbridge Island.

It was no showcase of lavish estates or spectacular gardens. Instead, the island's recent "Tour de Coop!" was a starkly modest public look at eight of the island's backyard chicken coops.

Long symbols of strapped times, chickens and their coops are enduring symbols...

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