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Homeless veteran urges Cathedral City to reinstate senior-center member after alleged harassment
Summary
At a Cathedral City study session, veteran Robert McCormick urged the council to reinstate and compensate an elderly senior-center member he says lost her membership after being told she "did not want" a person to be at the center. McCormick said staff told him the membership had been removed rather than addressing the reported harassment.
Robert McCormick, who identified himself at the meeting as a decorated U.S. Marine Corps veteran and someone who said he is experiencing homelessness, told the Cathedral City Council on the record that he witnessed an elderly woman repeatedly told that she "did not want" him at the Cathedral City Senior Center and that staff subsequently revoked her membership.
McCormick said he raised the incident with staff members Jeff Corbin and Victor Eyde and was told the issue had been addressed. "We took the woman's membership away from her," McCormick said…
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