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Mayor clarifies community prayer tree; councilor frames it as inclusive witness
Summary
Mayor clarified a community prayer-tree project in a city park (not church property), explaining prayers will be collected and privately burned in January; Councilor Robert Freitas responded, urging love and inclusion and defending the project as community-oriented.
The mayor used part of the meeting to clarify language he had written in the city's "hometown highlights" distributed with water bills about a community prayer tree. He said the tree would be placed in a small city park near the First Baptist gym (used only as a visual landmark), not on church property, and would include a box with paper and…
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