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...March, John Kingery, an 82-year-old victim of Alzheimer's disease, was found abandoned in his wheelchair at an Idaho dog-racing track. Last week his daughter Sue Gifford, 40, was charged with kidnapping him from his Oregon nursing home and dumping him in Idaho. Kingery's case drew national attention to the phenomenon of "grandpa dumping": stressed-out adult children abandoning their ailing parents. Kingery is now in Kentucky being taken care of by relatives...
...wants to go in a different direction," says city activist Gladys P. Gifford. "And unless they have people who support their views, it can't happen...
...feeling that [CCA councillors] aregetting a lot of pressure from their constituentsto clean house and put people in who reflect theirviews," Gifford says...
...Gifford also speculates that Healy might try toformulate policies more agreeable to the CCAmajority because he "sees the writing on thewall...
...polarity caused by the tension betweenthe progressive and conservative Democrats inCambridge is likely to continue. Gifford, as wellas members of the CCA, says that she would besurprised if the CCA does not keep is majority inthe next election--unless the demographics ofCambridge change dramatically by the next electionyear...