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Mr. Kiercul is surprised at the comments of the controversial neighbor which ended the piece. He hopes that it is well understood that the reason he was forced to hire attorneys as well as a public relations consultant is precisely because he, as an entrepreneurial immigrant, was not previously able to tell his side of the complicated story of just how a small group of persons–for various reasons which may include pure jealousy, the need for one scapegoat to take the blame for the growing petty-crime rate in the neighborhood, and inability to appreciate ethnic culture which differed from their own–sought to drive him and his family from the area by disrupting his business, causing petty grievances to be filed against his business in local courts and harassing him through sporadic marches, bizarre surveillance methods, and even the use of a bomb threat which was phoned in on September 4, 1992, and which is still being investigated.
Mr. Kiercul has done everything possible in order to eliminate the ability of the tiny proportion of his broad range of patrons to disrupt some neighbors after they leave his family establishment–and his efforts to work in good faith with some of the very people who had caused him so much unfair and needless anguish is now finally beginning to pay off.
Attorney-at-Law
