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... that a local man who doesn't want to be identified as donated the money needed to make repairs to a Mexican food stand that was vandalized a month ago. The anonymous donor told reporter Alison Boggs that he stopped by the stand with his wife and son and bought some tacos and had a nice chat with (owner Ignacio Sanabria) before writing him a check to cover the damages done by vandals last month. Though police have no evidence linking white supremacists' picketing the stand and the vandalism, the man said: "We just really feel strongly that there's no place in this town for racists and that's not how the majority of us feel and as much as they keep ... acting out, we're going to keep fighting them." Tacos Los Panchos, the stand at 2102 N. Fourth St./CdA, sustained $1,500 in vandalism damage on Feb. 10-11. Sanabria discovered the vandalism when he opened for business on Feb. 11. Someone had cut the power, propane and heater lines to the trailer. Tacos Los Panchos and two other Mexican food stands -- El Chiludos, 3000 Government Way, and Taco Works, 6th & Best -- have been targeted for protests by white supremacists this winter. The racists have told food stand workeres to go back to their own country.



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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