When city commissioners stayed up until the early-morning hours last month to pass an ordinance placing tough new restrictions on outdoor feeding programs, the aim was to break up congregations of homeless downtown. But in challenging the new law, homeless advocate Arnold Abbott drew a different line in the sand — at the beach. "The homeless have the same right to the beauty and placidity of our beach as anyone else," Abbott said. "Anybody can use the beach except for one group, the homeless, and that's what I'm fighting for." The 90-year-old World War II veteran was willing to move one of his weekly feedings from Stranahan Park to a church this week, and said he...
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