Residents of Wichita homeless encampment closed by city search for next place to live

As Jessica Lane talked Tuesday morning, her 1-year-old pit bull D.B. nipped at her feet.

“She’s a sweetheart, but I can’t ever leave her,” Lane said.

Lane, 39, was sitting along a bike path just south of Garvey Park in south Wichita. She had been living at a homeless encampment nearby, just across the Arkansas River from Chapin Park, but the city said everyone there had to move out…

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