California city tried to stamp out 10-year-old’s beehive project. Saving the bees was a lesson in love

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Santa Rosa ordered 10-year-old Nicholas Bard to remove his colony of thousands of European bees, citing zoning law violations.

Nicholas, who cares for and reads to his bees, fought back with help from the Sonoma County Beekeepers Assn.

The city agreed to amend its zoning code to allow student beekeeping, with the full council vote expected next year.

Sometimes it takes a village to raise a child. Or for one 10-year-old in Northern California, a colony of bees.

When the city of Santa Rosa received an anonymous complaint this year about some problem insects in the area, city officials looked into the matter and zeroed in on the Bard family home and, in particular, its colony of tho