Santa Clarita City Councilman Frank Ferry is out of intensive care and is now in a private room at Providence Holy Cross Hospital.

Ferry had been in intensive care since Dec. 3 when a post-operative infection caused a life-threatening situation and his family was summoned to his bedside. He had an operation Nov. 30 to remove a growth near his pancreas.

Late Wednesday afternoon, Ortiz told KHTS that his family sent a text message saying that Ferry had “a positive night and a positive day.”

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Updates on his condition have been the hot topic throughout the community for the last two weeks and there has been an outpouring of support on social networks and a blogsite set up by the family.

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