Easter on Mount Dora Stirs Small Town Mood
Floridora Easter brings a peaceful scene in Mount Dora with church services and a near ghost town feel. A Saturday Easter Egg Hunt at Lake Tem’s Golden Triangle drew about 200 prize eggs in under 15 minutes. merchants revived the event after last year’s lapse. The town buzzes with band practice and a budding middle school orchestra, while the Recreation Department plans a full week of programs through next Sunday and considers local movie nights again. The Topic invites signed letters to the editor to strengthen community voices.
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Mount Dora
Donnelly Park
Donnelly Street
Lake Tem
Golden Triangle
Shopping Center Merchants Association
Reveille
Harlem Globetrotters
Recreation Department
Kellie Richards
Tavares
Daryl Woodhouse
Clermont
Lori Lynn Verkaik
Eustis
Jimmie Ottman
Renee Dobbs
Michael Andrew Duears
David Sistrunk
Michelle Johnson
Lorie Ann Abrahamsm
Kathy Rich
Kerry Totten
Subscriptions and change of address for summer readers
Heading north? Call 383 4308 before leaving Florida and give your change of address to continue receiving the newspaper. Non-subscribers can start by sending a $6.00 one year or $11.00 two year subscription, outside Lake County rates. Mail to P O Box 197 Mount Dora.
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Florida
Scriber
Lake County
Mount Dora Council OKs HUD Application and Trash Rate Changes
Mount Dora City Council approved a $150000 HUD Community Development Block Grant application for East Town street paving and sidewalks. The meeting also adopted a uniform trash collection rate increase and discussed the marina lease and a Gilbert Park log cabin project with no action.
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A. M. Liveright
Mount Dora
Jeff Ray II
Beth O'Connor
O'Connor
Recreation Committee
C. O. Lott
Gordon Dake
Public Works Committee
Dean van Landingham
Brandon Wald
East Town
Bennett
Jameison
HUD
Jacksonville
Zellwood
Lake Apopka
del Potter
Council
Paul Herrlinger
City Properties
Jackan
Lake Sertoma Club
Old
Gilbert Park
Morgan
Sertoma Club
Mount Dora Men Named Outstanding Young Men of America
Four Mount Dora businessmen Gary Bray Ed Brooks Jim Hunt and Jack Morgan are among nine thousand men aged 21 to 36 named in the 1976 Outstanding Young Men of America list sponsored by the U S Jaycees. Bray is an accountant and Rotary leader. Brooks a First National Bank trust officer. Hunt Bank of Mount Dora vice president and educator. Morgan a printer and Kiwanis veteran.
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Mount Dora
America
Mount Dorans
Gary E. Bray
Charles E
Brooks Ill
James H
Jim) Hunt
Jack B. Morgan
U.S. Jaycees
Gary Bray
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
Blacksburg
Accreditation Council For Accountancy
National Society of Public Accountants
Internal Revenue Service
Gary
Rotary Club of
Mount Dora High School
Florida State University
Florida Trust School
Rollins College
Brooks
Orlando Fsu
Sigma Alpha Epsilon Alumni Association
Central Florida Estate Planning Council
Jim Hunt
Bank of Mount Dora
Jim
Lake Weir High School
Central Florida Junior College
Lake Sumter
The
Citadel
Northwestern University
Morgan
Kiwanis Club of
Don Berry Seeks Re election to Lake County School Board
Don L Berry chairman of the Lake County School District and current District Two school board member will run again on a nonpartisan ballot. He will qualify in July for the upcoming election and would become president of the Florida School Board Association in 1977 78 if re elected.
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Donald L. Berry
Lake County
Berry
New Jersey
Florida
Marjorie M. White
Mary
Lake Sumter
Margaret
Leesburg
Don Berry
Vo-Tech
Don
Florida School Board Association
Lake County School Board
Mount Dora Weather Report From Fire Department Station
High 78 and low not stated for period since April 14 at Mount Dora Fire Department weather station. No precipitation recorded, leaving yearly rainfall total at 8.34 inches.
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Mount Dora Fire Department
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Floridora
P. O. Box
van Landingham
Public Works
Sanitation Department
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Community Development Commission
John
Jamie) Jameison
Wayne Bennett
Tom Champion
Hunt
Florida Heart Association
Jack Morgan
Link Stationery & Printing
Ed Brooks
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