Mount Dora forum outlines city issues and candidates
About 50 people attended a Rotary Club forum at Bank of Mount Dora for seven city council hopefuls, mayor Margaret Lafroos, and park commissioner candidate Joan Marvin. Questions covered sewage, moratoriums, youth jobs, parking, Mount Dora utility sale, East Town, and Donnelly Park.
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Mount Dora
East Town
Donnelly Park
Rotary Club
Bank of Mount Dora
James Runt
Demi Bray
Ait Davis
Gary Bray
Tima John Coffield
Dave Curtis
Gary Hopcraft
Maureen Mancini
Jefferson G. Ray III
Brandon Ward
Margaret Lafroos
Joan Marvin
Park Commission
Tim Carmody
Eckerd to speak at Mount Dora Chamber meeting
Jack Eckerd former GSA administrator will be keynote speaker at the Mount Dora Chamber of Commerce 54th annual meeting January 6 at Lakeside InnBorn in Wien Delaware Eckerd built Eckerd Corp into a drug and department store chain with optical centers and operations in Florida Georgia and Louisiana He retired in 1976 to join the Ford administration and later resigned He and Ruth Eckerd run a foundation funding camps for emotionally disturbed youth The meeting includes officer installation and past president recognition Tickets are 8 50 and available at the Chamber offices
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Jack Eckerd
General Services Administration
GSA
Mount Dora
Wilmington
Del
Jamestown
N.Y
Florida
Tampa
Clearwater
Eckerd Corporation
Eckerd Optical
Georgia
Louisiana
Eckerd Drugs
Eckerd
Gerald Ford
Ford
Jimmy Carter
Tip” O'Neil
Ruth
Jack and Ruth Eckerd
Florids
Eckerds
Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
Depot
Third
Alexander
Mount Dora Library Board votes to sell old library building
The Mount Dora Library Board unanimously approved asking the city council to sell the former Fifth Avenue library building to liquidate the loan toward the new Donnelly Street project. David Edgerton was re elected chair. A M Blackburn Jr. kept the vice chair post.
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Mount Dora
City Council
Fifth Avenue
Donnelly Street
Ninth Avenue
Library Board
A. M. Blackburn Jr
David Edgerton
Blackburn
Mary Alice Tucker
Charles K. Ranger
John Bowman
Carl Brookhauser
Milton Mills
Hugh Monson
Leonard Smile
Gordon Dake
C. O Lott
Jefferson G. Ray III
Weather report from Mount Dora station shows rainfall
The Mount Dora Fire Department weather station records high and low temperatures since November 30. Precipitation for the period totals .90 inches, bringing the year to date rainfall to 38.73 inches.
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Mount Dora
Theeriod
Mount Dora Lions Club Christmas Parade Set for Saturday
The Mount Dora Lions Club Christmas parade starts at 2 p.m. Saturday Dec 10. Route runs down Donnelly Street to Gilbert Park with 53 entries including floats bands and marching units. Trophies awarded to top entries. Santa Claus will greet crowds in Gilbert Park after the parade.
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Mount Dora Lions Club
Donnelly Street
Gilbert Park
Santa Claus
Mount Dora Votes Next Tuesday at City Election
Polls open 7 a m to 7 p m on Tuesday December 13 for Mount Dora's city election. All registered voters will cast ballots at the Mount Dora Community Building using rear auditorium entrances from Sixth Avenue. A sample ballot appears on Page 6B and unopposed candidates Margaret Lofroos and Joan Marvin will not appear on the ballot.
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Mount Dora
Sixth Avenue
Margaret Lofroos
Park Commission
Joan Marvin
Mount Dora Council Bans Late Night Music Downtown
Mount Dora city council adopts a 1942 ordinance prohibiting music after 11 p.m. on some nights in SE 7 kar oe from mits to 7 a.m. The move follows complaints from Theresa Huebner of the Hotel Simpson about noise from 1 Nights club on Fifth Avenue and alleged fighting and drinking in the alley. Police report five complaints on Nov 12, all from the Simpson Hotel. The council also discussed de annexation for Lake County Motors and kept angle parking after merchants raised concerns.
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Mount Dora
Saeed Jawaheri
Brandon Wald
C. O. Lott
Javaheri
Princess Court
Lott
Police Department of Noise
Robert Locke
Locke
Ward
Bradner
Wald
Donnelly Street
al Rehbaum III
Rehbaum
Tru Value
Council
Joe Gardner
Conder
Farmers Home Administration
Mount Dora High Students Score Low in County Tests
Lake County results show Mount Dora High School 11th graders near the bottom in math and near bottom in the communication test among county high schools. Clermont leads math with 77.7 percent passing. Clermont also tops communication at 100 percent. MDHS principal J R Folsom says officials will focus on results with teachers to improve.
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Mount Dora High School
Lake County
Umatilla High School
Clermont High
Mount Dora
MDHS
J. R. Folsom
Olgom
Folsom
Burkart Named Manager of Lakeside Inn Mount Dora
John C. Pete Burkart, Mount Dora native and former Orlando Chamber of Commerce executive, is named manager of Lakeside Inn a 110 room resort on Lake Dora. The inn opens December 17 and runs through April with Burkart supervising about 60 staff to ensure guest satisfaction. He and his wife Marilyn have two children Sandy and John.
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John C
Pete) Burkart
Lakeside Inn
Mount Dora
Burkart
United States Oval Academy
Annapolis
U. S. Navy
Orlando Chamber of Commerce
Convention and Visitors Bureau
Richard Edgerton
Lake Dora
Lakeside
Pete Burkart
Marilyn
Sandy
John
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Golden Triangle
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