Mount Dora Year in Review Highlights Leadership Changes
A 1977 Mount Dora year in review notes resignations of the mayor, a councilman, and the police chief, plus groundbreaking for the Mount Dora Public Library and the Lake Franklin Park annexation. Highlights include city hall staffing shifts, festival activity, art festival prep, theatre opens, and local business news through January to March.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mount Dora
Mount Dora Rees
Lake Franklin Park
Stuart Robson
Vantage Press
Mid-Lakes
Umatilla
Eustis
Tom R. Champion
Council
Jefferson G. Ray III
Malcolm McCall
Stephen J. Simon
Mount Dora to Get 70 Senior Apartments
Housing Assistance of Mount Dora Inc. plans 70 one and two bedroom units on a 10 acre site at Eudora Road and Brown Avenue, designed for residents 62 and older. The project includes a community building, self contained sewage system, and 20 percent handicap units, financed by the Farmers Home Administration with low interest, extended terms and limited sponsor return, aiming rental rates near 20 percent of income. Construction to start March 1978 with completion by February 1979.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mount Dora
Pease Astess
Margaret Elmore
Donna Stavey
Saoones
James H. Hunt
Sissted
Florida
Charles E
Ed) Brooks
First National Bank of
Gilbert Park
Bruce Hughes
Mount Dora High School
Farmers Home Administration
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Farmers Home
The Philosophies of a Fathead Opens in Topic Series
Dr J C Luke of Tangerine launches The Philosophies of a Fathead in next week’s Topic. In the first article he vows to be disruptive profound or critical and to tackle women in early columns. Luke is a retired Canadian vascular surgery pioneer and writer of Life Begins at. Watch for his provocative pieces beginning January 5.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. C. Luke
Tangerine
Luke
Dr. Luke
Whch
Watch
Mount Dora to Close for January 2 Holiday
Government offices public buildings and many stores in Mount Dora will be closed Monday January 2 a legal holiday. The post office will be closed with no home mail delivery while city hall library and chamber of commerce observe the day. Some downtown stores stay closed while the Golden Triangle area plans to open. Fopie office operates all day January 2.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mount Dora
Jeff Ray
Adrianne N. Lowe
DHS
Morel
Golden Triangle
Contre A Publix
Eckerd’s
Penny Woodard
Lake County
Eustis
Florida Power
Aciace Federal & Loan Association of
Daytona Beach
Ned
Ount Do Sixth Avenue
Compton Center
Ann Knorr
Florida Chamber of Commerce
MDHS
Chamber of Commerce
Fopie
Mount Dora’s Annie Cook retires after 25 years of club meals
Annie Sylvia Cook will mark her 25th and last year cooking for Mount Dora clubs and organizations, retiring in January 1978 for health reasons. Born 1914 in southwest Georgia, she moved to Mount Dora in 1952, began professional cooking after a restaurant stint, and has run Community Building meals with family help from granddaughter Diane VanDervoor, daughter Janice, and grandsons Buster and David.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Annie Sylvia Cook
Mount Dora
Cook
Annie Sylvia Davis
Georgia
West Bainbridge Aces School
Thomas Wilmer Cook
Mrs. Cook
Carl Spang
Hwy. 441
Peterson
Seats
Diane VanDerver
Lions Club
Christian Home
Bible School
Kiwanis
Clu Ae
Also Mentioned on This Page
Diane Demro
Topic
Josephus C. Luke
Mount Cowncil
Sharon Suver
Phoy
Marilyn Sams
Nathan Seabury
IceHouse
Jack la Lynn Crisp
Edythe
Brandon d
Zellwood
Lake Dora
Lakeshore Drive
Housing Assistance of
Eudora Road
Brown Avenue
Golden Triangle Shopping Center
J. C. Luke, M.D
Syevia Cook
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