Mount Dora Art Festival Draws 90 000 Attenders
About 90 000 people attended Mount Dora's third annual art festival over two days with 248 exhibitors. Organizers praised the show's quality across painting graphics drawing photography sculpture and crafts. Prizes totaled 4100 with notable awards to Joel Reichard Sharon Suver and Marilyn Sams.
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Mount Dora
Gary Bray
Stephen J. Simon
Simon
Cnder
Alexander Street
Ice. Department
Waterman Memorial Hospital
Eustis
Silver Springs
Joel Reichard
Phil Parker
Flagter Beach
Joe Traina
Tampa
Sharon Suver
Marilyn Sams
Curb
Mount Dora Library Under Way In Community Drive
Construction crews from A W Smith and Son of Leesburg have completed substructure and piers for the Mount Dora Public Library. Wall and roof work will begin soon with an anticipated May 15 completion and early June dedication. Library officials report about 175000 dollars in cash and pledges and plan a direct mail appeal plus personal visits to raise the rest.
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Mount Dora Public Library
A. W. Smith
Edgerton
Mount Dora Council to review comprehensive plan goals
The Mount Dora City Council will hear a preliminary draft of goals and objectives for a comprehensive plan at its 8 p.m. meeting next Tuesday in city hall. The plan covers recreation, open space, housing, transportation, and land use and aims for state review and city ordinance approval. Also on the agenda is a tax payment issue for the building used by the Mount Dora Chamber of Commerce.
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City of
Mount Dora
City Hall
Bob) Pearson
Tallahassee
Mount Dora Weather Update Shows Rainfall Totals
The Mount Dora Fire Department weather station records high and low temperatures since February 2 and notes precipitation to date at 2.20 inches for the period, bringing the annual total rainfall to 6.38 inches.
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Mount Dora
Mount Dora man burned in mattress fire at apartment
James Garris of Mount Dora suffered second and third degree burns over most of his body in a mattress fire at 1100 E Grant Ave. A witness, a girl en route to school, found him, and he was taken first to Waterman Memorial Hospital before transfer to a Gainesville facility. The blaze damaged only the mattress. owner George Wilkerson was nearby. Authorities suspected a cigarette may have started the fire.
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James Garris
Mount Dora
E. Grant Ave
Garris
Waterman
Memorial Hospital
Gainesville
George Wilkerson
Mount Dora Hosts First Antique Dealers Show This Weekend
Mount Dora hosts its first antique show and sale in the Chamber of Commerce Depot Baggage Room from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday through Sunday. Fred Compton chairs the event with no admission fee and hundreds of items on display from twelve dealers in Mount Dora Tangerine and Orlando. The show offers a wide range from fine art to primitives and marks Mount Dora as The Antique Center of Central Florida. Girl Scouts will serve hot dogs coffee and cold drinks during the event.
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Mount Dora
Florida
Tangerine
Orlando
Vermont's Blanche Bryant centenarian lineage pioneer
Vermont native Blanche Brown Bryant born February 16 1877 in Plymouth later grew up in Ludlow. She became the first Vermont woman to run for Congress and held roles in education suffrage and local government and wrote works on genealogy and Calvin Coolidge. Now in the Mount Dora area she nears her 100th birthday.
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Blanche Brown Bryant
Congress
Vermont
Plymouth
James Allen
Ellen Sawyer Brown
Ludlow
Black River Academy
Emerson College
Boston
William LeRoy Bryant
Bryant Grinder Company
Springfield
Ex-Cell-O Corporation
Detroit
Bryant
Gertrude Baker
Calvin Coolidge
Bryants
William J
Earle H
Allen L
William
Mount Dora
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Smyrna Beach
Donnelly Street
NEW Public Library
Shitssol
New Mount Dora Public Library
Ninth Avenue
Blanche B. Bryant
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