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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1969
Page
4
Mount Dora reports a roofing scam at Sunny Pines Trailer Court where an unsolicited repairman collected 87 dollars and left the elderly homeowner with a leaking roof. The chamber advises verifying unfamiliar solicitors and using a business-check service to prevent similar incidents.
Ten schools join the Third Annual Inter scholastic Play Festival presenting Shakespeare to Inherit the Wind selections. Participants include Leesburg High and Leesburg Junior High with scenes from Inherit the Wind and The Hobby Horse Winner, Mount Dora High performing Othello, and more. The event runs May 1–3 with a Sunday awards ceremony.
Lake county figures and Mt. Dora educators discuss education’s role in arts training as The Lake land Little Theatre director Jon Barry Wilder announces the Interscholastic Play Festival to be held May 1 to 3. Joseph E. Williams and Rick de Treville bring high school theatre experience to the event.
Jim Waldr on TOPIC Progress Edition gains broad approval with one critic William Godtel arguing homes, schools, churches and hospitals are the town’s essential ingredients. A new Park South apartment project began clearing land this week as talk shifts to monthly Progress Editions.
Florida Telephone outlines a six of eight EAS phase completion plan for its 6000 square mile territory. Lake County will finish in four phases by December 11, 1969 with Clermont, Groveland, Howey, Leesburg, Lady Lake, Mount Dora and Weirsdale in the first group. Tavares joins September 24, 1969 and Eustis Umatilla join December 11, 1969, amid rising project costs and ongoing large scale plant construction totaling millions.
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