Mount Dora grows as downtown fills with shops and civic buzz
The Mount Dora scene accelerates with new businesses at Compton Center on Donnelly Street and expansion of the Village Mall. Fred Compton renews a colonial facade and sparks five new shops including the Candle House and Three Elves Gift Shoppe as state officials discuss Florida death penalty policy at a Lake County hearing. The Whistling Oyster and Purple Onion plan reopenings while Gale Associates targets a showroom office downtown.
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Lamp Post
Mount Dora
Lake County
Tavares
Florida
Compton Center
Donnelly Street
Sixth Avenue
Fred Compton
Donnelly
Candle House
Linen Closet
Three Elves Gift
Tootin'’ Angel Children's Apparel
Pipe and Pouch
Whistling Oyster
Purple Onion
Gale Associates
Inside the Topic 17 IceHouse Theatre and Notices
A fragmented page lists sections such as IceHouse Theatre and Legal Notices with scattered letters and headings. The readable items mention Women and Birds in a sporadic layout, offering no clear events or outcomes.
Lengthy Ballot Faces East Lake County Voters
East Lake County voters confront a large ballot next Tuesday with five races in the end of the county two State House seats a Senate seat and two Congressional District seats plus four write ins and a state lands referendum. The ballot also includes four Constitutional Amendments a Lake County superintendent election referendum and a death penalty straw poll.
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East Lake County
East Lake
Lake County
Florida
Board of Public
Richard
Dick) Stone
Concerned Citizens plan drive to boost Mount Dora vote
About 70 residents attended a rain soaked pre election rally in Mount Dora as the Concerned Citizens organized to mobilize for the December 12 City Council vote. Speakers explained registration rules, absentee ballot deadlines, and a door to door campaign to boost turnout.
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George Outcast
Concerned Citizens Organization
Bank of Mount Dora
Mount Dora
Outcast
Dwight Cook
Leonard Oelhafen
Ed Preston
Walt Rowley
Mount Dora Art League Outdoor Show Opens in Donnelly Park
The Mount Dora Art League hosts an outdoor show this Saturday in Donnelly Park from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Florida residents may enter works between 9 and 10:30 a.m., with judging at 11. Best of show prizes are 25, 15 and 10 dollars. Ribbons honor oils, acrylics, watercolors, drawings and pastels. Door prizes include paintings by local artists awarded around 4:45 p.m.
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Council
Park Commission
Mount Dora Art League
Donnelly Park
Late 1972 Tax Statements Delayed in Lake County
Lake County Tax Collector Keith Hall announces 1972 Real Estate and Personal Property tax statements will be late. Florida Computer Systems projects mailing by November 10. Discount periods extend from 4 percent for 30 days then 3 percent for December 1 percent for February and full March with delinquency penalties after April 1, 1973. Inquiries limited until statements and tax roll arrive.
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R. Keith Hall
Lake County
Florida Computer Systems
Hall
McCabe Named Interim Lake County School Superintendent
Bernard J. McCabe of Mount Dora has been appointed interim superintendent of Lake County schools by the Board of Public Instruction after Clyde Stevens resignation. The term runs to November 1974.
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Bernard J. McCabe
Mount Dora
Lake County
Board of Public Instruction
Clyde Stevens
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