Guadalcanal forty years later recount by Courtney Willis
The piece recalls the 40th anniversary of the Guadalcanal landing, detailing the boyhood reaction in Tampa and a veteran’s memories from Drew Field to Noumea and Guadalcanal. It notes training in radar units, the 673rd Signal Aircraft Warning Regiment, and the push with the 43rd Division amid Japanese attacks on Henderson Field.
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U.S
Guadalcanal
Solomon Islands
Pearl Harbor
Pacific
Tampa Times
Drew Field
England
Tampa
South Pacific
Australia
Noumea
New Caldeonia
Chicago
New Caledonia
Canal
Henderson Field
Army Infantry
Courtney Willis
Inset
Pacific Island
School Board seeks help to fund new financing study
The Sarasota County School Board, short two members, keeps a $15,000 first phase study price and asks counties statewide to share the cost of exploring alternate financing like impact fees. Superintendent Jim Fox says enabling legislation would be needed to implement any techniques.
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Sarasota County
Robert Freilich
Kansas City
Dick Doudna
Margaret McAdoo
Kay Glasser
Glasser
Jim Fox
Freilich
Erosion plan eyed for Venice coast breakwaters
The U S Army Corps of Engineers weighs four 45 by 113 foot offshore breakwaters to protect Venice beaches near the sewage plant and fishing pier. The project includes 20 000 cubic yards renourishment sand and would place armor stone structures 300 feet offshore, with public comment invited.
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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Florida Department of Envionmental
Venice
Gulf
Ed Redington
John Adams
Corps of Engineers
Adams
DER
Army Corps of Engineers
Venice to Consider Big Rise in Utility Plant Charges
Venice City Council will hear Ed Redington's report on possible sewer plant capacity charge increases from 800 to 1385 and water plant charges from 300 for new hookups. The changes aim to cover costs of a Lake Venice Golf Course effluent spray irrigation system on Venice Airport property, not the irrigation bond issue. UVAC opposition voices concern over utility expansion into county areas.
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Venice
Ed Redington
Redington
Lake Venice
Venice Airport
Reding
Ton
Dale Rieth
Rieth
United Venice Area Citizens
UVAC
AVAC
Ed Knob
Growth control action under county review
County commissioners struggle to adopt a growth phasing ordinance by the October 12 deadline. They warn the measure may not be ready until after the new year, as developers protest delays and fall elections loom with two commission seats open.
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Doug James
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