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Newspaper
Sun Coast Gondolier
Location
Venice, Florida, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1978
Page
1
Sal Milliner Named South Venice Fire Chief
Community brief reports Sal Milliner has been appointed fire chief for South Venice. The notice notes the leadership change and directs readers to page 9 for additional details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sal Milliner
South Venice
Features HAV NEEDS white elephants
A brief note mentions a story on page 13 about HAV needing white elephants and a separate item on page 22 about a VHS in a Christmas basketball tournament today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hav
Origin of Christmas by Bernard Lipinski
The piece traces Christmas origins from antiquity to modern times. It notes December 25 as Jesus birth anniversary, links pagan sun worship, evergreen symbolism, and mistletoe to ancient customs, and describes changes from Puritan bans to immigrant influences and nativity traditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bernard Lipinski
Bethlehem
Judaea
St. Francis of Assisi
Christ
Shark experts and explorers highlighted at South Jetty shoot
Film crew at the South Jetty documented Dr. Eugenie Clark a renowned marine zoologist from the University of Maryland and Col. William R. Royal USAF ret who led discoveries at Warm Mineral Springs and Little Salt Springs in Sarasota County Clark aided by sending a skull and associated sample to Jacques Cousteau's lab for dating. The findings helped Florida classify Warm Mineral Springs as an historic site and spurred the later expansion of marine research facilities including Mote Marine Laboratory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Jetty
Eugenie Clark
University of Maryland
William R. Royal
USAF
Warm Mineral Springs
Little Salt Springs
Sarasota County
Clark
Australia
National Geographic
Jacques Cousteau
Monaco
Royal
State of
Florida
Hemisphere
Glen Lau
Curry Creek plat denial stalls 100 acre development
Richard Bell of Settlement on Curry Creek seeks revised plat approval before City Council, but Capri Isles developers face a road requirement from a 1971 annexation. Playwell Corp argues the road’s responsibility lies with new owners, warning higher costs may deter buyers. Bell aims to raise land elevation as part of amended plats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Bell
Curry Creek
Council
William Korp
Capri Isles
Playwell Corporation
Playwell
Frank Pellegrin
Joseph Belfiore
Pellegrin
Bell
Fire destroys mobile home in Nokomis
A Nokomis single wide owned by Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Wassong burned to the ground Thursday noon despite neighbor help and delayed volunteer fire response. Neighbors John and Ernest Plyman sprayed water with garden hoses to slow the blaze as the Nokomis Volunteer Fire Department arrived and connected initial pumper units.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile City
Joseph Wassong
Liliane Johnson
Nokomis
Nokomis Volunteer
Pete Zahradka
Tom
Debbie Wassong
Wassong
Scotty
John Plyman
Ernest Plyman
Garfield Lester
Lester
Zahradka
Reindeer Claim Leads to All-Night Laurel Search
A half naked woman calling herself a reindeer triggered an all night search in a Laurel woodland. Sarasota County deputies spotted her from a helicopter and arrested Patricia Burkard of Ann Arbor Michigan after authorities investigated her irrational behavior and escape from a nearby fire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laurel
Sarasota County
Sheriff's
Patricia Burkard
Ann Arbor
Mich
East Laurel Road
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