Venice's Christmas pageant earns 10 rating as jewel city
Mike Murphy recalls Venice Florida's ecumenical three day Christmas pageant for the Holy Birthday of Jesus. The Parks and Recreation Board, City Council, Ministerial Association and city staff coordinated the event drawing 1500 to 2000 viewers. The pageant featured live camel transportation and Eastern dignitaries, praised by newcomers for its scale in a town of Venice's size.
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Venice
Jesus
Parks and Recreation Board
Venice Avenue
Christ
Ministerial Association
Florida
United States
Remembering radio’s golden era and local pride in Venice
The author recalls 1930s 40s radio as a home staple with Stop the Music and top comedy shows. He praises civic efforts by Eugene Caffrey and wife for Christ for Christmas 1978, laments a Venice newspaper's overtime snub, and recounts a BB gun accident that ended a prize.
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Eugene Caffrey
Dullsville
Venice
Defenders of youth respond to critic in letter to editor
Pete Rose writes defending young people against elder slurs over a Jacaranda Plaza rock concert. He argues for religious plurality, notes marijuana and cigarette use, challenges Mrs. Hughes, and urges love over judgment while urging honesty and wisdom across generations.
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Mrs. Hughes
Jacaranda
Jacaranda Plaza
America
County transit plan drawns ire over voter mandate
Sarasota County residents are urged to challenge county commissioners who voted to push a mass transit system despite 1974 voters rejecting a one cent per gallon tax. The proposal includes nine Cities Transit buses at $397,000 and years of rising costs funded by various sources. Critics argue subsidies fall on all county taxpayers and urge creation of a special taxing district to fund only supporters.
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Sarasota County
Sarasota
Cities Transit
Florida Dot
U.S. Mass Transportation Authority
Venice
Englewood
North Port
Citypage thanks Venice for Christ in Christmas pageant
A reader thanks the city of Venice for keeping Christ in Christmas and praises the Christmas story. The message wishes a wonderful Christmas and a bright season for all who had a part and for every day of the year.
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Venice
Christ
O. Henry in Venice Area Public Library Display
Library column recalls O. Henry real warmth for characters and his fame in New York described as Baghdad on the Subway. The Venice Area Public Library curates O. Henry works and invites use of library resources for readers and researchers.
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Henry
New York
Baghdad-on-the- Subway
William Sydney Porter
O. Henry
Maupassant
Venice Area
Community praise for Venice pageant and Christmas carol cutback
Readers thank area groups from churches to the Ballard Farm animals and Little Theatre for a moving pageant on city grounds aided by the Gondolier and Ringling Bros. Circus. They urge preserving sacred music in schools and celebrate local merchants boosting downtown during Christmas season.
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Little Theatre
City of Venice
City Hall
Gondolier
Ringling Bros. and
Barnum & Bailey Circus
Christ
Santa Claus
Quotes About Fortune and Eel Wisdom
A compact collection of pithy sayings and proverbs. The lines juxtapose fate and fortune with a German eel proverb and a classical reflection on absence. Readers are invited to ponder luck, ambition, and recognition through brief, aphoristic statements.
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