Venice council concedes airport land payments
The Venice City Council agreed for the first time that the city may owe rent for airport land used by the sewer plant and Chuck Reiter Field despite objections from Mayor Harry Case and Councilman Bill Freeman. The measure directs staff to study fair market value rent after deducting services and to report findings before deciding next steps.
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Venice
Harry Case
Bill Freeman
Chuck Reiter
B.H. “Berry” Walker
FAA
Walker
Dale Rieth
Ringling Bros
Barnum & Bailey Circus
Case
Rieth
Freeman
Veterans Day services planned across Venice area churches and posts
The Venice Area Veterans Council sponsors the 11 November Veterans Day observance beginning at 10:30 a.m. at the downtown Veterans Memorial, then at Venice Avenue Park with musical interlude and remarks by WWI commander William Schultz, Legion head Royce Phelps, and guest Speaker Joseph Tringall. Local posts including No Vel American Legion, Tamiami VFW and Englewood VFW host ceremonies with dinners in the evening.
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Venice Area Veterans Council
Veterans Memorial
Venice Avenue
Stanley Guggenheim
North Port
Jewish War Veterans
American Legion Post
Venice
Tamiami Post
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Tamiami Vfw Post
East Venice Ave
American Legion No
Lemon Bay
Retired Officers Association
American Legion Hall
South
Englewood
Disabled Veterans and Auxiliary
Gold Star
Post
County limits boating on Nokomis Venice and Manasota beaches
Sarasota County Commission restricted motor boats from certain waterfront areas and set regulatory markers at public swimming zones on Nokomis Venice and Manasota beaches. Markers warn boat captains that these Gulf areas are swimmers only with specified seaward distances and offsets from beach lines. Venice Municipal Beach falls under county recreation department rules.
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Sarasota County
Nokomis Beach
Venice Beach
Manasota Beach
Gulf
Venice Auction to Sell 5000+ City Superseded Items
Venice officials set a December 10 auction at the city garage on Seaboard Avenue featuring 5000 plus items from the old Sarasota Motor Hotel renovation. Highlights include 2500 saucers 1080 water glasses four toilets and kitchenware plus a stereo mixer calculator NCR validator and more.
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Venice City
Sarasota Motor Hotel
Steve Albee
Albee
Venice
Seaboard Avenue
Clown couple wed after five years in the circus
Sandy and Ron Severini, both clowns, recount meeting at Clown College in Venice and forming a romance on tour. After five years together they married while traveling with the same circus unit, sharing dinner and movie dates before tying the knot.
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Sandy Severini
Ron Severini
Clown College
Sandy
The
Los Angeles
Severini
Venice
Ron
Ringling Bros
Barnum & Bailey Circus
Venice Library
City moves to repeal public drinking ban in new ordinance
City council began steps to repeal the public drinking prohibition by adopting a broader ordinance aligning with state alcohol laws. The plan would largely keep bar and liquor store operations unchanged while addressing issues at the ABC Lounge. Officials debated nuisance concerns and whether to curb wet T shirt contests as part of the new rules.
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B.H. “Berry” Walker
ABC
Walker
Case
Ray Waymire
Dale Rieth
James Gardner
Eugene Caffrey
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Federal Aviation Administration
Sandy Gray
Venice Municipal Beach
Saucer
Bo Ag
Simply Sinclair
Tides
Charles Wheeler
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