Pretty Ranch Girl and a Soldier’s Night in San Francisco
A bus ride brings a farmer’s daughter named Carol into the narrator’s view. They bond over humor and looks, she shares ranch background and paratrooper pride, and their plans shift to nightclubs in San Francisco. A debt to a legally inclined contact lands as a gunshot threat. the veteran departs for Korea while they still laugh and live in the moment.
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Carol
San Francisco
Camp Stoneman
Pittsburg
California
Army
Korea
Fort Huachuca
Arizona
Martinet
Fort Huchuaca
Residents defend zoning and praise Venice community growth
Letters discuss zoning variance for an adult boarding home, defend legitimate business practices, and urge support for fire department funding. Readers praise local reporting, criticize sensationalism, and urge prudent growth of a retirement community with existing prosperity.
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Venice
Voltaire
Madame de Deford
Leave mayor alone and hear from Nokomis letter writer
A local reader defends Venice mayor and the fire department in a letter to the editor. The writer, from Nokomis, praises the mayor's performance and urges residents to back his efforts.
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Jim Digan
Venice
Nokomis
Venice and retirement business shape Florida’s future
Mr. Dale Rieth notes Venice is tied to retirement as more die than are born each year. Economists say the region’s future depends on the retirement industry providing jobs and prosperity through economic downturns.
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Rieth
Mr. Rieth
Dale Rieth
Venice
Florida
Volunteer push aids Alzheimer support group turnout
JOANN HAYDEN DIRECTOR South County Volunteer Talent Pool thanks readers for the Alzheimer’s disease series and says the call for volunteers to sit with patients during support group meetings drew immediate responses. More families may attend and benefit from shared support.
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Joann Hayden
South County
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Fair City
Kitty Wilson Nokomis
Orangewood Garden
Ryan Homes
Port Charlotte
Armstrong
Ryan Homes Model Center
Tamiami Trail
Ae Orangewood
Bond Contractors
Specialiits
Tom Bond
East
Venice Ave
Englewood and Venice
Eeete County
Gedle
P Kennedy
Andard
Our Bay
Perpetua Airport
Authority
Bryant Meeks
Jack Heritage
Po. Pol. Adv
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