Beautification Awards Luncheon Recognizes Venice Area Winners
Five local businesses led the field in the 1982 Venice Area Beautification Awards for excellence in building appearance landscaping maintenance and signage. Plantation Golf & Country Club Peacock & Swearingen CPAs W Jeffery Fields D D S Connoisseur Shop and James Blalock Agency topped more than 250 entrants with 210 awards presented at a Chamber of Commerce Garden Club luncheon. Reverend W W Cutlip eulogized Fred Figg longtime Beautification Awards Committee director who had recently died.
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Venice Area
Plantation Golf & Country Club
Peacock & Swearingen Cpa
W. Jeffery Fields
D.D.S
Connoisseur Shop
James Blalock Agency
Venice
Venice Area Chamber of Commerce
Venice Area Garden Club
Fred Figg
W.W. Cutlip
Grace United Methodist Church
Winners list crowns Venice area institutions and professionals
A long roster highlights winners including Albertsons and Dr. Craig Allen among many Venice area businesses, medical professionals, churches, banks, legal firms, and service establishments across Venice and surrounding communities. The extensive catalog names firms such as First National Bank of Venice, Coast Federal Savings, Bonhauer Realty, Green Fountain Garden Center, and Venice Hospital along with individuals like Dr. Michael Katz and Dr. Samuel Kaplan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albertsons
Craig Allen
Russell Allen
American Legion Novel Post
American Realty
Apex Homes & Century 21
Arby's Roast Beef of
Venice
Ark Animal Hospital
Robert R. Arrington
M.D
B&j Dragline, Inc
R.G. Baker Construction, Inc
Gerald J. Bannasch
Beacon Motel
Skip & Lynn Berg
Bird Bay Village Sales Center
Bliss Insurance, Inc
Boomhower-Merrill Lynch - Realtor
A.G. Edwards & Sons, Inc
Electro Bake
Englewood Bank & Trust
Epiphany Catholic Church
Ewing Funeral Home
Farley Funeral Home
First Baptist Church
Nokomis
First Church of Christ, Scientist
First Church of God
Osprey
First City Federal Savings & Loan
First Federal Savings & Loan of
Englewood
First National Bank of Venice
Bird Bay
Jacaranda Plaza
S. Venice
Tarpon Center
First Venice Savings & Loan Assn
Florida Outdoor Industries, Inc
Florida Power & Light Co
Foremost Powder's Liquors
William C. Fritsch
Four Hundred
Gaemon
Remo G. Gaudier
General Telephone Co
Opt. Center
Golden Coral Family Steak House
The
Golden Shrimper
Grace United Methodist Church
Green Fountain Garden Center
Robert Grossbard
Gulfstream Land & Development Corp
South County Bank
South Creek Development Co
Southeast Bank
Southwest Retirement Center
South Venice Baptist Church
Stewart Business Services
Storer Cable Communications
Sun Coast Aluminum
Sun Federal Savings & Loan Assn
Tampico Retirement Center
Leon D. Terry
D.D.S
the Paper Clip
Tom’s Albee Rd
Travis Family
Trinity United Presbyterian Church
United First Federal Savings & Loan
United First Federal Savings & Loan Assn
S. Trail
Venice Animal Clinic
Venice Area Board of Realtors
Venice Area Public Library
Venice Square
Western Sizzlin’ Steak House
Frank J. Wierichs
W. Eugene Williams
YMCA
Local Venice woman writes Barter News article on shop basics
Jan Jones of 2nd Hand Rose Venice authored Barter News feature Business Begins With Barter in November. She wrote A Woman's Business Consignment and recently opened a Venice shop at 1901 S. Tamiami Trail.
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Jan Jones
Rose
Venice
Barter News
Ms. Jones
Massachusetts
S. Tamiami Trail
Kurtzo Joins Bradway Moore & Associates Venice Office
Kurtzo joins the residential department of Bradway Moore & Associates Realtors at 1936 S Tamiami Trail Venice. An electronic design engineer and Graduate Realtors Institute member, he previously served as VP and sales manager at Stevens Associates from 1970 to 1980.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lawrence Kurtzo
Bradway, Moore & Associates
Realtors
S. Tamiami Trail
Kurtzo
Graduate Realtors Institute
Gaines, Pa
Stevens Associates
North Central Pennsylvania Board of Realtors
Stevens Institute of Technology
Hoboken
N.J
Drexel Institute of Technology
Philadelphia
Philco Ford Co
New Officers Installed at Venice Kiwanis Club 1982
The Venice Suncoast Kiwanis Club installed its 1982 83 officers at the Venice Yacht Club on October 2. Ted Bossart became president while Herb Hanchey earned Kiwanian of the year and Al Minter won fundraiser of the year for the Second Annual Kiwanis Home Show. Other officers include Harry Lawrence Gerald Brown Ray Ladd and George Hunt. The club meets Thursdays at Kissin Cassins Restaurant in South Venice at 7 15 a.m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Venice
Kiwanis Club
Venice Yacht Club
David Gruber
Ted Bossart
Kiwanis
Herb Hanchey
al Minter
Harry Lawrence
Gerald Brown
Ray Ladd
George Hunt
North Port man stitches historic flag over Remagen bridge
Chris Beauvais, a North Port corporal, stitched the first American flag to fly over German soil since World War II. The flag, made from a mattress cover, curtain, and a girl's dress, traveled with his division during the Remagen Bridge charge on March 11, 1945. In 1982 he presented a photo and writeup to Ray Cotten of VFW Post 8203 to commemorate the moment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rhine River
North Port
Chris Beauvais
Rosemont
Penn
Beavais
Beauvais
Remagen
Germany
Ray Cotten
William A. Garvey
VFW
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Jeffrey Fields
Robert H. Stofer
Ray Porter
Robert J. Hamilton
Inn At the Beach
Uspherding, Payne, Karp & Muirhead
J&j Homes, Inc
Jacaranda Vision Center
Jacaranda West Country Club
Howard Johnson's Restaurant
Kanetsky, Moore & DeBoer
Samuel Kaplan
Michael Katz
Kentucky Fried Chicken
Kimball Lumber Co
King Plastic Corp
Kissin Cuzzins Pancake Inn
the Knit Shop
Robert Kramer
Lakeside Lutheran Church
Robert R. Lastomirsky
Laurel Villas
Lemon Bay Funeral Home
Trail Chapel
Sugar & Haas, Cpas
Oscar Scherer
City of Venice
Florida
Heritage Court
W. Venice Ave
Linear Park
Higel Marine Park
Sarasota County
Venice Beach & Pavilion
Nokomis Beach & Pavilion
Hecksher Park
Wringer Washing Machine
Kenmore
Westinghouse Dryer
Our
Wmeucan Dental Centers
Local Woman
Suncoast
Port Charlotte
North Port Man
Harbor Square
Rialto Shopping Center
Tamiami Tr
N.E
Charlotte Harbor
Gabardine
Chatham
Matelasse
Ron
Mill Mista Ndesigner
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Jonathan Logan
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