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Newspaper
Sun Coast Gondolier
Location
Venice, Florida, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1979
Page
2
The columnist reflects on the shift from coal to oil as a heating fuel, recalling childhood experiences with coke and soft coal furnaces. He contrasts dusty, laborious nights shoveling coal with the warmth and freedom oil brought, and warns coal could reclaim primacy if policy favors it.
The narrator, a self described middle child, reflects on growing up between an older brother and a baby sister Kathleen. She recalls parental dynamics, grandfather affection, and the pressure of buffering roles while acknowledging she received much love and a strong, adaptable upbringing.
A columnist warns that rapid growth near Venice endangers the Camelot lifestyle. Population figures show 57 percent county gain from 1960 to 1970 and another 42 percent in the next seven years, with the surge concentrated in the southern area.
A columnist likens Venice and its Gulf Coast growth to a population boil threatening Camelot. The piece blasts the county commissioners for relying on a no sewage plant as a cure and argues for broader governance to save Camelot, proposing options including a larger Venice metropolitan government or a new Coastal County.
Dody Turley of Venice writes to the Sarasota County School Board explaining her resignation after six years. She argues external pressures replace teaching as an art with accountability and testing, ending a career she values for student growth and personal reward.
CARE’s letter thanks Florida supporters for hurricane relief and asks for $2 million more to continue aid. It notes 2 million pounds of emergency supplies delivered to over 363,000 homeless and hungry, with CARE MEDICO aiding in San Cristobal. It cites losses of 3 million pounds of PL480 food and the need to replace it.
A Sun Coast Gondolier letter from 1979 denounces Norah Denison as a bitter old maid, criticizing her writing as infantile and accusing her of inferiority and cynicism. The author likens her to a hurricane metaphor and claims she dislikes men, ending with a call for change in her course.
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