Cap Stevens crafts landlocked ship models for display
Norman Cap Stevens, longtime craftsman with a patrol background, builds detailed scale models of clipper ships, battleships and cargo vessels. He spends about 1800 hours planning each piece, uses found wood, Osnaburg sails, and tea dyed rigging to create historically styled replicas displayed in banks, museums, and restaurants across the country.
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Cap
Stevens
Bridges
Norman
Cap” Stevens
Blue Sea
High Seas
Georgia Highway Patrol
Sarasota County
Mississippi
Little Rock
Ark
Hernando DeSoto
San Cristobal
Florida State Museum
Bradenton
Osnaburg
Venice water plant found defect free but minor corrections advised
A study by Reynolds, Smith and Hills finds no major defects at Venice’s reverse osmosis water plant. Minor changes are urged including replacing aluminum electrical wiring with copper and adding a thrust block for the intake pipe.
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Yeatts
Utilities
Stu Wilson
Reynolds, Smith and Hills
Grove Terrace expansion eyed by Venice Housing Authority
Venice Housing Authority officials considered land purchase to extend Grove Terrace low income housing. They weighed city sale of the condemned Bullpen site against competition from church groups for elderly housing, while noting funding and demand uncertainties. Budget review delayed rent increase talks.
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Sheri Bridges Gondolier
Venice Housing Authority
VHA
Grove Terrace
Chauncy Howard
Dale Rieth
Howard
George Chatterton
WHA
Perry
City Grants Park Beer Exemption Power To Officials
City ordinance bars public beer in parks and beaches but council will let the city administrator and city clerk issue exemptions. Councilman Berry Walker criticized weekly permission requests and urged simplifying the process while pledging no wild celebrations.
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B. H. “Berry” Walker
Walker
Venice Street Resurfacing Delayed To Late Summer
City Engineering Chief Ted Yeatts cites a heavy workload and ongoing water main and storm drain work as the reasons the 178 700 Venice resurfacing project approved in mid April will not start until August or September. Several streets and alleys are listed for resurfacing including Tampa Avenue Plaza Mayor South Nokomis Avenue Park Boulevard Ponce de Leon Nassau Street Valencia Road Granada and Barcelona Avenues.
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Venice
Ted Yeatts
Gondolier
Yeatts
East Venice Avenue
Ridgewood Avenue
Tampa Avenue
Plaza Mayor
Nokomis Avenue
Park Boulevard
Ponce de Leon
Nassau Street
Valencia Road
Granada
Barcelona Avenues
Sun Fiesta Theme Contest Seeks Ideas for October
The San Fiesta Committee invites ideas for the Sun Fiesta theme with a $25 Savings Bond prize. Entries influence the parade Queen pageant Fiesta in the Park and all events. Submit via coupon by June 8 at local banks or the Chamber of Commerce. Fiesta runs October 21 to 30.
Golf course completes encroachment pullout at Lake Venice
Final revisions on the third nine at Lake Venice Golf Course eliminate an FAA mandated encroachment near airport clear zones. Three new fairways and two new holes were added with a new lake and irrigation. The third nine will reopen mid November after summer closure.
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Lake Venice
Carl Rohmann
Federal Aviation Administration
FAA
Golf Association
Rohmann
Russ Graham
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City Hall
Nelson Perry
Earl Cleveland
Cleveland
R. W. Buskirk
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
HUD
Buskirk
P. O
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