Orange County Community Conference - Orlando Florida

This year's conference will take place on Saturday, July 19, 2008 from 8:00 A.M. to 2:30 P.M. at the Orange County Renaissance Center (3800 S. Econlockhatchee Trail, Orl, FL 32829)

The entire day will be filled with opportunities for citizens to learn more about Orange County services, to gather key information from educational workshops, and to share new ideas for preserving and enhancing the quality of life in Orange County neighborhoods.

Community Conference workshop highlights include:

• Animal Services 101
• Homeowner's Association Conflict Resolution
• Engaging Youth in the Neighborhood
• "For Sale" to Foreclosure
• Good Practices in Managing Money
• Crime Prevention
• Code Enforcement
• Transportation

For cost and additional information visit the news release.


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Upcoming Section 8 information meeting for landlords

Information regarding Volusia County’s Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program can be obtained at a 2 hour meeting being held on Aug. 22 between 10 a.m. and noon. The meeting will be held in the in the Volusia County Council chambers in the Thomas C. Kelly Administration Center, 123 W. Indiana Ave., DeLand.

Additional information and contact info.


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Solivita a Florida retirement community

Solivita is a retirement community located 20 miles south of Walt Disney World. This charming community is located with easy access to hospitals and medical facilities, major shopping areas, the Central Florida attractions, golf courses and more!

You can purchase a resale or new home in Solivita at an affordable price. call us to receive a free list of new and resale homes available.

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What time does the Coke Zero 400 race start?

Saturday July 5

2:00 pm - Gates open

7:30 pm NSCS Driver Introductions for the Coke Zero 400 Powered by Coca-Cola

8:00 pm NSCS Coke Zero 400 Powered By Coca-Cola (160 laps, 400 miles)

Foreclosure sales increase in Central Florida

Bank owned or foreclosed homes continue to make up a large portion of certain Central Florida housing markets. Recent MLS statistics indicate that in June, homes that were foreclosed on and now being resold by the lender are a major source of business for Realtors.

Reports indicate that Deltona led the way with 45% of the sold inventory being bank owned. Kissimmee followed closely with 39.8% of June sales reported as bank owned and Orlando 19.8%.

Area Realtors are aware of this latest trend and are prospecting lenders in hopes of listing these REO properties. Additional prospecting is centered on locating buyers by holding open foreclosed homes weekly.

The bank owned numbers should continue to rise as foreclosures increase throughout Central Florida.


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Central Florida gas station now offers E85 ethanol

Governor Crist announced yesterday that that the Florida’s Turnpike Turkey Lake Service Plaza gas station has become the first station in Central Florida to offer E85 ethanol.

According to the National Ethanol Vehicle Coalition, E85 "is is the term for motor fuel blends of 85 percent ethanol and just 15 percent gasoline. E85 is an alternative fuel as defined by the U.S. Department of Energy."

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The American Dream | 4th of July | Independence day

Have a safe and enjoyable holiday weekend. God bless America.

The Declaration of Independence of the Thirteen Colonies

In CONGRESS,

July 4, 1776

The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect
to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the
separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.

That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is
the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them
shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils
are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain [George III] is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the
establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts
be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good. He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained, and when so suspended, he has
utterly neglected to attend to them. He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only. He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of
their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures. He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have
returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the meantime exposed
to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within. He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the
conditions of new Appropriations of Lands. He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers. He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance. He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies, without the consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of
pretended Legislation: For protecting them by a mock Trial from punishment for any
Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:

For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
For depriving us in
many cases of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
For transporting us beyond
Seas
to be tried for pretended offences:
For abolishing the free System
of
English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an
Arbitrary
government, and
enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at
once an
example and fit
instrument for introducing the same absolute
rule into these
Colonies:
For taking away our Charters, abolishing our
most valuable Laws
and altering
fundamentally the Forms of our
Governments:
For suspending
our own Legislatures, and declaring
themselves invested with power to legislate
for us in all cases whatsoever.
He has abdicated Government here by declaring us
out of his Protection and
waging War against us.
He has plundered our seas,
ravaged our Coasts,
burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.
He is at this time
transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to
complete the works of
death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with
circumstances of cruelty
and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most
barbarous ages, and totally
unworthy
the Head of a civilized nation.
He
has constrained our
fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms
against their
Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren,
or to
fall themselves by their Hands.
He has excited domestic insurrections
amongst us, and has endeavoured
to bring on the inhabitants of our
frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages,
whose known rule of warfare is
an
undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes
and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the
most humble terms. Our repeated Petitions have been answered only
by
repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which
may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people. Nor have We
been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We have warned them from
time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable
jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our
emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and
magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to
disavow these usurpations, which would inevitably interrupt our connections
and
correspondence.

They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We
must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation,
and
hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace
Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the United States of America, in
General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the
world
for
the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by the authority
of
the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare.
That these
United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and
Independent States;

that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown,
and
that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain is
and
ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States,
they
have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances,
establish
Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent
States may of
right do.

And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance
on the
protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our
Lives,
our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor.

The signers of the Declaration
represented the new States as follows:
New Hampshire: Josiah Bartlett,
William Whipple, Matthew Thornton
Massachusetts:John Hancock, Samual Adams,
John Adams, Robert Treat
Paine, Elbridge Gerry
Rhode Island:Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery
Connecticut:Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington, William
Williams, Oliver
Wolcott
New York:William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis
Morris
New Jersey:Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon, Francis Hopkinson,
John Hart, Abraham Clark
Pennsylvania:Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush,
Benjamin
Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor,
James Wilson,
George Ross
Delaware:Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas
McKean
Maryland:Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll of
Carrollton
Virginia:George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson,
Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton
North Carolina:William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn
South
Carolina:Edward Rutledge, Thomas Heyward, Jr., Thomas Lynch, Jr., Arthur
Middleton
Georgia:Button Gwinnett, Lyman Hall, George Walton

St. Cloud proposal to help real estate market

In the City of St. Cloud’s monthly newsletter, Council Member Mickey Hopper discusses a proposal that she believes will help our housing and real estate markets and generate employment opportunities for the St. Cloud community.


The project named the St. Cloud Real Estate Market Stimulus Project involves:

• Partial funding by the Economic Development Trust Fund
• Advertise St. Cloud to neighboring counties the real estate and business opportunities available
• Create activities to draw people to look at St. Cloud

The city saw huge growth in 2001-2006 but recently has faced the same decline experienced by the entire Central Florida real estate market.

Florida biologist saves bear from drowning

A 375-pound male black bear with a penchant for beachfront browsing was on dry land Saturday after a Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) biologist pulled the tranquilized animal from Gulf of Mexico waters in Florida’s Panhandle. Full news release

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Florida State Parks offer free admission on July 13th

Governor Charlie Crist with the Florida Department of Environmental Protection’s (DEP) Division of Recreation & Parks and the Florida Recreation and Park Association have declared July as as Recreation and Parks Month.

Central Florida area state parks include:

• Blue Spring State Park
• Lake Kissimmee State Park
• Gamble Rogers Memorial State Recreation Area at Flagler Beach
• Anastasia State Park
• Colt Creek State Park
• Sebastian Inlet State Park
• Ravine Gardens State Park
• Fort Mose Historical State Park

"Florida’s state parks are an ideal place for children, families and friends to exercise, connect with nature and learn about our state."

~ Mike Bullock Florida State Park Director

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