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Suncoast Chapter Receives Awards for Members’ Volunteer Service in the Withlacoochee State Forest

FTA Staff @ April 18, 2008 # No Comment Yet

 
New Port Richey, Fl (April 16, 2008) – The Suncoast Chapter of the Florida Trail Association (FTA) and several of its members have been honored with awards from the Florida Division of Forestry for outstanding volunteer service to the Withlacoochee State Forest (WSF). The awards were recently presented to Chapter members by the forest management [...]

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Obituary for Ethel Palmer

FTA Staff @ July 5, 2007 # One Comment

Ethel Crown “Apple” Palmer, 86, of Clearwater, died Friday (June 29, 2007)
at home. She came here as a child from her native Gainesville. She was a
chief accountant and bookkeeper for the Clearwater Chamber of Commerce
Beach Visitor Center. She was a Women’s Army Corps veteran of World War II.
She was a member of the Episcopal Church of [...]

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Take Pride in Florida

FTA Staff @ October 25, 2004 # No Comment Yet

Our volunteers respond to the state’s call for assistance in hurricane cleanup on public lands.
At the Take Pride in Florida kickoff, Suncoast Chapter members join Mark Warren of the USDA Forest Service, NPS Director Fran Mainella, Florida DEP Secretary Colleen Castille, FTA president Eileen Wyand, and Michelle Mitchell, FNST Manager in celebrating the FTA’s pledge [...]

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