DAN’S INSIDE ORMOND BEACH DAYTONA BEACH HOLLY HILL LAND LINES Remembering a friend and unique individual Page A3 Ormond Beach Dental Group Vol. 9, No. 11 Your Local News and Information Source • www.HometownNewsOL.com Friday, April 4, 2014 Need Community Daytona Beach Marine featured Dentures? notes Free Consultations & Second Opinions in USMC advertising campaign Crowns Road Closure of John $675 • Denture Full Denture Reline $175 Anderson Drive at By Andreas Butler They feel that my story can influence young- $495 For Hometown News sters from different walks of life across the Now Owned & Operated By Neptune Avenue country. It’s about showing youngsters that Meet Micah Hudson, a 36-year old captain in the USMC is another option for them,” Capt . Kerri Graham D.M.D. See ad in this section for more information John Anderson Drive at the U.S. Marine Corps. Hudson said. Neptune Avenue will His official job title is Financial Management The campaign originally kicked off in Best Dentist 802 Sterthaus 386-944-5002Drive, Suite A • Ormond Beach, FL remain closed to through Officer, but he is serving as a legal analyst. November 2012 and was intended to attract (Across the street from the Imploded Florida Hospital) traffic until April 30. Capt. Hudson is from Daytona Beach and he is the millennial generation. 083990 The extended closure is to an alumnus of Spruce Creek High School (Class This year it has expanded its storytelling allow storm water and utili- of ’96). platform and content to show how Marines ful ty improvements to be He is being featured in the Marine Corps impact their communities and abroad. institutions when it made from Royal Palm Recruiting Command’s “Fighting with a Pur- Various contents from the campaign are post- comes to diversity. Avenue to Neptune, which pose” advertising campaign, which promotes ed on the Marines’ Facebook, Instagram and “The military is a microcosm of who we need to occur before final diversity and community outreach. Twitter pages. recruit. Our nation’s landscape looks entirely dif- storm water utilities can be “It’s an honor, but it’s also humbling. It’s not The Marine Corps, like the other branches of See MARINE, A2 constructed at Neptune. about me, but I am grateful that they chose me. the military, is one of the nation’s most success- Use designated detours. For more information, call the Ormond Beach Engineering Division at (386) 676-3269. World War II vet He’s Batman Ormond Beach library hosts plant remembers clinic April 7 rough experience The Ormond Beach Regional Library will host a By Pat Young area. Mr. Pero was one of Master Gardener Plant For Hometown News them. He says men were Clinic from 10 a.m. to noon chosen “at random” to be Monday, April 7, at 30 S. Ninety-year-old Deanne MPs. During the skirmish, Beach St. Pero and his legally blind he was shot in the right leg The plant experts will wife, Virginia, reside in a and injured in the right diagnose the maladies, modest mobile home in a eye. (He is now blind in identify insects, and recom- quiet Port Orange commu- that eye and the highly vis- mend solutions for plant nity with their green-eyed ible scar on his leg causes and gardening problems. cat, Molly Brown. It’s a him pain.) Reservations are not peaceful life, but not a day Mr. Pero was admitted required. For more informa- goes by that Mr. Pero does- to the Veterans Adminis- tion, call (386) 676-4191, n’t remember a not-so- tration hospital in Coral ext. 21084. pleasant time during Gables, which was previ- World War II. ously The Biltmore, a large Parking prohibited He was only 19 years old hotel owned by Spain. The when he was stationed in back of the hotel formed on South Atlantic Coral Gables while serving an arena with two wings in the U.S. Army Air Force and guests could watch Avenue at Andy under the command of bullfighting in the arena. Randy Barber/staff photographer Romano Park Col. Allen Kimberly. There Mr. Pero was in one of was racial rioting in Miami Steve Anthony of Daytona Beach holds Mathew Haggerty, 5, dressed as his favorite the wings, called “Unit B,” superhero, Batman, during the 25th annual Spring Daytona Turkey Run at Daytona The Florida Department at that time, and Col. Kim- See VET, A4 of Transportation recently berly sent some MPs to the Beach International Speedway on Friday, March 28. informed the City of Ormond Beach it is pro- hibiting on street parking adjacent to the northbound lane of South Atlantic Officials applaud springs preservation projects Avenue in front Andy Romano Beachfront Park. By Erika Webb ford, hold promise for a The FDOT recently [email protected] healthier future for Blue installed “no parking” signs Spring and other area water along this section of road- A celebration of partner- bodies. way and once temporary ships and projects to pro- Mr. Tanzler commended traffic barricades are tect Blue Spring at the state cooperative and proactive removed from the former park in Orange City March measures undertaken by parking spaces, the 19 yielded good news for West Volusia Water Suppli- See NOTES, A2 conservation, preservation ers — Volusia, Deltona, and restoration. DeBary, Orange City and The St. Johns River Water DeLand — as well as San- ENTERTAINMENT B1 Management District, ford. Florida Department of “For them to be able to do L’CHAIM Environmental Protection that is the way government as well as elected officials is supposed to work,” he and staff from Volusia said. County and the cities of The 2014 Legislative Ses- Deltona, DeBary, DeLand sion got underway with and Orange City discussed Gov. Scott calling for $55 and lauded accomplish- million to be added to the ments including the recent- 2014-15 budget for projects ly adopted Blue Spring Min- directly tied to springs imum Flows and Levels restoration, according to Festival will celebrate prevention and recovery FDEP Office of Water Policy everything Jewish strategy. Photo by Erika Webb Director Tom Beck. The strategy, developed Volusia County Councilman Pat Patterson and Maryam Ghyabi, governing board co- Last year, he said, $10 collaboratively with local million allocated for ENTERTAINMENT B1 governments and water chairman of the St. Johns River Water Management District, share a smile at a meeting on improving the water flow for Blue Spring. springs was leveraged to suppliers, provides assur- $37 million. LES MIZ ances Blue Spring and sev- “This year, right out of the eral Volusia lakes will demand for surface and SJRWMD Executive Florida’s Institute of Food box, it’s $55 million. That achieve their MFLs through groundwater withdrawals, Director Hans G. Tanzler III and Agricultural Sciences could go to $100 million,” International 2030 and supports contin- the district reported. said public-private partner- and UF’s Water Institute to Mr. Beck said. hit play ued economic growth in “Thanks to the local gov- ships are crucial to a posi- provide scientific data to There are more than coming to and around Volusia, the dis- ernments and water suppli- tive end result. aid protection and restora- 500,000 visitors yearly to Athens trict reported. ers in west Volusia County “We work with the tools tion of the springs system. Orange City’s Blue Spring — Theatre Cost-share projects who worked diligently on we have available which is “How do nutrients get Florida’s largest first magni- beginning this spring will these projects, we are able not an unlimited set,” Mr. into spring sheds? How do tude spring on the St. Johns help meet the adopted to leverage district, state Tanzler said. we abate that?” Mr. Tanzler River, Blue Spring State Park MFLs for Blue Spring and and local funds to help pro- The SJRWMD is focused said. Manager Jerry Garrett told will help protect and tect Blue Spring’s spring on procuring the science Locally reclaimed water Mr. Beck. INDEX enhance manatee habitat, flows and natural needed to turn the springs’ projects, such as Deltona’s The Director expressed according to the SJRWMD. resources,” said District ecosystems around. $25 million wastewater surprise at how the visitor Business A7 Out & About B1 Reclaimed water projects Governing Board Vice Chair The district is funding a treatment plant and numbers have grown. Classified B11 Police Report A5 will result in protected Maryam Ghyabi of Ormond $3 million, three-year con- DeLand’s wastewater treat- Crossword B8 Sports B10 Horoscopes B1 Viewpoint A6 spring flows by reducing Beach. tract with University of ment agreement with San- See SPRINGS, A8 Bankruptcy and Foreclosure JAMES SKOW, PA Attorney 084287 139 Executive Circle Suite 103 • Daytona Beach, FL 32114 Phone: 386-310-4894 • Fax: 386-310-4895 • www.Skowlaw.com • [email protected] A2 • Ormond Beach/Daytona Beach/Holly Hill Hometown News Friday, April 4, 2014 from the Ukraine who has and other charitable works,” Marine immigrated to the U.S. that Capt Hudson said. From page A1 can help us solve that situa- He has had a wonderful tion,whether militarily or experience as a Marine. ferent than when I was grow- diplomatically,” Capt. Hud- “The Corps was God sent. ing up and than our history son said. The Corps helped me grow books. The world’s a bigger Marines also go out and up. It has educated me, gave place. Our people come serve their communities in me an opportunity to see the from all over the world. The various capacities. world and become a leader,” Marines keeps diversity in “We do more than kick in he said.