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VOLUME 6, NO. 120
ON SEVERAL PROJECTS The City of Plant City is working on the Pennsylvania Avenue dog park, residential property sales in the CRA and more.
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 29, 2020
BREANNE WILLIAMS STAFF WRITER
With the start of the new fiscal year, many projects are jumping into action. One has been years in the making. The city’s dog park on Pennsylvania Avenue opened to the public in 2014, though most didn’t realize it was accessible as the parking lot was on one side of a canal and the park was on the other. There was just a grassy parking lot on Knight Street for visitors and those who did attend often ended up walking around in an attempt to get to the park.
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MIKE WINDOM
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A local pilot received the Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award on Oct. 10 in a ceremony at the Plant City Airport. BREANNE WILLIAMS STAFF WRITER
Once again, a local pilot was awarded a legendary aviation award during special ceremony at the Plant City Airport. Mike Windom has been fascinated with airplanes for as long as he can remember. He grew up just outside the Atlanta Airport and said he remembers spending nearly every moment of his free time sitting on his stoop and watching planes fly
in and out, or running along the fence of the airport captivated by the takeoffs of the massive aircrafts. He was obsessed and on Oct. 1963 he and his brother took a plane ride from Atlanta to Chattanooga. It was Windom’s first flight and he remembers the details like it was yesterday. It sparked a flame in him that refused to die, despite his father’s insistence that he would never sit in a cockpit.
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