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Club news

By Times Staff writer
Published November 18, 2007


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The Florida Herb Society will meet at 6 p.m. Tuesday at the Clearwater Main Library, 100 N Osceola Ave.

The meeting will feature an herbal vinegar workshop presented by Linda Nash Stevenson. Membership applications will be available. Herbal swaps and refreshments begin at 5:30 p.m. Call (727) 393-3943 or (727) 447-6305 for further details.

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Members of the Caladesi Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution recently celebrated the chapter's 33rd anniversary with a lunch at the Clearwater Country Club. Fifty members attended, including five past regents and current regent Rose Warren.

Barry Bohnet, representing the National Armed Services and Law Enforcement Memorial Museum in Dunedin, spoke on the early fur trade in America and displayed colonial artifacts.

The chapter offers genealogy help at Dunedin Public Library from 1-3 p.m. every Thursday. No appointment is necessary.

The chapter's next meeting is at 12:30 p.m. Monday at the First Presbyterian Church, 455 Scotland Street, Dunedin, with speaker and DAR member Carole Coffman giving a talk on Jamestown.

Any woman 18 years or older who can prove lineal descent from a patriot of the American Revolution is eligible to join and is invited to attend the meeting. For more information, call (727) 787-2491.

[Last modified November 17, 2007, 21:13:31]


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