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Today's Features

  • Cedar Key Girl Scouts celebrate 100th anniversary

    By Molly Beckham-Cowart
    Girl Scouts across the nation have much to celebrate this week. March 11-17 is National Girl Scout Week.
    This year is not any regular anniversary though, March 12 marks the 100th anniversary of the official birth of Girl Scouting in the United States. The Girl Scouts of America organization was founded in 1912, in Savannah, GA by Juliette Gordan Low, or “Crazy Daisy” as she was affectionately called by friends.

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  • Community Calendar for the week of March 15

    Thursday

    Chamber members to hear about sign changes
    On March 15, at 8:30 am at Natures Landing Condos conference room, City Attorney Norm Fugate will give a presentation about possible changes to Cedar Key’s Sign Ordinance. Please plan on attending so that you may determine if and how these proposed changes might affect your business. This is a quarterly Chamber Board Meeting which is open to the general membership. Please respond to the chamber if you are planning on attending to ensure adequate seating and/or the need for a new venue.

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  • Author charms audience

    “Did someone tell you there was free liquor and guns here?”
    It’s not a bad question to be posed to an overflow crowd by a man who has spent his life living and chronicling the Florida way of life.
    With that opening, Jeff Klinkenberg had the audience hooked. Klinkenburg, whose work appears most Sundays in the Tampa Bay Times (formerly St. Pete Times) newspaper, has published several books on Florida’s interesting, unique and weird characters , animals and places.

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  • Woman’s Club Fashion Show set

    The Cedar Key Woman’s Club will present its Fashion Show and Luncheon on Thursday, March 15. This annual event has become the hit of the town in the past few seasons. Featuring Cedar Key models with fashions coordinated by Nancy Stephens from Déjà Vu on Second Street, the entertainment value is worth the price of the ticket.

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  • Woman’s Club Fashion Show set

    The Cedar Key Woman’s Club will present its Fashion Show and Luncheon on Thursday, March 15. This annual event has become the hit of the town in the past few seasons. Featuring Cedar Key models with fashions coordinated by Nancy Stephens from Déjà Vu on Second Street, the entertainment value is worth the price of the ticket.

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  • Community Calendar for the week of March 8

    Saturday
    Annual Spring Plant Sale
    The Cedar Key Garden Club’s Annual Spring Plant Sale will be held by City Hall on C Street on March 10 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. There will have a large variety of native plants to choose from.

    Auditions held for SVP

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  • Wild about wildlife

    By Patty Roesch
    Special to the Beacon
    The Cedar Key Arts Center held a Salute to Wildlife March 3. From 5-7 p.m. guests explored the exhibit sipping happily on wine and enjoying the food.
    In appreciation of the Suwanne Refuge, the art was to feature the area. Ann Kamzelski and Jack Murphy were among the artists with work on display.
    Kamzalski is a digital photographer. Armed with her camera and Photoshop, she creates images that keep the viewer wondering.

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  • Wild about wildlife

    By Patty Roesch
    Special to the Beacon
    The Cedar Key Arts Center held a Salute to Wildlife March 3. From 5-7 p.m. guests explored the exhibit sipping happily on wine and enjoying the food.
    In appreciation of the Suwanne Refuge, the art was to feature the area. Ann Kamzelski and Jack Murphy were among the artists with work on display.
    Kamzalski is a digital photographer. Armed with her camera and Photoshop, she creates images that keep the viewer wondering.

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  • CK Eagles to hold fund raising event for Bergers March 12

     On Monday March 12, from 5-7:30 p.m. The public is invited to a Jambalaya dinner and cake walk at the Cedar Key Eagles Aerie home on the corner of 3rd and B Streets.

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  • CK Eagles to hold fund raising event for Bergers March 12

     On Monday March 12, from 5-7:30 p.m. The public is invited to a Jambalaya dinner and cake walk at the Cedar Key Eagles Aerie home on the corner of 3rd and B Streets.

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