DeLand Area News
For Sunday, April 20, 2014 (links are updated continually)
| West Volusia Calendar of Events: April 19-26, 2014 Saturday, April 19
Barberville Family Farm Swap and Market
6 a.m.-12:30 p.m. west of the Pioneer Settlement for the Creative Arts, three-fourths of a mile west of U.S. Highway 17, on State Road 40, Barberville. Call 386-469-9409.
Farmers Market
8 a.m.-1 p.m. at Gateway Center for the Arts, 880 Nor ... |
| Laralee Spear killing unsolved for 20 years If Laralee Spear were alive today, she might be a pediatrician or a veterinarian, because she loved children and animals. She might have a couple of children of her own.
But none of that happened, because Laralee Spear was shot to death 20 years ago, on April 25, 1994, less than a mile from her home ... |
| Easter Egg Hunt, today, Thursday, April 17 The DeLand Parks and Recreation Department, Duane’s Sunshine Cleaning, and DeLand Elks Lodge 1463 are hosting a free Easter Egg Hunt Thursday, April 17, at Bill Dreggors Park, 230 N. Stone St. in DeLand. The event is for children age 12 and younger.
An egg crawl in the Lemon Room at the park for t ... |
| Caption this: What’s going on here?
Post your take on this photo.
www.BeaconOnlineNews.com, or on Conrad Beacon Cat’s Facebook page, or on Beacon Jen Horton’s Facebook page. Or, drop off your captions in our office, 110 W. New York Ave., Downtown DeLand, by Monday, April 21, 2014.
The writer of the captio ... |
| DeLand-based photographer documents disappearing Florida lifestyles On front porches, in gardens and barns, Floridians told their stories to Eric Dusenbery. It is not clichéd to say these folks are the salt of the earth and the sea. Dusenbery has a love affair with Florida, and that shines through as you read the stories in his book Florida Soup: Putting History on ... |
| |
| Downtown DeLand Children’s Museum relocates Just about four months after it opened, a Downtown DeLand children’s museum is closing its doors at 100 E. New York Ave.
However, owner Linsey Fasold said Lighthouse Children’s Museum will soon reopen in a new location not far away, in the 100 block of North Florida Avenue.
On April 11, the toys ... |
| West Volusia Calendar April 15-19, 2014 Tuesday, April 15
Camp Create Registration Opens
Beginning today, parents or guardians may register their children for this summer’s Camp Create at the Museum of Art - DeLand, 600 N. Woodland Blvd. The camp will be 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday-Friday, June 16-Aug. 8 (excluding June 30-July 4), for 6- to ... |
| Nature Scenes: Anhingas are sometimes called snakebirds Often looking like posed statues, anhingas perch on branches or near water waiting for the breeze and sun to dry their water-soaked bodies after swimming and diving. These graceful water birds are among the few species in the world that do not have any oil in their feathers and therefore are barely ... |
| Downtown DeLand Children’s Museum closes Just about four months after it opened, a Downtown DeLand children’s museum is closing its doors at 100 E. New York Ave.
However, owner Linsey Fasold hopes The Light House Children’s Museum can soon reopen in a new location.
For right now, the toys are packed and the museum is homeless, after Fa ... |
|
