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Additional Homestead Exemption For Qualifying Low Income Seniors in the City of Deltona

By: Brandon Kellogg
Deltona, FL (August 20, 2010) -
Since 2000, the City of Deltona has offered an additional homestead exemption to qualifying low-income seniors. In 2010, the City of Deltona has doubled the exemption to $50,000!
For those qualifying seniors who are already enrolled in the program you do not need do anything to get the new [...]

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Deltona Fire Department Offering a Child & Babysitter Safety Class

By: PR/Brandon Kellogg
Deltona, FL (August 20, 2010) -
August 18th 2010- City of Deltona Fire Department will be offering another Child & Babysitter Safety Class (CABS Class). The CABS class is a nationally recognized training program promoting high standards of curriculum development for teens ages 11-15, who want to learn the important skills that every babysitter [...]

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Deltona Solar Water Rebate Program

BY: Bandon Kellogg
Deltona Fl (February 11, 2010) –
The City of Deltona launched its Solar Water Heater Rebate Program on Monday, February 1st 2010. Deltona residents can apply for a $400.00 rebate, when they have a solar water heater installed in their home.
In addition to this rebate, residents can apply for a 30% tax credit [...]

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City Spending, The Real Story

By: Brandon Kellogg
Deltona, Fl. (February 3, 2010) -
With campaign season right around the corner, voters are sure to witness the bi-annual manipulation of City and County budgets as these numbers will be twisted, massaged, mangled and in some cases, intentionally distorted to suit the needs of candidates with the intention of creating hollow issues. Candidates [...]

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CITY OF DELTONA SEEKING INDIVIDUALS TO SERVE ON THE CITY’S PLANNING & ZONING BOARD

By: Brandon Kellogg
Deltona, Fl (February 2, 2010) —
The City of Deltona is currently looking for three individuals interested in serving on the City’s Planning & Zoning Board. Individuals appointed to this Board serve 3-year terms in a non-paid capacity. This quasi-judicial Board meets on the 3rd Wednesday of each month at 6:30 p.m. to [...]

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Community Life Founder Receives Humanitarian Award

By: Brandon Kellogg
Photo Credit: Alexander Photos
Deltona, Fl. (January 21, 2010) -
Pastor Phyllis Gregory, founder of Community Life Center, received the Second Annual Gus I. Dowels Humanitarian Award from Deltona Dream Keepers on January 16, 2010 during the Martin Luther King Breakfast celebration.
The award was given to her in recognition of the 14 years of service [...]

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Deltona’s Special Olympics Team Finishes 1st and 2nd in Division

By: Brandon Kellogg
Deltona, FL (January 18, 2010) -
The area 5, Special Olympics basketball tournament , was held Saturday, January 16, at Matanzas High School in Palm Coast. The five County event included Special Olympians and their families from counties as far north as Nassau County, north of Jacksonville.
Practice at Wes Crile Park gym
The last division match-up [...]

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LEARN ABOUT SELF-SUSTAINING LIFESTYLES

[ February 6, 2010; 2:00 pm; ] By: Brandon KelloggVolusia County, FL. (January 13, 2010) –Pat High will discuss her self-sustaining lifestyle at 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 6, at DeBary Hall Historic Site, 210 Sunrise Blvd.

High, a former rock survey engineer, has studied and lived with agricultural self-sustaining cultures in five continents. She has created a 10-acre self-sustaining home in Central Florida [...]

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Deltona Victory Garden on hold

By: Brandon Kellogg
Deltona, FL. (January 13, 2010) –
The City of Deltona’s “Victory Garden” Project is on hold, after partner CharityFarms requested it be released from the working agreement with the City. CharityFarms cited economic conditions as the reason.
Late last year, the City completed preliminary lot preparation for the Victory Garden that included supplying water to [...]

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MLK Breakfast at Stetson

By: Brandon Kellogg
Deland, FL (January 9, 2010) -
Stetson University President Wendy Libby to be keynote speaker at MLK Breakfast
at the MLK Commemorative Breakfast march through the Stetson University campus on their way downtown in 2009.
Dr. Wendy B. Libby, president of Stetson University, will be the keynote speaker at the 18th annual Dr. Martin Luther King [...]

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