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Peter Whipple <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 2 Dec 1998 15:00:37 -0600
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Only $100 bills or larger.
 
Peter
 
At 01:15 PM 12/2/98 -0600, frhinkle wrote:
>Don't the politicians read?
>Fred
>
>----------
>> From: Bobbi Cordy <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Back to the Conservation Issue - Sanibel
>> Date: Wednesday, December 02, 1998 9:26 AM
>>
>> I stated several times that one of the big problems in FL
>is the
>> renourishment of beaches where hundreds of shells and
>being pumped out
>> of the ocean onto the beaches....well here is what was in
>yesterdays
>> paper:
>>
>> "Panama City Beach - A renourishment project is providing
>beachcombers
>> with a bonanza of shells of all kinds and calibers.
>> In addition, dredges are bringing up gun shells expended
>during military
>> training exercises in or over the Gulf of Mexico.
>> Beachcombers usually have to wait until low tides after
>storms to find
>> fresh seashells, but the dredging is providing them with
>relatively
>> untouched specimens in the sand being pumped from
>offshore to restore
>> severely eroded beaches.
>> The $21.5 million renourishment is about 40percent
>complete and on
>> schedule, said Rafael Castillo, a quality control
>official with Great
>> lakes Dredge and Dock Co. which has been doing the
>dredging work."
>> Florida Today, Tuesday, December 1, 1998.
>>
>> AND very soon the scientific shell collector will be told
>it is their
>> fault because the shells are gone.  What a crock!!!
>>
>> --
>> Jim and Bobbi Cordy
>> of Merritt Island, Florida.
>> Specializing in Self-Collected
>> Caribbean & Florida Shells

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