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Gov. Rick Scott appoints Daytona's Morteza 'Mori' Hosseini to University of Florida Board of Trustees

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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Gov. Rick Scott announced the appointment of Morteza “Mori” Hosseini Wednesday to the University of Florida Board of Trustees.

 

School Board unanimously approves sale of Hurst School for Daytona-area homeless familes with kids & teens on their own

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Daytona homeless family shelter / Jim Dinneen, Forough Hosseini, Mark Geallis / Headline Surfer®
First of a 10-Part Series that takes the public into the plight of homeless families with children and teens living on their own with no place to call home in greater Daytona Beach and throughout Volusia County and three leaders who did something about it -- Mark Geallis, executive director of the Halifax Urban Ministries; Forough Hosseini, vice president of ICI Homes and a community entrepreneur and Volusia County Manager Jim Dinneen. These are their stories...

Forough Hosseini was one of the big proponents of thne Project Hope shelter / Headline Surfer®DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Forough Hosseini tugs on the door at the former Walter A. Hurst School just north of the Daytona Beach city limits in adjacent Holly Hill in an impoverished neighborhood that served as its elementary school for many years before its closing nearly a decade ago.

Hosseini knows all too well the strengths and weaknesses of Daytona, the Central Florida tourism hub on the East end of interstates 4 and 95, that is home to the World's Most Famous Beach®, where speed was born.

Watch free movies at Deltona Regional Public Libary

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Three free movies will be shown during the month of April, including a James Bond flick.

DELTONA, Fla. -- Watch free movies at the Deltona Regional Public Library, 2150 Eustace Ave.

April’s lineup includes these PG-13 movies:  

• “Bridge of Spies," 11 a.m. Monday, April 4.
Tom Hanks stars as an American lawyer who defends a Soviet spy and then helps the CIA exchange him for U2 pilot Francis Gary Powers. 142 minutes.

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DELTONA, Fla. -- Starting Jnue, garbage taken to the curb on collection day must be done so in a trash bin after it is bagged. Waste Pro will pick up two garbage bins & unlimited recycling. Residents may add a second bin, from Waste Pro ($75) or from a hardware store, but it must be square with a hinged-lid & compatible with Waste Pro's automated trucks.

Big Fish Leaving Small Pond: Daytona Beach News-Journal's managing editor callng it quits

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Cory Lancaster's last day March 29; prep sports writer Brian Linder bolting, too

Cory Lancaster quitting as managing editor of the Daytona Beach News-Journal  / Headline Surfer®Brian Linder, prep sports writer quitting the Daytona Beach News-Journal / Headline Surfer®Photos for Headline Surfer® /
Cory Lancaster, longtime managing editor of the Daytona Beach News-Journal, and well known in Central Florida for two decades before that as a senior metro reporter for the Orlando Sentinel, shown at left with News-Journal Editor Editor Pat Rice, is quitting the print newspaper later this month, as is Brian Linder, high school sports prep writer.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Editor Pat Rice got bummed out when up-and-coming reporter Andrew Gant, who followed him from Panma City to Daytona, got hired away by the Volusia County Sheriff's Office to crank out the steady diet of press releases the newspaper has long since come to rely on.

Adopt a park in New Smyrna Beach and get signage

Esther Street Park, New Smyrna Beach, Fla / Headline Surfer®Photo for Headline Surfer® /
Ester Street Park on the beachside is among nearly two dozen scenic parks in New Smyrna Beach that are available for adoption in terms of keeping clean and allowing for signage recognizing the commitment.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH, Fla. -- Nearly two dozen city parks are up for adoption as part of a new program launched by the City of New Smyrna Beach. From small, 1-acre pocket parks to larger waterfront public areas with playgrounds, individuals and groups may sign up to clean up a park for one year.

SOURCE: Daytona's mercurial top cop Mike Chitwood will run for sheriff after all

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Michael Chitwood, the mercurial Daytona Beach polioce chief, who once called retiring Volusia County Sheriff Ben Johnson a "moron," will take out qualifying papers next week seeking the elected law enforcement post in the 2016 elections, accordiong to an inside source.

Jim Dinneen, Forough Hosseini & Mark Geallis instill hope for Daytona-area homeless families with plans to convert ex-school to shelter

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Daytona homeless family shelter / Jim Dinneen, Forough Hosseini, Mark Geallis / Headline Surfer®
Preamble for 10-Part Series...

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- While the controversy surrounding housing for the chronically homeless appears to be going nowhere, the first major hurdle has been eclipsed with renewed hope for an entirely different type of homeless people altogether -- families with children -- with plans to convert the former Hurst Elementary School into a bonafide shelter.

And the leaders of this herculean effort are Volusia County Manager Jim Dinneen,  business entrepreneur Forough Hosseini of ICI Homes and Halifax Urban Ministries Executive Director Mark Geallis.