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Congresswoman Kosmas after meeting with Coast Guard here: 'We need to get the word out that our beaches are still pristine'

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NSBNEWS.net videos by Sera Frederick.

Congresswoman Suzanne Kosmas speaks to Orlando TV news crews WFTV and Central Florida 13, a Hometown News reporter and NSBNEWS.net on her meeting with Coast Guard officials at the Ponce Inlet station Saturday before speaking exclusively with NSBNEWS.net on this and other matters.

NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- Congresswoman Suzanne Kosmas, D-NSB (FL-24), spoke with the media at noon Saturday following a meeting with top brass at the U.S. Coast Guard station, reporting that plans are in place to deal with the gulf oil mess that remains a potential threat to both Florida's coastlines.

A Father's Day message

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The following was written for NSBNEWS.net as a Father's Day blog by Reed Markham, associate professor, Daytona State College, New Smyrna Beach campus:

Do you remember the advice your father gave to you as a child?

Here are a few examples from Bruce Lansky, author of "Fatherly Wit and Wiisdom":

* So you think you're smart, do you? * I may not be a rocket scientist, but I am your father.  * Algebra doesn't have to make sense. * I couldn't  afford college so I went to the School of Hard Knocks. And I got my degree in Bumps and Bruises. * Finish school or you'll wind up digging ditches like your brother.

The Left flunks ecomomics 101

According to a Zogby International survey, people who consider themselves left-leaning have shown themselves to be less informed on economic issues than people who are right-leaning. In order to form this conclusion Zogby asked 4,835 adults eight basic questions about economics to determine their knowledge. The questions are summarized as follows:

1.Do restrictions on housing development make housing less affordable?

2.Does the mandatory licensing of professional services increase the prices of those s services?

NSB COPS: Suicidal man with handgun Baker-Acted and transported to hospital for psychiatric evaluation

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NEW SMYRNA BEACH -- A Venetian Bay man armed with a handgun and threatening to kill himself was taken into custody without harm to himself or others early Sunday and transported to Bert Fish Medical Center for a psychiatric evaluation under provisions of the state's Baker Act.

Monday Night Raw main event a downer

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Monday Night Raw's main event between new WWE Champion Sheamus and John Cena was turning out to be a great match -- that was until outside interference from Wade Barrett and his NXT hoodlums.

Not only did Cena get a beat down, but so dis special refereee Vince McMahon after Sheamus high-tailed it to the dressing room.

There was a so-called "anonymous" general manager that had set up this match after last week's NXT attack on Raw General Manager Bret "Hitman" Hart.

Funeral service set for NASCAR's Raymond Parks

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By MARK WILLIAMS For NSBNEWS.net

DAYTONA BEACH -- Funeral services for Raymond Parks, NASCAR’s first championship winning owner who passed away Sunday morning in Atlanta will be held  Wednesday in Atlanta.

A viewing will be held starting at 6 6p.m. Tuesday at the HM Patterson Funeral Parlor at 1020 Spring Street, NW in Atlanta.

The funeral will be held 11 a.m. Wednesday at the Peachtree Christian Church at Peachtree & Spring Street in Atlanta.

Parks was 96 at the time of his passing and and a true forefather of the sport. He owned the championship winning car in both NASCAR’s first Modified season of 1948 and “Strictly Stock” season of 1949.

Both championship-winning cars were driven by Red Byron. Parks’ car won two of the eight races in the inaugural 1949 season of what is now known as the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series – at historic Martinsville Speedway and the Daytona Beach & Road Course.