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Seminole schools collecting relief supplies for Hurricane Maria victims in Puerto Rico & islanders relocating to greater Sanford-Lake Mary and other areas of the county

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LAKE MARY, Fla. -- Some two dozen students, teachers and staffers joined Seminole County School Board Chairwoman Amy Lockhart in receiving, sorting and packing disaster relief supplies for Puerto Rici brought in by countless citizens last Friday and Saturday in a large bay on district property at 239 Rinehart Road.

Most of the items were loaded into three larget U-Haul trucks and transported by plane Tuesday from Orlando-Sanford International Airport to San Juan. The equivalent of a truckload remained behind forr the expected arrival of serveral thousand Puerto Rican families in Central Florida over the next few weeks and months, said Lockharrt and school leaders from other school districts along the I-4 corridor, including Osceola, Orange and Volusia counties.

RETURN ON INVESTMENT: J. Hyatt Bown bankrolled politician campaigns & now he's cashin' in big time at taxpayers' expense

By HENRY FREDERICK
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DAYTONA BEACH -- Volusia County Chair Ed Kelley has led the cheers for giving away millions in taxpayer money to fund nearly half the cost of a 10-sory office building  for Brown and Brown Insurance, the seventh most lucrative insurance company on the planet.

in the Daytona Beach News-Journal just as he did fortaking cars off a stretch of the world's Most Fafor the use of millions in taxpayer monies to be use to pay nearly half the cost of a 10-story office building. 

Post-Hurricane Irma: Daytona's homeless front & center

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Within 36 hours of Hurricane Irma's blast through Daytona Beach, with many of the tourist-destination's traffic lights still out, motorists started venturing out and the homeless panhandlers were already in place at nearly every major intersection to greet them.