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Deadline for Voter Registration — July 26, 2010

FLORIDA VOTERS: In order to vote in the upcoming election on Tuesday, August 24, 2010, you must be registered by Monday, July 26, 2010.  Hopefully, you are registered, but you may know people who are not (friends new to the area, new neighbors, friends who have never voted before or who have not voted in many years).  Please share this with them NOW. This is also the time to change your address if you have moved since the last election and/or to change your party affiliation.  Name changes (marriage, divorce, etc.) can also be done now.

This is a primary election, but judges and school board members will be elected that day.  ALL voters can vote for the school board and judicial candidates, although those with no party affiliation cannot vote for Governor, U.S. Congress, State House and others in the primary election.   It is vitally important that everyone VOTE on August 24.

There is a voter registration form attached, which also serves as a switch and change of name/address form. Or get it here:

Broward County: http://www.browardsoe.org/VoterRegistration.aspx

Broward County Supervisor of Elections
115 South Andrews Avenue, Room 102
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301
954-357-7050

Palm Beach County: https://www.pbcelections.org/VoterRegistration.aspx

Those in other counties can contact your local Supervisor of Elections.

Start studying the ballot now (you can see all the races online); there are lots of races and referendums!  Also, don’t forget to get an absentee ballot for those who need one.  This is a VERY IMPORTANT election!!

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Frangipani (Plumeria)

We have two types of frangipani in our yard. One of them has yellowish, creme colored flowers. This is a picture of the one with deep red flowers. These are the flowers used in Hawaii to make the flower-garlands known as leis.

Here are a few facts, based on my personal observations:

Frangipani
Frangipani

  • The tree loses ALL of it’s leaves in summer. You would be sure it was dead, if you didn’t know better.
  • The flowers have a sweet fragrant smell
  • The trees are extremely simple to propagate: put a broken branch in the ground. Keep it watered (or plant it in the rainy season)
  • A sunny, well drained location works well.


According to Your Florida Garden, 5th ed.:1

Size 10-15 ft. Several species of frangipani are common in all tropical countries, grown for their delightfully fragrant flowers. They are all short, stocky trees of spreading habit with thick, stubby branches of soft wood, milky sap, and large, leathery leaves. The species most often seen in Florida gardens are P. rubra, with broad leaves and purplish red flowers, and P. alba, with narrow leaves rolled at the margins and white flowers. Leaves are clustered near the branch tips and flowers are borne terminally all through late spring and summer.

FOOTNOTES

  1. Your Florida Garden, 5th ed., Watkins and Wolfe, 1958, University Presses of Florida, Gainesville, Fla. ↩
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Mystery Art??

UF French Fries
Computer Science and Engineering Building (CISE) at the University of Florida
Recently we attended our third “Preview” program for incoming freshmen at the University of Florida. Can you identify the “art” that I’m standing by on the UF campus in Gainesville, Florida? Hint, it’s commonly known as “French Fries.”
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