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Business roundup The 2007 Southwest Florida Blue Chip Community Business Awards will be presented Nov. 8. Bringing India alive Some arrived in shawls, others in raincoats. Despite a rainy morning, several hundred people showed up Saturday at Santa Fe Community College for the seventh annual India Fest, put on by the India Cultural And Education Center of Gainesville. Would-be foes in teams prayers The purple charter bus bearing the religious image of a dove flying over a cross was 10 minutes past the Georgia-Florida border Friday when a friend called Jameson Jarvis cell phone. Teams get fired up about dragon-boat race The Rotary Club of Tavares will present the Tavares Station Central Florida Dragon Boat Festival March 31 at Wooton Park in downtown Tavares. College president retires today LOCUST GROVE, Va. (AP) _ Germanna Community College President Frank Turnage is retiring today after 20 years at the school in Locust Grove.Turnage says that when he came to Germanna, the student body totaled about two-thousand. Davidson, Winthrop don dancin shoes DAVIDSON 72, COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON 65: Stephen Currys not always perfect. Sure, the Davidson newcomer gained the Southern Conference freshman of the year, won the MVP with a remarkable three-game performance in his debut tournament and now heads off to his first NCAA trip. College president retires today Ted Schubel, WFVA LOCUST GROVE, Va. (AP) _ Germanna Community College President Frank Turnage is retiring today after 20 years at the school in Locust... How did it happen? It was the worst accident at the I-75 ramp at Northside Drive. But it wasnt the first. At least 82 other drivers have crashed at a ramp on an overpass from which a bus fell early Friday morning, killing four college baseball players, the bus driver and his wife. Forty-eight of the wrecks happened at the top of the ramp, where it runs into Northside Drive, according to an Atlanta ... Merce Cunningham Dance company to give experimental performance Asheville has come into its own as a cultural center in recent years, but the arrival of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company at Diana Wortham Theatre will be a shining star in the accomplishments of Ashevilles fine arts community. ECLIPSE EVENTS The Buehler Planetarium and Observatory at the Broward Community College campus in Davie, 3501 SW Davie Road, will be open to the public at 6 p.m. Saturday to view the eclipse. No admission fee. More information is available at 954-201-6681. | ||||